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Asia Art Archive 2025 Annual Fundraiser

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aaa2025auction.com Asia Art Archive (AAA) announces the return of its Annual Fundraiser this October and November, celebrating the organisation’s 25th anniversary. This year’s fundraiser features an auction of over sixty-five works generously donated by artists, galleries, and individuals. The auction presents major pieces by prominent and emerging artists from Asia and beyond, showcasing AAA’s intergenerational and cross-regional reach. Proceeds from the auction will support AAA to continue its mission of preserving contemporary art histories in Asia and providing free public access to resources and education. In partnership with Christie’s Hong Kong, a preview of the artworks opens to the public from 7 to 11 November. The works are available for bidding online at aaa2025auction.com from 27 October, 12nn, to 14 November, 10:30pm. This year’s auction features work by artists including Au Hoi Lam, Cao Fei, Luis Chan, Huma Bhabha, Ding Yi, Nicole Eisenman, Antony Gormley, Ha Bik Chuen, Ho Tzu Nyen, Heidi Lau, Lee Kit, Hao Liang, Liu Wei, ruangrupa, Vishwa Shroff, Yee I-Lann, Stephen Wong Chun Hei, Xu Bing, Xu Zhen, Samson Young, and more. Since …

Xu Zhen

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The Glorious / Perrotin / Hong Kong / Mar 25 – May 11 / Katherine Volk / Walk into Perrotin, and a towering sculpture commands the middle of the room, surrounded by two large-scale series from Xu Zhen’s solo exhibition The Glorious. The juxtaposition of media and styles typifies Xu’s exploration of cultural exchange, authenticity, history, globalisation and capitalism. The prolific artist founded MadeIn Company in 2009 and creates work both individually and through the collective practice of the group. In Eternity – Northern Qi Painted Bodhisattva, River God Ilissos from West Pediment of Parthenon (2018), from Xu’s Eternity series, a replica of a Northern Qi (AD 550-577) figure is posed upside down on top of a replica of a Classical Greek sculpture, with the head and arms removed from the former to match the latter. The two headless, handless bodies are seemingly defenceless, conjoined at the necks in an unwilling but inevitable clash of cultures. The sculptures depict Gods and the Buddha as figures elevated beyond mankind; comically connected, they satirically confront the fluidity and struggles of humanity, globalisation and relationships between ideologies from the east and …