A major contemporary art fair to be launched in Shanghai, China next year will include more than 100 international galleries.
"ShContemporary 2007" will be held in September 2007 in a 12,000 square-metre space located in an upmarket area of the city, The Art Newspaper reports.
The fair is being organized by Geneva collector Pierre Huber with Lorenzo Rudolf, a former director of the highly regarded Art Basel fair, and the Bolognafiere company, which organizes similar events in Italy.
"We will start by selecting the artists we want to be exhibited, and then invite their primary gallery to take part. Galleries will not be able to apply directly," Huber told The Art Newspaper, which reports on the world of visual arts.
"We want to create a new market for collecting in Asia and Oceania, to find artists from the whole region, from India to New Zealand and bring them to the attention of Western visitors, and to introduce Western artists to Asian collectors."
Huber is promising something "completely different from other art fairs."
The organizers say China’s burgeoning economic power makes it a hot destination for the sale of art. Rudolf has said the budget for ShContemporary is "substantial" but would not divulge the amount.
The announcement comes in the wake of one made by the venerable Pompidou Centre in Paris, which said in September it will be creating a branch in Shanghai.
Chinese authorities have signed a deal with the museum to set up a satellite version of Pompidou. A 10,000-square-metre facility, expected to be finished by 2009, will also contain a reference library, a design shop, café and restaurant.
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