![]() ![]() Altruism has driven him to keep the $160 million collection intact. Sigg began collecting contemporary Chinese art en masse in the 1990s, but had been keenly watching the scene since his first visit to China in 1979, when he began to document works outside the realms of China’s state-sanctioned art industry. ![]() It features more than 40 works drawn from what’s reputed to be the best record of experimental art from 1979 to now: the collection of businessman and former Swiss ambassador to China, Uli Sigg. Split across two venues – Sydney’s Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) and Canberra’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) – the showing of Chinese portraiture is one of the most significant of China’s contemporary art to be seen in Australia. Eerily realistic, they are in fact fibreglass and silica gel sculptures driven by motion sensors in Old People’s Home, an installation in Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture. Clad in outfits symbolising positions of world power, the 13 male figures are on snail’s-pace collision courses, bumping into each other before moving on to another feeble adversary. Visitors beware: the crumpled geriatrics tootling around in electric wheelchairs (shown in the video above) may not look it, but they are in the midst of an intense battle. The largesse of Uli Sigg, a Swiss champion of experimental Chinese art is on show, in Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture, a two-part exhibition drawn from his significant collection and on show in Sydney and Canberra. ![]()
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