Contribution Invited to China – Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition
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With a view to present the unique charm of Fuqing’s traditional cultures and its role as the hometown of overseas Chinese, we plan to launch Fuqing International Sculpture Exhibition. In this way, we can facilitate international culture and art communication, expand Fuqing’s domestic and global influence, promote the public-space art in Fuqing City, enhance the city’s cultural taste, and forge the cultural brands with rich cultural connotations and distinctive characteristics of “Great Fuqing”. Therefore, the People’s Government of Fuqing City and Fujian Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-rural Construction are joining hands in holding “China – Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition”and collecting sculpture works around the world.
I. The Organizing Committees
Guiding Unit: Office of State Guidance Committee on Urban Sculpture Development
Sponsoring Unit: Fujian Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-rural Construction, the People’s Government of Fuqing City
Undertaking Unit: The Urban-rural Planning Bureau of Fuqing City
Co-sponsoring Unit: Communication Department of the CPC Fuqing City Committee, the Culture and Sports Bureau of Fuqing City, the Housing and Construction Bureau of Fuqing City, the Landscape Administration Office of Fuqing City.
Chief Artistic Consultant: Cao Chunsheng, Honorary Director of Art Committee of State Guidance Committee on Urban Sculpture Development
The event is launched under the guidance of “The Organizing Committee of China – Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition”(hereinafter referred to as “The Organizing Committee”).
Ⅱ.Theme of the Event
The theme of the event is “Maritime Silk Road – Emotional Fuqing”.
Surrounded by mountains and seas, Fuqing is a city endowed with natural beauty, the long-lasting reputation of “coastal Zoulu (cradle of Confucianism) and prestigious town of literature” and a history of over 1300 years. It is one of the first batch of national counties and cities for piloting comprehensive reforms, national counties and cities for piloting village and town construction, and national cross-straits agricultural cooperative experimental zone. Fuqing is an emerging modern port and industrial city benefited by reform and opening-up. Fuqing is a coastal city located in the eastern Fujian, the core area of West Taiwan Straits Economic Zone, with Taiwan Straits to the east. As the nearest city to Taiwan in China, it is the important window for cooperation with Taiwan and the world in Fujian. As the forefront and important window of reform and opening-up in Fujian, Fuqing enjoys the policies as FTZ, State-level New District, Core Zone of “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”, Cross-straits Economic Cooperation Demonstration Zone and Special Customs Supervision Zone. Driven by positive policies, making use of advantages as a region of overseas Chinese and Taiwanese, Fuqing has step by step forged a modern city of overseas Chinese and a most vibrant city in the prosperous belt on West Taiwan Straits Economic Zone, generating the eyebrow-raising “Fuqing Speed”and “Fuqing Efficiency”.
The sculpture works contested in this event should guided by the core values of socialism, fully interpret the theme of “Maritime Silk Road – Emotional Fuqing”, and use various artistic expressions to present outstanding traditional Chinese cultures, to embody the characteristics of Fuqing, to forge an urban sculpture platform and to enhance the cultural taste of Fuqing. The works should manifest the time spirit of Fuqing –“Open and Harmonious, Competitive and Striving for the First Place”, present the historical and cultural characteristics of Fuqing as “coastal Zoulu and prestigious town of literature”, demonstrate the development plan and achievements of Fuqing by “Integrating into Fuzhou, Linking Pingtan, Connecting Taiwan, Marching toward the Entire Country, Getting in Line with the World”, showcase the cultural atmosphere of Fuqing through“Cultivating People and Building a Town through Cultural Development”, and embody the characteristics of Fuqing people who“Stay True to the Mission to Make Another Great Achievement”.
Ⅲ. Content of the Event
Place of the Exhibition: the main venue is located in parks along the banks of Long River and the relevant places (where 45 sculptures are placed); other sculptures will be placed in various major places (five sculpture works are to be placed).
Period of Exhibition: the exhibited works will be placed permanently in parks along the banks of Long River and other public space of major regions. In order to let contestants get a full understanding of regional cultural features of Fuqing and the parks along the banks of Long River, the organizing committee will open a themed web-page for China – Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition in the official website of the event (to be determined) and official partners’ websites. For details, please log in the official website (to be determined) and official partners’ websites.
Ways of Participation: collecting sculpture works around the world.
Number of Works to be Selected: 50 sculpture works will be placed outdoors (including works of five guest creators).
Publication of Works: all works shortlisted for the final competition will be published in “Selected Works of China – Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition”.
