Artmarket.com: Artprice sees explosion of Contemporary Art and the Hi-Lite Movement in Southeast Asia
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PARIS, July 6, 2021, PR Newswire=KYODO JBN/--
Hong Kong's art auction market is about to post its best-ever first semester on
record. According to our data, so far this year the city has generated 15% of
total global fine art auction turnover. This growth is all the more remarkable
as it is very largely based on sales of Contemporary and even
Ultra-Contemporary art. Moreover, the Hong Kong model is now being exported to
other countries in the region, including South Korea and Japan.
"An uninhibited market is rapidly emerging throughout Southeast Asia," says
thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and its Artprice
department.
Strong demand for "Popular art"
Following in the footsteps of Hong Kong and equally capable of attracting
masterpieces from both traditional Chinese painting and works by American
superstars, Seoul and Tokyo are in turn asserting themselves as art market
hotspots. Around their great national artists, these two markets are helping to
expose a whole new generation of young stars, led by Nicolas Party, Ayako
Rokkaku and even Mr Doodle.
These artists can be associated with what Christie's dubbed the "Hi-Lite"
movement in reference to an art form that is 'lighter' (i.e. less intellectual)
and more open to popular culture. This movement – which burst onto the
international scene in 2019 – was immediately undermined by the health crisis.
It has nevertheless found an echo in the booming NFT market and undoubtedly
also that of Pokemon cards. Both posit the value of a popular, free, jubilant
art... even if a little childish.
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With or without the major auction houses...
Hong Kong has been successful in attracting and then retaining the most
prestigious auction houses on the planet including the Chinese operators Poly
and China Guardian and the Western operators Sotheby's, Christie's and
Phillips. However, it now seems they are unlikely to need additional auction
rooms in Southeast Asia... at least not in the near future.
With 18 works having already fetched over $10 million this year, Hong Kong is
clearly the most powerful hub among high-end Southeast Asian art capitals
(excluding mainland China). But the experience of Singapore and that of Manila
– where sales soared between 2007 and 2014 before falling sharply – reminds us
it is not easy to build a sustainable art market in this region. In Taiwan
turnover has contracted in 2020 and Taipei is now falling behind its neighbors.
Basquiat no. 1 in Hong Kong
The top three results of H1 2021 in Hong Kong have been hammered for works by
the superstar Jean-Michel Basquiat. Indeed, sales of works by the American
prodigy – who died prematurely of an overdose aged 27 – literally exploded at
the start of the year in Asia. Three canvases, a drawing and a print have
fetched a total of $120 million: Hong Kong has therefore hammered 36% of
Basquiat's total global turnover in H1 2021... five times more than London.
The Hong Kong art market is also showing continued strong demand for Lyrical
Abstraction. Chu Teh-Chun's painting Winter Harmony (1986) outperformed Zao
Wou-Ki's works in H1 2021 (which generated $21 million). Zhang Daqian's
strange, almost abstract landscape titled Temple at the Mountain Peak (1967)
sold for $27 million.
In Seoul, a colorful bouquet by Marc Chagall, Les Jardins de Saint Paul (1973),
sold for $4.4 million at K-Auction. In Tokyo, Pablo Picasso's post-Cubist
Bouteille et compotier (1922) fetched the best result at $1.5 million, followed
by Yoshitomo Nara's Lollipop (1998), which fetched $750,000. The Japanese
Contemporary art star is one of the emblematic figures of the Hi-Lite movement.
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