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ASIAN ART IN BRUSSELS will be held from June 5th to 9th 2013 in the heart of Brussels. It will coincide with two other important cultural events – Brussels Ancient Art Fair (BAAF) and Brussels Non-European Art Fair (BRUNEAF) – making Brussels a key destination for art enthusiasts in June.
The finest of Asian art
together with interesting lectures.
Please take a closer look at the exhibitors´ list. There are many renowned galleries and dealers from all over the world, who will show exciting exhibits this year:
Michael Woerner, Oriental arts
Wei Asian Arts, Oriental Art and Antiques
John Siudmak Asian Art, Indian and Himalayan art
Renaud Montméat Art d’Asie, Arts of India, China, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
Mingei Arts Gallery, Japanese antique & contemporary arts
Galerie Lamy, Oriental arts
Kyoto Gallery – Tony Cammaert Antiquair, Japanese art
Kitsune Japanese Art, Japanese art & antiques
Jacques How-Choong, Oriental Art
Nayef Homsi, Ancient Art of Asia
Antiquair K. Grusenmeyer n.v., Exquisite sculpture & objects
Carlos Cruañas, Art of India, Himalaya and South East Asia
Gisèle Croës, Arts d’Extrême-Orient s.a.
Asian Arts Company – Carlo Cristi, Arte Orientale Tessili
Buddhist Art, Khmer, Himalayan and South East Asian Art
Astamangala, Ancient Art from Tibet, Nepal and India
Moreover, on June 6th and 7th there will be some additional lectures held by François Picard, Max Rutherston, Irka Hajdas, David Pritzker and Pratapaditya Pal.
Please visit the official website of the fair and also save the date:
Asian Art in Brussels 2013
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The ART 2013 fair at Utrecht in the Netherlands will be held from April 21th to April 28th at Jaarbeurs Utrecht.
Authentic, refreshing & tasteful art in the Netherlands
There will be shown a wide variety of arts and antiques from 86 exhibiting galleries from all over the world.
In the Asian art area the following galleries will be present:
Gibson Antiques, London (UK)
Hamadi Oriental Art, Hattum
Galerie Peter Hardt, Radevormwald (D)
Hotei Japanese Prints, Leiden
Meijering Art Books, Dreumel
Ming-k’i Gallery, Waardamme (B)
Edward Pranger Oriental Art, Hong Kong
Please go to the official website:
Art 2013 Utrecht
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NEW CITY ART FAIR Osaka will open its doors from April 24th to April 28th at Hankyu Umeda Main Store 9F Hankyu Umeda Gallery in Osaka, Japan.
This exhibition consists not of solo artists,
but of the work selected by various art galleries.
On a mission to deliver contemporary Japanese art to art lovers around the world, NEW CITY ART FAIR first opened its doors to the public in New York City in March 2012. 35,000 people crowded together for its second volume held in Taipei within a large scale Japanese culture event called “roomsLINK” in November 2012. It revealed the great interest in Japanese creatives. The third volume was held back in New York in March 2013 gradually infiltrating into the New York’ s Armory Arts Week scene.
In April 2013, NEW CITY ART FAIR w ill kick off its fourth volume “ NEW CITY ART FAIR Osaka” at Hankyu Umeda Main Store in Osaka, Japan. It will attract art collectors from throughout Asia, and also develop the art market inside Japan. NEW CITY ART FAIR continues to approach those who are not familiar with contemporary art. NEW CITY ART
FAIR will continue to travel around major cities in the world to deliver contemporary Japanese art.
Event Name: NEW CITY ART FAIR
Location: Hankyu Umeda Gallery, 9F (Osaka, Japan)
Dates: April 24-28, 2013 (April 24th is by invitation only)
Organizer: H.P. FRANCE S.A.
Admission: Free
Official Website:
www.newcityartfair.com/
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Patan or Lalitpur is one of the three great cities of the Kathmandu Valley. It is called “Yala” by its inhabitants, the Newars. This ethnic minority has specialized in modelling and casting of antique Buddhist bronzes in the Himalayan region since many centuries.
Newaran bronze sculptures belong to the finest in the world
Established in 1997, the Patan Museum opens its showrooms to public visitors in the historic center of Patan city. Lalitpur is translated with “the city of fine arts” and it is the place, where the heart of Nepal´s cultural heritage is still beating today.
The exhibition comprises a large variety of religious art objects and antique relics. There are more than 200 exhibits constantly on display, which represent different periods and stylistic developments of early Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as a focus on metal technology.
Anyone who knows about the importance of Buddhist bronze manufactors from Lalitpur on the development of Buddhism in the Himalaya region, should take an opportunity to visit Patan museum. It is a place, where an important cultural heritage is preserved “on site” in Asia, not in a great Museum in Europe or in the USA.
