frieze 2012, issue 3
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frieze 2012, issue 3
FR EE FIND US AT FRIEZE DA I LY Masters: stand M14 London: stand M1 TM UMBERTO ALLEMANDI & CO. PUBLISHING LONDON NEW YORK TURIN MOSCOW PARIS ATHENS F R I EZE A RT FA I R THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER 2012 The past is still a foreign country Collectors like the concept of mixing old and new, but sales at the twin fairs will be the test OPENING REPORT London. As contemporary art collectors, curators and art advisers piled into the VIP opening of Frieze London yesterday, there was a sense of déjà vu, because quite a few people had made their way to the rather more stately opening of Frieze Masters, the fair for art made before 2000, the previous day. The Belgian collector Mimi Dusselier was the first to enter the contemporary fair. She said: “I went to Frieze Masters—it was like looking at museum pieces. It’s better for me here as I’m looking for contemporary art. But it was worth seeing rather than buying.” The early signs are that the crossover buying that organisers were hoping to stimulate is going to be a slow burn. The British contemporary collector David Roberts arrived early at the VIP openings of both fairs. “There are great things at Frieze Masters, but I’m not so sure the [crossover buying] concept will work. I can see that someone who buys contemporary art would buy a 1960 Yves Klein, but I’m not so sure they will buy a 16th-century work,” he said. Modern works were benefiting most from the contemporary crossover effect, but the two categories are already natural bedfellows as far as the market goes. The US contemporary collector and curator Beth Rudin DeWoody bought two works by John McLaughlin from Franklin Parrasch Gallery, showing in the Spotlight section of Frieze Masters (S5): #31 and #38, both 1958, for between $50,000 and $80,000 each. At Cheim & Read (FM, C9) a bronze by Louise Bourgeois, Avenza Revisited, 1968-69, sold to a British contemporary and Modern collector for around $1m, and Joan Mitchell’s Untitled, 1961, went to a Swiss collector for $1.5m. Both buyers were new to the gallery. Medieval sculpture, tribal art and antiquities proved more commercially successful than the Old Masters of the 16th to 19th centuries. “Sales take Selling across the divide… Jean Luc-Baroni at Frieze Masters (A5) and Pilar Corrias Gallery at Frieze London (H5) longer in Old Masters, and people coming from Frieze [London] need more time to absorb what we do,” said Tova Ossad of Moretti Fine Art (FM, A1), which specialises in 13th- to 17th-century Italian works. Nonetheless, the Old “Can the Frieze brand be stretched? It can be done, but it takes time” Master dealers were pleased with the level of interest, and the more expert visitors appreciated their offerings. Chris Dercon, the director of London’s Tate Modern, drew attention to a Jan Lievens oil painting, A Bearded Old Man with a Brown Cloak, around 1631, on sale with Bernheimer and Colnaghi (FM, E5) for €1.6m. As we went to press, the work had not sold. The question is whether Frieze Mas- Warhol-Basquiat goes begging at Phillips BARONI/CORRIAS BOOTHS: PHOTOS: DAVID OWENS London. It was a case of unlucky lot number 13 at Phillips de Pury’s contemporary auction last night, as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s GE Short Line & Reading (left, detail), around 1984-85 (est £1.2m-£1.8m), failed to attract any bidders and went unsold. It was a disappointing auction in which a third of the lots went the same way and none of those that sold hammered for higher than its upper estimate. “There were a few more unsold than we expected,” said Phillips’s chief executive, Michael McGinnis, after the sale. He acknowledged that the amount of art for sale during Frieze week could have been a stumbling block. “We had potential buyers registered but people were distracted… maybe they spent their money elsewhere.” The sale total was £12.2m (including commission) against a pre-sale estimate of £15m to £22m (excluding commission). M.G. ters—a beautifully presented, broad offering of niche collecting categories— works best as a standalone fair or as a natural extension of the contemporary event. “The atmosphere at Frieze Masters was good, but the fair still needs to find itself… I think it will attract different crowds,” said the dealer David Juda of Annely Juda Fine Art (FL, F9). The geography of the fairs suggests that they are more separate than the organisers intended. Although they are in the same park, the Frieze tents are not particularly close (a 15-minute fast walk, with only a few minutes saved by getting one of the shuttle buses that the fair organisers have laid on). At Art Basel, where modern art reigns supreme, there is a 30-second walk up a flight of stairs to find the contemporary galleries. “It’s great to see old and new art, but why can’t they combine the two on the same site?” asked the contemporary collector Jean Pigozzi. He was an early buyer at Frieze London, buying Toru Kuwakubo’s painting Burn the Nude Women, 2012, from Tomio Koyama Gallery (FL, B1). Dealers at both fairs were more relaxed about the distance between them. “If people are coming from the US and Europe to be here for Frieze London and the auctions [Phillips de Pury, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are holding evening sales this week], then it makes no sense not to get a VIP car round the park for another fair,” said Hugh Gibson of Thomas Gibson Fine Art (FM, C2). Christian Mooney of Arcade Fine Arts (FL, R2) said: “There’s nothing wrong with a walk through the park; it gives time to think about the works.” The average price points at the fairs are also different, which may be a hurdle for some contemporary collectors. Galleries that are showing at both fairs demonstrate the difference: CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 African art may get deluxe treatment in London London. Africa is increasingly seen as the continent of opportunity, and where there is economic vigour, the West starts looking for new talent to feed the market. So African art could now be getting its own international fair, from 14 to 20 October 2013, to coincide with Frieze. Its name is 1:54, there being 54 sovereign countries in Africa. Touria El Glaoui from Marrakech has already raised much of the £500,000 needed to stage the fair in Somerset House, although more funds are still needed. The fair’s artistic director will be Koyo Kouoh, recently the artistic adviser to this year’s Documenta, and the architect will be David Adjaye, while the bespoke tailor Ozwald Boateng and the artist Hassan Hajjaj will advise on design. Glaoui aims to have up to 25 carefully selected galleries for the first edition, and believes the fair would promote African visual culture, give artists, writers and curators an international platform and generate money for the longterm development of the art scenes in the various African countries. A.S.C. DAY SALE CONTEMPORARY ART TODAY 2PM LONDON PHILLIPS de PURY & COMPANY HOWICK PLACE SW1P 1BB ENQUIRIES +44 20 7318 4010 PHILLIPSDEPURY.COM 2 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 NEWS The tenth anniversary of Frieze also marks a decade of the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund, which gives curators early access to the fair to snap up works for the Tate. With £150,000 to spend, the team selected four works, including Nicholas Hlobo’s Balindile I, 2012 (right, detail). “All four are anchor pieces. They could work in juxtaposition with a constellation of works in the collection,” says Chris Dercon, the director of Tate Modern. Stand numbers • Frieze London = FL • Frieze Masters = FM Artprice survey reveals the twin peaks of power Artists from Gagosian Gallery and those from China dominate top 20 at auction Basquiat’s Untitled (Self-portrait—The King), 1981, on offer for $3.6m at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art’s stand at Frieze Masters (B7) London. Gagosian Gallery (FL, D7; FM, C5) and China are the two engines driving the contemporary auction market, according to a report published this week by Artprice. It lists the top 500 artists, born after 1945, based on international auction sales. The top 20 is, coincidentally, split between the East and the West, with half of the artists coming from China. Gagosian has exhibited 11 of the top 20—all of the Western artists plus Beijing-based Zeng Fanzhi, who is the second highest ranking artist overall, with global auction sales of €33.3m. For the second year running, Jean-Michel Basquiat is the undisputed leader of the pack, with €80m in overall sales. The figures reflect the growing demand for the artist, who died of a drug overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. Gagosian deals in the secondary market for Basquiat, who is now “in a different category—super blue-chip”, according to the New York collector Adam Lindemann, who is believed to own works by the artist. Basquiat’s total sales have grown from €54.7m last year, while his maximum hammer price almost tripled, from €5.4m to €14.3m. Recent auction highs include the record-breaking €16m sale of Untitled, 1981, at Christie’s London on 27 June. “At fairs, the artist I receive the most enquiries about is Basquiat,” says the New York dealer Christophe Van de Weghe (FM, D7), who is selling a 1985 work by the artist for $3.9m at his stand at the Pavilion of Art and Design fair. Although Gagosian deals in some of the world’s most expensive artists, the gallery is better known for signing those who already have international recognition than it is for nurturing emerging talent. Gagosian “snaps up artists who make really good money”, says the art adviser Lisa Schiff, pointing out that, in most cases, the careers of Gagosian’s major artists were developed by other galleries when they were younger. One example is the US artist Christopher Wool, who jumped into third place this year from 15th in 2011, with his auction sales growing from €10.3m to €22.2m. The New York gallery Luhring Augustine built a steady career for the artist by going “out of its way to place his work in the right collections and organise museum shows”, Schiff says. In parallel to his market rise, Wool has received significant critical attention: his solo show at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris earlier this year will be followed by a career survey at New York’s Guggenheim Museum in October 2013. More familiar names from Gagosian’s stable— Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons— have prominent places in the top 20. Although they remain market stalwarts, sales for Murakami and Koons are down: Murakami’s by a third, from €15.8m to €10.5m, causing him to fall from eighth place to 13th, while Koons’s auction turnover halved, from €30.2m to €15.2m. He moved from fourth to ninth place, swapping positions with Hirst, whose auction turnover grew from €14.9m to €21.4m. This seems more to do with volume than value: Hirst’s maximum hammer price almost halved, from €2.2m in 2011 to €1.2m this year. Underworld, 2008, a work from “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever”, his solo auction at