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VIVARTE COCKTAIL HOSTED RECEPTION
& SILENT AUCTION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17,
2015
AT PHILLIPS NEW YORK
VivArte participating
organizations Caring for Colombia, First Step Big Step, and
Primero Lo Primero hosted
a cocktail reception and silent auction to celebrate Colombian
contemporary art in support of Colombian early childhood
programs on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at PHILLIPS.
VivArte is
a joint philanthropic effort to empower and transform the lives
of vulnerable children in Colombia, while giving international
visibility to a select group of Colombian artists. This dual
mission seeks to shape the social reality on the ground and
broaden cultural perceptions of Colombia worldwide. Funds raised
during the auctions will directly benefit early childhood
programs in areas of extreme poverty in Colombia.
The silent and public auction
showcased works by thirty-one Colombian artists in a variety of
media including painting, sculpture, works on paper, embroidery,
photography and animation. 11
of the 14 VivArte works in the public auction sold for a total
net profit of $242,912.50, which will directly benefit early
childhood programs in Colombia. Records were set for six
artists: Olga
de Amaral ($449,000), Fanny
Sanin ($50,000), Santiago
Parra($15,000), Johanna
Calle ($10,000), Monika
Bravo ($9,000)
and Humberto
Junca ($8,750) as
well as setting an auction precedent for Ivan
Argote ($9,375).
Highlights included works by
recent award winning artists such as Carlos
Motta, recipient
of the Future Generation Art Prize 2014, awarded by the Victor
Pinchuk Foundation; Juan
Fernando Herrán, recipient
of the 2014 Prix Pictet, the global award in photography and
sustainability; Fanny
Sanin, whose work
is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Museo
Nacional in Bogotá; Monika
Bravo and Carlos
Castro Arias, whose
work is now on view at the Venice Biennale and Bienal de
Mercosur, respectively.
Guests included: Founders
of VivArte, Mercedes
Fernandez and Genevieve
Maquinay Deseglise; donating
artists Fanny
Sanin, Monika
Bravo, Santiago
Parra and Adriana
Echavarria; host
committee members Tony
Bechara, Julian
Iragorri, Christophe Janet, Isabelle Kowal & François
Odermatt, Laura Laurence, Javier Lumbreras, Violy McCausland,
Beatriz de la Mora, María Isabel Nieto, Leon Tovar; Curators Liz
Christensen, Julia Herzberg and Monica
Espinel, and many more.
The participating Artists
included Olga
de Amaral, Ivan Argote, Natalia Arias, Monika Bravo, Johanna
Calle, Natalia Castañeda, Jaime Castellanos, Carlos Castro
Arias, Fernando Cruz, Adriana Echavarría, Gonzalo Fuenmayor,
Jaime Franco, Ana González Rojas, Manuel Hernández, Juan
Fernando Herrán, Humberto Junca, Alberto Lezaca, Luz Angela
Lizarazo, Adriana Marmorek, Carlos Motta, Jorge Mario Múnera
Edgar Negret, Santiago Parra, Luis Fernando Peláez, Esteban
Peña, Ruby Rumie, Luis Alejandro Saiz, Fanny Sanin, Gabriel
Silva, Giovanni Vargas and Hugo
Zapata.
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