Actually, there are many museums in Western countries, which could easily donate sculptures or relics to the museum belonging to Patan or Kathmandu region.
Go to: Patan / Lalitpur Museum – Nepal
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“The energy and traffic was considerably greater than 2012, which was already a strong year for us,” said Suneet Kapoor of the Kapoor Galleries in New York. “I noticed some new museums visiting, which have not done so in the past, such as the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Korean National Museum, as well as the regulars such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Newark Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Dallas Museum of Art and some of the University Museums: Lowe Museum at the University of Miami, Smart Museum at University of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery. We also noticed an uptick in European collectors as well, on the rise over the past two years, reinforcing New York as a premier destination for Asian art.”
Many happy comments from sellers at Asia Week NY 2013
“I had a record-breaking week which surpassed all my expectations,” said Joan B. Mirviss of her eponymous gallery. “The responses from both the museum world and the savvy collectors have been astonishing.”
James Lally of J. J. Lally & Co. in New York said: “Our special exhibition of Song Dynasty Ceramics was very well received… The number of serious collectors and curators and Asian art aficionados passing through our gallery during Asia Week 2013 was significantly higher than last year.”
Erik Schiess of the Portland, Oregon-based Jadestone, reported that he developed new relationships and met new museum clients as well. “We sold most of our top items. Approximately 2/3 of the sales were to mainland Chinese buyers and the rest were to European and American clients.”
“The energy and enthusiasm is more intense than last year,” said Katherine Martin of Scholten Japanese Art in New York. “I had visitors almost non-stop throughout the week.”
“We had an amazing week selling more items this year than ever before,” said Michael C. Hughes from New York.
Brendan Lynch, of the London-based Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch, reported that a number of institutions bought and reserved Indian miniature paintings, including The British Library, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. “We had more curators returning to visit than for the past two years with our private buyers from America and Europe,” said Lynch.
“I was delighted to see hundreds of past, current and future clients, as well as academics and museum curators from all over the country take great interest in the exhibition and catalog.” said Eric Zetterquist of Zetterquist Galleries, in New York.
“The response to my show has been enormous and extremely positive,” said first-time participant Dr. Robert R. Bigler, from Ruschlikon, Switzerland.
“We had one of the best Asia Weeks in years with sales across the board from $7,500 to over $3M,” said Carlton Rochell, whose gallery is based in New York.
“I was very impressed with the energy of this year’s Asia Week New York,” said Carlo Cristi. “There were many more international visitors than in the past.”
Marsha Vargas, of the Xanadu Gallery in San Francisco, was “very pleased with the comments and requests from several museums.”
New York contemporary Chinese painting specialist Martha Sutherland reported that two Hsia I-fu ink monochrome landscapes were sold, “with many other sales from American museums.”
John Siudmak, from London, explained that “this was a very good year, with more museum curators visiting the gallery than in prior seasons.”
Next Asia Week New York will be held March 14 through 22, 2014.
Images courtesy of Marylin White.
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Sotheby´s Hong Kong spring sale series in 2013 will test the boundaries of the Asian art market in Hong Kong again.
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 3 – 8 April 2013
This year, there will be fifteen auction sales, offering a wide range of luxury objects and arts, especially combining high quality contemporary and antique Asian art.
The sale series will include fine Chinese ceramics and works of art, fine Chinese paintings, contemporary Asian art, 20th century Chinese art, modern and contemporary Southeast Asian paintings, jewellery, important watches and wines.
Auction Venue
Hall 5, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (New Wing)
1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Go to: Sotheby´s hompage
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The island6 art collective (Liu Dao 六岛) is a non-profit art collective creating digital contemporary art with a collaborative ethos.
Exhibition opening in Hongkong – vernissage on March 28th
Located in the historic district of Sheung Wan, island6 Hong Kong is propitiously situated on No. 1 New Street, an intersection that marries old and new elements of the area.
island6 Hong Kong will follow in the footsteps of her big sister in Shanghai in showing cutting-edge new media art that explores contemporary issues in Asia through multimedia, interactive artworks.
In its signature style of fusing the traditional with the modern, the artworks on display will involve the use of LED, interactive components, photography, video, neon, sculpture and post-contemporary painting imagery.
Upcoming Exhibition:
“Need. Want. Hunt”
需. 欲. 觅.
island6 Hong Kong
G/F, No. 1 New Street
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong SAR
Postal code: 999077
六島，上環新街一號（近皇后大道西）
Go to: island6 art collective an enjoy!
Images courtesy of island6 art collective.
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The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, USA, doesn´t have the size and publicity like the large museums in New York, London or Paris. But it has got an innovative approach regarding the use of online media in relation to its collection. Like many international art museums, Walters also put its collection data base online and presents the exhibits with pictures and short descriptions.
What are online databases of art museums good for?
