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UCCA interior view of second nave as open hall. Courtesy Wilmotte & Associés.

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Lin Yilin, “Our Future,” installation, 2002. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France.

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Fang Lijun, “Series two N°4,” oil on canvas, 1992. Courtesy Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation.

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BEIJING, CHINA — The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) will open on November 4, becoming the most comprehensive contemporary art institution in China and the only nonprofit art organization in the country supported by a private foundation. Located in a transformed Bauhaus-style factory in the flourishing 798 art zone of Beijing’s industrial Dashanzi district, UCCA will be the cornerstone of the Chinese contemporary art scene.

UCCA will feature exhibitions of Chinese and international contemporary art, as well as artist-led projects, educational activities and China’s first contemporary art library in the mainland. The center also will commission new works, create exhibitions and host major traveling exhibitions.

UCCA will open with “’85 New Wave Movement: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art,”  the first comprehensive exhibition focused on the revolutionary period in art history, when Chinese artists broke free from decades of socialist realism and began a process of intense experimentation. Curated by UCCA artistic director Fei Dawei, who championed artists of the ’85 New Wave movement, the show will feature 140 works of painting, photography, video and installation art by 30 artists and collectives, including Xu Bing, Wang Guangyi, Wu Shanzhuan, Lu Shengzhong and Zhang Peili.

The exhibition will also feature archival materials to contextualize contemporary artistic practices within a broader historical framework.

Founded by Myriam and Guy Ullens, UCCA will also present highlights from the Ullens Foundation’s renowned collection of contemporary Chinese art. Among the largest of its kind in the world, the collection features more than 1,500 works by several generations of Chinese artists working in a wide range of media, including sculpture, painting, installation and video.

UCCA will be managed by an international team, led by Fei Dawei, the Chinese art critic and curator who was one of the first to introduce Chinese contemporary art to the west in the 1980s; Colin Chinnery, former arts programmer for the British Council in Beijing; and advised by Jan Debbaut, former director of collections at the Tate.

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art is at No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Factory 798. For more information, 011 86 010 6438 6675.

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TEASER, FONTAINE’S AUCTION POST SEPT. 29, w/1 cut;

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PITTSFIELD, MASS. — A heavily carved three-piece Renaissance Revival bedroom set that had only been moved twice in its 100-year-plus history, with second move coming recently as it was relocated to Fontaine’s Auction gallery, brought a premium price at auction this past Saturday, September 29.

Auctioneer John Fontaine was excited to be offering the set that he cataloged as being in pristine, untouched condition. “All they did was dust it from time to time,” stated the auctioneer.

Thought to be by Thomas Brooks, the walnut and burled walnut, marble top set carried a $30/50,000 estimate. “I thought we might come in around the high end,” stated Fontaine, but a battle between ten phone bidders and several bidders on the floor, pushed the final price to $80,500, with a bidder in the gallery winning out.

A complete review will appear in a future issue.

—AK