Art season brightens summer in Shanghai

The festival features the theme “Everyone is an Artist”, an idea proposed by German artist Joseph Beuys. The art market place on Jul 27 and 28 showcased more than 100 artists, who brought their creations involving illustration, independent designs, lifestyle, pet products and so on.

Among the pavilions was an interactive exhibition hosted by Tian Ziming, Zhang Jiacheng and Li Ziyu, who are the founders of Art Heals, a charity initiative that helps lung disease patients and autistic children. “We paid visit to them, offered them tools for painting and sat to paint together with them,” Tian said at the Art Heals pavilion, where self-portraits by the people they worked with are showcased.