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ArtHK 10 Sales Wrap-Up

June 4, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Sarah Douglas gathers some sales in Hong Kong at ArtHK 10:

White Cube:

  • a large formaldehyde tank piece — the format that put Hirst on the map — containing somewhat overwrought Christological imagery: a dove suspended near the top of the tank, and a human skull resting on its floor. It was the first time one of these tank pieces had been shown anywhere in Asia, and it sold for $2.6 million to a Taiwanese buyer, according to White Cube director Neil Wenman.
  • The gallery also sold pieces by Sarah Morris, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Darren Almond, Rachel Kneebone, Zhang Huan, and Ragib Shaw.

Marianne Boesky:

  • Boesky’s solo show of Nara, dominated by recent wall-mounted ceramic pieces done in his signature teen angst aesthetic, was a big hit at the fair, and she sold several of these pieces at prices ranging from $65,000-80,000. A large 2009 ceramic piece called Rock N Roll the Roll sold for $350,000.

Sperone Westwater:

  • Liu Ye–By the fair’s penultimate day, seven of his paintings had been spoken for, including small ones priced at $200,000 apiece and a large meditative depiction of bamboo stalks for $650,000, which went to a collector from mainland China. Other buyers were Asians from Hong Kong, Singapore, London, and New York.Continue Reading

Japanese Star in Hong Kong

June 3, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Doretta Lau makes the Hong Kong rounds for ArtForum’s Scene&Herd:

Alain Passard, Aya Takano, and Emmanuel Perrotin. (Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli)

Emmanuel Perrotin held a dinner for the Japanese pop artist Aya Takano at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in Happy Valley. Artists Takashi Murakami, Zhang Xiaogang, and Yoshitomo Nara were on hand to celebrate her solo exhibition at the fair and the publication of a book on her work. Nara had made it to Hong Kong the night before, having traveled from his home in the Japanese countryside to Tokyo before reaching Hong Kong. “I usually don’t go to art fairs, but I had to install,” he said between bites of a monkfish exquisitely prepared by chef Alain Passard of Parisian restaurant L’Arpège. Art Basel co-directors Marc Spiegler and Annette Schönholzer had flown in a mere four hours earlier, and their joint presence seemed another sign that ARTHK had arrived. Like many, Spiegler had hit the ground running. “I went to the hotel, took a shower, and came straight here,” he remarked.

A Fair to Remember (ArtForum)

Art HK 10–The Hottest One, WSJ

June 2, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Vernissage TV: ArtHK 10

June 2, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Clocking Sales in Hong Kong

June 1, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Georgina Adam and Charlotte Burns did some sleuthing for sales at ArtHK 10:

early sales included a new Zhang Xiaogang painting at Pace, Green Wall— Husband and Wife, 2010, for $1m to an Asian buyer, as well as a large-scale Sterling Ruby, which went for $110,000 to another Asian buyer. Perrotin sold two Aya Takano paintings for $125,000 each to Chinese and Korean buyers, while Lehmann Maupin, whose stand is chiming with the sound of sandals stamping on Do Ho Suh’s installation, Floor had sold Tracey Emin’s 2010 neon installation, I Promise To Love You, for £55,000 to an Indonesian collector from Jakarta, and an Emin embroidery, Nothing Happened, 2009, for £14,000 to a Singapore collector who only collects female artists.

Hong Kong Fair Fizzes with Anticipation (The Art Newspaper)

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