Sotheby’s in 2008, is being offered at Christie’s tonight with an estimate of £120,000 to £180,000—less than its sale price of £241,250 four years ago. Cindy Sherman, whose show at the Gagosian gallery in Paris closed yesterday, is the only woman in the top 20. She has climbed from 12th to 11th place, with her auction turnover rising from €11.2m to €12.3m. Chinese artists comprise half of the top 20, reflecting the economic strength of the country, which has overtaken the US to become the world’s largest art market, according to a report published in March by The European Fine Art Foundation (Tefaf). But as the Chinese economy shows signs of slowing down, Artprice’s figures reveal fluctuations in the contemporary market. The auction turnover for “brand name” artists such as Zeng Fanzhi and Zhang Xiaogang (in fifth place) has fallen significantly: Fanzhi from €39.2m to €33.3m and Xiaogang from €30.1m to €19.4m. It is worth noting, however, that Artprice’s data includes Chinese auction figures, which can be unreliable as the numbers vary depending on whose research you read. Artprice said that China represented 41.4% of the fine art auction market in 2011, while the art economist Clare McAndrew put the figure at 30% in her report for Tefaf. Charlotte Burns and Julia Michalska Top 10 contemporary artists at auction Rank 2012 Rank 2011 Artist Auction turnover 2011/12 Maximum hammer price 2011/12 Auction turnover 2010/11 Maximum hammer price 2010/11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 15 9 5 10 6 3 4 34 Jean-Michel Basquiat Zeng Fanzhi Christopher Wool Damien Hirst Zhang Xiaogang Zhou Chunya Richard Prince Chen Yifei Jeff Koons He Jiaying €79,938,836 €33,296,116 €22,186,487 €21,370,107 €19,379,919 €16,035,305 €16,000,452 €15,480,396 €15,238,565 €12,914,638 €14,312,900 €3,594,500 €5,189,550 €1,182,370 €5,576,700 €3,074,000 €4,353,600 €1,428,000 €3,996,300 €1,044,680 €54,709,532 €39,246,785 €10,284,215 €14,871,080 €30,074,213 €14,723,744 €18,324,243 €30,269,872 €30,198,846 €6,224,991 €5,359,680 €3,762,500 €2,281,280 €2,158,210 €6,337,800 €913,750 €2,926,560 €7,781,600 €10,804,500 €524,640 Information compiled by Artprice. For the full top 500, see www.artprice.com The past is still a foreign country CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Hauser & Wirth (FL, C8; FM, B5) is selling ten wall reliefs (editions of six) by Hans Josephsohn, late 1960s-late 1990s, for £10,000 ($16,000) each at Frieze London, but at Frieze Masters, works on paper by Eva Hesse, 1962-69, are priced from $320,000 to $2m. It is difficult to generalise, however, about Frieze Masters, with prices ranging from £700 for a Neolithic stone tool at Ben Janssens (FM, C3) to $20m for Miro’s The Sorrowful March Guided by the Flamboyant Bird of the Desert, 1968, at Helly Nahmad Gallery (FM, F7). There did not seem to be a reverse flow of traffic (collectors of older art branching out into contemporary art) at Frieze London’s opening yesterday, although less marketing was needed to pull in the crowds at the more established fair. Either way, Frieze Masters encouraged contemporary dealers across the park, who said the new fair will inject fresh energy into the ten-year-old event. “It might create a stronger identity for Frieze London, which has always been about showing works by artists creating work right now, but has increasingly been creeping into the secondary market,” said David Juda. The thoughts of Kate MacGarry (FL, E11) turned the opposite way. “Frieze Masters has made me think about exploring opportunities with works made pre-2000,” she said. The new fair, with its huge range of works, together with the launch of Frieze New York in May, has led some to wonder about what the brand now represents. Is it trying to compete with Art Basel and/or Tefaf Maastricht, or ensure its own development and survival in an increasingly competitive market? The Swiss collector Uli Sigg said: “Can the Frieze brand be stretched? It can be done, but it takes time. It’s all a little thin at the moment, beyond the contemporary [fair]. I fully support the Frieze team’s plans, nonetheless.” The London-based banker and collector Mervyn Metcalf said: “Having been to Frieze in New York, I was a bit disappointed. There’s still a great selection of galleries and art, but it doesn’t have the same buzz.” This did not stop him buying Marc Hundley’s The World Represented Is... (for Christian), 2012, for $3,500 from Team Gallery (FL, E15). Others felt that the New York fair had boosted the London edition. “There are more people from New York at the fair this year,” said Nadia Gerazouni of Athens’s Breeder gallery (FL, F14). David Maupin of Lehmann Maupin (FL, F12) said: “I think the impact of Frieze Masters will be good. It’s a way for the brand to expand and to create new collectors within the markets. Amanda [Sharp] and Matthew [Slotover, the organisers of Frieze] are intelligent about customer service.” Maupin sold five editions of Teresita Fernández’s Golden (30 Dissolves), 2012, for $75,000 each, and Tracey Emin’s Legs moving, 2012, for £120,000 to a German collector. Melanie Gerlis with Gareth Harris and Riah Pryor ARTPRICE: PHOTO: DAVID OWENS. OUTSET: TATE PHOTOGRAPHY. COURTESY OF STEVENSON, CAPE TOWN AND JOHANNESBURG ART MARKET HAUNCH OF VENISON LONDON 51 Eastcastle Street London W1W 8EB United Kingdom T +44 (0)20 7495 5050 F +44 (0)20 7495 4050 [email protected] www.haunchofvenison.com JUS TI N M OR TI M E R R E S OR T 12 October – 24 November 2012 Justin Mortimer, Resort (detail), 2012 Oil on canvas, 180 × 220 cm 4 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 NEWS ANALYSIS Carlos/Ishikawa (R7, right) shows works by Ed Fornieles in Frame, while Naples’s Fonti gallery (S6) has a display of Daniel Knorr in Focus North-south divide: why art fairs come in sections FAIR LAYOUT London. Not only is there an extra fair to add to the traipsing list at Frieze this year, visitors also have some extra subsections to get their heads (and feet) around. Joining the 21 galleries in Frame (the section launched by Frieze in 2009 for solo-artist projects at galleries under six years old) are the 20 booths that form Focus (for galleries that have been around since 2001 to spaces available [at Frieze] became limited after only our first year,” says Amanda Sharp, Frieze’s co-director. “The sections—hopefully—keep vitality and energy in the fair.” But do collectors distinguish between them, or do their eyes glaze over when they see another single-word section on the fair map? “If I ran an art fair, I would want to encourage buyers at all entry points, and [the subsections] give younger galleries a great opportunity. The problem is that there is a greater “[The subsections] give younger galleries a great opportunity. The problem is that there is a greater risk that the quality won’t be fantastic” show up to three of their artists). Focus is an export from Frieze New York’s first edition in May. Meanwhile, over in the Frieze Masters tent, there is Spotlight, a section for 22 galleries to stage solo presentations of lesser-known 20th-century artists. It’s a familiar phenomenon on the fairs circuit, intended to add an extra something (generally for a cheaper price) to the regular art and dealers who show each year. “The number of risk with emerging art that the quality won’t be fantastic,” says the British contemporary art collector David Roberts, who recently opened a new space to show works from his collection in London’s Camden Town. “Also, visitors tend to fly through art fairs, so sometimes you go past the smaller booths thinking ‘no, no, no, yes, no’, rather than spending the time that is necessary. It’s easier at Art Unlimited [part of Art Basel], where the emphasis is on larger works that have immediate impact. Having said that, sometimes you can discover real gems,” he adds. Making the subsections distinct, while part of the glorious whole, is something that Frieze’s organisers are very conscious of. This year, for the first time, the subsections have their own director (Jo Stella Sawicka is organising Focus and Frame separately to Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover’s co-directing of the main fair) and are at extreme ends of the tent (Focus is in the south, Frame up north). But, Stella Sawicka says, the subsections “architecturally follow the same language as the main section”, which may help to prevent them being sidelined. The exhibiting dealers have little doubt about the potential benefits of being in a major art fair, regardless of sales. “A solo presentation booth doesn’t always make commercial sense, but so many people go to Frieze, it could give us that stamp of approval,” says Christian Mooney, who runs London’s Arcade and is showing in Frame for the first time (R2, works by Anna Barham, ranging from £3,750 to £9,000). “You get people such as Outset [the charity that provides £150,000 to buy emerging art for the Tate’s collection],” he says. Focus, which makes room for “middle-aged” galleries and allows them back in subsequent years, has been strongly welcomed to the London edition of Frieze this year. “Focus works because it supports the galleries as well as the project,” says Rebecca May Marston, the director of Limoncello, who showed in this section in New York. As one of the three founders of the Frieze satellite fair Sunday (11-14 October), May Marston’s enthusiasm is particularly striking. Subsections have been known to squeeze out clustering satellites by encroaching on their usually cheaper and more emerging material (not least in London, where the arrival of Frame in 2009 contributed to the demise of the Zoo art fair). Some exhibitors chose to apply to Focus rather than the main fair this year. “For a gallery like ours, neither emerging nor established, our artists are better supported with a focused display,” says Lukasz Gorczyca, who coruns Warsaw’s Raster Gallery (S19). His booth has works by Michal Budny (priced between €6,000 and €20,000). “During art fairs, people are rushing from one booth to another, so it makes more of a statement to show one artist,” he says. Also, he adds, “Focus is a bit cheaper”. Several Focus galleries mention the price difference. This year, in the main fair, the average booth size has grown from 35 sq. m to around 44 sq. m, with galleries paying £352 per sq. m. At Focus, the stands are all 30 sq. m at £267 per sq. m, and at Frame, they are 25 sq. m at £235 each. Lisa Panting, who co-runs London’s Hollybush Gardens gallery (S15) and showed in the main fair last year, says: “We wanted a smaller booth. We wanted to present only a couple of artists, so, as the cost had [effectively] gone up for the main fair, it made sense to apply to Focus instead.” Panting is showing artists including Karl Holmqvist (works priced between £3,000 and £5,500). Melanie Gerlis • For more on Spotlight, see p8 PHOTOS: ERMANNO RIVETTI Every big fair has its subsections, squeezing out rival satellites. Smaller galleries get a foot inside the door, but what’s the attraction for collectors? NIHILISTIC OPTIMISTIC TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER 10 TH OCTOBER – 24 TH NOVEMBER 2012 BLAIN|SOUTHERN 4 HANOVER SQUARE LONDON W1 OPENING