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Absolute Arario

By Bridget Moriarity

Published: November 19, 2007

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NEW YORK—Artists like Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang and Yue Minjun may not be household names in the Western world, but they’re sure starting to have a familiar ring. Minjun’s Pope, 1997, set a record for Chinese contemporary art this past June, selling for $4.2 million at Sotheby’s New York. Work by all three (including a 2005 painting from Guangyi’s political Pop art “Great Criticism” series) and eight other artists will be on view in “Absolute Images II” with price tags ranging from $30,000 to $1 million. A sequel to Arario Gallery’s sold-out 2006 group exhibition in Cheonan, Korea, of avant-garde Chinese art, the show is being staged November 10 through January 13, 2008, at the dealer’s new 7,000-square-foot Chelsea, New York space. The minimalist showroom, Arario’s fourth, is the handiwork of another global figure on everyone’s lips: London–based architect David Adjaye, from Tanzania.

Absolute Arario comes to ARTINFO from the November 2007 issue of Art & Auction magazine.