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Recycled jeans raise $232,000

27-May-08

Recycled jeans raise $232,000

Records were tumbling at the Christie's auction of contemporary Asian art in Hong Kong on 24 May. As was to be expected, most attention (and cash) was focused on Chinese artists, but auction records were also set for individual artists from Indonesia, India and South Korea. One of the Korean artists featured was Choi So-young (b 1980), who has a show coming up at the Union Gallery later this year. Choi specialises in creating panoramic landscapes out of recycled denim. Her 3 meter wide cityscape (below) was sold for the equivalent of USD232,714. The Union Gallery are still collecting your old jeans to be transformed into Choi's next creation. See here for details. Other artists whose work was sold last week were (images ...
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Surrender your jeans — win a beer

16-Jul-07
Doesn't sound a very good deal, huh? But let me explain further. Korean artist Choi So-young specialises in creating work out of denim. She's going to be exhibiting at the Union Gallery in 2008... but she needs the raw materials to work with. So the deal is this: YOU can be part of a collaborative, interactive art-making making experience. Or something like that. Send in your jeans to the Union Gallery -- or any old denim articles you don't want any more -- and they will be transformed into a work of art. And YOU will be invited to the party celebrating the launch of the exhibition as a mark of gratitude. I know the Union Gallery does great parties. I went ...
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