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In the Tsinghua University Art Museum, an exhibition was recently concluded featuring the contemporary art collection of Xindong Cheng, founder of the Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, one of the first generation of contemporary art gallerists and collectors in China.
In the past 30 years, he has introduced many leading contemporary Chinese artists to the world through exhibitions, and also introduced international contemporary artists to China. His efforts in exhibition promotion and art collection have played a significant role in the globalization of contemporary Chinese art, and provided a vivid expression of this period of history.
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Xin Dong Cheng. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
I remember those sun-filled afternoons at Xin Dong Cheng s courtyard home in the late 1990s. Every weekend he had an artist salon where we would gather sipping champagne amidst leafy bamboo gardens, meeting China s up coming creators as they displayed their work. Many were from other provinces, with studio-in-residence at Xin Dong Cheng s home, which had become a gallery.
His courtyard was tucked into a tiny narrow side alleyway branching from Dong Tangzi Hutong in the old Manchurian section of Beijing s eastern district. From ambassadors to collectors, rockers and dreamers, artists and writers, everyone seemed to gather there every weekend to rejoice in the creativity that seemed to spawn endlessly from the complexities of China s economic and social transition that was in the backdrop of everything and always on everyone s mind.