MONA VIP TOUR

Hong Kong Art Tour 2013

with Anne McGravie-Wright May 22nd--27th 2013

Join us for VIP entry into the Art Basel Hong Kong Art Fair.

Escorted travel with a personal focus for the Art Collector and Art Enthusiast.

Enjoy personal service, liaison for sourcing and shopping, dining bookings and escorted visits to HK Artists studios.

You’ll receive professional advice and assistance on the acquisition of art as an investment. With years of experience as an Art Conservator, Anne can also provide help with conservation issues such as packing and safe shipping home. This is Avec Pleasure’s 5^th Tour to the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Fair, now called ART BASEL Hong Kong

This year, Avec Pleasure’s clients will be staying at the elegantly designed interior of the classical ‘East meets West’ LANGHAM HOTEL.

For information:  contact  staff at Avec Pleasure     0417 388 691        1.300  618 336

mcgravie@netspace.net.au or www.avecpleasure.com.au

WHY WE VISIT THE ART BASEL ART FAIR IN HONG KONG

Hong Kong has been home to the stimulating Contemporary Art Fair previously know as ARTHK12 etc. now run my the BASEL Art Group.

This Art Fair has provided an opportunity for exciting cross-fertilisation of emerging artists from both cultures alongside Modern Masters from ASIA and the WEST.

“The premier edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong will trace 12 decades of Art History across its four sectors: Galleries, Insights, Discoveries and Encounters.”

In one Art Fair Basel will be aiming to profile an overview of contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works from the 20^th to the 21^st century, more than 2000 artists working across Asia to West.

TALKS / 

ART BASEL also hosts a series of conversations and talks on a range of  subjects including the collection and exhibition of art. These talks include Artists, Gallerists, Curators, Publishers and Collectors, all of whom actively participate in panel discussions, book signings and interviews.

For information:  contact  staff at Avec Pleasure     0417 388 691       1.300  618 336

mcgravie@netspace.net.au or www.avecpleasure.com.au

JOIN US on the AVEC PLEASURE Tour to the exciting ART BASEL / Hong Kong 2013 May 22nd - May 27th

It's official…this year's AVEC PLEASURE art enthusiasts are heading off to Hong Kong for another action-packed 5 day tour focused primarily on experiencing the new ART Basel Contemporary ART FAIR Set in seductive Hong Kong the fair will tick all the boxes come this May. 

Whether you are in need of an inspirational ‘Art Break’ to assist you re-discover the artist within, or a collector interested in learning more from a first hand experience, or maybe an artist who wants to learn more about the contemporary Hong Kong Art Scene of East meets West. If any of this sounds like you, then you must consider coming with us on our upcoming escorted Avec Pleasure Art Tour…  www.avecpleasure.com.au

Feel free to contact me, Anne McGravie-Wright, for more information or to express interest:   mcgravie@netspace.net.au or (0417) 388 691.

There's more to explore at  https://www.artbasel.com/en/Hong-Kong

Exclusive Art Tour visit to Auckland New Zealand

Our NZ tour will coincide with The 2013 International Sculpture Symposium in Auckland, Feb. 2013.

The escorted, Avec Pleasure Art Tour, is planned to run Feb. 10^th to 16^th  mcgravie@netspace.net.au  or phone (0417) 388 691

ADDITIONAL EVENTS PLANNED:

* Behind the Scenes’ tour of The Auckland Art Gallery
* Escorted Tour of Gipp’s Sculpture Farm
* Escorted Tour of Brick Bay Sculpture Trail

Inclusion in Sculpture Symposium talks with access to keynote addresses world-renown Sculptors. Visit  www.avecpleasure.com.au for more information about this exciting event join our mailing list by adding your email address care of mcgravie@netspace.net.au to express an interest in any of our tours.

ACCOMODATION

The Pullman Hotel / Auckland is the official ISC symposium hotel. 

It is a five star hotel is located on the edge of the central business district, 600 yards from the Auckland Art Gallery where the symposium will be based. If booked early a discounted rate is available through registration at the ISC symposium. There are many other nearby hotels should you wish alternative accommodation, we can assist with this as well.

OPTIONAL TOURS

This AVEC PLEASURE tour to NZ has many options for further exploration of the many outstanding Sculpture Gardens which are located in nearby areas surrounding the city of Auckland.