TIMES: MON – FRI 10.00 – 18.00 SAT 10.00 – 17.00 WWW.BLAINSOUTHERN.COM +44 (0)207 493 4492 GEORG BASELITZ AT FRIEZE VISIT US ON BOOTH F4 PA R I S F R A N C E 7 R U E D E B E L L E Y M E T 3 3 1 4 2 7 2 9 9 0 0 PA R I S PA N T I N 6 9 AV E N U E D U G É N É R A L L E C L E R C T 3 3 1 4 2 7 2 9 9 0 0 S A L Z B U R G A U S T R I A M I R A B E L L P L AT Z 2 T 4 3 6 6 2 8 8 1 3 9 3 R O PA C . N E T 7 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 INTERVIEW London attracts Russians, Chinese, Arabs and other Europeans Michael Werner Founder, Michael Werner Gallery Capital gains The German dealer is the latest to open a new space in London. By Cristina Ruiz opened a space in London? Gordon VeneKlasen: We’ve had an office here for years, and from 2007 to 2010, we rented a Robert Adam house on Mansfield Street. Then, in 2010, we rented a space in Hoxton Square and did a pop-up show of work by [the American artist] Aaron Curry. We found we were doing a lot of work here, and Kadee Robbins [now director of the London gallery] was interested in having a regular space open to the public, so we started to look for a building. New York is still a vibrant capital of the art market, but London has a different international axis: the Russians, the Arabs and all the Europeans who are fleeing their tax systems are here, and that makes quite a critical audience. Then you have all the Latin Americans who Peter Doig’s Painting for Wall Painters (Prosperity P.o.S.), 2010-12, is flying the flag for Werner’s London space come—there is a large group of Brazilians here—so London is an international shopping city. There is also an audience that will be very excited about what we do that is different from everybody else. The artists we show—such as Immendorff and [A.R.] Penck, who languished in the 1990s in the moment of antipainting—are very, very exciting to a “We intend to build up an alternative history of Modern art” younger generation now. Peter Doig is a huge admirer of Lüpertz, Penck and Per Kirkeby [the Danish artist has strong ties to Germany]. We intend to do here what we did in New York, which is to build up an alternative history of Modern art. There, we did it at a time when there was a real antipathy to what we were doing; now, I think there’s a receptive audience. Michael Werner: When Gordon started to work with younger artists, such as Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago [in 2007], it was interesting to me that these artists were both students of art history. They were both friends of Markus Lüpertz—who basically nobody likes because he is impossible—and they had collected all his catalogues. This dialogue [between © SOTHEBY’S, INC. 2012 TOBIAS MEYER, PRINCIPAL AUCTIONEER, #9588677; © 2012 GLENN BROWN WERNER: PHOTO: GALERIE MICHAEL WERNER. DOIG: © RICHARD IVEY. COURTESY OF MICHAEL WERNER GALLERY, NEW YORK AND LONDON T he veteran German dealer Michael Werner has inaugurated a gallery in an elegant Georgian townhouse in Mayfair, London, with a show of 11 paintings by Peter Doig— the artist’s first display of new work since his mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain in 2008. It is a strong gambit in a city that is also home to new branches of New York’s David Zwirner and Pace galleries, and where competition to secure new work by the top artists is fierce (Doig’s most recent solo show at his London gallery, Victoria Miro, was in 2002). A dealer for nearly five decades with galleries in Cologne, Berlin and New York, Werner has spent his career championing post-war German painting and says his mission has been to secure a place in history for artists such as Jörg Immendorff, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz and Markus Lüpertz, whom he says were marginalised for decades because they were German and because they were painters at a time when the medium was deeply unfashionable. We spoke to Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen, his business partner for more than 20 years, on the day the new London gallery opened. The Art Newspaper: Why have you PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARCEL BRIENT. GLENN BROWN TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM AFTER CHRIS FOSS, 1997. ESTIMATE $3,500,000-4,500,000 CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING AUCTION AUCTION IN NEW YORK 13 NOVEMBER 2012 | ENQUIRIES +1 212 606 7254 REGISTER NOW AT SOTHEBYS.COM generations of artists] is interesting and it is something we will continue to do here. What did you want to achieve as an art dealer? MW: It was a double goal. First, my artists were considered reactionary because they painted, and second, they were isolated because they came from Germany. After the Second World War, artists in Germany were incredibly isolated. They had nothing to do with the centres of the art world. Many German-speaking artists tried to connect with Paris but they were not let in because of the war. The first one who really worked his way out of this isolation was Joseph Beuys, and, of course, the generation I worked with. I was an intermediary. Work by your artists is now found in major museums around the world. Is your work done? MW: No, because there is another cliché if you’re an artist in Germany or Italy, Spain or France, which is that you have to have an exhibition in a big museum in America. After that, your reputation is secure in your own country. I have some artists who have achieved that: Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer—he’s not my artist any more, but I did his first gallery show—and Kirkeby, who has a show at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, right now [“Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture”, until 6 January 2013]. But I still have three left: Immendorff, Penck and Lüpertz. Then my work will be done. • “Peter Doig: New Paintings” is at Michael Werner Gallery, 22 Upper Brook Street (until 22 December) • “The Michael Werner Collection”, a show of works donated by Werner to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, is on display at the museum (until 3 March 2013) London calling • David Zwirner has opened a 10,000 sq. ft gallery in a Georgian townhouse in Grafton Street. The opening show, “Allo!” (until November 17), is of paintings by Luc Tuymans. • Pace Gallery has inaugurated its new London space, in the former Museum of Mankind building at 6 Burlington Gardens, with a show juxtaposing works by Mark Rothko and Hiroshi Sugimoto (“Dark Paintings and Seascapes”, until November 17). • Per Skarstedt opened a 2,500 sq. ft first-floor space at 23 Old Bond Street yesterday with “The American Indian Paintings and Drawings”, a show of works by Warhol (until November 17). 8 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 FEATURE Adriano Pedrosa (top), Iwona Blazwick and Philip Tinari all question assumptions about what makes a “master” Where has all the Bacon gone? Spotlight: an alternative canon of 20th-century art or savvy sales strategy? By Ben Luke certain discrepancies or a certain disequilibrium that exists between institutional recognition and the market. And perhaps the generation or the movement in which there is a [big] discrepancy is precisely the conceptualists of the 1960s and 1970s.” The result is a provocative alternative canon of conceptualist and feminist artists. Some booths feature major established figures, like Bruce Nauman at Sperone Westwater (S9), as well as other, more cultish figures who have made significant waves in museum circles, like Sanja Ivekovic at Espaivisor, Valencia (S17), who had a show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 2011, and artists like the Filipino Roberto Chabet, showing with Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (S16), whose work has not been seen in the UK. In showing these artists as masters he wants to “try to send a message and to change the perception of things” by laying down the gauntlet to a market which is “usually looking at painting made by male, European artists”, he says. Museums and public institutions have long challenged the Euro-US dominated canon which was perhaps most clearly articulated by Alfred Barr, the founding director of MoMA. In the UK, Iwona Blazwick has been central to that process in her roles at the ICA, Phaidon, Tate Modern and now the Whitechapel Gallery, where she is the director. Less well known, but key in her curatorial outlook, was a project on the curating course at the Royal College of Art in London, in which she asked students to research non-Western avant gardes. “They came up with the most incredible material from very unlikely places,” she says, “from Jamaica and Prague, from Mexico City, from Japan, Africa and India, so it was a real revelation. It was the first time that we saw an alternative to what has always been claimed as a Western inheritance.” The hallmarks of Blazwick’s Whitechapel programme have been a notable abundance of shows of women artists, from Nan Goldin to Alice Neel and a plethora of nonWestern art, including, recently, an exhibition dedicated to Walid Raad and the ongoing programme “Artists Film International”, a collaboration with 12 organisations across the world. Along with the Tate’s current head of collections for international art, Frances Morris, Blazwick was behind Tate Modern’s controversial thematic opening displays, which comprehensively broke with the Barr model, allowing a greater emphasis on contemporary art and a significant presence of artists from outside Europe and the US. The Tate Collection’s continuing expansion into Latin America, Asia and now Africa has reinforced Pedrosa’s conviction that Frieze and London provide the right platform for his conceptualist revisionism. “London Three in the Spotlight From Croatia (once part of Yugoslavia), Argentina and the Philippines, the work of Sanja Ivekovic, Osvaldo Romberg and Roberto Chabet typifies the art highlighted by Adriano Pedrosa as running counter to the conventional Western canon Sanja Ivekovic, Espaivisor, Valencia (S17) The subject of a recent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Croatian artist is emerging as one of the key feminist voices from eastern Europe, where she pioneered video and photobased art. In the video Personal Cuts, 1982 (above), shown on television in Yugoslavia, images of Ivekovic cutting holes in a stocking-like mask over her head, were interspersed with images of Yugoslav propaganda following Tito’s death. Osvaldo Romberg, Henrique Faria Gallery, New York (S8) The Argentinian artist’s work attracted some attention in the 1970s, when, according to his present dealer Henrique Faria, “the pieces were shown in Basel and would sell within ten minutes of the fair opening”. Faria shows works from Romberg’s “History of Art” series (above, Allegoria della Fede, Vermeer, 1976), where he deconstructs masterpieces by Velázquez, Constable and Caravaggio among others, analysing their chromatic structures. Roberto Chabet, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (S16) Filipino artist Chabet is “a fundamental figure and a teacher of so many artists,” Adriano Pedrosa says. Map and Rooms, 1985, is one of 300 works which comprise Chabet’s “China Collage” series, so