The Art Collection
of Martin Kurer

Asian Art:Future (AA:F) is a Hong Kong based private collection of traditional and contemporary Asian art. Currently it is sponsoring a multi-year project looking into the aesthetic values, the expression of traditional art from the Philippine Cordilleras.

AA:F admires the simplicity, the power, the pure representations, the command of “cubic existence in real space” (to borrow an observation of D.H. Kahnweiler on “Negro sculpture”), the plastic symbolism and reality, the directness, the powerful expression of the Cordillera traditional sculptures.

And AA:F is extremely interested in learning to understand why traditional art of tribes of various continents, frequently show the same choices, use the same elements of expression, though we know that there was never an exchange, or at least not at the time of the creation of the relevant objects.

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