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Top contemporary Asian art on show

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Victoria Burrows

The Asia Art Archive (AAA) is exhibiting a diverse group of contemporary artworks that will be sold at its fund-raising auction next week.

More than 50 works will be on display free to the public at the Sotheby's offices in Admiralty from Monday to Thursday.

The works represent a range of styles and mediums - from oil paintings to photographs to objects - and give a good overview of the contemporary art being sold in the upmarket galleries of Central and Soho.

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A piece from the series We are good at everything except for speaking mandarin. PRD by Yang Jiechang will be on display. Other works in his series form a centrepiece at the Guangzhou Triennial taking place now at the Guangdong Museum of Art.

Guangdong-born Yang pokes fun at the regional differences and stereotypes that exist in China.

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Tu Wei-cheng's works are also playful. The Taiwanese artist has created objects from a fabricated culture which he calls Bu Num Civilisation. He takes modern gadgets like mobile phones and makes them seem like ancient objects found in an archaeological dig.

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