Clean Air Auction

Well, the year of the Rabbit is certainly living up to its rep, off to a flying start.. !

Kindly excuse my tardy blog behaviour, I have had my head down busting my ass to help organise an incredible event with the Clean Air Network (CAN), Hk's leading clean air NGO, to educate our residents about Hk's no 1 health crisis: Air Pollution.

I have learnt some horrifying and alarming facts about the air that we have no choice to breathe in this land that is home to us all. The CAN team are incredibly motivating and enthusiastic about tackling this cause, and I think it is an inspired idea to bring awareness of this issue to the public through some of HKs leading creative minds.

We have some incredible artists from HK, China and overseas contributing and you can check out all of the details here:
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Website: www.cleanairauction.com.hk
Twitter: @cleanairauction
Facebook: clean air auction

The public exhibition takes place at IFC oval atrium, 21 - 27 March, come come come!! :)

HK Artists:

Adrian Wong 王浩然

Amy Cheung 張韻雯

Angela Su 徐世琪

Christopher Doyle 杜可風

Danny Lee Chin Fai 李展輝

Frog King 郭孟浩

Gukzik Lau 劉掬色

Ha Bik Cheun 夏碧泉

Kacey Wong 黃國才

Konstantin Bessmertny

Lam Tung-Pang 林東鵬

Lee Kit 李傑

Man Fung Yi 文鳳儀

MAP Office

Matthieu Paley 馬塞爾

Nadim Abbas 唐納天

OMA

Simon Birch

Wei Leng Tay 鄭瑋玲

William Furniss

William Lim 林偉而

Wilson Shieh 石家豪

Wong Yan Kwai 黃仁逵

You CAN make a difference. Learn more about how air pollution affects the health and livelihood of our city every day.

Did you know:

• Hong Kong’s air is three times more polluted than New York’s?
• Exposure to high levels of roadside air pollution increases blood viscosity within 20 minutes and heart rate within 2 hours?
• 2010’s roadside pollution was the worst in Hong Kong’s history?
• Air pollution sends approximately 20,000 people to the doctor a day?

Visit hongkongcan.org to understand more about how air pollution is actually Hong Kong’s biggest avoidable public health crisis. Then, support clean air by bidding on a lot in the Clean Air Auction.

The Clean Air Auction is the first environmental art exhibition and auction in Asia of its kind and is a Clean Air Network (CAN) fund raising initiative conducted with the generous support of Sotheby’s and BSI Investment Advisors (Hong Kong) Ltd.

The objectives are threefold:

• To raise funds for CAN’s research and educational projects
• To educate the public, including the artistic community, about the health impacts of Hong Kong’s air pollution by engaging the imaginations of leading artists on the issue, especially artists who call Hong Kong home
• To highlight the increasing influence of the environment as a theme in art and culture

The Auction will take place on April 4^th and be showcased in a dedicated section of Sotheby’s Hong Kong Contemporary Asian Art Spring Auction 2011 art auctions at Hall 5, the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. You can also bid online at sothebys.com.

On this website, you can view auction lots and see interviews and the biographies of participating artists and sponsors. Many of Hong Kong’s top artists have specially created work for the auction.

Clean Air Network is Hong Kong’s leading clean air NGO, dedicated to educating and mobilizing the public about the health impacts of air pollution. Find out more at hongkongcan.org.

你可以改變現狀！ 請了解更多空氣污染對市民身體健康及日常生活的影響。

你知道嗎？

• 香港的空氣污染是紐約的3倍。

• 暴露於高濃度的路邊廢氣，只要20分鐘就會增加血液黏性，2小時內令心跳加速。

• 2010年香港路邊空氣污染是歷來最嚴重的。

• 空氣污染每日造成二萬人次求診。

空氣污染是本港最大的公共衛生危機，瀏覽 hongkongcan.org網頁，可知道更多空氣污染資訊，同時請支持健康空氣拍賣會。

健康空氣拍賣會是亞洲歷來首個以環境藝術為主題的拍賣會，亦是健康空氣行動(CAN)在蘇富比拍賣行及瑞意投資顧問(香港)有限公司協助下進行的籌款活動。

是次拍賣有三個目的：

• 為CAN教育及研究項目籌募經費

• 向民眾傳播空氣污染影響健康的信息，並凝聚所有視香港為家、以環保為創作主題的頂尖藝術家

• 反映環保主題在藝術文化層面的影響力日漸提升

拍賣會屬於蘇富比2011年香港當代亞洲藝術春季拍賣會項目之一，將於4月4日假香港會議展覽中心5號展館舉行，你亦可於蘇富比網站進行競投。

部分本地頂尖藝術家，為是次拍賣會專程創造作品。你可於本站瀏覽拍賣品的詳細介紹，參與藝術家及贊助者的訪問和個人簡歷。

健康空氣行動是本港推動改善空氣質素的非牟利機構，致力教育及鼓勵公眾，認識空氣對其健康的影響。想加深對CAN的認識，請瀏覽 hongkongcan.org。