GIBBS FARM

www.gibbsfarm.org.nz

The impressive 1,000-acre sculpture park which is located on New Zealand's North Island, 50 km north of Auckland in the Kaipara District.

Among the museum standard art works installed on Gibbs  Farm are many monumental pieces by leading contemporary artists such as: Daniel Buren, Neil Dawson, Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor, George Rickey, Richard Serra, Bernar Venet.and many others. You can view the sculptures in situ while walking the grounds of this extraordinary world class sculpture garden.

ZEALANDIA SCULPTURE GARDEN

www.zealandiasculpturegarden.co.nz

Terry Stringer is one of New Zealand’s leading contemporary sculptors. The Zealandia garden presents a survey of his works together with sculptural pieces by colleagues. The Garden is divided into themed areas: Sculpture in the Open, The Enclosed Garden, The Step Walkway in the Trees, The Gate Gallery and a Gallery Exhibition which changes each season.

BRICK BAY SCULPTURE TRAIL

www.brickbaysculpture.co.nz

Embark on a compelling outdoor gallery experience, where an ever-changing exhibition of around 45 sculptures by leading New Zealand artists are sensitively sited along the 2km trail. Experience sculpture framed by towering native trees and majestic palms, abundant birdlife and green pastures, overlooking the celebrated Brick Bay Vineyard. All sculptures are for sale and change regularly as works are sold.

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PRICES FOR JOINING THIS TOUR ARE FLEXIBLE ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS AND TIME OF BOOKING.  For further travel questions please contact JAMES JANG at  james@where2travel.com.au

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AVEC PLEASURE is putting the finishing touches to our new Sculpture Tour to Auckland, New Zealand, February 2013.

In 2013, we will be joining forces with the International Sculpture Center, ISC, which will be running their Sculpture Symposium while we are planning to be in Auckland, New Zealand.

Avec Pleasure tour participants can choose what level of involvement they wish to have with the Symposium program. They are offering Keynote addresses by Internationally acclaimed Sculptors, symposium panels and access to the Auckland Art Gallery, learning more about the impressive collections they hold and touring their new contemporary extension. This Avec Pleasure tour is designed to inspire the novice and further inform the avid Art Collector in the area of Contemporary Sculpture practice.

TOUR DATES:  February 9^th to Feb 15^th 2013

CONTACT:  Anne McGravie-Wright   mcgravie@netspace.net.au

COST:  When you contact us with an expression of interest to attend further details of the costs can be discussed. Tour Costs are dependent on your specific travel  requests  i.e. which class of air travel and type of Hotel room you prefer.

Exclusive add-on tours are being arranged to allow delegates a visit to the extraordinary Gibbs Farm exhibition www.gibbsfarm.org.nz,  Zealandia Sculpture Garden www.zealandiasculpturegarden.co.nz, and Waiheke Island to view NZ premier Contemporary outdoor Sculpture exhibition held during this time.
　

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 NEW TOUR / AVEC PLEASURE

Exclusive Art Tour visit to Auckland New Zealand

Sculpture by Anish Kapoor

Our NZ tour will coincide with the 2013 International Sculpture Symposium to be held in Auckland, Feb. 2013.

The escorted, Avec Pleasure Art Tour, is planned to run Feb. 10^th to 15^th with the possibility of extended touring in NZ following the conclusion of the symposium. www.aucklandartgallery.com

SOME OF THE EVENTS PLANNED:
  

Behind the Scenes tour of The Auckland Art Gallery.  

Visit to the Art Gallery’s Conservation Departments. 

Private tour of Gipp’s Sculpture Farm.  

Tour of Brick Bay Sculpture Trail.  

Inclusion in Sculpture Symposium programming / keynote addresses

by world-renown Sculptors.   

Dining experiences at Auckland’s leading new restaurants.

Personal assistance with additional cultural tourism visits.

Click here to see Richard Serra video

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Visit  www.avecpleasure.com.au  for more information about this exciting event and join our mailing list by emailing us care of  mcgravie@netspace.net.au to express an interest in joining this tour …

FURTHER INFO:

Alan Gibbs (born 1939) is a New Zealand-born businessman, entrepreneur and art collector. After a successful business career in New Zealand, which made him one of the wealthiest individuals in NZ, Gibbs relocated to London in 1999 but he retains strong links to NZ through his development of Gibbs Farm, one of the world’s leading sculpture parks. He has established himself as one of New Zealand's leading art collectors, and since 1991 has been developing the impressive  1,000-acre sculpture park which is located on New Zealand's North Island, 50 km north of Auckland in the Kaipara District.