named because maps of China, Mongolia and Korea were the basis of the first works in the series. Chabet shredded images from books, magazines, newspapers and maps leading to an image he described as a “picture morgue”. B.L. is a particularly interesting place to do it, and perhaps the most receptive place for something like this to happen,” he says. “You don’t see that type of openness either from an art fair or from institutions elsewhere.” So will the market respond? Henrique Faria (S8), who is showing the Argentinian conceptualist Osvaldo Romberg in Spotlight, feels optimistic that private collectors will begin to follow institutions’ lead in exploring this global conceptualist tradition in greater depth. “In the conceptual niche of Latin American art, there are some very interesting artists whose works have not got the recognition they deserve,” he says. In his experience, many private collections’ approach to this material “is very conservative”. His biggest clients are museums, but “academia and cultural institutions spur the interest of the rest of the collectors base,” he says. So, drive similar solutions.” Conceptualism has been central to recent Chinese art, too, but Philip Tinari, the director of the Ullens Center in Beijing, says that the “hiatus from reality” that denied any aspects of Modernism from entering Chinese culture in the communist period before the “Reform and Opening Up” policies of 1979, meant that there was no legacy for artists to respond to. “If there is a canon of Chinese art,” Tinari says, “it is represented in things like the Ullens collection or the Uli Sigg collection that was just given to M+ [in Hong Kong] and this is a narrative that traces the period from 1979 to the present.” Rather than being based on a steady growth of Modernism, says Tinari, “the Chinese embrace of conceptualism has always been mediated and tempered by very specific encounters”, such as a mid-1980s Robert Rauschenberg show, and the visit of Gilbert and George in 1993, The most tightly focused section of the fair, Spotlight captures a two-decade burst of activity amid thousands of years of art too, do pioneer collectors. “As with Latin American Geometric Abstract, Concrete, Neo-concrete art—15 or 16 years ago, nobody was really collecting that. But Patty Cisneros and Adolpho Leirner put together amazing collections…and those collections started the general interest in the work.” Key to the establishment of the truly global avant garde that Pedrosa proposes is the fact that conceptualism and its various manifestations in video, Performance and text art are almost a lingua franca, despite being arrived at in varying conditions. Blazwick cites a particularly significant moment in the late 1960s and early 1970s. “In England, Belgrade, Vienna, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York and Rome, seven artists [including Marina Abramovic and Chris Burden] without any knowledge of one another went into the public arena and asked the public to harm them,” she says. “It is uncanny that in each location there was an individual who had that impulse. What happened at that moment, in that weird zeitgeist? And [similar situations] come up time and again. But then you realise that very different local conditions applied: the conceptual art in Chile was made in response to Pinochet and censorship, it was a matter of life and death; conceptual art in America was made in response to capitalism. You see the different conditions which THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF CONTEMPORARY & MODERN ART APPLICATIONS NOW ONLINE AT EXPOCHICAGO.COM leading to a piecemeal construction of the history of Modernism. The Chinese contemporary art scene has only ever existed in a period in which conceptualism has been pre-eminent in the avant garde. “That is what the [Chinese] artists gravitated towards, because artists everywhere tended to gravitate towards it,” Tinari says. Internationally, he believes, “there is still very much a canon in play. You only have to see the exhibitions at the top five international museums each year—last year was the year of Richter, and right now we are in this LV [Louis Vuitton]-mediated Yayoi Kusama moment. It is also possible to argue, however, that art history is now dictated not by a canon but by a network. As Tinari says, Chinese artists are now experiencing global art events in “real time” online, and this develops an increasingly diverse view of artists in the present and recent past. Blazwick concurs: “It is an exciting moment when there are a lot of revisionist views of art history, led, I must say, by artists.” Those artists are setting about “finding lost histories, the lacunae. It has also been characterised by this turn towards the archive as something really exciting, not as something dull and boring and basement, but something full of unexplored treasures.” Pedrosa will hope that Spotlight will be just that. NAVY PIER 19—22 SEPTEMBER 2013 PEDROSA: DESIGNOPHY; BLAZWICK: ED MILES PHOTOGRAPHY; IVEKOVIC: COURTESY OF EXPAIVISOR, VALENCIA; ROMBERG: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND HENRIQUE FARIA FINE ART, NEW YORK; CHABET: COURTESY OF OSAGE GALLERY, HONG KONG M atthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp will have known when naming Frieze Masters that for many in art history world, the idea of the “master” is outmoded. And it is from a critical viewpoint that Adriano Pedrosa has put together the most tightly focused section of the fair, Spotlight, capturing a two-decade burst of activity amid thousands of years of art. Pedrosa describes Spotlight as “a section of solo shows of artists from the 20th century”. It would be impossible to focus on earlier periods— there is insufficient material available for solo shows of earlier artists—but Pedrosa has not simply cherry-picked significant 20th-century artists. “The idea of ‘masters’, for me, already raises some issues in terms of how the idea of the master can be challenged, not only in terms of the art historical canon, but also, quite frankly, in terms of the market itself,” he says, “because we are dealing with an art fair—it is not the selection of oneperson presentations in an institution. “In England perhaps, in terms of a mid-20th-century master, you would think of someone like Francis Bacon. So, of course, he is an artist that is very much established both institutionally as well as in the market itself. 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The work of this prolific, inventive and influential but famously retiring figure is perplexingly variable, ranging from giant bulbous aluminium “Grosse Geister” figures to delicate watercolours of flowers, from architectural models to glass and ceramic heads, or vast reclining women in bronze and steel. But throughout his various media and modes, Schütte has shown an abiding preoccupation with the human form, producing numerous series of figures and portrait studies of subjects both real and imaginary in a characteristically broad range of media over a period of more than three decades. Now, for the first time, two London exhibitions—at the Serpentine Gallery and the Frith Street Gallery—are devoted almost entirely to Schütte’s often emotionally charged explorations of the figurative tradition, which provide new insights into his working methods as well as his sometimes volatile relationship with the art of both the past and the present. The Art Newspaper: Alongside your archetypal sculptural heads and figures, your two London shows are devoted to directly observed watercolours, prints and drawings of acquaintances and friends, which you have been making since the early 1990s, plus your numerous selfportraits. Why is it so important to keep working from life? Thomas Schütte: For me, making eccentric figures is just fun: it is very, very easy. It just happens. But to catch life on a piece of paper, without electronic tools, has a hands-on quality that is really important. I am looking for some kind of realism. I mostly do seven or eight drawings in a row, in a onehour session, [working] very, very fast—about five minutes each. Then, a day later, I rework a little bit, but I can only use one or two from this; it’s all a matter of luck. I don’t think I have got it yet. Maybe I have to work for another ten years. Are any of your sculptures based on directly observed faces? No. I might have met some of the people, but you can’t recognise them. They are based on a situation. I’ve never tried to make a portrait sculpture. You need a lot of craft for it, which I don’t have. They need to be all selfmade; some of the portraits went pretty nicely, some not so well, so I didn’t put those ones out. How would you define “going nicely”? When they look like the sitter and the line are OK and the mood is OK. But I don’t have the problem of the normal portraitist with a client: I would never do the portrait of somebody I don’t know. What makes you return to observe the same person again and again? Is it to examine them more closely or is it also a form of self-examination? Or maybe a bit of both? It is much more simple than that: I do it for fun and because nobody else is doing it, except for two or three people, so it’s a free house. Hockney [does portraiture] a bit; from him I got the camera lucida, the little mirror device that helps with drawing. I’ve been to the National Portrait Gallery and to the BP Portrait Award, and it’s pretty amazing—you see all these mistakes! It’s all about mistakes; it’s a very risky thing. If you fail with reality, it is very hard—then there is nothing to talk about. It is just the art that you find in hotels. What is the relationship between the portraits and your sculptural heads and figures? I have to balance the big things with the small things. It’s always quite good to balance the eccentric stuff. Sometimes I am a bit sick of these monsters, but now I work with computers, so the rough dummy is cut by a machine after the three-dimensional scans have been made. The warriors [Krieger, 2012, at Frith Street Gallery] and United Enemies [2011, at the Serpentine Gallery] are 80% cut by computers and I only do the details. The sculptures at both the Serpentine and Frith Street send out very disquieting mixed messages that play with notions of monumentality and scale. They can seem imposing, comical, threatening and vulnerable— often all at the same time. They have to, because I don’t do traffic signs. Many artists do traffic signs; [they are] always saying the same thing. “I’m here! Buy me! Or sell me!” But [the sculptures] have to be like a living person with knobbly mixed feelings: the bad side, the good side, the chocolate side. I don’t like shouting instructions. I am not in product Come and visit us at FRIEZE MASTERS Stand M14 FRIEZE LONDON Stand M1 to receive a discount of up to 30% on a one-year subscription to THE ART NEWSPAPER BOTH PHOTOS THIS PAGE: © GAUTIER DEBLONDE, 2012 Two London shows demonstrate the artist’s joy in sculpture. By Louisa Buck 15 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 Career highlights • An 8ft-tall cast aluminium sculpture by Schütte, Grosse Geist No 16, 2000, formerly owned by the Israeli collector