| From the old Summer Palace Artist Village in 1980s, the East Village in 1990s, to 798 Art Zone and Shanghai Red Town of the 2000s, he rising art property represented by the OCT-LOFT in 2005, to the government oriented Beijing Tianzhu Free Trade Zone and Shanghai West Bund, what’s behind of all these is a clear changing history in art zones of the recent three decades, which lead from art to by market/government.Art zone in different historical periods have different changes, based on the expansion of the new format changes, the market increase, domestic and foreign exchange, nearly ten years of Chinese art zone construction presents the evolution of new features and development trend, from before the artist led, gathering of artists and creative art zone gradually evolved into to the market and the government as the leading construction, to artwork circulate or commercial integrated as the subjects of art forms. And behind these different forms, each has advantages and disadvantages. |