Among the museum standard art works installed on Gipp’s   Farm are many monumental pieces by leading contemporary artists such as: Daniel Buren, Neil Dawson, Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor, George Rickey, Richard Serra, Bernar Venet.and many others. You can view the sculptures in situ on www.gibbsfarm.org.nz

Some of the art works are large enough to be seen from satellite images at high magnification. The outdoor works of sculpture include the following pieces:

▪   Horizons, by Neil Dawson (1994)

▪   The Mermaid, by Marijke de Goey (1999)

▪   Electrum, by Eric Orr and Greg Leyh, (1997)

▪   Te Tuhirangi Contour by Richard Serra (1999 / 2001)

▪   Arches, by Andy Goldsworthy ( 2005 )

▪   Dismemberment Stage 1, by Anish Kapoor ( 2009 )

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EXPO CHICAGO / 2012

27,000 People Attended the Inaugural Exposition

September 19-22, 2012

The inaugural International Exposition of Modern and Contemporary Art & Design in Chicago, which was held this September from 19^th to 23^rd played host to 27,000 visitors over the four days.  International galleries praised the inaugural fair, specifically for the excellence of its production and for sales of outstanding works of art. Our Avec Pleasure tour to this event found the VIP program to be well organized and full of very interesting tours to independant  Artists run exhibition spaces, shared studios and alternative art exhibits

This exciting new cultural event for Chicago featured 120 Art exhibitors from both the US and International Private Galleries world wide, also included a diverse roster of programming and events which offered special art tours, exhibitions and Dialogues—a lecture series with leading artists, curators and collectors.

EXPO CHICAGO, The opening evening, Vernissage attracted the city’s business, civic and cultural leaders including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who were there in force to assist the Expo organizers in making the Vernissage a very successful night. The opening night preview was aimed at benefiting the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago. The opening night raised $375,000 and set the atmosphere  which inspired many important sales for several of the galleries. Art info’s Julia Halperin wrote of the evening, “Civic pride is not a feeling one normally associates with art fairs, but it informed almost every element of the inaugural EXPO CHICAGO's Vernissage."

The fair was enhanced by partnerships with leading organizations and institutions including The Art Institute of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Arts Club of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Hyde Park Art Center, threewalls, International Sculpture Center, Aperture, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and Chicago Children’s Museum. These institutions coordinated special exhibitions, tours and events both on and off site that enhanced the works on display. 

Collectors, dealers and critics alike agreed that EXPO has returned Chicago to its legacy of hosting a prominent art exposition that does justice to the city’s currently thriving cultural institutions and gallery scene. During his /Dialogues talk on the opening day of the fair, New York Magazine’s Jerry Saltz, exclaimed, “From now on art people should flock to Chicago.”

                       
EXPO CHICAGO was a well planned comeback. Chicago and Midwest collectors and museum professionals came out in strength,” said Paul Gray of Richard Gray Gallery (Chicago). “This was reflected in our opening day sales of a $1 million early Roy Lichtenstein as well as sales of six-figure pieces by Barcelona-based Jaume Plensa.

A key programming element of the inaugural year was EXPO Dialogues, panel discussions, conversations and provocative artistic discourse with leading artists, curators, designers and arts professionals presented in partnership with the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. "EXPO Dialogues was a terrific way to engage Chicago's art communities in insightful conversations about contemporary art, as represented in the fair itself,” said Lisa Wainwright, Dean of Faculty/Vice President of Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  “SAIC faculty members Michelle Grabner, Terry R. Myers, and James Elkins took part in Dialogues, along with many other established arts professionals: Jerry Saltz, Alec Soth, Byron Kim, Sterling Ruby.

We were all very impressed with the high standard of art on exhibit throughout the city and loved the Creative Spirit of Chicago. Avec Pleasure will be keeping a watchful eye out to see what they are planning for the next EXPO in 2013.