Jose Mugrabi, was bought by an unidentified buyer for $4.1m at Phillips de Pury in 2010, setting an auction record for the artist. LUISE: PHOTO: WILFRIED PETZI. © DACS 2012. SCHÜTTE (TOP): DAVID ERTL, 2010. © BUNDESKUNSTHALLE, BONN. SCHÜTTE (BIOGRAPHY BOX): DAVID WIMSETT/UPPA/PHOTOSHOT • In 2005, Schütte was awarded the Golden Lion for placement—that’s not my job. Your sculptures effectively use the scale and language of monumental sculpture while also seeming to critique it. At the Serpentine, the two sculptures of United Enemies and the single steel figure of Vater Staat (Father State), 2010, have tremendous scale and presence but are also ridiculous armless figures, puppets propped up by their garments. Vater Staat has no back, either. He’s just held up by his coat. Just remember this past year of falling dictators who are kissing all the time, and not even apologising when things go completely wrong. Dictators are very useful if they are on the same side [as you], but if they are on the other side, they are just like Hollywood monsters. Luise, 1996, is among the many portraits the German artist has made It is very silly to give power a face; power is about networks and the people behind the face. Real power is an antenna, a little device that cannot be represented by a face—nobody knows who it is. The more readings a piece has, the better it is. I don’t like just one message. The bronze Memorial for unknown artist, 2011, which stands at the entrance to the Serpentine show, is another tragi-comic figure, almost a caricature of an artist with his luxuriant hair and beard, seeming to raise his hands in exasperation. He was a little matchbox-sized wax figure that I found: the head and shoulders were in one piece with this silly hair and the arms were separate. I glued them together and put them on a plinth, and when I was searching for a title, I checked Google and there was literally no image for the unknown artist. Tons of images for the unknown soldier, or the unknown gay, or the unknown widow, but for the unknown artist there was no monument. So because he looked so much like a comic Da Vinci, I gave him the name. I only corrected the eyes and the nose a little bit; otherwise, he is as I found him. Are you planning more portrait series at the moment? Yesterday I went to the Da Vinci show [“Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist” at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace] and it was really fascinating: he made 12 drawings on one sheet of paper no bigger than a hand. Just a handful of lines and they were more precise than a photo! The work of one week just on one sheet of paper, and he got everything right hundreds of years before everyone else. The mercilessness of just a few lines: to see them for real, to be so precise with just one little pencil and one little ink drop, that’s really shocking. You step out from there as an artist and you really want to give it up, or get drunk or something. That’s why I don’t want to talk any more; I have to go home and get it digested. • “Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures” is at the Serpentine Gallery (until 18 November) • “Thomas Schütte: New Works” is at Frith Street Gallery (until 15 November) Biography Thomas Schütte best artist at the 51st Venice Biennale for his cast steel and bronze sculptures of giant distorted reclining women, which were exhibited in “The Experience of Art”, organised by the biennial’s co-curator Maria de Corral in the Italia pavilion. The curators described the works as “the bodies and torsos of towering, imposing women, convulsively twisted around themselves, broken, curved, flattened or dripping from all sides”, declaring that “a persistent sense of irritation is given off by these figures”. • Schütte was the first non-British artist to occupy the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. Model for a Hotel, 2007, an architectural model of a 21-storey building, was made from horizontal panes of yellow, blue and red glass, and weighed more than eight tonnes. At the time, the artist described the work as “something big but light, colourful but not offensive… very discreet, not traffic-stopping”. • The exhibition “Houses”, a survey of Schütte’s architectural models and projects, which has been co-organised with the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, is on show at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco until 11 November. “Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures” will tour from London’s Serpentine Gallery to the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, in October 2013. L.B. Born: Oldenburg, Germany, 1954 Education: Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, 1973-81 Lives in: Dusseldorf Future shows: 2013 “Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures”, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Selected solo shows: 2012 “Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures”, Serpentine Gallery, London; “Thomas Schütte: New Works”, Frith Street Gallery, London; “Houses”, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; “Frauen”, Castello di Rivoli, Turin 2010 “Thomas Schütte”, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn; “Thomas Schütte: Hindsight”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Dusseldorf Prize 2009 “Thomas Schütte”, Haus der Kunst, Munich 2007-09 Fourth Plinth commission, National Gallery, London 2005 Golden Lion award, 51st Venice Biennale; “Political Works”, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Museu Serralves, Porto 2000 “Kabinet Overholland”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1999 “Gloria in Memoria”, Dia Center for the Arts II, New York; “In Media Res”, DIA Center for the Arts III, New York Visit the Private Sales Online Gallery Fall Session · Open thru December 21 The Online Gallery offers a convenient and flexible way to view works available for private sale outside the auction timeline. This season’s selection of Post-War and Contemporary art features works by Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Ed Ruscha, Dan Flavin and James Rosenquist. Contact Alexis Klein Associate Vice President, Specialist Post-War and Contemporary Art [email protected] +1 212 641 3741 christiesprivatesales.com MEL RAMOS (B. 1935) Mixed Nuts:The Lost Painting of 1965 oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm.) Painted in 2004. © Mel Ramos 2004 16 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 BOOKS Dropping the bomb on Nagasaki in 1945 Look or look away? PHOTOGRAPHY A Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as a Gorgeous Tumour II, 2004, oil on canvas, 172.7 × 127cm s a dumb device, the camera is the nonjudgemental witnessing eye of events. Its testimony is unquestionable, providing us with clear evidence on which to act. It is this uncomplicated understanding of photographic reportage that is challenged in the essays in Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis. The authors examine the acts of witnessing, picturing and viewing inflicted human suffering, from the Battle of Wounded Knee, fought in 1890 on a Native American reservation in South Dakota, to the present day. The result of several years of academic research, this volume of 24 essays is organised into seven sections. The first considers how we respond to photographs of atrocity. Posing questions about response leads forward and backward to responsibility. It is the responsibility of the photographer and the reader of the photograph on which the authors focus their attention. In the following three sections, the authors consider how making these images has an impact on the photographer as well as how such images have an impact on our cultural memory, becoming icons of atrocity as a whole rather than documents of specific atrocity. The latter essays, to a large extent, move away from the centre of the drama to its periphery. For instance, on the edge of what constitutes atrocity photographs lie snapshots that give evidence that is decipherable yet oblique. The book closes with two artists whose work responds to published and circulated images. In the introduction, Jay Prosser answers his own opening question as As viewers of mass media, we have no choice but to look at images of atrocity to why we look at images of atrocity: we, as viewers of mass media, have no choice. Prosser then states that a central concern of this book is that photography itself is currently in crisis. Digital technologies have affected the making of images as well as their circulation. Acknowledging this, the contemporary witness has to determine how to look at and how to respond to the picturing of atrocity. Perhaps three essays best address this crisis in that they concentrate on the depiction of a current unfolding narrative. Tom Junod’s “The Falling Man” takes as its subject a widely published photograph by Richard Drew of one of the many people who jumped out of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Drew is identified by Junod as a “paid witness”: a photographer working for the Associated Press fulfilling a professional obligation. In the US, the response to the photographs of people jumping from the Twin Towers was one of self-censorship. These images were deemed to infringe upon the dignity of the victims as they plummeted so publicly to their deaths. The images of “the jumpers” became taboo, too troubling to witness. Americans gave themselves the right to avert their eyes. The ensuing war in Afghanistan provides us with the subject of Mark Durden’s essay. In discussing Luc Delahaye’s 2001 photograph of a dead Taliban soldier, Durden refers to a comment made by the late American writer and activist Susan Sontag that in war, the faces of our dead opponents are shown more than those of our own dead. We do not avert our eyes from troubling images of the “other”. Delahaye’s Taliban is a largescale, high quality print (eight feet by four feet) that is rich in detail, carefully considered and made to be scrutinised in galleries and museums. Durden argues that this aesthetic approach and the context of the METAMORPHOSIS the transformation of being gallery wall gives dignity to the subject and a space for empathy for the viewer. In the last of these three examples, Peggy Phelan uses photographs taken in Iraq at the Abu Ghraib prison to show the problem of reading the photograph as evidence. She identifies key questions that cannot be answered by the viewer when looking at these photographs: who took them, why were they taken and whom and what do they show. Hooded, the prisoners are deprived of both their sight and their identity. Correspondingly, the viewer’s vision is also limited. It is this limitation to the act of seeing that Phelan highlights, and as a result the viewer is unsure how to respond. According to Junod, Durden and Phelan, the camera bore witness, but its testimony was questionable and the responses provoked were not uniform. Perhaps the question asked by the readers of the book will be what is our obligation? Maybe the answer is that all we can do is bear witness to our own complicit responsibility. Stephen Clarke The author is an artist, writer