A new record for Zao Wou-Ki
Far outstripping the $26m fetched for 29.01.64 at Christie’s in 2017, a 10m triptych – Zao Wou Ki’s (1920 -2013) largest painting – was sold for $65m on Sunday at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, setting a new record for the French-Chinese artist. The piece, Juin-Octobre, was commissioned by famous architect Ming Ping and created in 1985. Read further here.
Who will follow Dineo Seshee Bopape? | The Future Generation Art Prize reveals its finalists
Kiev’s PinchukArtCenter has revealed the list of finalists for the annual prize. The chosen artists will have their work presented at the next Venice Biennale.
All aged below 35, the nominees were selected by a jury made up of: Natalia Valencia Arango, associate curator of Mexico City’s Estancia Femsa Casa Barragán; Julie Boukobza, director of the Luma Arles residency program and 89plus residency at the Lab of the Google Cultural Institute in Paris; Tatiana Kochubinska, curator of the research platform at the PinchukArtCentre; Tumelo Mosaka, chief curator of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair; Zeynep Öz, curator of the Turkish Pavilion at the next Venice Biennale; and Richard Riley, independent curator and chair of the Gilbert & George Centre in London.
The winner we be announced in March and will be awarded $100,000, whilst five runners-up will each receive $20,000.
The finalists are:
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Alia Abdal Figueroa
Monira Al Qadiri
Yu Araki
Korakrit Arunanondchai
Kasper Bosmans
Madison Bycroft
Cooking Sections
Gabrielle Goliath
Rodrigo Hernández
Laura Huertas Millán
Marguerite Humeau
Eli Lundgaard
Taus Makhacheva
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Sondra Perry
Gala Porras-Kim
Emilija Skarnulyte
Jakob Steensen
Daniel Turner
Anna Zvyagintseva
Sondra Perry. Typhoon coming on — PinchukArtCentre © 2018. Photographed by Maksym Bilousov.