On museum´s homepages, you often can search their collections, but there is no possibility to decide about relevance. The general visitor will not be pleased, if searching through thousands of objects and not knowing, which one is interesting, important or relevant for him.
There is a need for relevance definition services for online databases. Museums provide online tours, online curating or specific contextual frameworks to help navigate through their online collections.
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is forerunning in this field. Even if it doesn´t provide large online stories, audio and video tours, like other museums, it stands out, because it publishes all antique objects under the so called the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License. This means, that images of art objects are allowed to circulate.
Walters Art Museum offers different “ways to browse” their collection, as they call it. You can navigate through objects according to their categories, dates, mediums and so forth, but also filter with “museum locations” or “community”. The latter shows some arrangements from registered users of their website, not unlike lists of favorite exhibits.
All this isn´t really the big solution yet, but these are examples of trying to find new ways of relevance definitions for online art databases.
Of course, there are still further ideas needed, which help to make large collections of antique and modern arts accessible on museum´s internet sites.
Go to: The Walters Art Museum
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Asia Week New York start off exhibition with Taiwanese contemporary artist A-Sun Wu:
A-Sun Wu from Taiwan adoptive home: Paris
Timed to coincide with Asia Week 2013 which takes place from March 15 – 23, Friedman & Vallois present exclusively and for the first time an exhibition, “Legends of South Pacific” by Taiwanese Paris & Taipei based artist A-Sun Wu. Running through April 20, the exhibition proposes to introduce the work of this renowned artist through his paintings, sculptures and ceramics.
On the occasion of his first childhood trip alongside his father in the heart of the Taiwanese forest, A-Sun Wu invented a very personal vernacular of myths and legends. This «world artist» who has experienced the Amazon Basin, Africa and the Pacific Islands as well as Asia has synthesized their civilizations and cultural traditions while processing the legacies of western cultural legacies. Indeed, Goya, de Kooning, Picasso and Duchamp clearly influence his oeuvre.
Wu’s forms and aesthetic evoke Outsider Art as well as Tribal Arts and Shamanism. In search of an earlier more gentle and innocent time, one of a happy childhood, his use of natural unprocessed materials (wood, bark, earth…) are rooted in a world where the organic reigns.
His painting whose brutal gestures join Expressionism recalls the celebration of primitive societies. A-Sun Wu’s ceramics remain inscribed in the memories of growing up in the Taiwanese countryside where Terra-cotta pots kept a lush and generous harvest. His art of fire is carrier of the duality of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic characters. Humanist and Universalist messenger, since 1995 Wu signs his works with a sun.
Exhibition: LEGENDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
Opening night: March 14th, 4 pm – 8pm
15th March – 20th April 2013
FRIEDMAN & VALLOIS
27 East 67th Street
New York
NY 10065
Please also visit the artist´s website for more details:
A-Sun Wu
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This year´s spring auction sale in Hongkong is again going to show global luxury market trends. Christie´s Hongkong will conduct a set of high-end auctions in May 2013, which clearly indicates international luxury market development trends.
Art & antiques as high end luxury goods
The signifant composition of Christie´s spring auctions express a strong demand for luxury goods like watches, wines and jewellery in addition to contemporary Asian arts as well as Chinese paintings and antiques.
Christie´s Hongkong spring auction series will take place from 24th to 29th of May 2013. Within the scope of this auction setup, Chinese antiques and works of art as well as ceramics and classical paintings are presented as a special type of luxury goods.
The development trend of the Asian art market towards a luxury market is once more underlined here. A classical collector´s market is transforming into a luxury market.
To read more details, please visit:
Christie´s Hongkong Spring Auctions May 2013
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Meet Harshad Sanghrajka at the Victoria & Albert Museum and join a free tour, which will take a comparative look and explanation of the symbols and features of Buddhist, Jain and Hindu sculptures.
The free tour on symbols and features of Buddhist, Jain and Hindu sculptures starts at 13:00 on March 18th 2013 at Grand Entrance, V&A Museum, London.
In addition, please also read:
Indian Temple Sculpture; John Guy; V&A Publishing. A highly recommendable research work by John Guy on the collection of South-Asian sculptures in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The author explicitly looked at Indian temple sculptures in the context of religious worship. Different iconographic and stylistic forms of the three religions Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism are introduced to the reader not only from the viewpoint of an art historian, but also through the eyes of a religious researcher. Important and famous deities of each of the three religions are introduced through their myths and manifestations.
Link to the book: Indian Temple Sculptures – research on the collection of the V&A
Link to the event: Indian Religious Sculptures
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The Art Gallery of NSW is one of the most popular museums in Australia with more than 1.3 million visitors every year. It was founded in 1874 and has got a large collection of beautiful Asian art objects. The Asian art department of the museum is structured in several sections such as Central Asia, contemporary Asian, East Asia, Himalayan art, Photography, South Asia, Southeast and Western Asia.