and lecturer based in the north-west of England Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy Miller and Jay Prosser, eds Reaktion Books, 320pp, £20 (pb) ambrosine allen bertozzi & casoni g. l. brierle y jason brooks jonas burgert jake & dinos c hapman george c ondo johan creten wim delvoye albrec ht dürer gregor gaida tom gallant marianna gartner stefan guggisberg paul hazelton julie heffernan alexander hoda john isaacs reece jones joanna kirk dirk lange vera lehndorff & holger trülzsc h wolfe von lenkie wicz thomas lerooy alastair mackie haruko maeda c harles matton paul mc carthy kate mc c gwire robert mcnally jonathan meese polly morgan tim noble & sue webster francis picabia léopold rabus anton rädersc heidt dennis sc holl cindy s herman carolein smit rebec ca stevenson john stezaker mircea suciu dolly thompsett whitne y m c veigh jonathan wateridge hugo wilson — regent s park e m a ry l AL L VI S UAL ARTS the crypt one marylebone london nw1 4qa AL L VI S UAL ARTS W W W.AL LVI S UAL ARTS.O R G e oa d bone r osnaburgh street 9 ‒ 12 october 2012 10am ‒ 8pm cl r cir albany street outer circle oute MELIA WHITE HOUS E one mar ylebon e cryp t eust on roa d REGENTS PARK GREAT PORTLAND STREET the entrance to the crypt of one marylebone is lo cated opposite the meliá white house hotel T. +44 (0)20 78 43 0 410 I N F O@AL LVI S UAL ARTS.O R G IMAGE COURTESY OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Photographs of atrocities pose problems for photographers, viewers and publishers 19 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 CALENDAR Frieze week 9-14 October 2012 KEY Listings are arranged alphabetically by area 쏍 Commercial gallery Galleries showing at London’s fairs this week 1 2 3 1 “Matt Stokes”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Give to Me the Life I Love (production still), 2012 2 “Bharti Kher” (installation view), Parasol Unit 3 “Bjarne Melgaard: a House to Die In” (installation view), Institute of Contemporary Arts Exhibitions STOKES: PHOTO: DANIEL WEILL. 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COURTESY OF STEVEN WHITE/ICA CENTRAL 쏍Ben Brown Fine Arts 쏍Carpenters Workshop Gallery 쏍Derek Johns 쏍Gagosian Gallery 21 Cork Street, W1S 3LZ 12 Duke Street, SW1Y 6BN • From De Chirico to Cattelan 3 Albemarle Street, W1S 4HE UNTIL 30/11/12 • Atelier Van Lieshout: Blastfurnace • Viceregal Colonial Paintings in the New World 6-24 Britannia Street, WC1X 9JD www.benbrownfinearts.com • Franz West: Man with a Ball 12 Carlton House Terrace, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH • Bjarne Melgaard UNTIL 21/12/12 9/10/12-12/10/12 09/10/12-10/11/12 www.cwgdesign.com www.derekjohns.co.uk 17-19 Davies Street, W1K 3DE UNTIL 18/11/12 쏍Carroll/Fletcher Gallery 쏍Elisabetta Cipriani • Giuseppe Penone: Intersecting Gaze • Hannah Sawtell: Osculator 56-57 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8EQ 23 Heddon Street, W1B 4BQ 09/10/12-24/11/12 • Trojan: Works on Paper www.gagosian.com Austrian Cultural Forum 쏍Ben Janssens Oriental Art 28 Rutland Gate, SW7 1PQ 91c Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JB • Hugo “Puck” Dachinger UNTIL 11/1/13 • Damian Taylor and Japanese 20th-century Bronze Design • John Akomfrah: Hauntologies • Cynthia Marcelle www.acflondon.org 09/10/12-26/10/12 UNTIL 08/11/12 11/10/12-17/11/12 www.benjanssens.com www.carrollfletcher.com www.elisabettacipriani.com 쏍Bernard Jacobson Gallery Embankment Galleries, Somerset House • John Bartlett: London Sublime 6 Cork Street, W1S 3NX 쏍Cass Sculpture Foundation UNTIL 10/11/12 • Bruce McLean: Shapes of Sculpture Exhibition Road, SW7 Strand, WC2R 1LA www.guildhall-art-gallery.org.uk www.alancristea.com 10/10/12-03/11/12 • Tony Cragg at Exhibition Road UNTIL 25/11/12 • Images 36: Best of British Illustration 쏍Hamiltons www.sculpture.org.uk 쏍Blain Southern UNTIL 28/10/12 13 Carlos Place, W1Y 2EU Courtauld Gallery 4 Hanover Square, W1 Somerset House, Strand, • Night Paintings by Paul Benney • Jedd Novatt: Chaos, Defining the Invisible 쏍Alan Cristea Gallery 31 and 34 Cork Street, W1S 3NU • Edmund de Waal www.jacobsongallery.com 쏍Alison Jacques Gallery 16-18 Berners Street, W1T 3LN • Ian Kiaer 12/10/12-10/11/12 • Tim Noble and Sue Webster www.alisonjacquesgallery.com 10/10/12-24/11/12 www.blainsouthern.com 쏍Annely Juda Fine Art 23 Dering Street, W1S 1AW British Library • Sigrid Holmwood 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB 09/10/12-21/12/12 • On the Road: Jack Kerouac www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk UNTIL 27/12/12 FURTHER LISTINGS www.theartnewspaper. com/whatson WC2R 0RN 09/10/12-18/11/12 09/10/12-18/11/12 www.ica.org.uk Guildhall Art Gallery Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE 12/10/12-20/01/13 쏍James Hyman Fine Art 16 Savile Row, W1S 3PL • Baldus and the Modern Landscape 15/10/12-09/11/12 www.jameshymangallery.com UNTIL 09/12/12 UNTIL 03/11/12 www.somersethouse.org.uk www.hamiltonsgallery.com 쏍Jean-Luc Baroni 7-8 Mason’s Yard, Duke Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6BU • Matteo Baroni UNTIL 19/10/12 www.jlbaroni.com 쏍Etro 쏍Haunch of Venison 43 Old Bond Street, W1S 4QT 103 New Bond Street, W1S 1ST • Massimo Listri: Prospettive • Joana Vasconcelos 12/10/12-12/11/12 10/10/12-17/11/12 5-8 Lower John Street, Golden Square, W1F 9DR www.etro.com 51 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8EB • Mel Bochner www.bl.uk 쏍Anthony Reynolds Gallery Institute of Contemporary Arts 쏍Faggionato Fine Arts 쏍Karsten Schubert • Justin Mortimer UNTIL 2/11/12 12/10/12-24/11/12 www.karstenschubert.com 60 Great Marlborough Street, W1F 7BG British Museum • Lucian Freud: Etchings Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG UNTIL 13/01/13 • Serge Spitzer • Peter Gallo • Shakespeare: Staging the World • Peter Lely: a Lyrical Vision UNTIL 23/11/12 쏍Hauser & Wirth 쏍Katrin Bellinger at Colnaghi www.faggionato.com 196a Piccadilly, W1J 9DY 15 Old Bond Street, W1S 4AX 쏍Francesca Galloway • Rita Ackermann: Fire by Days • Érik Desmazières: Cabinet of Rarities UNTIL 27/10/12 UNTIL 25/11/12 11/10/12-13/01/13 www.anthonyreynolds.com • Renaissance to Goya www.courtauld.ac.uk UNTIL 06/01/13 Barbican Art Gallery Level 3, Silk Street, Barbican Centre, EC2Y 8DS • Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s www.britishmuseum.org 쏍Cabinet Gallery 쏍David Gill Galleries 2-4 King Street, SW1Y 6QP 49 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JR 31 Dover Street, W1S 4ND UNTIL 03/11/12 UNTIL 26/10/12 • Red Stone 23 Savile Row, W1S 2ET www.bellinger-art.com • Thomas Houseago • Gaetano Pesce: Six Tables on Water UNTIL 09/11/12 20a Northburgh St, EC1V 0EA UNTIL 22/12/12 www.francescagalloway.com • John Knight: Quiet Quality, 1974 www.davidgillgalleries.com 10/10/12-17/11/12 UNTIL 13/01/13 Apt 6, 49-59 Old Street, EC1V 9HX • Random International: Rain Room • On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People 쏍David Zwirner www.haunchofvenison.com 쏍Frith Street Gallery UNTIL 27/10/12 쏍Laura Bartlett Gallery www.hauserwirth.com 10 Northington Street, WC1N 2JG 17-18 Golden Square, W1F 9JJ 쏍Helly Nahmad Gallery 24 Grafton Street, W1S 4EZ 2 Cork Street, W1S 3LB 13/10/12-17/11/12 • Luc Tuymans: Allo • Thomas Schütte: New Works • Modern Masters www.laurabartlettgallery.com UNTIL 03/03/13 10/10/12-14/10/12 UNTIL 17/11/12 UNTIL 15/11/12 UNTIL 02/11/12 www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery www.cabinet.uk.com www.davidzwirner.com www.frithstreetgallery.com www.hellynahmad.com • Lydia Gifford: the Neighbour CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 Transparencies Richard Serra Recent Drawings October 26 – December 15 Catalogue available C RAIG F. S TARR GALLERY 5 East 73rd Street New York 212.570.1739 Mon-Sat 11-5:30 www.starr-art.com 20 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 CALENDAR KEY Listings are arranged alphabetically by area 쏍 Commercial gallery Frieze week 9-14 October 2012 1 2 3 1 “RA Now”, Royal Academy of Art, Tony Bevan, Self Portrait, 2012 2 “Thomas Houseago: Special Brew” (installation view), Hauser & Wirth 3 “William Klein and Daido Moriyama”, Tate Modern, William Klein, Candy Store, New York, 1955 쏍Lisson Gallery Museum of London 쏍Regina Gallery 쏍Sam Fogg Tate Britain 150 London Wall, EC2Y 5HN 22 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8DE 15D Clifford Street, W1S 4SZ Millbank, SW1P 4RG • At Home with the Queen • Deep into Russia • Red Stone: Indian Stone Carving from Sultanate and Mughal India • Art Now: Jess Flood-Paddock UNTIL 06/01/13 Phillips de Pury • Howard Hodgkin Howick Place, SW1P 1BB UNTIL 09/11/12 UNTIL 02/12/12 • Contemporary art day auction www.samfogg.com • Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-garde www.phillipsdepury.com 52-54 Bell Street, NW1 5DA UNTIL 28/10/12 9/10/12-17/11/12 • Anish Kapoor www.museumoflondon.org.uk www.reginagallery.com 10/10/12-10/11/12 www.lissongallery.com 쏍Louisa Guinness Gallery National Gallery 쏍Richard Nagy Trafalgar Square, WC2 5DN 22 Old Bond Street, W1S 4PY Auctions THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER, 2PM • A Masterpiece for the Nation • The Benedict Silverman Collection 쏍Selma Feriani Gallery 35 Onslow Gardens, SW7 3PY UNTIL 11/11/12 UNTIL 24/11/12 23 Maddox Street, W1S 2QN • Turner Prize 2012 Christie’s (King Street) • Sophia Vari www.richardnagy.com • Maha Malluh: Just Des(s)erts UNTIL 06/01/13 8 King Street, SW1Y 6QT UNTIL 04/11/12 • Richard Hamilton: the Late Works UNTIL 11/11/12 www.tate.org.uk/britain www.louisaguinnessgallery.com 10/10/12-13/01/13 • Post-war and contemporary art… • followed by: the Italian Sale www.nationalgallery.org.uk 쏍Luxembourg and Dayan FURTHER LISTINGS UNTIL 13/01/13 www.selmaferiani.com 쏍Thomas Dane Serpentine Gallery 11 Duke Street, SW1Y 6BN THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER, 7PM Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA • Lari Pittman: Thought-Forms www.theartnewspaper. com/whatson • Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures • Post-war and contemporary day auction www.thomasdane.com • The Queen: Art and Image 쏍Robilant + Voena 쏍Timothy Taylor Gallery UNTIL 21/10/12 38 Dover Street, W1S 4NL • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: Herzog and de Meuron and Ai Weiwei 6 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BY • Thomas Struth • Angela Ferreira: Stone Free UNTIL 20/1/13 • White: Marbles and Paintings from Antiquity to Now 12/10/12-17/11/12 www.npg.org.uk UNTIL 14/12/12 2 Savile Row, London W1S 3PA National Portrait Gallery • Rob Pruitt’s Autograph Collection St Martin’s Place, WC2H 0HE 11/10/12-15/12/12 www.luxembourgdayan.com 쏍Marlborough Contemporary • Marilyn Monroe: a British Love Affair UNTIL 24/03/13 www.marlboroughcontemporary.com www.robilantvoena.com 쏍Olyvia Fine Art UNTIL 18/11/12 09/10/12-17/11/12 FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER, 12PM www.christies.com 15 Carlos Place, W1K 2EX Bonhams • Kiki Smith: Behold 101 New Bond Street,W1S 1SR UNTIL 14/10/12 11/10/12-17/11/12 • Contemporary art and design www.serpentinegallery.org www.timothytaylorgallery.com THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER, 4PM www.bonhams.com 쏍Simon Lee Gallery Victoria