Ben Brown Continues Hong Kong Picasso Fever
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Hong Kong's art market is booming, thanks to the growing number of international galleries and auction houses setting up in the city. Playing host to some of the world's leading galleries and high profile art events has catapulted Hong Kong to become the third-largest art market after London and New York.
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The Works：An Age of Luxury: the Assyrians to Alexander from the British Museum, Wang Yuping, Awol
There’s a strong emphasis on local flavour in the second part of our show today. First, we’ll be looking at Hong Kong’s iconic neon signage as reflected in the work of the Ethiopia-born artist, Awol Erizku. And we’ll have local music, as the indie band, “The Benefactor” will be with us in the studio to tell us more about their newly released mini-album. But first, a trip back in time, to the empires of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Achaemenids. For thousands of years, they dominated the region that’s now often generically described as the Middle East. The History Museum is currently exhibiting 210 objects from these periods found at historic sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh. Most are luxury items that reveal just how the richer and more powerful individuals of the time lived.
There’s a lot less luxury, and much more down-to-earth everyday life, in the works of artist Wang Yuping, as shown in the solo exhibition “Tedious Paradise” at Tang Contemporary Art. The exhibition showcases work that Wang created on a series of trips to Thailand over more than a decade, as well as sketches from his Beijing-based Beihai Park series.
For decades, Hong Kong’s brightly coloured neon signs were an indelible part of its streets and culture. The neon boom started in the 1970s, and only began to fade at the turn of this century as the government increased restrictions on signage and LED lighting provided a cheaper alternative. There are still quite a few neon signs left, although their number diminishes by the day. Their iconographic combination of colours, text, graphics and craftsmanship underpins the works of artist Awol Erizku in a current exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts.
The members of the Hong Kong indie quintet “The Benefactor” say they love Brit-pop, and especially the Brit-pop of the 1960s. They got together as a band in 2013, and, collectively are fans of the music of such groups as Blur, Belle and Sebastian and the Beatles. Early this month, “The Benefactor” released their mini-album “Belle Epoque”.
They’re here to tell us more.
White Cube gallery opens in Hong Kong
(2 Mar 2012)
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Hong Kong, March 1, 2012
1. Wide pan interior of White Cube Hong Kong gallery with opening exhibition of London Pictures by Gilbert and George
2. Mid of people at opening
3. Wide tracking shot of London Pictures by Gilbert and George on walls of gallery, ending with mid of picture Kidnap
4. Wide of gallery with pictures
5. Mid of pictures Hurt (on left of frame) and Vice (on right of frame) by Gilbert and George
6. Close of detail of picture Hurt with image of faces of Gilbert and George
7. Wide of artists Gilbert and George posing for cameras with fingers in each other's mouths
8. SOUNDBITE (English) George, of artist pair Gilbert and George:
We've always enjoyed an enormous response from the Far East, and we know that from London, because a disproportionate number of Oriental people stop us on the street in London, from China, or Japan, or Taiwan, or the Philippines, to say how much they admire our work, even if they've only seen the catalogue, or something in a magazine.
9. Wide of Gilbert and George in front of their picture Man
10. Close of George, pan to Gilbert
11. Mid of Gilbert and George in front of their picture Man
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Graham Steele, Asia Director, White Cube:
At the end of the day, we're a commercial gallery, we are regarded as an institution, and certainly in London when people visit our three galleries there, there is a feeling that they're visiting an institution, a museum, a foundation, whatever it is, but certainly we need to place fabulous pieces in fantastic homes. But as I say, everything is done for the artist, it is something, we would not, had it been a purely commercial venture, we would not have spent so much time and energy building an archive, and a library for students to come in, and research the artists that we represent.
13. Wide exterior of White Cube Hong Kong
14. Mid sign above entrance to White Cube Hong Kong
15. Wide entrance
16. Wide of road and entrance to White Cube Hong Kong
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One of London's leading art galleries, The White Cube has opened its first branch outside of the UK.
