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12/22/2024 05:05:14 pm

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2013 Art Basel in Hong Kong

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If you thing art exhibition is generally exciting, then you will find the 2013 Art Basel surprising, actually speaking, joyfully surprising to a large extent. More than 240 art galleries from 35 countries get together in the exhibition place, leaving the construction and direction somehow chaotic, even to those years-experience attendants. As estimated, art times from more than 3000 artists are going to be exhibited at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, HKCEC till this Sunday.

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The Art Basel has brought the exhibition an innovative and popular professional insight as the first year they were in charge of the exhibition.  The placements of the items are well-organized so that the varieties of these items would show up. Under the control of Art Basel, the operation runs well, and the galleries from Asia, Europe and America corporate amiably and harmoniously. There is a trend that this new type of performance would lead the local event to a real international one. The Art HK lived in the past, and it is definitely great news to every attendant. The journalist chooses top ten exhibition areas and share as above.

The 10th is Beck &Eggeling from Düsseldorf, Germany. They mainly present the Minimalist works from Germany and Italy around '60s and '70s of the 20th century. Heinz Mack's structures are also included.

The 9th is Y++/Wada Fine Arts from Japan. They bring the works of Tetsuya Ishida. His work displays his unique perspective of Japanese society, and it is the important part of today's surrealism.

The 8th is Long March from China. The works including many great modern artists, such as Wang Zhan, Shaobin Yang, Zhen Xu, Hong Yu, Jianwei Wang, etc. their paintings are simple, clean but powerful. People will see the reasons the modern Chinese paintings are popular around the world at present.

The 7th is Gmurzynska. In the exhibition place, Fernando Botero's painting is presented in a special way, on the custom made exhibition area covered by the mulberry composite floor board.

The 6th is Canna from Jakarta. You will see only one work from one artist for the entire exhibition area, Crush Me by EntangWIharson.

The 5th is Chambers from China. The individual exhibition has the ability to bring more attention on one piece of work, and impress the attendant very much, just like Zhao Zhao's work of bullet holes of pieces of glasses.

The 4th is Gajah from Singapore. NyomanMasriadi and Yunizar's work are presented in this area.

The 3rd is Eslite from Taibei. Xiaodong Liu, his various works of oil paintings, graphic art and sculptures are completed during the past ten years and are exhibited during this time.

The 2nd is the exhibition mainly for Adel Abdessemed. On one side, several charcoal sketches are hang on the wall; in the center of the area, an aluminum made horse is standing there, seems it is struggle. These works present author's thinking of the live, death and the indifferent modern world.

The 1st is the items from the very hot modern artist, Yayoi Kusama. Dozens of items are brought to this exhibition, including sculptures, and paintings. 

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