I think it is in everyone’s debate about product style and form language that is “chinese”. It took great time for the japanese to develop their distinctive style. And you can say that the Koreans are creating their own style. I will have an opinion that Korean style is still developing and not as distinctive as the japanese.
As for Chinese, it is a very long road for them. Below i copy/paste from the designboom.com and it is this type of politics that informs me that China will not have their cutting edge style anytime soon. For design to bloom, so must the artist communities.
Contemporary Artist are very organic and very creative. Design gets inspired from their “older” brother, the fine art. Fine Art is visual way to interpret the world. For artists in china and especially in beijing being destroyed by the government will not help designers to feel they are safe and welcome for innovative ideas.
I think it is wrong to say that china’s design style is coming along. I think hong kong and shanghai has design styles but those are “cities” not the over all country. There is a new york city style against a chicago style against Atlanta style, but the USA still overall has an American design style.
Personally me, when will china expect their own deep old culture and modernize it to their interpretation? When will they remove data from their business and embrace human emotions/intuition into their organizations? When will they stop “COPYING” every other products, cultures, styles, and think about the Chinese needs/interest/culture?
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from left, liu wei, liu yi, wu yuren, zhang jun and sun yuan are among the artists protesting the demolition of their homes and studios
in the northern part of beijing.
earlier this week nearly two dozen artists protested through china’s capital after forced
demolitions of their homes and studios in beijing’s artists’ villages gallery, police forces
intervened with swinging iron rods preventing the group to reach tiananmen square.
first hall, the artists’ villages gallery
the artists’ villages gallery is one of the largest art spaces in beijing with at more than
4,000 square meters. located in songzhuang in the capital’s eastern suburbs, it houses
more than 2000 contemporary chinese artists residents consisting of painters, sculptors,
calligraphers and photographers.
‘big pharmacy’, mixed media installation, september 2003
wuyuren, a photographer and installation artist was one of many attacked for protesting.
wy yu ren, a photographer and installation artist was one of many attacked by masked men
for protesting.
‘big pharmacy’, mixed media installation, september 2003
‘kui hua zi’ by ai weiwei, porcelain 1000kg
chinese contemporary artist ai weiwei sent out twitter messages to document the march
towards tiananmen square. police intervened within 500 yards of his march.
’17 stools from the quing dynasty (1644-1911)’, 167cm x 180cm x 157cm by ai weiwei
residence artists are aggrieved by the situation as they were lured to the villages with
long term lease, in some cases for 20 years. for many, they have invested their life
saving in renovations and are concerned by the bullying tactics from developers.
the conflict over the future of beijing’s artist village is a direct result of increasing real
estate values and issues over land expropriation. this has prompted about suicides amongst
many of those faced with eviction followed by extensive media coverage. only now has
the government began considering the modification of the nation’s urban redevelopment
regulation.
however, for the protesters who have publicly vocalized their stance on the ongoing issue,
it is unclear whether their actions will alter the fate of the development threatening
the artists’ villages. read more here
