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A.R.T. 2012 International Art Competition

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Thinking about a top opportunity to join one of the globe´s most exciting ART GIG`s with your ART ?

Are you an emerging creative artist, full off amazing ideas, visions and imaginations, straight burning them in your art pieces all day ?

Have you done some of this energizing samples of fresh contemporary art waiting unnoticed in a garage for to be shown at one of the world´s top COMTEMP ART FAIRS ?

Are you one of these artists joining the spirit and soul of the arts but still missing the opportunity to get recognized by the art world and still waiting to receive the attention and award your extraordinary art can demand from public and world ?

May be still no gallery, curator or anyone else of the art industries representatives has found the way to you, your studio and your art ?

Or you are an already established professional and hot and excited to make some extraordinary experience at one of the most explosive venues for contemporary art and you still suffer already so long and wait to meet the energy, wanna connect with interesting people from around the globe, enjoy sharing visions, imaginations and dreams and just have a good time in a relaxed atmosphere ?

You lost the idea to spend a mass of dollars for entering an art show by your own,

on the other side you love to stay in international artistic community and need the tension while spending the art world the evidence you are cool enough to stand the test of an international art competition calling for art around the whole planet ?

Are you one of these art guys feeling the artistic power and energy inside yourself but feel forgotten with your art in unknown landscape areas, backstage garages and wrecked factory lofts ?

Can`t effort the dollars to join a really hot art show with your fresh pieces in their power and potential you so believe ? But you search so long but sadly still miss the opportunity, your one great chance, to throw your art right into the public for recognition and feed back ?

May be I have something for you to come out with your art from the garage and and join with your stuff the bright light of the art world´s attention ?

Open your eyes and ears guys and take a look at this:

Being happy to receive and follow some request of my art friends at well known X-Power Gallery Taipei Taiwan + the Art Revolution Taipei Executive Committee of ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI 2012 Fair I and we proudly announce also on our art channels:

INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION in front of ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI A.R.T. 2012

l a u n c h i n g !

What you have to do to enter the contest:

Note the rules, conditions and forms of ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI A.R.T. 2012 International Art Competition, fill in the official application forms (see downlinks here below on this site), make digital photos of your most impressive art pieces, maximum 2 works per artist, and send your whole stuff for your free entry till deadline August 31th 2011 to this email address: competition@www.arts.org.tw

Your quick facts:

1. Entry Deadline: August 31, 2011

2. Organizer: Taiwan International Contemporary Artist Association

3. Co-organizer: X-Power Gallery

4. Eligibility: Open to all artists over 18 years old

5. Requirements

a. Submitted artworks must be related to "M y Art, M y Solo Show", the Theme and original spirits of A.R.T. 2012. Please check www.arts.org.tw for more details.
b. Open to all 2D artworks created with Oil or Acrylic and completed NO EARLIER than June 2010.
c. Dimension: 120 cm (Maximum Width) x 180 cm (Maximum Length/Height)
d. Sale Price: All submitted artworks must be for SALE. Sale price of each artwork should not exceed US$ 10,000.00.
e. Maximum Entry: Each artist may submit UP to TWO PEG or TIFF Images for consideration.

Taiwan International Contemporary Artist Association has organized one of Asia's top art contests, the International Art Competition (I.A.C.), since 2011. Actally the organizer is now combining I.A.C. together with Art Revolution Taipei (A.R.T.), the most important platform of art exchange in Taiwan, to promote individual artists to the international market. The combined power of both of these unrivaled art outlets will result in more opportunities of sponsorship, exhibition and sale. For further details regarding the I.A.C. and A.R.T., 2012 International Art Competition in front of ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI A.R.T. 2012 please refer to the official website at www.arts.org.tw .

Forms you need you can download here:

# 2012 International Art Competition ART-REVOLUTION-TAIPEI- Prospectus & Entry Form (PDF)

Participate in an high class international art competition with no application fee, check out the strength & power of your art in an worldwide contest and take the chance to win the ticket to upcoming ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI A.R.T. in order to show, promote and sell your art along an international art fair by spending just an absolute minimum of dollars to join in the case your work gets selected by a jury of well known established art professionals, masters of arts and more.

May be you even win the master prize & gallery award including a single 9 square meter presentation at following ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI A.R.T. 2 0 1 3 to show your art on your own art stage !

2012 INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION I.A.C. in front of ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI A.R.T. 2012,

# one of Asia`s leading international juried competitions for contemporary art and an emerging asian art fair in one of the world´s most powering up economic and cultural areas.

If there is an expanding marketplace and powerful joint-venture location in Arts then Asia and Taiwan is a first choice for artists, curators, galleries, investors & media representatives.

Try out and make it if you can.

