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The Bare No More blog has some excellent photos of this Be@rbrick Meets Chinese Contemporary Artists event co-sponsored by Milk at CIGE. From their press release:
It is the first time that CIGE brought the charity event in the fair’s schedule. Together with the artists CIGE expected to return to the society which supports the booming art market. BE@RBRICK MEETS CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS has received very warmly response from media promotion during the exhibition. And a number of collectors fiercely bided for the BE@RBRICK-based artworks at the VIP Banquet. cooperated with Poly Auction, the dinner raised a unforeseen amount of RMB 2,680,000, which will be donated to Smile Angel, the charity foundation founded by Faye Wang and Li Yapeng, to help cleft lip children.
Ouyang Chun, Gao Yu, Yue Minjun, Liu Ye, Chen Ke and Xiong Yu were some of the artists who customized 1000% Be@rbricks. Click here for more pictures.
Jeremy Brautman - who has written 1965 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.
Jeremy Brautman joined ToyCyte in 2008 and has been writing about toy culture ever since. You can currently find him contributing to a variety of blogs, artkiving doodles at Doodlesplatter.com and cataloging artistic ephemera at ARTkivers.com.
Fri, Aug 29, 2008
custom, events, plastic