![]() ![]() Throughout the summer of 2015, Cristian curated the private and museum loan exhibition Reflections on the Self, at Mayfair Christie’s, a survey of self-portraiture from 1500 to the present, from Albert Durer to Thomas Struth, from Henry Matisse and Marcel Duchamp to Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, Cindy Sherman and Gerhard Richter. Joining Christie’s in 2012, he has 12 years of experience in the international contemporary art market, five years respectively in Client & Business Development and Contemporary Department with another international auction house, during which he oversaw the expanding business and client strategy in Asia, Turkey and Russia, working closely with the Chairman’s Group of those regions, since joining Christie’s, Cristian has been responsible for 10 highly successful auction seasons in London. Eric speaks fluent Mandarin and +44 (0)20 7752 3006Ĭristian Albu is Co-Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art London. He travels extensively to source for auctions and private sales, as well as introducing artworks to prospective buyers all around the world. As of November 2017, Eric has led the department to achieve a total of over 140 world auction records for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian artists.īorn in Taiwan, Eric worked at Dimension Art Gallery and New Age Art Gallery prior to joining Christie’s and has more than 25 years of experience in the field of Asian art. In the same sale he helped set a new world record for Zao Wou-Ki, which was once again broken in Christie’s autumn sale of the same year, when 29.01.64 achieved HK$202.6 million/US$26 million. In spring 2017, Eric introduced Contemporaries: Voices from the East and West, challenging the traditional evening sale concept, by converging works from Western Post-war and Contemporary as well as Asian 20th century and Contemporary artists. He drew in record prices for Sanyu’s Chrysanthèmes dans un vase en verre (Chrysanthemums in a glass vase), which realised HK$103.5 million/US$13.4 million, setting the world record for the artist’s floral still life, and Chu Teh-Chun’s Vertige Neigeux (Snowy Vertigo), which achieved a world record of HK$91.8 million/US$11.8 million for the artist. In autumn 2016, Eric introduced The Pioneers, a meticulously curated sale of works by Asian avant-garde masters in November 2016. ![]() This integration – a first for any international auction house – completed the consolidation of contemporary and modern art from different regions of Asia to create a pan-Asian category that paralleled its Western counterpart. The category was further expanded when Southeast Asian art was integrated into the sale in 2011, with masterpieces placed alongside those from China, Japan and Korean artists. In May 2008, the first-ever Evening Sale of Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art was introduced to the sale calendar in Hong Kong. Under Eric’s leadership, Christie’s Hong Kong pioneered a sale entirely devoted to Asian contemporary art in 2004. Since joining Christie’s in 2001, Eric has been the driving force in helping Asian art to gain international recognition. Based in Hong Kong, Eric Chang is Deputy Chairman of Christie's Asia and Chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art, Asia Pacific.
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