At the beginning of 2007, the motif of China’s contemporary art is prosperity.However, another theme-tiredness behind the prosperity is coming to front. Apart from artists were bothered with social intercourse, to embarrass us most is rather than the tiredness of taste and thinking. As if involved an assembly line losing the function of brake, people who chase the art ecosphere rotating speed quickly are impelled to be weighed down with it. Is contemporary art really so flourishing that makes us exhausted? With exhaustion, where are the art market going?

2007年伊始,中國當代藝術的主題詞是繁榮。藝術區內人流熙攘接踵摩肩,藝術活動上呼朋喚友一派喜氣,藝術拍賣會座無虛席捷報頻傳,藝術家游走于世界大展如魚得水。幾番搏殺之后,繁華景象的背后的另一個主題詞——疲憊,開始浮出水面。且不提藝術人士的奔波之苦,應酬之痛,最尷尬的莫過于審美疲憊與思考疲憊。如此多的經典的當代藝術被市場大潮推到大眾面前,還無暇細細品味,新的藝術家已經迫不及待等著上市。如同上了一條剎不住閘的流水線,轉速飛快的藝術生態圈讓追趕它的人疲于奔命。當代藝術真的繁榮到令人如此疲憊的地步么?疲憊背后,藝術市場又將往哪里走?這一期專題,讓我們盤點一番2007年這本藝術賬,看看是什么讓藝術如此疲憊。