New Era, Exciting Growth

Art is today a growth business. In collection, dealership, auctioneering and management. The value that Art, with linkages in Design, Architecture and Fashion brings to the global discourse grows exponentially.

In Azerbaijan, China, Mexico, Singapore and United Arab Emirates, to cite a few, Art is emerging as a platform for creating space for singular cultural narratives in an increasingly competitive international visibility. Art leverages into tremendous Soft Power and economic benefits to emergent nations. Angola, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa are redoubtable African poles in contemporary Art as soft power.

Some of the questions posed at O&M include:

• What are the inherent qualities that led a Fang-Gabon soft wood mask to fetch $7.4 million at auction in Paris, in 2006?
• Or, a 19th Century Chokwe-Angola 49cm hardwood statue of a hunter offered by the Vérité Art Premier dealers to sell for €3.8 million at Drout, Paris, in 2006?

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