New Eastern Art Takes West by Storm

New Eastern Art Takes West by Storm
Leading British artists Anthony Gormley, John Bellany, Chris Orr and David Mach have caught on to it, gallery owners are already collectors of it and the art public awaits it.

Exciting, enlightening, challenging and truly revolutionary - Contemporary Asian Art is the market to watch.

Interest has been fever-pitched with international exhibitions throughout the globe showcasing an explosion of artworks by an emerging generation of young Asian artists from China, Japan and Korea.

Bonhams is one of the leaders in recognising the potential of the avant-garde material from the region and are delighted to announce its inaugural sale of Contemporary Asian Art this coming June.

'Some of the best work being produced today is coming out of China, Korea and Japan,' says Howard Rutkowski, Director of Contemporary Art at Bonhams.

'Its global impact, acknowledged by curators, collectors and gallery owners, is a truly extraordinary phenomenon that the market has not seen before.'

Many of these works breakdown the barriers of East and West through the creation of art.

They heighten imagery to challenge preconceptions of society and evoke the transience of life in a spellbinding way.

While many western countries have a great understanding of the emerging commercial power of the East, few of countries, until now, have