The White Cube Hong Kong is ideally positioned to attract the interest of Asian collectors and increasing ranks of millionaires from mainland China.
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Britain's White Cube gallery, known as an early champion of provocative British artists Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, launched its Hong Kong branch on Thursday (1st March 2012), becoming the latest western gallery to open an Asian outpost in pursuit of China's booming art market.
White Cube was unveiling a 6,000-square-foot (557-square-metre) space in a new building in Hong Kong's central business district.
With the opening of its first branch outside Britain, White Cube follows in the footsteps of other British as well as French and American galleries that have set up shop in Hong Kong in recent years.
In 2009, British contemporary art dealer Ben Brown Fine Arts opened a Hong Kong gallery. Edouard Malingue of France opened an Impressionist and Modernist-themed gallery in 2010. Well-known U.S. art dealer Gagosian Gallery added a branch to its global network last year.
As their home markets plateau, they're pinning hopes for future growth in Asia, particularly China, where a strong economy has been creating millionaires.
White Cube Hong Kong's debut show features 22 pictures by Gilbert and George, famed for their photo based modern artwork.
Their London Pictures series feature newspaper headlines from London tabloid newspaper posters, which the artists say they collected over a six-year period.
The newspaper texts are arranged with Gilbert and George's trademark grid, including looming images of themselves staring at the viewer.
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Palette of Opportunities
London gallerist Ben Brown set up his first overseas operation in Hong Kong to tap the booming Asian art market. The Hong Kong-born gallery owner says that while collectors in the city now represents his biggest clientele, the Chinese mainland is a vast blank canvas for the Western contemporary art market.
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Hong Kong Picasso sale aims to tap China demand
VIDEO: Picasso masterpieces worth millions of dollars are going on sale in Hong Kong as dealers cash in on growing interest from wealthy investors looking for art beyond China's borders. Duration: 00:59
30-4-2013 The Works
We begin with an artist who is no stranger to those interested in the Hong Kong visual art scene. He's Simon Birch. Simon is a British born artist who settled in Hong Kong in 1997. He's well known for his large oil paintings of human figures, but has also created enormous multiple media installations like the 2010 Hope and Glory which took up 20,000 sq ft in Aristree, and last year's Daydreaming With... in the same venue. He's worked with film, music, performance, installation, photography and paints. His new exhibition is called Hooligan and is on show at Ben Brown Fine Arts.
Until 18th May the Edouard Malingue Gallery is presenting the first Hong Kong exhibition by Turkish contemporary artist, Nuri Kuzucan. The show features a series of twelve works that aim to explore the complex geometries of dense urban landscapes. The images don't show people, but Kuzucan says he wants to examine how the city both symbolises and affects modern human life. In the exhibition, he also hopes to draw connections between his own home town, Istanbul, and Hong Kong.
The Italian Chamber Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti was founded in 1959 by Claudio Scimone. In the more than fifty years since then it has focused on spreading Venetian music to the the whole world. The orchestra has played more than 5,000 concerts in more than 80 countries, and recorded more than 350 albums. They last came to Hong Kong in 2009. Their concert sold out quickly. This week they are here again, giving a performance at City Hall on the night of our show, but before they do, they are in our studio to give us a taste of their music, with classical guitarist Riccardo Tamai.
Inside Freeman's Asian Arts Sale
Freeman’s September 9 Asian Arts auction will offer collectors a wide array of Asian fine and decorative arts. A highlight of the sale is the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord and Pamela Watkins—including a fine group of Song to Ming dynasty ceramics and related wares of Southeast Asia—and a complementary private Pennsylvania collection, giving collectors and connoisseurs the rare opportunity to bid on a range of wares not often brought to auction. Additional highlights include Chinese paintings from private collections by such masters as Pu Ru (Lot 556, “Scholar Seated in a boat,” $10,000-15,000), Fan Zeng (Lot 569, $50,000-80,000, acquired directly from the artist’s studio at the suggestion of Robert Ellsworth in 1979), and Liu Dan (Lot 577, $20,000-30,000).
