Last week, the 59th Venice International Art Biennale unveiled the list of thematic exhibitions and national pavilions. Themed "Milk of Dreams", the Biennale will feature 213 artists from 58 countries, along with 81 national pavilions. Among them, the theme of the exhibition of the China Pavilion is "Yuanjing", with Zhang Zikang, director of the CAFA Art Museum, as the curator, and the assistant curator is Sun Dongdong. In terms of exhibitions, mumu art museum's first exhibition of the new year, "Austin Lee: Paradise on Earth", opened, and the exhibition was full of surprises. and the museum launched the "ON| OFF 2021: Back to the Future" presents the rhythm of time and life, global and local, memory and history with the curatorial concept of return, repetition and spiral.
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Christie's Shanghai joint auction raised the gavel on March 1
The masters of the East and the West made a brilliant debut
Christie's was the first to announce some of the highlights of the March 1 Shanghai Evening Sale: Baschia's 1982 Il Duce, Picasso's 1937 Dormeuse (Marie-Thérèse Walter) and Zao Wou-Ki's 2004 Le soir à l'H tel du Palais. Coinciding with the relocation of Christie's Shanghai Art Space to its new location on the Bund, Christie's Asia Pacific 20th and 21st Century Art Department Co-Heads Lin Jiaru and Christian Albu said: "Working with colleagues in London, we will truly create a global platform for collectors to present the diverse creations of art masters and contemporary emerging talents. At the same time, the Shanghai-London joint auction is also the debut of Christie's move to a new location in Shanghai, and we look forward to injecting new inspiration and energy into the contemporary art market! ”
Monet's "Water Lilies" was filmed at Sotheby's London in March
Pioneered the preview in Hong Kong Space
From February 8th to 9th, Sotheby's Art Space Hong Kong will feature works by some of the world's biggest artists, including Monet, Picasso and Van Gogh, which will be auctioned at sotheby's Evening Sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in London on March 2. Commissioned by a private collection in Japan, Monet's Water Lilies was re-produced more than four decades apart and is estimated to be between £15 million and £20 million. Picasso's monochromatic portrait of his lover, Bust of a Woman with a Cheek, made its debut and was estimated at £10 million to £15 million. "Time has proven that Asian buyers have contributed to the market development of Picasso and Monet, and we are confident that these extraordinary works will arouse strong repercussions from Asian collectors and art lovers, according to Sotheby's Asia Chairman. ”
Phillips.com was the world's first by a virtual person
An NFT derived from real-time auction data
MonoC Drowning in Love, 2022 (schematic)
With Valentine's Day approaching, Fxwes Asia is pleased to present the "My Kawaii Valentine" online auction, which brings together a series of artistic masterpieces depicting symbols of love, such as cuteness, companionship, self-appreciation, sensuality and flowers. Open for bidding from February 14 to 22, the auction will include not only sought-after works by sought-after contemporary artists such as Yoshitomo Nara, Mr. Doodle, Tomoyo Gogita, Katherine Bernhardt and Edgar Plans, but also six NFT works by digital artists from diverse backgrounds. Among them, the NFT work "Drowning in Love", created by the virtual person MonoC and driven by auction data, has attracted the most attention. During the week-long auction, Phillips will broadcast the image generation process of Drowning in Love live, allowing the public to witness how each unique data point derives an NFT.
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Zhang Zikang is the curator of the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
The Metaverse discusses the coexistence of the future world
Recently, the official website of the Venice Biennale released the theme of the Chinese Pavilion of the 2022 Venice Biennale: "Meta-Scape", and announced that Zhang Zikang, the current director of the CAFA Art Museum, will serve as the curator and Sun Dongdong will serve as the assistant curator. The lineup of participating artists is: Xu Lei, Wang Yuyang, Liu Jiayu and the AT team (composed of the Academy of Arts and Science and Technology of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Brain and Intelligence Laboratory of Tsinghua University, and the at group artists are: Li Yan, Chen Zhi, Guan Yiming, Chen Houwen, Lu Fei, Peng Jiayuan, Lei Jianhao, Liu Yichen, Yan Liangliang). Zhang Zikang said that "Meta-Scape" benefited from the "jing" in the Chinese literary and artistic tradition represented by "poetry", and from the perspective of the contemporaneity of media theory, the ecological or systematic image presented by "environment" was docked with the current human situation of "human-technology-nature", responding to the theme exhibition "Milk of Dreams" at the Venice Biennale on "Anthropocene", "Dehumanization", and discovering "a free world full of possibilities". and so on related thoughts, concepts and actions.