Ⅳ. Period of Works Submission
Entries will begin on Dec. 1, 2017 Beijing time and close on Apr. 2015, 2018 Beijing time (subject to the date of email delivery or the postmark date of the letter).
Ⅴ. Requirements
A．Type of Works: outdoor sculpture, public-space artistic works using new skills and techniques and innovative idea.
B. Size of Works: the size of the sculpture should be between two and five meters; proper adjustments may be made to the size according to the surrounding environment and cost of production.
C. Scope of Collection: All domestic and overseas artists who agree on the theme and tenet of this event and with sculpture skills can sign in the contest, regardless of nationality, race, age and sex. All domestic and overseas professional artistic organizations can sign in as an organization.
D. Ways of Collections: we will adopt the means of invitation and public collection around the world.
E. Requirements on the Works:
a. The contested works should be the original works of artists and not built outdoors before.
b. The creator should own the full intellectual property right of his or her works.
c. The idea of the works and its expressions should be integrated into the environment; the type and materials of the works can be diversified, but should have feasibility, security and permanency. The number of design plans submitted is unlimited
Ⅵ. Requirements on Submission
A. Paper document: for graphic design, color design sketch or model photo, it should be printed in A4 paper, marking the name of the works and its idea. It should not be mounted or framed. To ensure its fairness, the front page of the works should not write the name of the designer, the designer’s work unit or other information.
B. Electronic Documents: Besides the paper documents, electronic documents of over 3M pixels should be submitted, including the photo, the picture and the registration form of the works in word form.
C. Registration Form: please fill in the form according to the rules specified in the attachment; if the works is submitted on behalf of the work unit, the artistic organization or group, it should be affixed with the common seal of the organization. All the submitted materials will be kept in records and thus will not be given back to the creators. Please keep one copy for yourself.
D. Letter of Commitment: the contributor should submit the contested works and the Letter of Commitment on Participation Qualification of “China - Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition”(hereinafter referred to as “Letter of Commitment”) signed by the contributor and affixed with the common seal of the work unit; if the contributor is an artistic organization or institution, it should authorize its representative to sign up the Letter of Commitment and affix the common seal of the organization or institution; if the contributor is one of the creators or creates the works via cooperation with other partners, all the creators of the works should sign up “Letter of Commitment”.
E. All the submitted materials should be complete. If the creator omits to submit one material or another, it will be deemed as unqualified and not be accepted.
Ⅶ.Appraisal of the Works and Awards
A. Appraisal: well-known sculptors and scholars will form an appraisal committee to appraise the works by the principles of objectiveness, fairness and impartiality. Two-round appraisals will be held.
a. The first round of appraisal is the appraisal of paper documents; all 100 shortlisted works will be selected and publicized in the official website designated by the organizing committee for ten days. After the publicity period, the result will be publicly released and the shortlist will be determined. The organizing committee will officially inform the prizewinner of the result and ask the prizewinner to produce the sample product of about 2000px(the sample should not use fragile materials)
b. The second round of the appraisal is sample appraisal; 45 outstanding works will be selected from 100 shortlisted works. After further design, the works will meet requirements. The organizing committee will then inform the creator in written form and sign the confirmation document and the letter of intent on production. Finally, the works will be built into sculptures of proper size and kept in Fuqing permanently.
c. Five guest creators will not participate in the appraisal, but should provide sample product of about 80CM (except in the particular case);
B. Awards：
a. 45 outstanding works will be rewarded with the Certificate of Honor by the People’s Government of Fuqing City and for each prizewinning works, RMB 60000 yuan will be granted (before tax); 5 works created by guest creators should be rewarded RMB 150,000 yuan (before tax). Prizewinners will be invited to take part in the opening ceremony of the event and gifted an album of works.
b. For other 55 shortlisted works, the Certificate of Honor will be granted by the People’s Government of Fuqing City and RMB 20,000 yuan plus an album of works will be given for each works.
c. The above awards include creation expense, sample production expense, sample transportation fee, tax and all the other expenses arising during the submission of the works (except the works production fee)
Ⅷ.Production of Finished Works
A. Production of Works of Creators from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Foreign Countries.
Works fit for outdoors construction. Sculptors from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries should on the date specified by the organizing committee, go to Fuqing to produce the works on spot. The period of production is 25 days. The organizing committee should pay the round traffic expenses between the usual place of residence to Fuqing, the local accommodation fees and some subsidies for sculptors and offer on-field helpers and volunteers (for each sculptor, an interpreter and a professional student will be allocated), consumable items, equipment and tools to ensure the sculptors to complete the on-site construction. As the techniques required for works with copper cast is complicated, 25 days is allowed for model completion (works in glass fiber reinforced plastics); for works in other materials (such as stones, stainless steel and etc.), the finished works of proper size should be built within 25 days.
