艺术与设计 - 53 artists from 42 countries "focus" on the Winter Olympics with prints

Argentina Alicia Candiani Alicia Candiani Under the snow Digital Edition 70x100cm 2021

On 18 January 2022, "Focus - International Print Exchange Exhibition on the Theme of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games", jointly organised by the China Academy of Art and the Beijing Painting Academy, was launched at the Art Museum of the Beijing Painting Academy, and will be held at the China Print Museum in Shenzhen and The exhibition will also be held at the China Print Museum in Shenzhen and the Qingdao Art Museum. The exhibition is also honoured to be included in the "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Art Festival, and is supported by the China-Guanlan Printmaking Original Industry Base and Beijing Wenqi Shouyi.

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Australia Damon Kowarsky Olympic Reflection Ink, watercolour, coloured pencil 50x50cm 2021

The exhibition invited contemporary international printmaking artists to create works with the theme of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which are both valuable and reflective of the Olympic spirit. The exhibition aims to strengthen the in-depth exchange between artists from different countries on the platform of Chinese printmaking, and to enhance people's understanding of and attention to the Beijing Winter Olympics and its ice and snow events. The exhibition is an expression of the artists' enthusiasm and good wishes for the Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing through printmaking, an internationally shared art form.

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Bangladesh Kamruzzaman Kamruzzaman Olympic participation Let's play the game Lithograph 45x55cm 2021

Due to the new epidemic, the Beijing Winter Olympics prints were created by artists in their own countries, and the prints were printed remotely through digital cloud video communication with technicians at the Guanlan Printmaking Base. The Beijing Winter Olympics printmaking project was a successful attempt at international collaboration with foreign artists, expanding a new model of international printmaking exchange.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Taida Jasarevic Taida Jasarevic Winter Dream Lithograph 50x50cm 2021

The artists in this project are from China, Vietnam, USA/Cuba (dual nationality), Ukraine, UK, Thailand, Syria, Sri Lanka, Spain, Korea, South Africa, Slovakia, Singapore, Serbia, Russia, Romania, Portugal, Poland, Palestine, Pakistan, Macedonia, Netherlands, Nepal, Morocco, Mexico, Latvia, Kosovo, Italy, Ireland, Iraq, India, Hungary, Greece, Germany, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Chile, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bangladesh, Australia, Argentina.

Ecuador Geracho Arias 2022 Beijing Olympic Games2022 Silkscreen edition 93x65.5cm 2021

Printmaking has been a language of artistic communication that has recorded and transmitted human history and civilization since ancient times. Today, with the development of global integration, the solidarity of the world's peoples and the construction of a community of human destiny, there is a greater need for mutual understanding between countries and nations and between peoples, and for the modern Olympic spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair competition. As one of the most popular mediums of visual art, printmaking has become a genre in which artists from all over the world can participate equally and in which international exchanges are extremely intensive and frequent, playing an irreplaceable role in international cultural exchange and integration because of its pluralism, inclusiveness, ease of dissemination, and the international nature of its production and display activities.

Greece Marina Provatidou Marina Provatidou Golden Magnolia Intaglio, Flying Dust 40x60cm 2021

In addition, although printmaking first originated in China, printmaking is the art of printing, and all major civilisations in the world have their own prints, and countries do not feel alien to the art of printmaking as a foreign culture. This is why printmaking has always been so important in promoting the spread of national cultures and the 'people-to-people' relationship of the world, and in helping civilisations to understand and integrate with each other. Therefore, to celebrate the Winter Olympics in Beijing, we have invited printmaking artists from around the world to join us in creating prints to contribute their talents and strengths to the 'wonderful, extraordinary and outstanding' Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

Morocco Khalid El Bekay Olympic bamboo olympic bambu woodcut 65x50cm 2021

The planning and implementation of this project responds to the initiative of the Beijing Winter Olympics to pursue the common goals of unity, peace, progress and tolerance, and strengthens the spread and affinity of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Olympic spirit in various countries, while showing the world the contemporary style of Chinese literature and art and the diversity of cultures of various countries and nationalities around the world. Through the prints, artists from all over the world depicted the charm and characteristics of ice and snow sports, and carved "the beauty of world civilization", "the beauty of Chinese culture" and "the beauty of Beijing Olympic scenes" with an iron brush. "In particular, the "beauty of sport" and the "beauty of spirit" of the Olympic athletes in the world of ice and snow with passion. According to Lu Xun, printmaking is an art that is "robust and clear" and rich in the "beauty of force", so the creation of prints on the theme of the Winter Olympics is not only the "beauty of art" and the "beauty of strength". "It is also a perfect fusion of the aesthetics of printmaking and the spirit of the Olympic movement.

Pakistan Fazal Ellahi Khan Celebration of Olympic Games Silkscreen-43x56cm 2021

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games have focused the world's attention on Beijing, China, and this exhibition of Winter Olympic themed prints brings together the enthusiasm and talent of printmaking artists from different countries, whose art carries their unique cultural concepts, printmaking techniques and celebration of the "beauty of the Winter Olympics" in Beijing, expressing the vision for a better tomorrow led by the Olympic spirit and the spirit of internationalism. They express the hope for a better tomorrow, led by the Olympic spirit and the spirit of internationalism, and convey the confidence and strength to overcome difficulties. The exhibition of these works also allows the world to share the excitement of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Olympic spirit of fair competition, mutual understanding, solidarity and love through the creative art of printmaking, allowing different civilisations and races to seek common ground while preserving differences, to write a magnificent poem of peaceful development side by side, and to work together towards the future, painting a beautiful picture of common progress.