{"id":9338,"date":"2021-02-23T04:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/news\/2021\/02\/23\/arturo-di-modica-2"},"modified":"2024-08-03T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T05:33:58","slug":"arturo-di-modica","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/news\/2021\/02\/23\/arturo-di-modica","title":{"rendered":"News\uff5cOcula  &#8211;  Arturo Di Modica Negotiated a \uff0412m Platinum Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-intro\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">\n<div class=\"post-news-divider\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-intro\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">\n<div class=\"article-intro-title\">\u9019\u88e1\u662f\u6a19\u984c\uff0c\u7a0b\u5f0f\u6703\u81ea\u52d5\u6293<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-intro-date\">Feb. 23. 2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-intro\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 2;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 2;\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">Forever memory this great artist and also our friend &#8211; Arturo Di Modica (1941-2021)<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"line-height: 2;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"line-height: 2;\">&#8211; GIN HUANG Gallery<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"line-height: 2;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"text-align: center; line-height: 2;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: center; \"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ginhuanggallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migra\/news\/bc6d7fcbc4fdf937f51b9ea468d91f71ae193b4f.jpg?quality=100&#038;ct=20250818&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 100%;\" data-filename=\"Arturo Di Modica, Charging Bull\" title=\"Arturo Di Modica, Charging Bull\" alt=\"Arturo Di Modica, Charging Bull\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ocula&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><b><i>Arturo Di Modica Negotiated a \uff0412m Platinum Bull<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\">By Sam Gaskin, London<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\">Sicilian-born sculptor Arturo di Modica is best known for his Charging Bull (1989), a work now inextricably associated with America&#8217;s finance industry. But Di Modica worked tirelessly throughout his life, creating dozens of bull sculpture of different sizes as well as other works in bronze, stainless steel, and marble.<\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\">The Shanghai bull di Modica did realise was already unlikely enough. Unveiled in 2010, it was widely perceived as a statement of the city&#8217;s ambition to displace Hong Kong as the region&#8217;s financial centre, and China&#8217;s bid to become the world&#8217;s leading economic power. In the spirit of these rivalries, di Modica told The Wall Street Journal he made the Bund bull &#8216;redder, younger, and stronger&#8217; \u2014 red, because it&#8217;s &#8216;the colour of China&#8217; and strong because &#8216;it&#8217;s about a strong nation&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\">The sculpture was something of a capstone to China&#8217;s &#8216;economic miracle&#8217;, the transformation from an impoverished Communist country in 1989, when the New York bull was installed, to the &#8216;socialist market economy&#8217;\u2014 a hyper-competitive capitalist society presided over by an authoritarian government \u2014 it is today. However, Harmer said, &#8216;Arturo wouldn&#8217;t be thinking about that.&#8217;<\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\">&#8216;He came to America with nothing and by 1987 he had a four-level studio he owned on Crosby Street [in Lower Manhattan], he had some of the world&#8217;s strongest collectors, and he had a Ferrari,&#8217; he said. &#8216;The [New York] bull was a gift back to America. It wasn&#8217;t a finance-related thing; it was to inspire people to keep on fighting for the future.&#8217;<\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\">British billionaire Joe Lewis, who turned the millions he made in themed restaurants into billions trading currencies, is the biggest private collector of di Modica&#8217;s bulls. He owns the New York bull as well as 16-foot bronze bulls at the first tee of the Isleworth golf course in Florida and at Albany Marina in the Bahamas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\">Full article\uff5c<a href=\"https:\/\/ocula.com\/magazine\/art-news\/arturo-di-modica-12-million-dollar-platinum-bull\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ocula &#8211; Arturo Di Modica Negotiated a $12m Platinum Bull, Says Dealer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Artist \uff5c&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ginhuanggallery.com\/2019\/06\/28\/arturo-di-modica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Arturo di Modica<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"igdiag-code-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forever memory this great artist and also our friend &#8211; Arturo Di Modica (1941-2021)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6724,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news_cat":[438],"class_list":["post-9338","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_cat-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/9338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginhuanggallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_cat?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}