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Arario Gallery in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province said on Monday that its president Kim Chang-il, 59, is among the world’s top 200 collectors according to the editors of ARTnews, a U.S. magazine.
Kim made the ARTnews top 200 list in 2006, 2007 and 2009. In 2007, he was ranked 87th on the list of the world’s 100 most powerful collectors selected by Art Review, a British magazine published in London. He was the first Korean ever to make the Art Review list.
Among the world’s top 200 collectors are Charles Saatchi, a British advertising tycoon and owner of Saatchi Gallery, who collects contemporary art, especially British; Damien Hirst, a successful artist; and Helene and Bernard Amault, chairman of LVMH, a French luxury goods maker.
ARTnews, an art magazine founded in 1902, surveys collectors, dealers, auctioneers and curators every year to release the world’s top 200 collectors’ list.
Kim Chang-il, unlike most artists who struggle financially until they make it big, is a self-made multimillionaire and the owner of one of the largest contemporary art collections in the world. It was after he became rich that he became an artist. |
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