B. Production of Works of Domestic Sculptors
The prizewinning products of domestic sculptors should be delivered, that is, the production of the works of proper size should be the responsibilities of the prizewinners. The expense should be borne by the organizing committee which will sign a contract with the domestic sculptor covering production fee, date of completion, transportation and etc (subject to the actual contract signed).
Ⅸ. Installment of Works
According to the rules of the organizing committee, the exhibited works should be generally installed by the organizing committee. If the designer has particular requirements over the installment of the works, the creator (or his or her representative) can offer concrete guidance on the site. The works should be installed in the last ten days of Aug. 2018 and open to the public and the travelers home and abroad in Sep. 2018.
X. Arrangements for Time (To be determined)
On Dec. 1, 2017, the Contribution Invited will be released to the public (for about 4 months)
On Apr. 15, 2018, the entries will close (subject to the date of email or the postmark date of the letter)
In the last ten days of Apr. 2018, the first round of appraisal will be held to select 100 sculptures (works of five guest creators will not compete for appraisal). After publicity, the organizing committee will ask the creators of the shortlisted works to produce sample works for the second round of appraisal (if the works is not made into sample, it should be deemed as autonomous waiver of right for competition).
In the last ten days of May 2018, sample works will be appraised to determine 50 works to be built and shortlisted works(works of five guest creators will not compete for appraisal).
In the first ten days of Jun. 2018, means of products and financial budget will be determined and production will be launched.
In the middle of Aug. 2018, production of works and installment of finished works will be completed.
In the middle of Sep. 2018, the opening ceremony will be launched.
XI. Acknowledgment on Intellectual Property Right and Copyright
A. The sponsoring unit should fully respect the sculpture and copyright of the contributor (natural person / work unit / design team). After contribution, it should be deemed that the contributor has agreed to give the sponsoring unit the right of publicity over sculpture. Once the acknowledgment letter of sculpture is confirmed by the contributor, the sponsoring unit should have the right to exhibit and build the sculpture and keep it permanently in Fuqing. Other than the prize given to the contributor in the Contribution Invited, the organizing committee will not make other payments to prizewinners.
B. The contributors should be the original creator who enjoys legal copyright over the works. The contributor should guarantee that the sculpture submitted is first open to the public, and will not infringe upon other people’s intellectual property rights (copyright, trademark right, patent right and etc.). If any dispute arises due to the above infringements, all the legal liabilities and the losses caused to the sponsoring unit should be borne by the responsible person.
C. The organizing committee has the right to check the participation qualification of the contributors. If there is any misrepresentation during the process of submission, the organizing committee has the right to cancel the contributor’s qualification in any stage of the exhibition. For those causing serious consequences, the organizing committee should investigate and affix legal responsibilities according to the circumstances.
D. Any dispute arising during this event should be solved by the relevant laws of the People’s Republic of China. The organizing committee has the final interpretation right.
Ⅻ. Means of Contact
Address: Room 709 (Office of State Guidance Committee on Urban Sculpture Construction), Chinese Construction Culture Center, No.13, Sanheli Road, Beijing
Liaison: Meng Manping and Wang Jiasi
TEL：（8610）88082756
FAX：（8610）88082757
Email：chengdiaoban@vip.163.com
Address of the Urban-rural Planning Bureau of Fuqing City: 4F, Planning and Construction Bldg., Qingchang Avenue, Yinxi Sub-district, Fuqing City, Fujian Province
TEL：（86591）85156761
Fax：（86591）85158161
Website：www.fqghj.net
Attachment: A.Registration Form of “China - Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition”
B. Letter of Commitment on Participation Qualification of “China - Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition”
For introduction to Fuqing City, relevant attachments and sculptures, you may log in the official website of the event and the website of the Urban-rural Planning Bureau of Fuqing City for details.
The Organizing Committee of
China - Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition
Dated on Dec. 1, 2017
appendix：
1、Letter of Commitment on Participation Qualification of “China – Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition”.doc
2、Registration Form of “China – Fuqing 1st International Sculpture Exhibition”.doc