and Albert Museum 12 Berkeley Street, W1 8DT Royal Academy of Arts • Heimo Zobernig Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 2RL Sotheby’s 17 Ryder Street, SW1Y 6PY 6 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BY • The Clot Collection Burlington House, W1J 0BD 09/10/12-24/11/12 • Arthur Bispo do Rosário • 20th-century Italian art • Frank Auerbach: Next Door UNTIL 26/10/12 • Bronze UNTIL 28/10/12 FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER, 6PM 12/10/12-10/11/12 www.olyviafineart.com UNTIL 09/12/12 Q-Park, 3-9 Old Burlington Street, W1S 3AF • RA Now • Toby Ziegler: the Cripples • Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 • Contemporary art evening auction 쏍Marlborough Fine Art www.marlboroughfineart.com 쏍Max Wigram Gallery 쏍Osborne Samuel 23A Bruton Street, W1J 6QG 34-35 Bond Street, W1A 2AA 11/10/12-11/11/12 10/10/12-20/10/12 UNTIL 06/01/13 FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER, 7PM www.royalacademy.org.uk www.simonleegallery.com www.vam.ac.uk • Contemporary art day auction 쏍Waddington Custot Galleries www.sothebys.com 106 New Bond Street, W1S 1DN • Mark Humphrey • FOS: Watchmaker 10/10/12-27/10/12 Saatchi Gallery 쏍Sprüth Magers 10/10/12-15/12/12 www.osbornesamuel.com Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, SW3 4RY 7A Grafton Street, W1S 4EJ SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER, 11AM & 2PM EAST • Peter Fischli/David Weiss: Walls, Corners, Tubes 11 Cork Street, W1S 3LT • Out of Focus: Photography 6 Burlington Gardens, W1S 3ET UNTIL 05/11/12 10/10/12-10/11/12 UNTIL 10/11/12 www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, WC1B 4DA www.spruethmagers.com www.waddingtoncustot.com UNTIL 24/10/12 • Mark Rothko and Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dark Paintings and Seascapes Wallace Collection • Brian Chalkley: Female Trouble www.mayorgallery.com UNTIL 17/11/12 • New Sensations and the Future Can Wait 쏍Stair Sainty Gallery 38 Dover Street, W1S 4NL Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1M 6BN www.ancientandmodern.org • Making the Renaissance Sword 쏍Arcade UNTIL 16/11/12 UNTIL 31/03/13 87 Lever Street, EC1V 3RA www.europeanpaintings.com www.wallacecollection.org • Can Altay: Distributed 쏍Stephen Friedman Gallery Wellcome Collection www.arcadefinearts.com 25-28 Old Burlington Street, W1S 3AN 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE Bloomberg Space www.maxwigram.com 쏍Mayor Gallery 22a Cork Street, W1S 3NA • Turi Simeti: Pianissimo 쏍Michael Hoppen Gallery 쏍Pace London 6-10 Lexington Street, W1F 0LB • Adam Pendleton: I’ll Be Your 09/10/12-14/10/12 3 Jubilee Place, SW3 3TD UNTIL 27/10/12 www.thefuturecanwait.com • Daido Moriyama: Tights and Lips www.pacegallerylondon.com 쏍Sadie Coles UNTIL 20/10/12 www.michaelhoppengallery.com Photographers’ Gallery 4 New Burlington Place, W1S 2HS 16-18 Ramillies Street, WC2 7HY • Federico Beltràn-Masses: Blue Nights and Libertine Legends • Robert Indiana Sculptures 쏍Ancient & Modern 201 Whitecross Street, EC1Y 8QP 13/10/12-10/11/12 UNTIL 03/11/12 • Shoot! Existential Photography • Laura Owens: Pavement Karaoke/Alphabet 22 Upper Brook Street, W1K 7PZ 12/10/12-06/01/13 09/10/12-17/11/12 • Peter Doig: New Paintings • Tom Wood: Men and Women • Tom Friedman • Superhuman 50 Finsbury Square, EC2A 1HD UNTIL 22/12/12 12/10/12-06/01/13 • Sarah Lucas and Rohan Wealleans: White Hole 09/10/12-10/11/12 UNTIL 16/10/12 • Hannah Sawtell: Vendor www.michaelwerner.com www.thephotographersgallery.org.uk UNTIL 02/13 www.stephenfriedman.com www.wellcome.ac.uk 쏍Michael Werner Gallery 69 South Audley Street, W1K 2QZ UNTIL 12/01/13 www.bloombergspace.com 쏍MOT International 쏍Pilar Corrias • Raymond Pettibon 쏍Stuart Shave/Modern Art 쏍White Cube, Mason’s Yard First Floor, 72 New Bond Street, W1S 1RR 54 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8EF UNTIL 17/11/12 25-26 Mason’s Yard, SW1Y 6BU 9 Balfour Mews, W1K 2BG • Laure Prouvost • Koo Jeong: a Navigation Without Numbers 23/25 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8DF • Darren Bader • David Noonan • Magnus Plessen: Riding the Image 10/10/12-10/11/12 10/10/12-10/11/12 UNTIL 20/10/12 10/10/12-10/11/12 UNTIL 10/11/12 13/10/12-16/12/12 www.motinternational.org www.pilarcorrias.com www.sadiecoles.com www.modernart.net www.whitecube.com www.campolipresti.com 쏍Campoli Presti 223 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 0EL • Blake Rayne: Wild Country TATE MODERN: © WILLIAM KLEIN. HOUSEAGO: © THOMAS HOUSEAGO. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH. PHOTO: ALEX DELFANNE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 21 THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 KEY Listings are arranged alphabetically by area 쏍 Commercial gallery Estorick Collection 39a Canonbury Square, N1 2AN• Fairs Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past UNTIL 23/12/12 Frieze Art Fair www.estorickcollection.com Regent’s Park, NW1 Freud Museum 11-13 OCTOBER, 12PM-7PM 14 OCTOBER, 12PM-6PM 20 Maresfield Gardens, NW3 5SX www.friezeartfair.com • Saying It UNTIL 18/11/12 Frieze Masters www.freud.org.uk Regent’s Park, NW1 Jewish Museum 11-13 OCTOBER, 12PM-7PM 14 OCTOBER, 12PM-6PM Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, NW1 7NB www.friezemasters.com • Adi Nes: the Village Moniker 11/10/12-03/02/13 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ www.jewishmuseum.org.uk WHITE CUBE: © THEASTER GATES, PHOTO: BEN WESTOBY, COURTESY WHITE CUBE. VICTORIA MIRO: COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS AND VICTORIA MIRO GALLERY LONDON. @ ELMGREEN & DRAGSET. MACGARRY: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND KATE MACGARRY LONDON. KAPOOR: © ANISH KAPOOR “Theaster Gates”, White Cube Bermondsey, My Labor Is My Protest, 2012 Zabludowicz Collection 11 OCTOBER, 7PM-9PM 12-13 OCTOBER, 11AM-7PM 14 OCTOBER, 11AM-5PM 176 Prince of Wales Road, NW5 3PT www.monikerartfair.com Moving Image 쏍Carlos/Ishikawa 쏍Maureen Paley 쏍White Cube •Zabludowicz Collection Invites: Richard Sides Unit 4, 88 Mile End Road, E1 4UN 21 Herald Street, E2 6JT 48 Hoxton Square, N1 6PB UNTIL 21/10/12 • Net Narrative • Liam Gillick: Margin Time • Runa Islam • Matthew Darbyshire: T Rooms UNTIL 20/10/12 UNTIL 18/11/12 UNTIL 03/11/12 UNTIL 02/12/12 www.carlosishikawa.com www.maureenpaley.com www.whitecube.com www.zabludowiczcollection.com 쏍Carl Freedman Gallery 11-13 OCTOBER, 11AM-7PM 14 OCTOBER, 11AM-6PM Parasol Unit Whitechapel Gallery 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW • David Brian Smith • Bharti Kher 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX SOUTH www.moving-image.info 29 Charlotte Road, EC2A 3PB UNTIL 03/11/12 UNTIL 11/11/12 www.carlfreedman.com www.parasol-unit.org Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, SE1 9PH Alma Enterprises Gallery UNTIL 02/12/12 • Neil Hedger: Scary Monsters 38-40 Glasshill Street, SE1 0QR Christie’s, 85 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3LD 12 OCTOBER, 9AM-7.30PM 13 OCTOBER, 11AM-7.30PM 14 OCTOBER, 11AM-6PM 15 OCTOBER, 9AM-5PM Chisenhale Gallery 쏍Seventeen • Matt Stokes UNTIL 04/11/12 64 Chisenhale Road, E3 5QZ 17 Kingsland Road, E2 8AA UNTIL 2/12/2012 www.almaenterprises.com • Ed Atkins: Us Dead Talk Love • Susan Collis: That Way and This • Mel Bochner UNTIL 11/11/12 UNTIL 10/11/12 UNTIL 20/12/12 Dulwich Picture Gallery www.chisenhale.org.uk • Sound Spill • The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone Gallery Road, SE21 7AD UNTIL 10/11/12 www.seventeengallery.com UNTIL 01/09/2013 10/10/12-13/01/13 Pavilion of Art & Design London www.whitechapel.org www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Berkeley Square, W1 쏍Wilkinson Gallery 쏍Corvi-Mora www.pad-fairs.com 쏍Galerie Daniel Blau 51 Hoxton Square, N1 6PB • David Bailey: Papua Polaroids 쏍The Approach UNTIL 03/11/12 47 Approach Road, E2 9LY www.danielblau.com • Evan Holloway 쏍Herald Street 2 Herald Street, E2 6JT 1a Kempsford Road, SE11 4NU • Mark Alexander • Pierpaolo Campanini Sunday www.theapproach.co.uk 12/10/12-11/11/12 UNTIL 20/10/12 • Sung Hwan Kim www.corvi-mora.com 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS 쏍Greengrassi 11-13 OCTOBER, 12PM-8PM 14 OCTOBER, 12PM-6PM 1a Kempsford Road, SE11 4NU www.sunday-fair.com 쏍Victoria Miro Gallery 16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW www.heraldst.com • Elmgreen & Dragset: Harvest • Falke Pisano UNTIL 21/10/12 www.hollybushgardens.co.uk 10-14 OCTOBER, 11AM-8PM 50-58 Vyner Street, E2 9DQ UNTIL 04/11/12 Unit 2, BJ House, 10-14 Hollybush Gardens, E2 9QP www.multipliedartfair.com UNTIL 11/11/12 • Klaus Weber 쏍Hollybush Gardens • Cotman in Normandy UNTIL 10/11/12 www.victoria-miro.com 12/10/12-11/11/12 www.wilkinsongallery.com NORTH Tate Modern Bankside Power Station, 25 Sumner Street, SE1 9TG 6 Minerva Street, E2 9EH 2 Omega Place, N1 9DR Hayward Gallery • Karthik Pandian • Bertozzi and Casoni: Regeneration Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX 13/10/12-10/11/12 The Crypt, 1 Marylebone, NW1 4AQ • Edvard Munch: the Modern Eye Institute of International Visual Arts • Metamorphosis • Art of Change: New Directions from China 09/10/12-14/10/12 UNTIL 09/12/12 Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA www.allvisualarts.org • Someday All the Adults Will Die UNTIL 04/11/12 UNTIL 14/10/12 Ben Uri Gallery: The London Jewish Museum of Art www.hayward.org.uk • The Unilever Series: Tino Sehgal 108a Boundary Road, NW8 0RH Imperial War Museum UNTIL 28/10/12 Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ 27 Old Nichol Street, E2 7HR • Chaim Soutine and His Contemporaries • William Klein and Daido Moriyama • Goshka Macuga UNTIL 28/10/12 UNTIL 01/01/13 10/10/12-20/01/13 UNTIL 27/10/12 www.benuri.org.uk 쏍Jerwood Space Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys and Bruce Nauman Camden Arts Centre 171 Union Street, SE1 OLN UNTIL 01/04/13 Arkwright Road, NW3 6DG • Jerwood Drawing Price 2012 www.tate.org.uk/modern • Eric Bainbridge: Steel Sculptures UNTIL 28/10/12 • Kimathi Donkor UNTIL 24/11/12 www.iniva.org 쏍Kate MacGarry www.katemacgarry.com 쏍Limoncello 15a Cremer Street, E2 8HD • Jesse Wine UNTIL 17/11/12 “David Brian Smith: Goodwill and the Unknown Man”, Carl Freedman Gallery www.limoncellogallery.co.uk 쏍Matt’s Gallery Wapping Project • Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War UNTIL 14/10/12 • Aldo Tambellini: Retracing Black at The Tanks UNTIL 02/12/12 • Johann Arens • Simon Martin: UR Feeling 쏍White Cube UNTIL 15/12/12 UNTIL 02/12/12 www.jerwoodspace.co.uk 144-152 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ South London Gallery • Theaster Gates: My Labour Is My Protest www.camdenartscentre.org 42-44 Copperfield Road, E3 4RR Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, E1W 3ST • Revolver Part II • Mitra Tabrizian: Another Country David Roberts Art Foundation Steve McQueen (right) gets a catalogue raisonné Museums Two huge state-run museums open in Shanghai, the Michael Heizer effect on Los Angeles Exhibitions Photography gets institutional stamp of approval as an art form, Vermeer’s renaissance Conservation Klimt’s studio opens its doors, De Sade’s gambling den restored Comment & Analysis Why Berlin’s Old Masters