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Artmarket.com: Artprice sees explosion of Contemporary Art and the Hi-Lite Movement in Southeast Asia

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PARIS, July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.

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"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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Artmarket.com is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris, SRD long only and Euroclear: 7478 - Bloomberg: PRC - Reuters: ARTF.

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Artmarket and its Artprice department was founded in 1997 by its CEO, thierry Ehrmann. Artmarket and its Artprice department is controlled by Groupe Serveur, created in 1987.

See certified biography in Who's who ©:

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Artmarket is a global player in the Art Market with, among other structures, its Artprice department, world leader in the accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current art market information in databanks containing over 30 million indices and auction results, covering more than 770,000 artists.

Artprice Images® allows unlimited access to the largest Art Market image bank in the world: no less than 180 million digital images of photographs or engraved reproductions of artworks from 1700 to the present day, commented by our art historians.

Artmarket with its Artprice department accumulates data on a permanent basis from 6300 Auction Houses and produces key Art Market information for the main press and media agencies (7,200 publications). Its 4.5 million 'members log in' users have access to ads posted by other members, a network that today represents the leading Global Standardized Marketplace® to buy and sell artworks at a fixed or bid price (auctions regulated by paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article L 321.3 of France's Commercial Code).

Artmarket with its Artprice department, has been awarded the State label "Innovative Company" by the Public Investment Bank (BPI) (for the second time in November 2018 for a new period of 3 years) which is supporting the company in its project to consolidate its position as a global player in the market art.

Artprice by Artmarket's 2020 Global Art Market Report published in March 2021:

https://www.artprice.com/artprice-reports/the-art-market-in-2020

Index of press releases posted by Artmarket with its Artprice department:

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