Starting this Friday, June 27th, Taiwan’s gallery space Museum of Tomorrow (MOT) will be hosting a capsule exhibition, featuring 5 of the most prominent Chinese artists in the contemporary art world. Titled Art for the Masses, the mini exhibit includes 5 vinyl figurines from Jing Yu and Liu Ye, Zhou Chun Ya, along with Zhou Tie Hai, the first Chinese artist to create crossover work with Louis Vuitton. The centerpiece of the exhibition would be the unique collaboration between New York-based artist KAWS and Yue Min Jun, who is known world wide for his “laughing” portraits. The demand for Yue’s works is so great in fact, one set the record as the most expensive auctioned contemporary Chinese art last year at Sotheby’s.
To commemorate this special exhibit, Museum of Tomorrow (MOT) created limited at 100 sets per design, each will retails for TW$300,000 (~US$10,000). The exhibition will last till Saturday, July 27th.
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