THE FIRST TIME HOLDING YAT HOTEL ART FAIR IN SHERATON HOTEL TAIPEI
The YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2012, Taipei Contemporary Hotel Art Fair, has officially announced that the art fair will be held in the Taipei Sheraton Hotel from May 11th to May 13th this year. The main feature of YAT is focusing on promoting the new and emerging artists whose age are under 45, and this feature has made YAT become a distinct contemporary art fair in Asia. YAT has gathered the varieties of contemporary Asian art to Taipei, becoming the voice for young artists and a fresh air for Taipei art scene every year in May. Furthermore, this year YAT moves its hosting place to the Sheraton Hotel, which provides a better exhibited space for the exhibitors and visitors, stating the fact that the YAT has entered to a more mature stage.

INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES KNOCKING ON TAIWANESE COLLECTOR’S DOOR
This year, 60 galleries selected by scholars, curators, collectors, magazine editors, and galleriests are invited to join the YAT 2012. These 60 galleries include one from Australia, one from America, six from China, nineteen from Japan, two from Korea, one from Singapore and thirty from Taiwan. Comparing to 58 galleries participating in YAT 2011, the number of participating galleries has increased slightly, and half of participants come from international galleries. The new comer, Gallery Barry Keldoulis from Australia will bring poetic video arts fromJess MacNeil, and fantasy paintings from Fiona Lowry.Hi art store and Vanguard gallery from China also play an important role in promoting emerging Chinese talents, and the number of galleries from China has 50 percent increase comparing to last year. This year, there will be some new participants from Japan, including FUMA CONTEMPORARY TOKYO and B Gallery by Japanese fashion brand BEAMS. The young galleries YUKI SIS and BLIJVEN are also the highlight of the year that cannot be missed. Concerning the galleries in Taiwan, Gallery Grand Siecle from Taiwan will bring DIN Chin-Chung’s works, which won Taipei Arts Awards in 2011. Aki Gallery will use “Desire” as topic for selecting their artists; therefore, they will bring two young artists, KUO Chi-Hong and WU Yi-Han, to YAT 2012. Cloud Gallery will Chan,Yu Fan’s and his artworks which full of imagination to attract the eyes of audiences. The Show Gallery which participates for the first time this year will bring Huang Bo-Xun’s works with fantasy imagination evolving from daily experiences.


FIRST GLANCE AT YAT SERIAL EVENTS

YOUNG ART AWARD – PREDICT NEXT SUPER STAR
Different from those high price artworks, some of the artworks from emerging artists could be bought easily. This is a fabulous way of expressing one’s own taste. This year’s YOUNG ART AWARD will also help audiences with the selection. YAT invites every gallery to recommend an artist whose age is under 45 to attend the contest. YAT also invites judges from different backgrounds for the award contest, such as the Chairman of Hong-Gah Museum & Chew’s Culture Foundation, Mr. Andrew CHEW; the chief executive of My Humble House and the art connoisseur, Michael T.C. WANG; the executive editor of Hi Art, WU Jing; Associate of MOCA Taipei, Director Novamedia(Australia) and famous curator in new mediaart, Annie IVANOVA; the general manger of trendy international interior design & Chairman of TAD Associates Inc. Interior Design, Mr. David TAN. The award winner will be a good sign for young collectors who wish to step into the field as the art collectors and connoisseurs. (More information about YOUNG ART AWARD, please refer to our following news reports.)

ONE VOTE, ONE VOICE – AUDIENCE PRIZE OF YOUNG ART TAIPEI
This year, all these works will be shown online from March 20 to 20 April, and YAT will invite everyone to join “One Vote, One Voice” campaign, voting for their favorite contemporary artists, and speak out loud their supports and passions to those talents. More information about next super star of contemporary art, please follow up this campaign on our official website

YEARLY TOUR PROJECT WILL BE HELD IN TAINAN
Tainan is the cultural city of Taiwan, which not only famous for its cultural heritages, but also renowned for its powerful art collectors. Therefore, YAT has created this Yearly Tour Project for the first time. The topic of this year’s event is ”The Age of Unrest”, the exhibition will be held from April 25th to May 6th in Tainan Der-Horng Gallery. Through the exhibition, the artists invite the audiences to pay attention to the chaotic life behind the good days and to reinterpret the way and the environment we dwell in. This year YAT will link the southern and northern art market and collectors together in Taiwan.

YAT X GRAFFITI IMPROVISATION @ ESLITE
In 2012, YAT will invite three graffiti artists, BOUNCE, COLASA, MR.OGAY to have a public improvisation at the Eslite, Tunnan, Xinyi and Tianmiu on the weekend of April 14th to 15th . They will also use “the Age of Unrest” as the topic as an echo to our Yearly Tour Project. They will for sure have a romantic street battle at Eslite, and share it with all the street walkers. The cooperation with Eslite and YAT is certainly a fusion of art and daily life, and it is also a rare live practice which will be presented to public. (More information about YOUNG ART AWARD, please refer to our following news reports.)