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"Art Basel has brought more Europeans and Americans to Hong Kong, and Asian collectors are becoming more interested in purchasing Western art," says gallery director Nicholas Olney.
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The works of Ashley Bickerton, who quit New York after 12 years to move to Bali in 1993, provide a contemporary twist on Gauguin's exoticism. A painting of two topless women with silver bodies astride a scooter, garlands in their dreadlocks, is selling for $190,000 by Singapore-based Gajah Gallery.
David Zwirner is bringing oil-on-canvas works by 28-year-old Oscar Murillo, an emerging artist who catapulted from relative obscurity three years ago to New York's latest wunderkind. The Colombia-born artist, best-known for his abstract works, has seen his auction prices surge as much as 5,600 percent in two years as a result of frenzied art flipping.
Citizenship to Sun's Jing Bang: A Country Based on Whale is limited to 100 people, though visas can be purchased for $30 each at the fair.
Describing his one-party state (administered by the Magician's Party), which has a planned life span of just six weeks, Sun writes: "If history is a big lie, then the Republic of Jing Bang uses one lie to intercept another lie". The project is jointly presented by the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and ShanghArt gallery.