The inaugural International Exposition of Modern and Contemporary Art & Design in Chicago, which was held this September from 19^th to 23^rd played host to 27,000 visitors over the four days.  International galleries praised the inaugural fair, specifically for the excellence of its production and for sales of outstanding works of art. Our Avec Pleasure tour to this event found the VIP program to be well organized and full of very interesting tours to independent  Artist-run exhibition spaces, shared studios and alternative art exhibits

This exciting new cultural event for Chicago featured 120 Art exhibitors from both the US and International Private Galleries world-wide, also included a diverse roster of programming and events which offered special art tours, exhibitions and Dialogues—a lecture series with leading artists, curators and collectors.

EXPO CHICAGO  The opening evening, Vernissage, attracted the city’s business, civic and cultural leaders including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who were there in force to assist the Expo organizers in making the Vernissage a very successful night. The opening night preview was aimed at benefiting the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago. The opening night raised $375,000 and set the atmosphere  which inspired many important sales for several of the galleries. Art info’s Julia Halperin wrote of the evening, “Civic pride is not a feeling one normally associates with art fairs, but it informed almost every element of the inaugural EXPO CHICAGO's Vernissage."

          

The fair was enhanced by partnerships with leading organizations and institutions including The Art Institute of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Arts Club of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Hyde Park Art Center, threewalls, International Sculpture Center, Aperture, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and Chicago Children’s Museum. These institutions coordinated special exhibitions, tours and events both on and off site that enhanced the works on display. 

Collectors, dealers and critics alike agreed that EXPO has returned Chicago to its legacy of hosting a prominent art exposition that does justice to the city’s currently thriving cultural institutions and gallery scene. During his /Dialogues talk on the opening day of the fair, New York Magazine’s Jerry Saltz, exclaimed, “From now on art people should flock to Chicago.”

                  

EXPO CHICAGO was a well planned comeback. Chicago and Midwest collectors and museum professionals came out in strength,” said Paul Gray of Richard Gray Gallery (Chicago). “This was reflected in our opening day sales of a $1 million early Roy Lichtenstein as well as sales of six-figure pieces by Barcelona-based Jaume Plensa.

A key programming element of the inaugural year was EXPO Dialogues, panel discussions, conversations and provocative artistic discourse with leading artists, curators, designers and arts professionals presented in partnership with the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. "EXPO Dialogues was a terrific way to engage Chicago's art communities in insightful conversations about contemporary art, as represented in the fair itself,” said Lisa Wainwright, Dean of Faculty/Vice President of Academic Affairs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  “SAIC faculty members Michelle Grabner, Terry R. Myers, and James Elkins took part in Dialogues, along with many other established arts professionals: Jerry Saltz, Alec Soth, Byron Kim, Sterling Ruby."

We were all very impressed with the high standard of art on exhibit throughout the city and loved the Creative Spirit of Chicago. Avec Pleasure will be keeping a watchful eye out to see what they are planning for the next EXPO in 2013.

AN INSIDE VIEW OF EXPO CHICAGO 2012

Avec Pleasure has arrived in Chicago …we are excited to get here just before the official opening of the inaugural contemporary art fair, Expo Chicago. This Thursday, the city of Chicago will be host to a new contemporary art fair: Expo Chicago, The International Exposition of Contemporary/Modern Art& Design. 

The Inaugural art fair will showcase a selection of top tier galleries—capped at 100—from around the globe. In addition there will also be an exciting new component entitled … ‘EXPOSURE’. This will be a section of the art fair comprising younger galleries; IN/SITU, a presentation of several large-scale installations, site-specific works and performative works. Also there will be the program of ‘Dialogues’, presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The series will culminate with informative daily lectures and events during the fair, highlighting the work of leading artists, architects, curators, designers and arts professionals which will conclude with a series of panel discussions focusing on contemporary art issues. 

 

The layout of EXPO Chicago has been Designed by the architecture studio of luminary Jeanne Gang, the fair’s floor plan mimics Chicago’s grid system, boasting gallery-lined streets that allow visitors to view everything in sequence without losing their way, as well as a diagonal avenue on which visitors can view select exhibits and installations.

Over 40 major art institutions have joined in partnerships with EXPO Chicago to allow visitors to have an expanded experience which includes satellite exhibitions and cultural events at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Smart Museum of Art, International Sculpture Center and Art Table; as well as numerous private Art Galleries across the city of Chicago. We can’t wait for the EXPO to begin!