Also on offer are a rare and large Chinese blue and white porcelain hexagonal vase, Qianlong mark and period (Lot 287, $30,000-40,000), and a rare Sancai-glazed Chinese tilework figure of a seated dignitary (Lot 246, $8,000-12,000), both coming from private Philadelphia collections. Notable textiles include a rare late Qing “nine-dragon” chaofu court robe (Lot 406, $10,000-15,000), together with other fine Chinese robes, textiles and court headdresses, formerly in a private California collection, as well as three imperial “dragon” rank badges (Lots 415, $2,000-3,000, and 416, $2,500-3,500). Additionally, Freeman’s is pleased to present a large 15th/16th century Ming dynasty Buddhist painting depicting Buddha Akshobhya (Lot 545, $20,000-30,000). Other notable lots include a fine and large Indian carved sandstone figure of a Jain goddess (Lot 124, $20,000-30,000) and a wide and interesting variety of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and Southeast Asian fine and decorative arts.
The collection of Chinese and Southeast Asian ceramics assembled by Mr. & Mrs. Gaylord and Pamela Watkins, almost completely acquired in Singapore, is of note for the fine array of Chinese ceramics dating from the Tang through the Qing dynasties. Highlights of the Chinese ceramics include Song, Jin and Yuan dynasty black-glazed wares such as two attractive Jin/Yuan dynasty globular bottle vases boldly painted with stylized birds (Lots 155, $5,000-7,000, and 157, $3,000-5,000), a related “guan” jar (Lot 154, $4,000-6,000), and a fine five dynasties/northern Song Ewer (Lot 151, $10,000-15,000). Additional Song ceramics include a rare “persimmon”-glazed “Ding” ware bowl and cover (Lot 164, $8,000-12,000) and a “Yaozhou” molded celadon “chrysanthemum” conical bowl (Lot 165, $6,000-8,000).
“What makes the collection more unusual is the representative selection of Southeast Asian wares,” Ben Farina, Department Head of Asian Arts said. “This includes the products of Vietnamese, Thai and Burmese kilns. The Southeast Asian ceramics are diverse, illustrating a broad range of types and forms.”
These include an elegant Vietnamese white-glazed “lotus” jar and cover, Ly dynasty, 12th-13th century (Lot 170, $5,000-7,000), several Vietnamese blue and white-decorated dishes, boxes and vessels influenced by Yuan and Ming dynasty blue and white porcelains (Lots 175-183), two rare Burmese green-decorated white-glazed bowls (Lots 189 and 190, $700-900 each), and a broad range of Thai dishes and vessels from the Sawankhalok, Phan and Kalong kilns. These Thai celadons were inspired by the celadons of the Longquan kilns of Song, Yuan and early Ming China which were so widely treasured by the societies of maritime Asia and the Middle East. Several of these Southeast Asian pieces have been published and discussed in “Southeast Asian ceramics, New Light on Old Pottery” edited by John Miksic, of the National University of Singapore.
“Freeman’s is pleased to have been given the rare opportunity to present such a diverse collection, which not only illustrates the rich trade links forged between the societies and cultures from the 10th-17th centuries in East Asia, but which also serves as a tribute to the eye of the collectors, who so carefully assembled a group of works as aesthetically pleasing as they are reminders of the history of this important region of the world,” Farina remarked.
The Watkins Collection also includes an attractive collection of huanghuali furniture, a large Burmese seated giltwood Buddha (Lot 118, $5,000-7,00), a Laotian gilt wood figure of a Buddha (Lot 115, $3,000-5,000) and additional furniture and decorative arts.
Freeman’s offers two Asian Arts sales per year, in the spring and fall. The April 25 Asian Arts auction totaled $1.06 million in sales.
Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Heinz Mack
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2015 West Bund Art & Design 西岸艺术与设计博览会
The 2nd edition of West Bund Art & Design brought together 32 leading international galleries.
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Aike-Dellarco 艾可
Antenna Space 天线空间
Arario Gallery 阿拉里奥画廊
BANK/MABSOCIETY
Beijing Art Now Gallery 北京现在画廊
Boers-Li Gallery 博而励画廊
Ben Brown Fine Arts
Cass Sculpture Foundation 卡斯雕塑基金会
Chambers Fine Art 前波画廊
James Cohan Gallery
Sadie Coles HQ 赛迪HQ画廊
Massimo de Carlo MDC画廊
Galerie Urs Meile 麦勒画廊
Victoria Miro 米罗画廊
Don Gallery 东画廊
Hauser & Wirth 豪瑟沃斯画廊
Imagokinetics 想象力学实验室
INK Studio 墨斋画廊
Pearl Lam Galleries 藝術門
Leo Gallery 狮語画廊
Lin & Lin Gallery 大未来林舍画廊
Magician Space 魔金石空间
Ota Fine Arts 大田秀则画廊
Pace Beijing 佩斯画廊
Platform China Contemporary Art Institute 站台中国当代艺术机构
Shanghai Gallery of Art 沪申画廊
ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
Star Gallery 星空间
Vanguard Gallery
White Cube 白立方
White Space Beijing 空白空间
Leo Xu Projects
12-2-2013 The Works
For our special Lunar New Year edition The Works and 藝坊星期天 combine forces, as our three presenters Ben Pelletier, Ben Tse, and Billy Lee present items with a somewhat seasonal flavour.
Cantonese Opera is, for many an indispensable part of New Year Celebrations. For some, it's also a lifelong dedication. But for two young Hong Kong men the dream has an added twist. They want to focus on the female roles.
Part of any good celebration will be a little music, and regular viewers of our show will be familiar with the saxophone music of Timothy Sun. Timothy has visited our studio before both as a solo performer and with the Hong Kong Saxophone Ensemble. His music ranges from jazz to pops to classics, and even further afield, but in the first of his two appearances tonight, he and pianist Yvonne Tsang are going to play Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For you.
From the world of Cantonese Opera, in part two we look at the kind of structure that was once primarily a venue for Cantonese Opera performance: the Bamboo Theatre. Under way right now on the future site of the West Kowloon Cultural District is The West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre 2013. The three week event is featuring not only star-studded Cantonese opera shows but also Chinese dance by the Hong Kong Dance Company, contemporary music concerts, and a Bamboo Theatre Fair to bring back memories of Hong Kong's past.
And, to end the show, a little celebratory music from three young talents as four of Timothy Sun's students The Fantastic Four, play Sing, Sing, Sing
And keep an eye open for a tango dancing lion after the end credits.
Robert McDowell, Emily Grieve and Roddy Martine : 369 remembered – the women
Pat Douthwaite, Lil Neilson, Carole Gibbons, Lys Hansen, Sheila Mullen, Rose Frain, Joyce Cairns, Fiona Robertson, Irina Zatulovskya, Caroline McNairn, Fionna Carlisle, Olivia Irvine
Sat 03 Nov 2018 - Sun 23 Dec 2018 11:00-18:00 (Wednesday-Sunday)
The 369 Gallery was founded by Andrew Brown in 1978. At the time, it was the only gallery exclusively dedicated to the promotion of young Scottish artists.
Immediately after leaving Edinburgh College of Art in 1977, Andrew curated a series of exhibitions at the Saltire Gallery in Gladstone’s Land in Edinburgh’s Lawnmarket and the following year, rented Alison Kinnaird’s glass studio in a medieval building at 369 High Street. Thus the 369 Gallery was born .
From the very start, without positive discrimination, the 369 Gallery showed equal numbers of male and female artists and this, the first of two memorial exhibitions to include a selection of memorabilia and paintings from Andrew Brown’s personal collection, is primarily devoted to paintings by the female artists who exhibited at the 369 Gallery during the 1980s.
