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San Juan Puerto Rico has more collectors per artist Dakar than any other Caribbean island. A city known for music and film and Accra the visual arts, too: The Dakar Biennale NGOs like the opens May 9. Nubuke Foundation are working to support a thriving art scene. BOGOTA, COLOMBIA Havana Power collectors like Howard Farber and Ron Pizzuti favor Cuban art. 94 Lima LUANDA, The Art Lima ANGOLA fair unveils its second edition March 20–23. São Paulo HEAT INDEX Home to the world’s second-oldest art Full boil biennale, to be held this year in September. Temperatures rising Climate thawing EMERGING MARKETS Tallinn This Baltic port touts involved collectors like Enn Kunila and Jaan Manitski, who actively endorse Estonian artists. Riga The Latvian pavilion by artists Kaspars Baku Podnieks and Krišs This oil-rich metropolis Hanoi Salmanis attracted made headlines when critical notice at Vietnam’s its first contemporary art the 2013 Venice contemporary scene nonprofit, YARAT, Biennale. has been jolted opened its Zaha Hadid– by Mai Gallery, Art designed doors. Vietnam Gallery, and Apricot Gallery. Cluj The city’s postindustrial Paintbrush Factory houses artist studios and workshops, where standouts Mircea Cantor and Mihai Pop also practice. Lagos There are more than 20 art and cultural institutions here, the hub being the Centre for Contemporary Art, led by Bisi Silva. Kuala Lumpur BEIRUT, The local gallery scene is led by Taksu, LEBANON Wei-Ling, and Interpr8 Art Space, w h i c h o p e n e d l a s t spring. Taipei Some of the most powerful collectors in Asia call Taipei home, including Pierre T.M. Chen. Cape Town Named World Design Capital for 2014. While technology may have collapsed our sense of geographic distance it has expanded the world of contemporary art, as artists from all points on the globe enter into an ever-broadening dialogue. A natural outcome of this conversation is the coalescing of talent into regional markets nurtured in large part by the support of local curators and collectors. The three locales identifed here— Bogotá, Beirut, and Luanda—represent different stages in the evolution of an art economy, and, thanks to the global recognition of the quality of their artists, we believe these new players have infuence beyond their spheres. —the editors BLOUINARTINFO.COM | MARCH 2014 ART+AUCTION G MARKETS G N EMERGI Clockwise from above: Installation view of María BOGOTA COLOMBIA Fernanda Cardoso’s “Organos Intromitentes” Artists from a rich culture take center stage at Casas Riegner earlier this year; Alejandro By Jason Edward Kaufman Obregón’s Monumento a Icaro, 1967, which hit $173,000 in the Latin 96 American art sale at HE NEW YORK ART WORLD was abuzz Sotheby’s New York last last September when an untitled 2011 fall; Olga de Amaral’s mixed-media textile piece work by Colombian-born Oscar Media Luna, 2012; Murillo fetched $401,000—just over Carolina Convers’s “Figure NS 10 times its high estimate—at Phillips. O and Nature” at Beatriz MM O Esguerra Art; patrons Subsequent sales for the London- Steven and Solita Mishaan. based artist’s text and graffti-style IKIC AND : W Opposite: works—which have been compared to Edgar Negret’s MARAL those of Jean-Michel Basquiat—neared $200,000, SPREAD A Navegante, 1977, took S OU doubling their high estimates. The 28-year-old, who DEL in an above-estimate $9,375 at Phillips has exhibited at South London Gallery and the Rubell REVI OLGA in November 2013. P ; Family Collection in Miami, completed his New York sale S Y’ season with the announcement that he would join the LLAN MU THEB C David Zwirner Gallery stable. Murillo’s performance is M ; SO TA indicative of the potential of the Colombian market, which O G has become the darling of Latin American art afcionados. ATRICK ; P , BO TA The scene appears poised for sustained development as O G long as there is continued economic and political stability. IEGNER , BO R RT Poverty, education, and corruption remain pressing A ASAS concerns, but the long-isolated country is refashioning C ERRA U AND itself as a rising democracy and tourist destination, using its SG own culture to serve these ambitions. E NSALVE EATRIZ MO ; B FAIRS AND CURATED EVENTS E F OSCAR If one measure of a market’s potential is whether it can : ANTA EFT support an indigenous art fair, Bogotá’s ArtBO, held each Y, S L P O October, ticks that box. Sponsored by the city’s chamber T ALLER M O of commerce, ArtBO has fourished under the direction of G FR María Paz Gaviria Múñoz, the U.S.