should move to the Museum Island Features Documentary photographers and artists celebrate the drama of the race to the White House How Hitler destroyed Berlin’s art world, preview of the London Film Festival The Art Newspaper 2 Special focus When ancient meets modern: the rise of crossover collecting Art Market LA gallery Blum & Poe expands in Japan, Christie’s looks for buyers in Baku, why LA is tricky for commercial galleries, the apparent boom in using art to raise a loan UNTIL 20/10/12 www.greengrassi.com 쏍All Visual Arts UNTIL 27/10/12 News • David Musgrave 쏍Vilma Gold www.vilmagold.com Our current edition has 120 pages packed with the latest art world news, events and business reporting, plus high-profile interviews (and a smattering of gossip) Books & 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FFax +43 [email protected] ar t @ b ar t aar t . c o m . www.bartaart.com w w w. b ar t aar t . c o m DIARY Yes, we have fresh papayas Eagle-eyed fair-goers will notice that the papaya flavour at the stand of La Grotta Ices, back by Gail’s cafe, is not just called papaya. It’s called Doig Papaya, and, yes, those papayas come from Peter Doig. The fiancé of the proprietor of La Grotta Ices, Kitty Travers, happens to be a film-maker. One of his films was screened recently at the cinema club Doig runs in Trinidad. According to Travers, her fiancé “brought back the biggest papayas I’ve ever seen”. Apparently, the fruit grows abundantly on Doig’s property. So, for a taste of Doig—if you can’t afford the millions of pounds it would set you back for a painting—spend just a few on a delicious frozen treat. Scrapheap challenge Not only is Alan Kane very happy to be exhibiting in this year’s Frieze sculpture park, it is a particular point of pride that his playfully subversive eight fcultpures, 2012 (S11), made in THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE ART FAIR Thursday 11 October 2012 Collector: “That looks just like a John Currin.” Dealer: “It’s a work by Lucas Cranach.” OVERHEARD AT FRIEZE MASTERS collaboration with Simon Periton, bring to these illustrious surroundings what he reveals to be “a secondhand garden sculpture bought in the Essex Road” and “pieces of scrap metal stolen from a scrapyard, but I’m not telling you which one, or I’d go to prison”. Kane, however, is adamant that there are also higher motives to his light-fingered activities. “We’re reversing the tide of sculptures going to scrap merchants; we’re doing the opposite and rehabilitating them.” The feeding of the 900 There was mayhem at Lisson Gallery’s party at 50 St James in Mayfair, with huge queues for its much-vaunted 20-minute dinners. The complicated seating system involved the issuing of playing cards to reserve a spot. Those whose numbers were eventually called could join the likes of Anish Kapoor, Bianca Jagger, Haroon Mirza, Shirazeh Houshiary and Christian Jankowski for a sit-down menu of 24-hour slow-cooked (but swiftly consumed) belly of pork, risotto and fisherman’s pie. However, many would-be diners were not so successful. As she waited in vain for her number to come up, one disgruntled collector was heard muttering: “I think I got the Joker in the pack.” To be fair to the gallery, it was a noble attempt at inclusiveness, with 621 dinners served to 900 attendees. Meanwhile, at the similarly full-tocapacity Blain Southern party around Artoon by Pablo Helguera FRIEZE ART FAIR DAILY EDITION Desperately seeking Searle Romance is brewing under the Frieze tent. In the booth of Carlos/Ishikawa, in the fair’s Frame section (FL, R7), the artist Ed Fornieles has set up a faux-dating service called “Character Date”. The concept behind the project is complex, and is based around two real-life people, one of them the young LA-based art adviser Alexys Schwartz. But the gist of it is that anyone can come to the booth and be interviewed by assistants wearing matching powder-pink t-shirts. During the interview, the subject—again, any fairgoer who would like to go out on a date—is coached through taking on an alter ego, and is then matched up with someone working with the artist, who has also been equipped with constructed personalities. For the duration of Frieze, these dates will take place in locations around London, but on Wednesday, the fair’s VIP preview day, they were all done in the tent. One of the first to volunteer was the Guardian’s art critic Adrian Searle (above). “He really threw himself into it,” Fornieles says.“He was this complete German playboy character.” DIRECTORS AND PUBLISHING Chief executive: Anna Somers Cocks Managing director: James Knox Associate publisher: Ben Tomlinson Finance director: Alessandro Iobbi Finance assistant: Melissa Wood Business development: Stephanie Ollivier Office administrator: Belinda Seppings Head of sales (UK): Louise Hamlin Commercial director (US): Caitlin Miller Advertising sales (UK): Kath Boon, Elsa Ravazzolo Advertising sales (US): Adriana Boccard Ad production: Daniela Hathaway the corner at Tramp, Harry Blain stood outside, ushering in guests, including Lisa Dennison of Sotheby’s, ahead of him. “Must be a good party,” a man called out. “Well,” the dealer mused by way of reply, “I can’t get in myself, so…” Lessons from Trotsky Jean-Luc Baroni (FM, A5) has brought to Frieze Masters, which opened to VIPs on Tuesday, two figurative paintings from 1913 by Otto Friedrich, but he knows they come from a cycle of five thanks to an unlikely source—Leon Trotsky (below). Trotsky mentions the “Rhythms” cycle in an article he wrote in 1913, after visiting the Secession exhibition in Vienna. (The whereabouts of the other three paintings are unknown, Baroni says.) The Russian Marxist revolutionary was taken with Friedrich’s work, and commented on its “language of clear and pure harmony”. He also described his visit to the Secession that day in a way we might recognise from today’s art fairs. “[A] Polish gentleman, ladies and their children… were very noisy, all ate sweets and in general behaved as if they were in the Gerngross department store.” Friedrich is not as well known as his Secession co-founders, Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffman, but that may soon change: Baroni says he’s heard that a Secession show may be in the works at London’s National Gallery. Reading the riot act A performance in an art gallery while a party is going on—especially during an art fair, when attendees are in fullon socialising mode—can be tricky. So, this week, Theaster Gates and his musical ensemble, the Black Monks of Mississippi, had their work cut out for them at White Cube, where they performed to a packed house. Before the performance began, a White Cube rep took to the microphone and politely asked everyone to be quiet, adding: “It’s a big space.” (Around 65,000 sq. ft at that.) “There are places to talk.” But Gates wasn’t taking any chances. He wrote in tall letters on a sheet of paper, “Art is Happening”, and held it up to admonish his audience. Alas, the chatter continued, so, halfway into his performance, Gates began chanting: “They’re not here for us.” When he’d accomplished something resembling silence, he launched into a song about skin colour and race. He prefaced the band’s final number by thanking everyone for “coming to Black Cube”. Friday 12 October Tarek Atoui performs La Suite with Uriel Barthélémi, John Butcher, Mira Calix, Susie Ibarra, Hassan Khan, KK Null (Kazuyuki Kishino), Lukas Ligeti, Robert Lowe, Ikue Mori, Sara Parkins, Zeena Parkins, Ghassan Sahhab, Sam Shalabi Memory Marathon 12, 13, 14 October ‘At culture’s bleeding edge…non-stop marathon of art, talks, music and performance…’ The Guardian Tickets £25/£20 (two day), £15/£10 (one day) Ticketweb 08444 711 000 www.ticketweb.co.uk www.serpentinegallery.org EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION (FAIR PAPERS): Editor: Jane Morris Deputy editor: Javier Pes Production editor: Ria Hopkinson Copy editors: James Hobbs, Iain Millar, Emily Sharpe Redesign art director: Vici MacDonald Designer: Emma Goodman Editorial researcher/picture editor: Ermanno Rivetti Picture research: Katherine Hardy Contributors: Georgina Adam, Louisa Buck, Charlotte Burns, Sarah Douglas, Melanie Gerlis, Gareth Harris, Ria Hopkinson, Ben Luke, Julia Michalska, Javier Pes, Charmaine Picard, Riah Pryor, Ermanno Rivetti, Cristina Ruiz, Christian Viveros-Fauné Photographer: David Owens Additional editorial research: Belinda Seppings Saturday 13 – Sunday 14 October Etel Adnan, Ida Applebroog, Siah Armajani, Ed Atkins, Tarek Atoui, Lutz Bacher, John Berger, Dara Birnbaum, Tim Bliss, Geta Bratescu, Gavin Bryars, Daniel Buren, Evan Calder Williams, Olivier Castel, Mariana Castillo Deball, Ed Cooke, Dennis Cooper, Winnie Cott, Douglas Coupland, Michael Craig-Martin, Alison Crawshaw, Adam Curtis, Pierre de Meuron, Brian Dillon, Marcus du Sautoy, Brian Eno, Joshua Foer, Alberto Garutti, Gilbert & George, Liam Gillick, John Giorno, Amos Gitai, David Goldblatt, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Alice Herz-Sommer filmed by Ron Arad, Jacques Herzog, Richard Hollis, John Hull, Ragnar Kjartansson, Isabel Lewis, David Lynch, Fumihiko Maki, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, China Miéville, Jeremy Millar, Adrian Piper, Alice Rawsthorn, James Richards, Israel Rosenfield, Jacques Roubaud, Dimitar Sasselov, Donald Sassoon, Ella Shohat, Cally Spooner, Luc Steels, Michael Stipe, Jan Szymczuk, Jean-Yves Tadié, Timothy Taylor, Sissel Tolaas, Gisèle Vienne, Marina Warner, Ai Weiwei, Eyal Weizman, Richard Wentworth, Jay Winter and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye PUBLISHED BY UMBERTO ALLEMANDI & CO. 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While every care is taken by the publishers, the contents of advertisements are the responsibility of the individual advertisers SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT www.theartnewspaper.com /subscribe Memory Marathon supported by The Annenberg Foundation With the generous support of the Memory Circle: Richard and Susan Hayden With kind assistance from DLD and The Kensington Hotel Funded by The Space Media Partners: The Independent, AnOther Tarek Atoui La Suite commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation With the generous support of Badr Jafar Also showing at the Serpentine Gallery Thomas Schutte: Faces & Figures Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei Serpentine Gallery Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA T +44 (0)20 7402 6075 [email protected] www.serpentinegallery.org PHOTOS: DAVID OWENS 22 Award ceremony: STOCKHOLM, SEPTEMBER 2013 — Two categories: ART WORK & ART WRITING — Cash prize for winning artists and art writers: €20,000 Funding toward the realization of a new dream project: up to €100,000 (art work) and €35,000 (art writing) Hybrid two-step selection process: five-member jury evaluating nominations by fifteen international experts 2013 Jury President: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Artistic Director, dOCUMENTA(13) — www.absolutartbureau.com/absolut-art-award Absolut Art Bureau is a unit of The Absolut Company AB The Absolut Art Bureau is pleased to announce a new format for the