These artists are now considered to be the “Grandes Dames” of Scottish art: Joyce Cairns, Pat Douthwaite, Carol Gibbons, Lil Neilson, Sheila Mullen, Margaret Hunter, June Redfern, Fionna Carlisle and Caroline McNairn.
In 1984, the 369 Gallery received Scottish Arts Council funding and, with the help of an enthusiastic board and fundraising committee, which included Diana Milne (Chairman), Roddy Martine, Annabel Younger, Arthur Watson, Sylvia Stevenson and Douglas Hall, the Gallery acquired a derelict three storey Georgian warehouse in the Cowgate. This building was renovated into two floors of gallery space, an education suite for art classes, artist studios, the Gilded Balloon Theatre, and a restaurant, starting the gentrification of the area.
The 369 Gallery always encouraged an international outlook, believing that modern Scottish art had only ever been truly appreciated at home after acclaim abroad and so, in 1982, it became the first British gallery to take part in the prestigious Chicago Art Fair. This led to a series of successful exhibitions in Chicago, New York and Santa Fe.
There followed exchange exhibitions in France, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as shows in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and China, culminating in an historic cultural exchange between Scotland and the former Soviet Union. An exhibition of Russian artists took place at the1988 Edinburgh International Festival and the following year, Scottish artists exhibited in Moscow, where a Caroline McNairn painting was acquired by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the first western painting to enter the collection of a major Soviet museum since the Russian revolution
In 1991, following a debacle with the Scottish Arts Council, Andrew Brown departed the gallery to paint and write in the Scottish Borders. Occasional exhibitions still took place in the Cowgate building and the artists’ studios continued to be occupied, but the primary tenant was the Gilded Balloon Theatre which became a notable festival venue until a disastrous fire destroyed the area and burnt the gallery to the ground in 2002.
However, as Andrew Brown said at the time, “the 369 Gallery was an idea, not a building” and the concept briefly rose from the flames in the noughties as the Phoenix 369 Gallery in Dundas Street, similarly promoting contemporary Scottish artists.
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Ai Weiwei Interview: Advice to the Young
Be a real person.” Get unwavering advice from the world-renowned Chinese artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei in this short video.
Imagination, skills and clear values – if these things are in place, we will not be lost, Weiwei states.
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is a Chinese artist and filmmaker. Weiwei has been openly critical of the Chinese Government’s stance on democracy and human rights. His activity as a dissident has gone hand in hand with his artistic career, and he has continued to produce work testifying to his political beliefs. Weiwei has exhibited widely, major solo exhibitions including Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Among his most noteworthy work is ‘Still Life’ (1993-2000), ‘Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn’ (1995), ‘Study of Perspective Tiananmen Square’ (1995), ‘Forever Bicycles’ (2003), ‘Fountain of Light’ (2007), ‘Straight’ (2008-12), ‘Sunflower Seeds’ (2010), ‘S.A.C.R.E.D.’ (2012) and ‘Stools’ (2013). In 2017 his epic film journey ‘Human Flow’ participated in the 74th Venice International Film Festival and was followed up two years later by ‘The Rest’ (2019). Architectural collaborations include the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium with Herzog and de Meuron. Weiwei is the recipient of numerous awards and honours including the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent by the Human Rights Foundation (2012) and the Ambassador of Conscience Award by Amnesty International (2015). Having lived abroad for several years, he currently resides and works in Beijing. For more see:
Ai Weiwei was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark in March 2019.
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Seven decades of Picasso
The largest Pablo Picasso exhibition in the southern hemisphere is on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. See more at tennews.com.au
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Mark & Carrie - Back to School
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Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Sale
Sotheby's is gearing up for what it hopes will be another impressive night on Wednesday. The Contemporary Art Evening auction in New York has another 64 works on offer with the low estimate in excess of $300 million.