LONDON.- Cure3 is a new art project devised by Artwise in partnership with Bonhams and the David Ross Foundation to raise awareness and funds for the charity, The Cure Parkinson’s Trust (CPT). The charity’s innovative approach to research has offered renewed hope for people living with Parkinson’s as it only funds work which has the capacity to slow, stop or reverse Parkinson’s, a degenerative disease which currently affects more than 10 million people worldwide.
In the summer of 2016, 53 artists of international standing were invited to create an art work using a bespoke Perspex box 20cm3 - hence the title Cure3 with the box serving as a space to frame, support or contain each work, allowing for multiple approaches and interpretations. The results have been outstanding, with each artist creating unique, highly collectable artworks which include a new, small scale vitrine by Damien Hirst and the first sculptural work by Peter Doig to be offered for sale.
The cubes will be on show at Bonhams, London from 13th – 15th March and sale of artwork will go live at 8am on Mon 13th March via the website www.cure3.co.uk All the money raised will go towards clinical trials to find a cure.
Harvey Cammell, Deputy Chairman Bonhams UK, said, “It is astonishingly generous of these internationally renowned contemporary artists to donate museum-quality work to this selling exhibition. Bonhams is proud to be working alongside them to support the Cure Parkinson’s charity in its extraordinary work combatting this cruel disease.”
Cure³ artists: Rebecca Ackroyd, Alice Anderson, Ron Arad, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter, Rana Begum, Tony Bevan, Peter Blake, Willard Boepple, Rob and Nick Carter, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Daniel Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Shezad Dawood, Bouke de Vries, Peter Doig, Knopp Ferro, Margarita Gluzberg, Andy Goldsworthy, Noémie Goudal, Subodh Gupta, Nicholas Hatfull, Sean Henry, Damien Hirst, Henry Hudson, Paul Huxley, Alison Jackson, Ben Johnson, Allen Jones, Idris Khan, Bharti Kher, Rachel Kneebone, Eva LeWitt, Liliane Lijn, George Henry Longly, Sarah Lucas, John McLean, Polly Morgan, Annie Morris, Julian Opie, Grayson Perry, Cathie Pilkington, Stephanie Quayle, Boo Saville, Conrad Shawcross, Yinka Shonibare, Sissi, Amy Stephens, Gavin Turk, Rebecca Warren, Hugo Wilson, Rose Wylie, Jonathan Yeo.
Cure3 offers the opportunity to actively support the crucial work of CPT whatever your budget, with prices ranging from under £1,000 to £40,000 for original works by leading contemporary artists. This is not an auction: all the artworks will have a fixed price and be available to purchase directly via www.cure3.co.uk. The sales platform on the website will go live at 8am on Monday 13th March, 2017.
The Cure Parkinson’s Trust believes that a cure for Parkinson’s is both realistic and tangible and they are constantly searching for new routes to slow, stop or reverse Parkinson’s - developing new treatments that will affect people living with Parkinson’s within a five year period.
2017 will mark the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Parkinson’s, an important milestone which we can mark by backing the work of The Cure Parkinson’s Trust to finally find a cure and by supporting what we anticipate will be a new and significant annual event, Cure3 .
