Sotheby's Hong Kong collaborates for the first time with young collectors and curators to hold auction "#TTTOP" this autumn
Last night, Sotheby's in Hong Kong announced its first partnership with South Korean art collector and showbiz icon Choi Seung-hyun to hold a special contemporary art auction "#TTTOP" this fall. The auction will be held on 3 October 2016 in Hong Kong, China, marking sotheby's hong Kong's first collaboration with young collectors and curators. Choi Seung-hyun also has a popular name as "T.O.P.", a member of the South Korean group BigBang. The group was called "the hottest boy band in the world" by The Hollywood Reporter, and this year's concert in Chengdu was worth thousands of yuan of tickets. This K-pop superstar turned out to be an avid modern art lover, is it a ticket or a real move? The Chengdu Business Daily client reporter interviewed Sotheby's auction house in Hong Kong, T.O.P's YG Entertainment and T.O.P in an exclusive interview with the South Korean media "Korea JoongAng Daily", revealing the rapper's behind-the-scenes story of becoming an artist.
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Sotheby's Hong Kong announced an extraordinary partner, T.O.P., a member of the Korean group BigBang, to participate in the contemporary art evening sale in the autumn of this autumn as a guest curated event. The auction, titled "#TTTOP," was inspired by T.O.P.'s own Instagram account, which has more than 5 million followers. It is understood that this special session is specially set for a group of young collectors, not only is T.O.P's first auction curatorial project, but also the first time that Sotheby's Hong Kong has cooperated with young collectors as curators.
According to Sotheby's, part of the proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Asian Cultural Council and will be used to support Asian artists. "This auction will be closer to a donation program than the kind of auction where sellers display their work and sell them to buyers," said a YG Entertainment staff reporter, "Sotheby's will also donate, and T.O.P will guarantee that it will not be paid." It is reported that the details of the auction will be announced in August.
Born into an artistic family, he once rejected art because of music
For Sotheby's choice, I believe it will surprise many people. Even though T.O.P.'s music career is still in the ascendant, does he understand art? In fact, T.O.P's involvement in the field of art has already achieved remarkable results. Chengdu Business Daily reporter learned that in 2015, T.O.P co-curated a contemporary art exhibition called "Singapore Eye" at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. In addition, he has lent his art collection to a solo exhibition by artist Yang Hae-gu at the Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea. In the same year, the prestigious Prudential Contemporary Art Award presented T.O.P with the "Visual Arts Award", followed by T.O.P.'s plans to work with a Swiss company to design furniture.
Looking at T.O.P's family style, I found that he came from an artistic family. His grandfather, Seo Geun-pei, was not only a famous Korean novelist, but also the nephew of Kim Hwan Ki, Korea's first abstract artist. His aunt's father-in-law, Lee In-sung, was a talented painter of modern Korean art. Most of the women in his family, including his mother, sister, aunt, and cousin, also worked in art-related work.
As for falling in love with art and design, T.O.P. admitted that he began to pay attention to design when he was 22 years old. "Especially liked the chairs. At the same time, I also began to learn about architecture. The chairs themselves are also small buildings that have grown up, and since then, the collection of one or two pieces of furniture has also begun. "When free, T.O.P. will go online to analyze the trend of the prices of auction works, observe what kind of works are mainstream, understand the theory of the demand and supply of art markets, and what are the reasons for the price increase of each work... Will learn and so on these things.
I like to collect chairs, and I am worried about being misunderstood to "pretend to be noble"
It is strange that a young singer shows a strong interest in modern art. "In fact, I wanted to study quietly until I was old, and sometimes I was afraid of the eyes of others when I said things like ' I like art' and so on. Lee Jeong-jae's predecessors had the same experience, and although we have an age difference, we have the same concern for art and furniture. On the phone once, he said that he had been afraid to say that he liked art, worried that others would think that the person was pretending to be noble. "T.O.P didn't want to be public at first, he just wanted to do it quietly, and he was afraid at one point. Moreover, T.O.P.'s hobby is also very unique, he likes to collect chairs, and he feels that he can get a strong impact in these works.
The identity of T.O.P. is familiar to the world, more singers and actors, and now that there is art, how to arrange the proportion between them reasonably? "My profession is invisible, it needs to be imagined, I have to think about how what I show will be perceived by people, and how I can be different. So it's exciting in this regard, and design is a breakthrough for me, those wonderful things, I will be easier without realizing it, in the gap between music and acting, I am filled by art to fill my feelings. He does not deny that art has become his new stimulus, "I really like exciting things, making people happy and excited, as an artist This stimulation sometimes disappears, there is no reason to insist on doing it or a moment to lose the feeling of excitement, President Yang once said to me, 'When is your heart throbbing?' ''It's not okay for an artist's heart not to throbb. He said, I thought about it, and it seemed to be the most throbbing in the process of me looking at the work and learning.
Chengdu Business Daily client reporter Ren Hongwei intern Deng Meijun Editor Yu Mengxiang