That´s ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI A.R.T. 2012 taking place once again in Taipei City Taiwan @ TAIPEI WORLD TRADE CENTER TWTC Hall 2 located at the popular area around well known TAIPEI 101 TOWER.

2012 International Art Competition in front of ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI A.R.T. 2012 from March 21th to 25th 2012

- Opening Preview: Mar. 21, 2012 (VIP Only)

2012 Art Revolution Taipei--our next goal

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Art Revolution Taipei 2012 (A.R.T. 2012) features leading and emerging galleries and artists around the globe. Hundreds of artists, ranging from the established to the latest generation of emerging figures will be represented in the show's multiple sections. In May, more than 26 thousand art lovers visited and enjoyed A.R.T. 2011.

The exhibition will include time-tested and cutting-edge paintings, sculptures, drawings, installation, photographs, and prints. Art Revolution Taipei 2012 is expected to be crowded with all types of people including art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators and other art enthusiasts. An even more important spot is that the organizer will invite hundreds of highly renowned and influential collectors to attend, which would certainly guarantee to bring great attention to the participating artists and their works.

Artists Are the Core

One thing truly “revolutionary” about Art Revolution Taipei is that the exhibition is curated around artists, rather than the gallery-oriented program as seen in most other shows. The floor plan and design all work around participating artist and the selection of their artworks, not around galleries. In fact, the whole idea is to make the exhibition in and of itself a great piece of art, so that artists and their artworks all contribute to the creation of this enormous masterpiece.

Art Your Compassion

This year’s Art Revolution Taipei also features a special thematic charity program: “Art Your Compassion,” which invites over 100 international and local celebrities to participate. All the proceeds will be donated to charity organizations.
In “Hundreds Of Celebrities’ Charity Sale,” each participating celebrity will create an artwork about the size 17.5 x 14 cm and priced at US$30. Each collector is allowed to collect two artworks at most. The name of the artist will be revealed to the collector only after they purchase the artist’s artwork.

Our Next Goal: Secure 80% and Aim For 90%

By the time the first annual Art Revolution Taipei was wrapped up at 5 p.m. on May 15th, 2011 and the result was made known to me, I was truly thrilled by it. I was certainly pleased with the wonderful 89.66% “hit rate,” which indicates the percentage of attending artists who had made sales, a number that really made you want to laugh out loud! Then immediately came a shocking thought: “What about next year then?” The 89.66% figure is like a wall standing in the way, you can’t simply pretend you did not see and just bypass it. I was immediately debating with myself: Should I announce this figure as it is?
It was A.R.T. organizer’s decision at the very beginning to set the guideline of not disclosing total sales. What we had not come to expect, however, was the extremely high ratio of attending artists making a sale. We’ve been to enough art fairs to know that if only 30% of the attending artists sold their works at the fair, most people would not come back for next year. 50% generally speaking is an acceptable ratio. If ever the ratio goes up to 70%, you would see smiling faces everywhere and everyone would be scrambling for the chance to come back next year. If there is one international art fair in the world that has the chance of achieving a 90% success rate, it would most likely be Art Basel - - and only Art Basel!
“Let’s just disclose the real figure as it is!” That was our conclusion after discussion and the other directors said to me: “Hold on, Art Director! Our goal for next year’s A.R.T. – simply to secure 80% and aim for 90%.”
Holy Shit! I know we are going to make a lot of people unhappy if we really set out to “secure 80% and aim for 90%.” Because in order to achieve that goal, no matter who wants to get in the show we must without exception stick to the rule of evaluating the artist, the works, and the prices. We've had to turn down some very attractive offers from certain applicants who simply just want to have presence at the fair; and because we demand every A.R.T. fair to look fresh, we would then require the returning artists to come up with something new and creative regardless of how well received their earlier works might have been. One artist’s duck painting sells very well and another sells a lot of vases – so well that some collectors were literally competing for the paintings on site and would have to eventually turn to the organizer in order to make reservations for the artworks. It then became our problem. Rather than figuring out a way to get the collectors what they want, what we did actually was to call the artists and tell them: “please don’t do the same stuff for the next three years.” It’s our job to communicate with the artists so that they don’t turn themselves into artisan painters, and it is our job to make sure that collectors will not acquire commodity artworks at A.R.T.
I was just talking to Vincent, the chairman of Ferrari Taiwan, the other day and he said to me that he now has very few friends left because almost all of them were complaining to him about the car’s steep price tag. While explaining to his friends that pricing was set by the Ferrari Headquarter in Italy and there is not much he can do about it, they would mock at him: “what kind of chairman are you anyway?” I could not help myself but burst into laughter upon hearing what he said, for I, like Vincent, already don’t have that many friends in the Taiwan art circle and now would probably have none left in the whole world as a result of the “secure 80% and aim for 90%” goal!

Lee Sun-Don

Art Director