【2021 Autumn Auction】CUPPAR Will Start The "Beijing + Shanghai" Twin-city Auction
Since the first auction in March, CUPPAR has adhered to a curatorial approach to present modern and contemporary art and achieved excellent sales. Subsequently, in the online simultaneous auction of ONLINE, we focused more on fresh works in the market, from the "post-70s" Chinese contemporary art group to international art faces rarely seen in the mainland market. Through a new special narrative, CUPPAR brought attention and awareness of the new generation of artists to the collection community, and created auction records for the works of many young artists, such as Yan Bing and Zhang Yuewei.
In the upcoming Autumn Sales, CUPPAR launched a special contemporary art show featuring "Unbounded: International Contemporary Pluralistic Vision", "Backbone: Contemporary Power", "YCA: Chinese Young Artist" and "No.1 Player: Selected Topics of Digital Art", striving to pursue "The Internationalization of Traditional Cultural Communication and the Deepening of International Plate Communication in the Mainland". Continuing the international trend and the choice of younger people, CUPPAR brings a more complete contemporary art scene in Shanghai than the first auction.
"Backbone: Contemporary Power"
"Zhou Chunya Art Special Topics", Liu Ye, Liu Xiaodong, Liu Wei and so on. From this list and appearance of core artists, we may be able to see the options and aesthetic style of CUPPAR. For example, Zhou Chunya's "Mountain and Stone", "Peach Blossom" and other different themes of case-by-case presentation. Like Liu Ye, Liu Xiaodong’s works, are not ultra-high unit price works, but accurate and special.
"Peach Blossom" in 2006 is different from Zhou Chunya’s later peach blossom works, but subtle and elegant, one before and after the peach branches are born with each other, creating a dreamy atmosphere. Liu Ye's “Venus” is a special work with a very rare black background and the most straightforward depiction in the artist's figure painting, which is full of magic between hiding and looking directly. Darkness and chaos, tenderness and innocence, which belongs to the return and expression of oriental aesthetic consciousness.
“YCA: Chinese Young Artist”
CUPPAR continues to pay attention to the market and future of young artists, and the special topic “YCA: Chinese Young Artist” was launched in the 2021 Autumn Sales, which includes both the hot spots of the current market and the rising stars in the eyes of CUPPAR, presents the current accurate list: Huang Yuxing, Chen Fei, Chen Ke, Gao Yu, Ouyang Chun, Song Kun, Liang Yuanwei, Liu Wei, Xie Nanxing, Kang Haitao, Tu Hongtao, Xue Feng, Xuan Shanqin, Xu Hongxiang, Qiu Ruixiang, Li Jikai, Ma Ke, Xiong Yu, Yan Bing, Cui Jie, Zhang Yunyao, Lou Shenyi, Chimney, Wen Ling, Xu Maomao, He Xiangyu, Bi Jianye, Zhai Liang, Zhou Yilun, Lyu Song, Huang Liang, Guan Yinfu, Gao Ludi and so on. The works of these artists show the artistic features of this generation from different aspects from concepts, painting and other parts.
In addition, the creations of Song Kun, Liang Yuanwei, Li Shurui, Cui Jie, Xu Maomao, Zhang Ruyi and other female artists have increasingly become an important force in contemporary young artists.
Besides, it can also be seen from this list that in addition to the extremely hot artists in the current market, it has also taken on a new look. The younger collectors, the richer institutional collections and the blurred boundaries of categories are the important changes reflected in the auction of the modern and contemporary art plate in Chinese mainland area. In the face of such changes, choose a work, from hear to see, return to the picture itself, this is also the collection concept that CUPPAR has been advocating.
"Unbounded: International Contemporary Pluralistic Vision"
In the CUPPAR Autumn Sales, we will continue to introduce artists from a global perspective, and extend our attention from the Asian art context to the broader art world, showing the diverse picture in the diversity and coexistence of contemporary international art in the works of artists active in different cultural backgrounds, such as March Avery, Martin Wong, Paul Wonner, Ann Craven, Mark Francis, Enrico Bach, Liliane Tomasko, Benjamin Appel, Doodle, Campana, Tomas Saraceno and so on.
"No.1 Player: Selected Topics of Digital Art" Planned by Blank
Since 2021, the NFT market has experienced rapid growth, with its market capitalization soaring from $70 million in mid-February to $4.7 billion in October, a 67-fold increase. The new concept of encryption industry comes one after another, meta-universe, Web3.0 and SocialFi quickly attract the attention of the whole world, and a new digital age is about to be born.
This time, CUPPAR will jointly plan "No.1 Player: Selected Topics of Digital Art" with BLANK platform, featuring important works of hot artists in the global NFT market for the first time in the Chinese market. BLANK, the thematic curator, as the leading digital art platform in Asia, combines encryption technology with artistic creation to promote interconnection and support among artists, creators, curators, collectors and institutions.
As the first stage of the 2021 CUPPAR Autumn Sales, CUPPAR chose to plan the contemporary art event in the Shanghai area during Shanghai Art week, which is undoubtedly a solid first step in the future auction layout of "Beijing + N". From space to field, through the development of this autumn auction, CUPPAR is moving to a new direction, and a more open auction system in both field and region is being built.
At the same time of the special autumn auction of Contemporary Art in Shanghai Mall, CUPPAR will also bring 7 domestic and international works at the nearby 9th ART021 Shanghai 21 Contemporary Art Fair. The launch of CUPPAR will bring the most popular NFT work "Cryptopunk # 4018", the representative of International Fashion Art——Mr., and the works of Brazilian artist Lucas Aruda, who is very popular in the current market. In addition, there are wonderful works by domestic "post-70s" backbone artists Ouyang Chun and Huang Yuxing, French artist Laurent Grasso and American artist Katherine Bernhardt.
Deep ploughing in Beijing: Chinese calligraphy and painting and comprehensive presentation of modern art
Adhering to the strategic layout of "Beijing + N", the 2021 CUPPAR Autumn Sales will be jointly held across Beijing and Shanghai. As the core position of CUPPAR, after the special auction of contemporary art in Shanghai on November 11-13, we will move to Beijing to present an important special show of Chinese calligraphy and painting and modern art in autumn this season. From December 2 to 4, CUPPAR will bring a number of special auctions with the "Youmei" brand as the core at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beijing. In addition to the sections of Chinese calligraphy and painting and modern art in the 20th century, theme planners in the fields of gold and stone inscriptions, letters and books will also be displayed for the first time.
In conjunction with the presentation of twin-city in the 2021 CUPPAR Autumn Sales, CUPPAR will hold a number of related exhibitions and academic activities at the same time, and bring a comprehensive auction experience for collectors through more new perspectives. With the appearance of twin-city and synchronization between Beijing and Shanghai, CUPPAR tries to give full play to its location advantages, unite the joint efforts of development, and create a more diversified CUPPAR brand effect.
