SCOPE London 08 is proud to present its latest panel discussion featuring leading art world figures addressing current trends in art collecting. Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new audiences internationally has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world available anywhere. With art fairs in Miami, Basel, New York, London, and the Hamptons, SCOPE is proud to be an influential presence in the expanding global art market.
Collector Lecture Series:
Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art hosted by Saatchi Online
Speakers Joshua Jiang, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Karen Smith, Amelie von Wedel
At the Lord’s Cricket Ground Indoor School | 3-5pm | Friday, 17 October 2008
To coincide with the inaugural exhibition ‘The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art’ at the new Saatchi Gallery and SCOPE London’s Museum Presents exhibition of Chinese contemporary art, a distinguished panel of speakers will be discussing the phenomenal current interest in Chinese contemporary art, the cultural and historical context in which Chinese artists are working, who the key artists are and what the future for emerging Chinese artists might look like. The experts on the panel will also be offering their thoughts and advice on collecting Chinese contemporary art.
Speakers:
Joshua Jiang is Director of Centre for Chinese Visual Arts at UCE Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. He also works as a curator and goes back to China regularly to lecture at art institutions in Beijing, Hanzhou and Shanghai. He has written the catalogue essay for ‘The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art’, published by Random House, which accompanies the Saatchi Gallery’s inaugural exhibition.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is the Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London. He was, with Julia Peyton-Jones, co-curator of ‘China Power Station’, a two-part exhibition of Chinese contemporary art in London and Norway.
Karen Smith is an art historian and critic who has lived in Beijing since 1992. She co-curated ‘The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China’ at Tate Liverpool in March 2008, and is the author of ‘Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde in New China’.
Amelie von Wedel founded Wedel Fine art, a London-based gallery and art consultancy, in 2006. One of the gallery’s primary focuses is Chinese contemporary art.
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