[Thread]Hong Kong dealer Johnson Chang is selling his era-defining collection of Chinese contemporary art at tonight’s @Sothebys HK evening sale. He says he needs to rethink art for new era after HK’s turmoil n Covid. I spoke to Chang for @TheArtNewspaper http://www.theartnewspaper.com/interview/we-are-entering-into-a-new-era-and-i-have-to-rethink-art
Hong Kong dealer Johnson Chang on selling his era-defining collection and rethinking art for a new...

The collector and gallerist explains why he moved his central Hong Kong gallery and is parting ways with some of his favourite works at Sotheby's this month

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/interview/we-are-entering-into-a-new-era-and-i-have-to-rethink-art
...Among the highlights is this Zhang Xiaogang triptych “The Dark Trilogy: Fear, Meditation, Sorrow” (1989-90). Just by looking at the time of when this work was created, you would immediately know what this work is trying to say. Some 30 yrs later, this work resonates so much...
...Among the highlights is this Zhang Xiaogang triptych “The Dark Trilogy: Fear, Meditation, Sorrow” (1989-90). Just by looking at the time of when this work was created, you would immediately know what this work is trying to say. Some 30 yrs later, this work resonates so much...
...Among the highlights is this Zhang Xiaogang triptych “The Dark Trilogy: Fear, Meditation, Sorrow” (1989-90). Just by looking at the time of when this work was created, you would immediately know what this work is trying to say. Some 30 yrs later, this work resonates so much...
...Among the highlights is this Zhang Xiaogang triptych “The Dark Trilogy: Fear, Meditation, Sorrow” (1989-90). Just by looking at the time of when this work was created, you would immediately know what this work is trying to say. Some 30 yrs later, this work resonates so much...
...Another piece I like is this one, “Banana” (1995) by Liu Wei. What does this remind you of? And what was China like back in 1995? That should give you a lot of clues what it tries to tell you...
...Ending this thread with this quote fr Chang: “All great art is contingent on the greater historical transformation of the world that [artists] live in...It was a major era for China and artists were working on a very big historical canvas.”
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