PARA/SITE FUNDAISING AUCTION 10

MORE THAN ONE MILLION THANKS To all the artists, Founding Friends, patrons and sponsors that have supported us in our fundraising auction. We surpassed our goal of One Million Hong Kong Dollars for this event, making it the most successful in the history of Para/Site.

Special thanks to the artists and galleries that donated works for this very important event for us, and the companies that have sponsored this event: KEE Club, AXA Fine Art Insurance, Helutrans, San Miguel, AVS, ArtRadar Asia, Modern Media, Gallery Guide and Art Asia Pacific.

Kee Club teemed with buzz and excitement on the 9 November as one hundred art lovers showed up to bid for the great works of art available for sale. The auction witnessed record prices for works by Ai Weiwei, Rem Koolhaas, Surasi Kusolwong and Lam Tung Pang, among others.

This money will go directly to enhance all our programmes, including our International Projects that contribute to the visibility of Hong Kong artists around the world and our in-house exhibitions in our venue at Po Yan Street, in Sheung Wan. A total of almost 20 projects are developed each year by our team of professionals to nurture our art scene and bring into Hong Kong some of the most exciting art of our time.

PARA/SITE FUNDRAISING AUCTION 10
9 November 2010

Preview Dates:
5 November, 7pm – 9pm
6 November – 7 November, 12pm-7pm
8 November, 12pm – 3pm

Preview Venue:
Para/Site Art Space, G/F, 4 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Auction Date:
Tuesday, 9 November from 6:30pm
Auction starts at 7:30pm

Auction Venue:
Kee Club, 6/F, 32 Wellington Street, Central

Para/Site Art Space is honoured to present its Annual Fundraising Auction, an exciting event that makes a great opportunity to purchase works of art by, both emerging and established artists. The auction contains 28 lots, and comes as a celebration of a year that has seen Para/Site Art Space collaborating with institutions of the calibre of Tate Modern and Kunsthalle Wien, and has brought international visibility to Hong Kong artists through five international projects in 2010. In addition to this, Para/Site Art Space in 2010 has brought into Hong Kong artists like Ai Weiwei, Vito Acconci and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Para/Site Art Space’s Executive Director, Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, has stated, “This is a great chance to be part of Hong Kong’s growing international art scene and support an organization which has a long history in the city”.

This year’s highlights include sought-after works like “Swatter”, a brass gilded limited edition by Ai Weiwei (est. 25,000 – 40,000 HKD), Rem Koolhaas’ unique photograph “Lagos” (est. 40,000 – 60,000 HKD), which depicts the slums of the Nigerian capital city. Also some of the artists from the first wave of Chinese Avant-garde are present through Zhang Dali’s “AK 47 (v.7)” (170,000 HKD – 250,000 HKD) and Zhuang Hui’s four-meter long group portrait photograph “Luoyang Wulonggou Primary School Students and Staff, March 19,1997” (est. 120,000 – 180,000 HKD). There are works for all pockets, with some lots like Surasi Kusolwong’s medium sized photograph starting as little as 10,000 HKD. Artists represented in the auction include a good selection of Hong Kong’s art scene, with Adrian Wong, Nadim Abbas, Lam Hoi Sin and Lam Tung Pang, among others. Southeast Asia is represented through The Propeller Group and Tintin Wulia from Vietnam and Indonesia respectively. The selection of artists in the auction reflects on the programming of Para/Site Art Space, with a mix of established and up-and-coming artists, both from Hong Kong and abroad, with a regional focus in China, East and Southeast Asia. The auction includes works of art by 28 artists in a range of media that goes from video-installation and photography to drawing and painting.

All proceedings of the works donated by the artists and galleries will go to support Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong’s most international not-for-profit art space.

To attend auction, please contact Ms. Chan 25174620/ auction@para-site.org.hk
Full auction catalogue will be available at http://www.para-site.org.hk/auction10.pdf after 15 October 2010

Supporters:
Hanart TZ Gallery
Ooi Botos Gallery
Schoeni Art Gallery
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
The Cat Street Gallery
Gallery VER
Nadim ABBAS
AI Weiwei
CHENG Tsai Tung
Almond CHU
GUAN Wei
HUANG Xiaopeng
JOO Choon Lin
Surasi KUSOLWONG
Charles LaBelle
Linda C.H.LAI
LAM Hoi Sin
LAM Tung Pang
Michael LEE
Dinu LI
William LIM
Jolene MOK
Olaf MUELLER
The Propeller Group
Wei Leng TAY
Rirkrit TIRAVANIJA + Nico DOCKX
WAN Qingli
WONG Wing-fat Morgan
Adrian WONG
Tintin WULIA
XIN Hai Zhou
ZHANG Dali
ZHUANG Hui