View the Asian art collection online
The museum´s collection is well presented on their website. It is a great fun to browse the Asian art depertment, especially because all exhibits are structured and assorted according to region of origin, materials and type of objects.
The collection gives a broad overview of many different regions and cultures in Asia, but it is not limited to a general presentation of objects. It also comprises real highlights from differnt areas of cultural production, for example from Chinese porcelains or let´s say Korean works of art.
Links:
Browse the Asian art collection of “The Art Gallery of NSW” online or take a video- and audio-tour to enjoy some of the museum´s highlights: “Art Gallery of NSW – online tour”.
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Images courtesy of Art Gallery of NSW.
The Asia Week New York 2013 will take place in New York City from March 15th until 23th, being carried out for the fifth year in 2013. World-renowned gallery exhibitions will be accompanied by auction sales and lectures from museums and cultural institutions.
One week for the finest of Asian art
The exhibitions in New York City will comprise fine antique and contemporary works of art from 43 Asian art dealers, mainly from Europe and the United States. There will be a supporting program with lectures and exhibitions form seventeen museums and cultural institutions. World leading auction houses Christie´s, Sotheby´s and Bonham´s will hold auctions on five days to satisfy the needs of collectors.
Asia Week New York is an important event for collectors and market observers. Hopefully, it will display the large variety of all different cultures from Asia. The combination of gallery exhibitions and popular auctions is particularly interesting in New York City. Will there be any stimulating effects on the Asian art market as a direct result of this specific format? – We´ll be observing closely…
Asia Week New York 2013 press release:
New York:
March 15th kicks off the fifth year of Asia Week New York, the extraordinary eight-day extravaganza that brings to New York a glorious array of prized Asian works of art, displayed in specially-curated simultaneous exhibitions at 43 galleries throughout the metropolitan area. The event draws an international coterie of collectors, curators and enthusiasts from every corner of the globe.
Says Henry Howard-Sneyd, Chairman of Asia Week New York 2013 and Sotheby’s Vice-Chairman Asian Art, Americas: “Asia Week is a crescendo of events we are proud to bring to New York. They augment the city’s already rich cultural holdings with worldclass Asian art exhibitions, many of which might be worthy of display in any one of the city’s top-tier museums.”
Asia Week New York unites an illustrious roster of 43 international Asian art specialists—the largest number to date—along with five major auction houses and 17 world-renowned museums and Asian cultural institutions. All work together towards a singular purpose: that of weaving Asian art into the cultural fabric of New York and beyond. “Asia Week New York is a cosmopolitan event,” says Howard-Sneyd, “so it’s only fitting that it takes place in one of the world’s most cosmopolitan and cultured cities. For discerning, in-the-know collectors, curators, scholars and Asian art enthusiasts from all around the world, it has become an essential destination in March.”
According to Howard-Sneyd, Asia Week New York launches with a private, by-invitation-only reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Asia Week New York exhibitions, which are open and free to the public, will reveal the rarest and finest Asian exemplars of porcelain, jewelry, textiles, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, bronzes, prints, photographs and jades, representing artistry, ingenuity and imagination from every quarter and period of Asia.
Read full pree release:
Go to: Asia Week New York 2013
Images courtesy of Asia Week New York.
The Rubin Museum of Art in New York holds an exquisite collection of art objects from the Himalayan region of Asia. The museum’s permanent collection comprises over 1000 works of art spanning from the 2nd to the 20th century. Today, it is a hardly comparable place for studying ancient Himalayan culture and and buddhist art objects. The main body of the museum´s collection consists of antique buddhist sculptures, paintings, thangkas and textiles.
One of the world´s most decent places for antique Himalayan art
The Rubin Museum benefited from the founding support of Shelley and Donald Rubin. Shelley and Donald Rubin are also supporters of the internet research project Himalayan Art Recourses, which offers online access to items from the Rubin Museum permanent collection, as well as art objects from international museums and institutions with collections that focus on the art of Himalayan Asia.
The Rubin Museum curatorial team is comprised of scholars and curators who specialize in art from the regions in and around Himalayan Asia. The Rubin Museum of art regularly attracts many visitors with exceptional shows such as Casting the Divine: The Sculptures of the Nyingjei Lam Collection. Please visit the following website to stay informed about upcoming exhibitions. And of course, if your next stop is New York, go to the museum for a visit.
Go to: Rubin Museum upcoming exhibitions
This special museum is not only interesting because of its collection, but even more because of the approach to push forward the boundaries of research. The Rubin Museum of Art is a registered nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing a greater cultural understanding of the art of Himalayan Asia.
Go to: Rubin Museum of Art
Images courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Art.
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