There's gold everywhere at Hong Kong Art Week, and not just on the walls
Arts editor Kevin Kwong takes a light-hearted view of the art shining out from the walls and floors of Hong Kong galleries in Art Week
I'm seeing gold everywhere this Hong Kong Art Week.
There are those large and opulent-looking "paintings" by Rudolf Stingel made of electro-formed, copper-plated nickel and gold showing at the Gagosian Gallery in the Pedder Building in Central.
There is Ann Veronica Janssens' Golden Circle in her first solo show at Axel Vervoordt Gallery. There is the gold/blue edition of Robert Indiana's iconic pop-art sculpture Love in Christie's "Asia+ First Open" sale on March 15. And there is the video Man of Gold, showing at the Colombian gallery +MAS: Arte Contemporaneo's stand in Art Basel satellite show Art Central.
I could go on.
So perhaps gold is the trending colour in this part of the art world at the moment. Or maybe just in China - think Apple Watch and new MacBook gold editions. Very bling, very China.
One big local collector recently told me that there is a "colour guide" (probably produced by unscrupulous art consultants) that informs Chinese art buyers which colours are hot and which are not, ie. red, at some point, was supposed to fetch more money than the other hues. I can see gold sitting at the top of that chart right now.
