China Art Exhibition Tour, jointly held by Kempinski China Region and Italy-China Cooperation Culture Development Company, was launched at Kempinski Hotel Beijing on February 16.
　　The exhibition tour, themed on New Direction of Art, provides visitors with a rare opportunity to enjoy the elegant art by showing the works of many world famous artists, such as Francesco Clement and Mimmo Paladino.
　　Italy-China Cooperation Culture Development Company has been committed to art communication and promotion between China and other countries. In the past years, it has established good partnership with many Chinese and foreign artists. As a European luxury hotel group with more than a hundred years of history, Kempinski has been upholding the fine tradition to support art and cultural development. This exhibition tour is just a try of the two parties to promote, encourage and advance cultural concepts and art education. It will be held in Kempinski hotels in Beijing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Xi’an, Yinchuan, Huizhou and Chongqing, totally lasting half a year, one month for each.
　　The art works to be shown at the exhibition tour will come from a wide range of countries, boasting unified style and comparable level with museum collections. Of them, there will be the limited editions of prints made for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games by 27 world famous artists from 10 countries. They are the only works with the logo of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games that can be only used under the authorization of the International Olympic Committee. So far, the Olympic Portfolio has been exhibited at the Imperial Ancestral Temple of Beijing, Qingdao Olympic Museum, Shenzhen OCT Art and Design Gallery, Taiwan Bagua Mountain Museum, Contemporary Art Center in New York, Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland and many other museums. In addition to high artistic value, the Olympic Portfolio is also of great significance for collection. Early this year, they have been made the collections of the British Museum. Taking the concept of art promotion in line with the characteristics of the cities in which the exhibitions will be held, the exhibition tour will cooperate with the Chinese artists from different fields to present more master works of the Chinese artists to the visitors.