How Do I Become an Art Buyer?

Guan Yi was born in Qingdao, Shandong in 1966, and graduated from East China Petroleum Institute in 1987. Starting business in 1993, his personal values and passion for art determined that he would eventually return to the art world. Since 2000, Guan Yi has devoted most of his energy to the art collection. In 2001, "Guan Yi Contemporary Art Archive" was established. Guan Yi's collection is considered by Westerners as the best way to understand Chinese contemporary art. Its collection focuses on its own clues and exploring the meaning of life.

Guan Yi

(Contemporary Art Collector)

Analysis on the Collection of Guanyi Literature Museum (Excerpt)

At present, countries around the world pay more and more attention to the collection of existing art works.

Throughout the entire text, we can find that Guan Yi is a collector transformed by an industrialist, who passed the artistic enlightenment period and capital of his life

Guan Yi in his own warehouse

The accumulation period spans the life practice period. He began to collect Chinese contemporary art because of his love for art and strong patriotism, mainly because of his longing for rebuilding history. His collection does not follow commercial trends, but has his own clear clues, such as "Zhemei phenomenon", "85-'89 concept art", "Chinese character", "painting character", "rational wisdom and emotional experience" "The inheritance and development of socialism." Among them, "Zhemei Clues" and "Conceptual Art" highlight the overall structure of his collection system, and reflect his interest and collection direction. His Contemporary Art Archive provides favorable conditions for the preservation and research of Chinese contemporary art works, and the problems facing the museums in the planning stage are also all private collectors and artists who want to establish an art museum for themselves Including what the government must think about.

What should collectors help society think about? How does art become a catalyst for social reflection? I think the case study of Guan Yi has made the answer obvious: the behavior of collectors is not only collecting and preserving their favorite or important for art history Meaningful works of art are also a process of constructing art history with special marks (whether it is recognized or not) from nothing, from broken to complete. When this collection system is academically recognized, those works will be re-interpreted in a new environment, from collectors to private art galleries to museums that have been donated to the nation to become a public welfare society. I think this is the biggest significance of collectors.

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