How did the inseparable Kim and Lito first meet? The Camacho couple reveals their trajectory of everlasting relationship and collecting to CoBo’s Director Selina Ting.
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Video Talk: Alain Servais – What is Happiness?
Does Art Make you a happier person? Does owning art make you richer? Doesn’t living with art give you a sense of fulliflment? CoBo Social’s Director and Editor-in-Chief, Selina Ting, speaks to Belgian collector Alain Servais – CoBo Challenge at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017 on the subject of Happiness.
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Why Are Artists Violent People? – Vishal K. Dar Answers
“Artists are violent people. I will debate that point with any artist who claims they are not violent. I think that artists are deeply violent because we try to stay so honest to ourselves. That honesty kills us”, said the Delhi-based, US-educated artist Vishal K. Dar (b. 1976) whose installation work Maruts – Storm Dieties (2016) is currently…
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Lorenzo Rudolf on Marketing Southeast Asian Art as a Package
With the increasing importance of Southeast Asian countries in the global economy, contemporary art created in these emerging scenes is also gaining its firm grounding in the international art market. To sell art from the region, according to Lorenzo Rudolf, a titanic figure in the art business, one has to brand it under the package “Southeast Asian art” because no one single country could survive solo in the keen competition.
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Samson Young 楊嘉輝：自成一樂
古典樂出身的楊嘉輝，半隻腳在音樂廳；半隻腳在白盒子，遊刃於五線譜，但更醉心於突破框框，以自創的音樂系統自由遊走於聲音與視覺，建制內外也是他的表演場地。
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Audacity and Sophistication Are the New Collecting Habits in Asia
In this interview with Marta Gnyp, collector and art historian, we start to step into some of the art world’s taboos. Marta, with her wit and humour and openness, shares with us her acute observation on the market dynamics and the phenomenon of collectors’ rising power.
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蔣志：內在的風景
蔣志在魔金石空間的最新展覽「注定」，其錄像裝置在同一個空間中放了兩個螢幕呈現：一邊是一對男女幾近自虐式的身體探索；另一邊卻是荒無一人的陌生星球，分別了精神和象徵兩個世界。放在螢幕前的LED燈箱，滾動著文字，成為了解讀錄像的一條線索。
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Marta Gnyp on The Power of the Collector
In this interview with Marta Gnyp, collector and art historian, we start to step into some of the art world’s taboos. Marta, with her wit and humour and openness, shares with us her acute observation on the market dynamics and the phenomenon of collectors’ rising power.
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Marta Gnyp on Codes and Myths – Good and Bad Collectors
What makes someone a good collector and a collection a good collection? Am I good enough as a collector, and have I gained a good reputation as a collector in the art world? These are the questions that even the most adept and serious collectors will wonder about from time to time.
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The Collector’s House – Hans Op de Beeck
For many art fair trotters, the Art Basel Unlimited is the most enjoyable sector of the whole fair business. Its popularity and success has prompted other fairs to adopt the same strategy of giving space (though in a more modest manner) for ambitious museum-like presentations which are not necessarily marketable but are good for marketing.…
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