Jade art works under a huge crisis of profits

Shoushan Stone, Hotan Jade, and Jadeite are the jade-headed art markets that have continued their crazy upswing since the beginning of this year, and prices have continued to refresh. Behind this “crazy stone”, rare and precious minerals are facing serious waste of resources and ecological destruction. The stone carving art creates a deformed trend of “heavy materials and light art”.

The Shoushan stone ornaments of the palm of the handful of Shoushan Stones, which are frequently worth several tens of thousands of yuan and even tens of millions of yuan. The reporter recently saw a large-scale Shoushan Stone professional market in Jinan District, Fuzhou City. On weekends, guests who come here to see stone and buy stone flow endlessly. The handicrafts crafted from Shoushan Stone are priced astonishingly, and some Shoushan ordinary Shoushan stone ornaments are displayed. There are hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions.

“If the stone texture is excellent and it is also a masterpiece, such ornaments generally have a price of 10 million yuan.” A seller of the market told the reporter that due to the investment and consumption frenzy of Shoushan Stone Market, the streets of Fuzhou used to run tea business. The shop began to concurrently operate Shoushan Stone Crafts, and there was a complete "discard of tea from the stone."

Reporters recently went to Nanning, Guangxi, Hangzhou, Hangzhou and other places to interview and saw that in some shopping centers in Nanning's Wuxiang New District, some small pendants made of Hetian jade materials usually cost several million yuan; some jade counters in the Hangzhou department store building Salespersons generally reflected that at the beginning of this year, most of the consumers who came to buy jade were for collection or as wedding tokens. Since the summer, investment-oriented customers have soared, and high-priced jade crafts have become hot spots.

Professor Jing Naiquan of Zhejiang University said in an interview that since the beginning of this year, the art market has continued its hot market last year. Whether it is painting or calligraphy, or jade antiques, its price figures are constantly updating records. The root cause of the soaring price of jade is the rapid rise in the price of rough stones. Take Shoushan Stone as an example, the price of rough stone in general texture will double this year compared with the same period of last year.

Secondly, due to the sluggish stock market, the property market is under severe regulatory pressure. Many can not find the hot money for export, continue to enter the art market, and there is a trend of rampant speculation, leading to the jade market began to show signs of local overheating.

The ecology was severely damaged and the creation was "heavy material"

Shoushan Stone is a rare jade mineral produced only in the Shoushan area of ​​the northern suburbs of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. Due to the mad market price, the Shoushan Stone Production Area has also faced serious waste of resources and ecological destruction in recent years.

According to expert studies, the age of Shoushan Stone was 135 million to 208 million years ago. Although there are many varieties of Shoushan Stone, the reserves are very limited. The area that can be mined is about 200 square kilometers. In recent years, stone materials from Shoushan have also been madly dancing along with market prices. A large number of farmers in the Shoushan area have gone uphill and downhill to tap the Shoushan Stone.

The reporter recently entered the Shoushan Village of Jin’an District of Fuzhou City. It was seen from afar that the high mountains and mountains that had once produced the Shoushan Quarry had collapsed due to human indiscriminate exploitation. Tian Huangxi, who produced Huangshi in Shoushan, was turned over and over again. A rocky beach. According to the Bureau of Land and Resources of Jinan District, since 2005, the Bureau has successively carried out special rectification actions for the illegal mining of Shoushan Stone, basically stopping the phenomenon of ecological damage caused by indiscriminate mining.

In an interview, Secretary-General of the Shoushan Stone Culture and Art Research Association of Fujian Province and Chen Lizhong, a master of arts and crafts, pointed out that the key to avoiding the destruction of the Shoushan Stone resource is to cultivate a healthy and rational art market. However, at the moment, some investors are eagerly pursuing high-quality stone materials in order to raise prices, forming an extensive market pattern dominated by selling resources, which inevitably results in over-exploitation of resources and destruction of the ecological environment. Compared with selling resources quickly and easily, performing a high level of artistic creation seems to be a long and arduous task, which in turn leads to the phenomenon of "heavy materials and light art."

Chen Lizhong believes that as jade works of art, the quality of the materials is of course important, but the core and highest value is still the profound connotation of the art and culture attached to them. Therefore, to promote the current art market from the resource type to the artistic charisma-type change and reverse the misdirection of “heavy materials and light art”, the market will become healthy and rational, and the waste of resources and ecological destruction will be really stopped.

Consumers and Artists Need to Regain Rationality Chen Lizhong expressed his deep concern. In recent years, the hot and insane art market has reflected a strong socialist mentality. This mentality not only misleads the art consumer, but also spreads in the artistic team. Influence creation.

He said that the Shoushan stone carving art with a history of over a thousand years occupies an important position in China's jade art field. Since the founding of New China, especially after the reform and opening up, Shoushan Stone Art, which is close to apoptosis, has been rejuvenated, and the artists of the older generation have become classics and people. Sex is the aesthetic criterion, creating Shoushan stone carving one after another art peak. In recent years, with the rapid development of China's economic development, huge amounts of social wealth have been accumulated and the living standards of the people have been greatly improved. The jade art market including Shoushan Stone has ushered in a vigorous spring, but this “spring” has suddenly risen abnormally. Temperatures have caused some investors and art creators to lose their senses.

Chen Lizhong believes that collections have become investments. This is a normal phenomenon. However, with the hot trading market, the black-box operation behind the auction transaction sometimes appears. For example, the investment institutions have raised the price of art, which is to prepare for taking profits after listing; for example, the value of art investment is created to attract unfamiliar knowledge. Consumers pay for high-priced works; the most often there are fakes and bad products that flood the market more and more.

In the artistic creation team, they are severely eroded by the idea of ​​profit-seeking. Many young artists are indifferent to artistic creation, resulting in a single style of work. Some of them are completely based on mechanical simulations of the paintings, and some creative teams have returned to mass production. The old road of production makes the work become “multiple birth born of a mother” and loses the most precious personal charm of art.

Chen Lizhong believes that at present, the entire art market in China needs to be adjusted, and the trend of soaring prices also needs to be eased. For creators, they should also withdraw from the deep tide of profit-seeking, deepen their lives and naturally draw rich creative inspiration, leaving more time for artistic creation.