Mobile M+: Inflation!
Inflatable Sculpture Next to the Future Site of Hong Kong’s Museum for Visual Culture
Participating artists: Cao Fei (China); Choi Jeong Hwa (South Korea); Jeremy Deller (UK); Jiakun Architects (China); Paul McCarthy (USA); Tomás Saraceno (Argentina); Tam Wai Ping (Hong Kong)
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority announced a major exhibition which will see six giant inflatable sculptures on the site of the Park at West Kowloon Cultural District, next to M+, Hong Kong’s future museum for visual culture from 25 April – 9 June 2013.
Monumental artworks of this scale have never been presented alongside one another in Hong Kong, making “Mobile M+: Inflation!” one of the largest contemporary art exhibitions ever mounted in the city to date. It brings some of the most important works of public sculpture created in recent years to the city for the first time, and features selections by internationally renowned artists as well as newly commissioned artworks by local and regional artists Tam Wai Ping and Cao Fei. The six works will be accompanied by a performance piece by Tomás Saraceno (Argentina) which will be staged on 4 and 25 May and 8 June 2013.
Inviting members of the public to interact firsthand with large-scale inflatable sculptures, “Mobile M+: Inflation!” aims to pose questions about the nature of public art and the ways in which audiences might engage with it. Several of these are derived from everyday objects that have been inflated to outsize proportions as a way of rendering the familiar unfamiliar, more tangible, and uncannily touchable than ever before. Other works in the exhibition question the nature and potential of art and architecture in public space through installations that evoke ephemerality and reflect on human relationships to built environment and to the natural world.
Kaldor Public Art Project #27, entitled 13 Rooms, brings together 13 famous artists and more than 100 performers to present an innovative group exhibition of ‘living sculpture’ within 13 purpose-built rooms. This groundbreaking event will run for 11 days and has been curated by renowned museum directors and curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of London’s Serpentine Gallery, and Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 in New York.
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Try before you buy
Internet-based business that lends art to would-be buyers proves a hit
By Melanie Gerlis. Art Market, Issue 245, April 2013
Published online: 08 April 2013
Does Anyone Here Speak Art and Tech?
Though software engineers and art dealers may pass one another on the High Line, the worlds they inhabit could not be less alike; parallel universes that rarely intersect. And considering their net worths, technology innovators and the venture capitalists who back them are not collecting much art, according to people in both the tech and art worlds.
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The Kingpins - Spider Nanny, 2013. Commissioned by Artbank for the series ‘Performutations’ curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/bang-for-buck-kingpins-pop-out-pink-money-monster-as-artbank-invests-in-digital-works-20130321-2gidv.html#ixzz2PGX34qZK
Dubai seeks art capital status
Ramin Salsali cannot contain his excitement. “Sorry I’ve been hard to get hold of today – but it’s the very best of news I have,” gushes the Iranian-born, German-educated, Dubai-based heritage property developer, art collector and owner of a private gallery specialising in modern and contemporary art from the region.
“New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has just closed a deal to buy a work by one of our region’s artists. It’s one of very few contemporary Iranian artists the Met has ever purchased.” The work is Reza Derakshani’s vibrant painting Shattered Music. Salsali is showing Derakshani’s work at his Salsali Private Museum, located on Dubai’s uber cool Al Serkal Avenue, a bland block of nondescript warehouses now home to a cluster of cutting-edge galleries.
http://www.afr.com/p/national/arts_saleroom/dubai_seeks_art_capital_status_L2GI3LVIPoAtYKJjDgllbL
Lots of M & ID Projects presented an intimate morning tea for our clients with a presentation given by a panel of industry experts including
Tim Etchells
Founder Art Hong Kong , CEO Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
Tanya Buchanan
Managing Editor, BELLE
Damien Woolnough
Fashion Editor, The Australian
Juliette Arent & Sarah-Jane Pyke
Directors, Arent&Pyke Interiors
