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Monday 11 January 2010

Ben Brown Fine Arts

Venerable UK fine arts dealer Ben Brown has opened a Hong Kong gallery, which is good news to me, and to anyone else in here who is tiring of the Chinese contemporary art scene. They have a space above Shanghai Tang in Central, which I'm yet to check out. However, I saw the temporary space they have in IFC over the weekend with an exhibition of Ron Arad's pieces that will be there until the end of this month. These were a few of my favorite pieces....


Box in Four Movements, 1994-98
Patinated and stainless steel, Edition of 20


Ping Pong Table, 2008
Mirror-polished stainless steel and polished bronze, Edition of 6



Two Legs and a Table, 1989
Patinated and Stainless Steel, Edition of 20

This piece in particular is quite stunning up close. I might have to put this one on my wish list for my new office!

7 comments:

  1. Unknown11 January 2010 at 14:47

    mr. arad has such an amazing way with shaping metal volumes into functional art. i'd love to have 70k to drop on one of his "big heavy" or "big easy" chairs in polished steel! worth every penny (in my active imagination). ;-)

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  2. Suzy13 January 2010 at 10:23

    I totally agree!

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  3. jennifer21 January 2010 at 10:59

    You have to check out Ben Brown's space at pedder building - it is designed by Andre Fu of Upperhouse fame! I am pleased that Hong Kong finally has an art space of international flavour - great proportions, layered and truely refined.

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  4. Suzy21 January 2010 at 12:29

    Hi Jennifer - I finally saw it last week. A stunning space in a stunning building, and so many fantastic high calibre pieces! Yay for HK!

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  5. Anonymous24 January 2010 at 01:34

    Are there any more views of this table it relly looks just great who is the designer

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  6. Suzy24 January 2010 at 11:04

    Hi Anon, the designer is Ron Arad. You could always look at the Ben Brown Fine Arts website (which is linked in the post) or Ron Arad's website (www.ronarad.com) for further pics.

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  7. Anonymous10 May 2010 at 19:17

    Thank you for the plug! Looks good.

    Whitney from Ben Brown Fine Arts

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