–educated daughter RTES of former Colombian president César Gaviria Trujillo. A CKWISE O L ELLAS C The ninth edition last fall had 26 new exhibitors for a total B COLOMBIA> 2012 POPULATION: 47.7 MILLION > 2012 GDP: $369.6 BILLION > ART+AUCTION MARCH 2014 | BLOUINARTINFO.COM of 65 from 21 countries, showing a steady build on Galería, MU, Galería El Garaje, Espacio, Argentine-owned the previous year. Exhibitors of note included Mexico’s Del Infnito Arte, and Odeón, which operates a satellite fair Alfredo Ginocchio Galería and omr, Brazil’s Galería during ArtBO. Outside of Bogotá there are only a handful Luisa Strina, and Colombia’s own Galería Casas Riegner of galleries in Medellín, Cali, Cartagena, and Barranquilla. and La Central. Attendance leaped 25 percent, to 25,000, Colombian artists are better represented in New York by and participation by important collectors tripled. Henrique Faria, Nohra Haime, Johannes Vogt, who The founding director of ArtBO, Andrea Walker, recently exhibited Juan Fernando Herrán, and Magnan went on to launch a new fair, Art Cartagena, in January Metz, which shows the promising young Miler Lagos. of this year. The boutique fair featured 15 exhibitors, 10 from overseas, and drew 2,000 visitors. On its heels is AUCTIONS the new, privately sponsored International Biennial There is no major auction house in Colombia, so most of the of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias. Under action takes place in New York and London. Axel Stein, the artistic direction of Brazilian-born Berta Sichel, the head of Latin American art at Sotheby’s, says Colombian ARTISTS TO inaugural edition (through April 7) has distributed art art sells mainly to Colombians, an exception being Fernando WATCH from 45 countries throughout the Caribbean port, with Botero, whose prices have reached $2 million and whose JOHANNA CALLE free performances and site-specifc installations in international market extends to the U.S. and Asia. BOGOTA, B. 1965 virtually every major plaza. Still, the major annual art There is a steady market for sculptor Edgar Negret, one drawings survey is the Ministry of Culture’s 74-year-old Salón of whose 1950s constructions sold for $62,500 at the Latin BEATRIZ Nacional, which now includes international contemporary American Art sale at Sotheby’s New York in November. GONZALEZ art under the aegis of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Large quasi-abstract pieces by Alejandro Obregón are in BOGOTA, B. 1938 p a i n t i n g Medellín’s dynamic former director Juliana Restrepo. demand by Colombian collectors, with a 1960s piece MILER LAGOS fetching $173,000 at the Sotheby’s November sale. Virgilio BOGOTA, B. 1973 GALLERIES Garza, head of Latin American art at Christie’s, says that sculpture/ Casas Riegner in Bogotá is Colombia’s most internationally at his sales, Americans are the main buyers. One beneft from installation connected gallery, participating in Art Basel, Art Basel Colombian art having been overlooked by 20th-century JOSE ANTONIO Miami Beach, and Frieze London and New York, among art centers is that works produced in the 1960s and ’70s in SUAREZ LONDONO MEDELLIN, B. 1955 others. “My business comes mainly from the fairs,” says dialogue with international art movements such as abstrac- drawings/prints owner Catalina Casas, who counts among her stable of tion and conceptualism remain relatively inexpensive. MATEO LO P E Z older and emerging artists Mateo López, whose New York–based art adviser Ana Sokolov points to Alvaro MEDELLIN, B. 1955 installation based on a Vespa trip along Colombia’s Barrios, recently featured in an exhibition at the Banco drawings/prints 97 abandoned railways was acquired by the Museum of de la Republica and shown by El Museo locally and in New OSCAR MUNOZ Modern Art in New York; José Antonio Suárez Londoño, York by Faria and Haime, as one such prospect. SANTIAGO DE CALI, B. 1951 who creates drawings inspired by books; Johanna Calle, conceptual whose drawing practice embraces both fguration and COLLECTORS photography abstraction; and conceptual and multimedia artist Miguel Because of past problems with the drug cartels laundering OSCAR MURILLO Angel Rojas. Prices range between $2,000 and $15,000, money through artworks, collecting activity in Colombia LONDON, B. 1986 says Casas, who sells mainly to collectors in Brazil, the U.S., has largely been secretive, though during last year’s painting Britain, and Europe, where her artists are better known. ArtBO several collectors revealed their private holdings. BERNARDO O R T IZ “You can fnd great things without spending tons of Textile producer Alberto Simhon and his wife Denise BOGOTA, B. 1972 drawings money,” says Carlos Hurtado, director of Nueveochenta, Camhi’s heavily secured hillside house offers an eclectic co-owned by former president Gaviria, himself a collector international collection that ranges from Botero to the MIGUEL A N GEL of international photography and Latin American art. Chapman brothers. León Amitai showed the Latin ROJAS BOGOTA, B. 1946 He says prices for Colombian artists typically range from American collection he houses at his textile company’s multimedia/ $3,000 to $10,000 for some established fgures.

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