Chinese Contemporary Art
Chinese Contemporary Art
Chinese Contemporary Art
Wang Keping,
Idol,
1979 Wood
The first Stars art exhibition, hung on the fence outside the National Art Gallery in Beijing,
September 1979
East Village, Beijing 1993
Zhang Huan,
12 Square Metres, 1994
Yang Fudong, Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, 2003, Video
Wang Guangyi,
Great Castigation Series: Coca-Cola, 1993
Jin Jiangbo, God, Go Ahead with Chatting, 2008
Yang Jiechang,
Another turn of the screw
1998 – 2004, acrylic on canvas
Magicien de la terre,
Pompidou Center, 1989,
Paris France
Biennale di Venezia,
1999, Venizia Italy
The revolution continues,
Exhibition in Saatchi Gallery, 2008,
London UK
Yue Minju, Gweong-gweong, 1993
Christie's Hong Kong, may 2008
Sold for 54,087,500 HKD (6,941,948 US$)
Zhang
Huan
Zhang Huan, My New York #4, 2002 Zhang Huan, Youth,1998
Sotheby's Hong Kong, Octobre 2009 Christie's New York, May 2009,
Sold for 187,500 HKD (24,197 US$) sold for 212,500 US$
Artist with both a strong Chinese
and international market
Zeng Fanzhi
Zeng Fanzhi, Mask series, 2001 Zeng Fanzhi, Mask series, 1997
Poly International Auction, May 2009 Sotheby's New York, Septembre 2008
8,064,000 CNY (1,180,562 US$) Sold for 1,082,500 US$
Chapter IV
His blog:
http://www.shanghaieye.net
China- art collectors
Now that Burger is making her collection public the discussion will
begin regarding her collection. “David Tang he told me I’m stupid
to do this to make my collection public. But I told him, for me, I
want to take the collection to the next level. We are not trophy
hunters, what I really want to do is give very young artists a
platform to show their works.
Following her move to Hong Kong in 2004 Ms. Burger explained she has had to shelve
plans to build a museum to house her collection, and has instead decided to take her
collection public via this series of exhibitions, and will revisit the idea to open a
museum once the series of shows has finished.
“I had a vision, there is this beautiful museum in Switzerland, the Bayeler Museum.
This would be a dream come true, one day, to have a space, open to the public,
where you can have a park, where you can live, and have your outside sculpture, like
a dream. When we moved to Asia five years ago, my husband and I, we knew we had
to postpone that dream. We are not going back to Switzerland, we have started a new
life here in Asia, here in Hong Kong where space is a big issue. So what do we do
now? The idea to open a museum is further and further away, so we came up with a
new idea, to hold a series of temporary exhibitions over the next 8-10 years. Because
this is our lifestyle, we are global travelers, global citizens, so why not live like this
with the art?”
Burger describes her collection as having a diversity in terms of geopolitical
origins and contexts, specifically American-European, the Indian
subcontinent and Asian. “The collection blends very established
international artists and younger, up-and-coming artists while remaining
resolutely contemporary and not becoming historical, with very few
exceptions such as Rauschenberg,” Burger said.
“I needed a curator, to be professional, but also because I’m too emotional,
the way I collect is intuitive. You can see, I have so many different media in
the collection. Daniel said he saw a thread going through my collection,
which was very good for me to hear, because it represents my life. I have
dedicated 15 years of my life to buying art. It represents my moods, my
feelings, my moving around in the world, and also major things, like history,
political issues, language, we are talking about more than 1000 pieces. I
never had these topics in my head when I went out there to buy art.
Case study: the power 100
in China
Chapter V