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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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