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Mao Yan 111*110cm 1998
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China's art market is coming to a period of peaceful adjustment
after a rapid development in recent years, and some severe problems
are also emerging, such as fakement and unreasonable prices.
Such problems are more frequently found on the market of modern
and contemporary arts, thus brings on more risks to China's
art market.
Then how to make successful investment is most important
to every collector. In view of the facts mentioned above,
some talented young artists' work is a good choice.
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He Sen 100*80cm 1999
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There are many reasons to collect young artists' works.
First of all, the risks is comparatively small, cause they
are still alive, so they can prove the genuineness of the
works. Secondly, the prices are reasonable, lot of money will
be saved. Third, an outstanding young artist always has a
good future. At last, investment on contemporary art works
usually has a higher return than others.
But there are still many risks in such investments: Not
all talented young artists could be famous. Every artist has
a mature cycle, but we are not sure how long the cycle will
last.
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Zhang Jian 53*45cm 1995
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Therefore, an art investor also has to cooperate with the
art experts or institutions before reach a decision.
Now we can see some examples of Chinese young artists. Xia Junna,
whose works are welcomed by investors in China, is only 29 years
old. After came out of campus in 1995, she chose Hanmoshu Gallery
as her proxy. At first her work was only at RMB15,000 (150cm),
but as recognized by more and more investors, then in 1997 her
work reached the price at RMB35,000, then RMB50,000 in 1998,
RMB80,000 in 1999. Her school fellow Ji Dachun, also attracted
the notice from those investors. In 1996 his work was at the
price of RMB4,000, then RMB10,000 in 1997, 15,000 in 1998, 20,000
in 2000.
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Xu He 116*91.4cm 1999
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From the examples mentioned above, we can see besides a
high return, there are still lots of fun to find out new artist,
and the fun will grow up with the artists' maturity.
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