Appointed Xinyi Guo as Managing Partner for Asia
Hauserworth reaffirmed its commitment to Asia
Recently, Hauserworth announced the appointment of Elaine Kwok as managing partner to lead the gallery's development and activities in Asia. Previously, Ms. Guo Xinyi worked at Christie's Auction House for 15 years and most recently as Director and Chief Auctioneer of the 20th and 21st Century Art Departments. Organized and led the Christie's Academy of Fine Arts Asia for six years, actively promoting the expansion of the auction house in the Chinese market. He is currently an Advisor to the Museums Committee of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Euan Venters said: "We are very pleased that Ms. Xinyi Guo has decided to join the gallery and become the managing partner of our Asia division and look forward to the better development of our artists in Asia under her leadership." We take this opportunity to reaffirm the Gallery's commitment to Asia and look forward to further deepening artistic ties within the region and embarking on new projects." ”
The Ritten Gallery moves into Los Angeles
Opening in autumn 2022
The Reeson Gallery's first permanent space in Los Angeles will open this fall. The new space is home to Hollywood's cultural, musical and media institutions, a two-story, separate building at 1037 Sycamore Avenue North, Hollywood Cultural Center, between Santa Monica Avenue and Romaine Street. To celebrate Carmen Herrera's 107th birthday, the unveiling of the Los Angeles space will feature her series, Days of the Week, which consists of seven paintings depicting everyday life. Alex Logsdail, CEO of Ritten Gallery, said, "Bringing public exhibitions and artist work to a new audience is one of our most important tasks, and I look forward to welcoming you in the Los Angeles space and introducing the artists represented by the gallery. ”
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Austin Lee "Paradise on Earth"
The fusion and transformation of virtual and reality
"Austin Lee: Paradise on Earth" exhibition scene, picture courtesy of Mumu Museum
The Mumu Museum of Art (Hall 798) welcomed the first solo exhibition of American artist Austin Lee in the museum, "Paradise on Earth". After three years of curating, it brings together the artist's recent creations from 2019 to 2022 – including paintings, animations, large-scale installations, and a commissioned site-specific work. Around the core theme of emotion and growth, Austin Lee's new artistic practice and expression is presented. First, computer digital software is used to create in virtual reality, and then it is presented in physical form as paintings, installations and sculptures. In the fusion and transformation of virtual and reality, we delve into the important questions that run through the artist's creation: how do we interpret human emotions through digital technology, and how can the progress of science and technology help us better understand the depth of human feelings?
Shanghai
Double Exhibition "Into the Wood"
Discuss the original meaning of "things"
ArtCN joined hands with the Italian Consulate and Cultural Office in Shanghai to present the first two-person exhibition "Into the Wood" between artist Guo Donglai and Italian artist Claudio Diatto. The two artists not only have an indissoluble relationship with Italy, but also have a passion for natural materials, and the use of nature as a subject has always been the core of their painting exploration. Guo Donglai's works are directly visible in untreated natural branches or pieces of wood that have been cut, polished, superimposed, and combined. Blurring the boundary between craftsmanship and nature, it shows that the combination of things and things produces a new state of existence and its conceptual connotation. Diatto's colorful collages, also derived from the forest, have been the inspiration for his long artistic career. Through the cheerful and splendid neo-pop art painting technique, the unchanging relationship between man and nature is conveyed.
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“ON| OFF 2021: Back to the Future"
Sentient practice that transcends time and space
With Sun Dongdong as curator, "ON| OFF 2021: Back to the Future" is on display at the Museum. Based on the "post-globalization" era, the exhibition interprets the recent trend of retrospective reality in the practice of Chinese contemporary art as an action to create the future. The works on display cover a variety of art media such as painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video, and the themes of the works involve different issues such as media society, natural environment, identity, geographical boundaries, etc., but they all present a spirit of introspection derived from the inherent nature of life - where to come from, where to go, corresponding to the increasingly accelerating globalization context, so that art is not only a medium for preserving memories, but also a sentient practice that observes the subject to summon historical consciousness, thus transcending time and space.
Bangkok
Zhao Zhao "City in the Sky"
Recreate the dual story of reality and art history
The Contemporary Tang Art Centre Bangkok space presents a solo exhibition by artist Zhao Zhao, "City in the Sky". Curated by Cui Cancan, the exhibition is Zhao Zhao's 2021 "Sky" series. The "Sky" series, which began in 2009, is the longest clue in Zhao Zhao's creation and one of the sources of his painting creation. In the creation of more than ten years, Zhao Zhao has depicted different skies with symphonic brushwork, brushstrokes of different lengths, rhythmic rhythms, and switching between distant and distant distances, changing in dozens of sky works. The rich Sky series constructs a world of painting of "pictograms" and "ideography", reproducing a dual story about the reality of "sky" and art history.
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