Video: Uli Sigg Talks Art Collecting and Go Figure! Chinese Portraiture
Video: Uli Sigg Talks Art Collecting and Go Figure! Chinese Portraiture
Drawn from the Sigg Collection, Switzerland and the M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, together one of the world’s most important collections of experimental Chinese art, the Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture exhibition is a vibrant expression of Chinese culture and contemporary portraiture.
Currently being exhibited simultaneously across two venues - The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney - the exhibition includes works by many of China's leading contemporary and experimental artists including Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Ai Weiwei, Shen Shaomin, Fang Lijun and Wang Jianwei.
With a collection numbering more than 2,200 works by 350 artists, Uli Sigg is one of the world’s most significant collectors of contemporary Chinese art. Having recently announced that he will be donating a major part of his collection to the M+ Museum for visual culture, part of the West Kowloon Cultural Development, scheduled to open in Hong Kong in 2017, Go Figure! will be one of the last opportunities to see works from Sigg's collection outside of Hong Kong.
In a recent interview with Nic Forrest, Executive Editor of Artinfo.com Australia, Uli Sigg discussed his involvement with the Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture exhibition as well as his art collecting exploits.
See a video of the interview below.


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