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HAPPY HOLIDAYS & WINTER/SPRING 2012 SAVE THE DATES

December 27, 2011

ALL OF US AT CONTEMPORARY WING WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON

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GALLERY NEWS

● IVORY TOWER  (RECAP).  Thanks to all who took time from the hustle and bustle of the Miami art fairs to visit “Ivory Tower.”  It was a hugely successful debut for Contemporary Wing, and we would like to extend special thanks for their assistance with this exhibition to:  Deborah Shelton Tynes, Veronica Jackson at The Jackson Design Group, Bill Apter at Avitecture, and John Gargus at Christie Digital.  If you missed the exhibition, please check out an amazing photo-recap, courtesy of “Look into my Owl.”

● NEXT GENERATION  (FEBRUARY/MARCH 2012).   Our inaugural exhibition in Washington, D.C., opens February 4, 2012, at 1250 9th Street, NW.  “NEXT GENERATION” complements the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s exhibition of Mera and Don Rubell’s collection, “30 Americans,” on display through February 12, 2012.  For “NEXT GENERATION,” Contemporary Wing invited each artist represented in the “30 Americans” exhibition to identify one or two American artists that he or she believes is a critical “up and comer” of the next generation.  Selected artists from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Baltimore, and Richmond, VA, among other places, will be announced in January.  A catalog will accompany the exhibition with critiques by Kalia Brooks, Exhibitions Director at MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts) in Brooklyn, NY.
Contemporary Wing would like to extend special thanks to CASRiegler Real Estate Development for its generous support.

● I’M COMING HOME.  (MAY/JUNE 2012) Appropriately named for Contemporary Wing’s first exhibition in its home gallery space at 1412 14th Street, “I’m Coming Home” is a solo exhibition of new works by gallery artist, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi relating to home life and domestic space in Iran.

For more information about the gallery and exhibitions, please visit contemporarywing.com or contact info@contemporarywing.com

header image: Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Ice Sonification, Antarctica Project, DVD, 8:08 minutes, edition of 5 + 2 AP, 2011. Courtesy of Look into my Owl and the Artist

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People sold stuff, it was just a little “eh.”

December 11, 2009

Busy in preparation for the last month for this make-or-break last week… happy to finally have time to write about the question on everyone’s mind – How was Miami?  The title quote definitely sums up the week.

Sales were way up from last year (how could they not be). The mood was education and post-fair due diligence, private parties in the evening.  I didn’t expect to see blind spending, but I did miss the enthusiasm, everyone was very restrained. So I guess the title of this post could also be: 2009 – More liquid, just less excitement.

I have been shopping around for a good article about the Top 10 and I finally found one I agree with by Sarah Douglas – Miami Postmortem: A Basel Top 10.

If it were a Miami Top 10, Beg Borrow and Steal at The Rubell Collection would have been #1 – artist list and images for those who couldn’t make the exhibition.

My personal highlight – Chuck Close visiting our Scope booth and spending a lot of time looking at work by Barnaby Whitfield and Shawne Major.

Shawne Major (New Orleans, LA) L'Argent, 2009. Plastic netting, clothing, fabric, plastic toys (including trophies, sheriff badges, coins, flies, rings, tiaras), chains, charms, ornaments, satin ribbon roses, silk flowers, appliques’, pendants, bead, buttons, costume jewelry, circuit boards, feathers, bottle caps, bracelets, braid & trim. 7 x 7 feet.

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Chinese Contemporary everywhere, but not in Basel

July 10, 2007

Where were the Chinese stars? There were only three important works in the whole fair:

A large work by Fang Lijun priced and sold for $1million was at Art & Public.

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Fang Lijun

Shanghart had works by Wang Guangyi and Zeng Fanzhi (the Fanzhi sold for $530,000 to a European collector)

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Wang Guangyi & Zeng Fanzhi

And most intriguing was the absence of the poster child for Chinese Contemporary, Zhang Xiaogang. Given the demand, fuelled by Chinese wealth and sudden Western “interest”, one would assume works by he and his contemporaries would be ubiquitous.

The question is the answer – Where can you buy their works, if not at a fair (from a dealer)? Go to an auction.

We have seen prices for these first generation Chinese artist multiply in the auction market because Lijun, Fanzhi, Xiaogang and the others have bypassed the gallery system completely. They grew up before the market existed in China and are accustomed to selling their work directly and then having it resold at auction. The market makers in Chinese Contemporary have openly acknowledged that these artists go directly to auction with their new work. The motive behind this is that 1st generation artists believe that private buyers are prepared to pay higher prices than dealers.

Things are changing though:

1. Western galleries have started to recruit Chinese artists (PaceWildenstein signed Xiaogang and Zhang Huan 2 months ago but didn’t feature any of their work in the booth).

2. Fairs are starting to emerge that focus specifically on Contemporary Asian Art, like the Asian Contemporary Art Fair (ACAF) in New York next winter from November 8 – 12. The fair is being sponsored by a Korean Collector, and directed by a curator I am not familiar with and the director of Mary Boone.

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Zhang Xiaogang & Zhang Huan

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I’m sorry

June 7, 2007

I haven’t posted in a while but I am waiting for some intel on Basel. Works are not for sale at the Venice Biennale so I am not going to make any market speculations and all I have heard out of Basel is that everything is sold (it’s considered the best fair) and that SCOPE Basel (this is the first year for the fair in Switz.) is fabulous, but very under attended… more soon!


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