Saturday, May 26, 2012

Hong Kong: An art hub minus grassroots buzz

by Hiufu Wong

Hong Kong is a place that makes art dealers giddy. 

At last weekend's Hong Kong International Art Fair (ART HK), notable sales include "No. 313, 1969" by Chinese artist Chu Teh-Chun that sold for more than US$3 million and Alighiero Boetti’s “Mappa” (1984) that sold for €1 million. 

These headlining sales are a regular phenomenon in Hong Kong, the world's third-largest art auction house after London and New York.

But why are Hong Kong artists and art critics still frowning?

Hong Kong artists inhabit a third space in the global art scene, that is not the West nor China.

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Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/SgdvuOL3gZY/hong-kong-international-art-hub-182058

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