Under the new directorship of Massimo Torrigiani SH Contemporary has set its sights firmly on being the best fair on mainland China, aiming to head off its Beijing rivals. Torrigiani has also responded to comments that the fair's aspirations are well short of those mapped out by Lorenzo Rudolf when he launched the fair in 2007, saying: "The fair's conception was marred by an 'original sin' - that of imagining that it could be an outpost of international galleries in mainland China, rather than an event built on the foundations of the local scene."
With ART HK now positioned as the 'Art Basel' of the Asia-Pacific region, observers will be watching to see how the art fair scene develops in the region with art supremo Lorenzo Rudolf at the helm of Art Stage Singapore positioning Singapore as another emergent Asian art hub, and Torrigiani playing his mainland China hand.
Image: Sh Contemporary 2011
