Booming auctions diminish supply for dealers
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Booming auctions diminish supply for dealers
Download this issue from www.theart newspaper.com/fairs ART BASEL DAILY EDITION TUESDAY 12 JUNE 2007 Booming auctions diminish supply for dealers New Art Basel director announced today Galleries say it has been hard to find top modern work for Art Basel, but the fair is still the best place to buy contemporary art BASEL. It has never been more difficult to find great modern works to sell, say dealers exhibiting at the latest edition of Art Basel which opens to the public tomorrow. When paintings by Rothko and Warhol make over $70m at auction, as they did in New York last month, collectors are inevitably tempted to consign their art for sale at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. “The auction houses are sweeping up nearly everything,” says Andrew Fabricant, director of Richard Gray Gallery (S1). “It’s a great problem.” A preliminary tour of the fair yesterday as dealers were setting up their stands revealed few Rothkos or Warhols; however Mr Fabricant says he is “impressed all the same with what I’ve seen here”. His own gallery is showing Dubuffet’s L’Homme au Papillon, 1949, from a private collection (price undisclosed) and Guston’s Inside, 1969. Helly Nahmad (Q3) has devoted his entire stand to late works by Picasso, with at least 18 paintings including the 1963 Peintre et son Modèle (price undisclosed but certainly hefty); Gmurzynska (V1) has a superb Giacometti Torse de Femme 1948-49 (€6m, $7.8m) and Hopkins-Custot (H2) is exhibiting around 15 surrealist works including Magritte’s The Natural Graces, 1948. So how have dealers persuaded Kandinsky’s Above and Left, 1925, is with Acquavella (R1) Murakami to launch Basel fair next year BASEL. The artist and entrepreneur Takashi Murakami is in Basel looking for a location for his Japanese art festival, Geisai, which he intends to launch in the Swiss city next year. Geisai is a one-day art jamboree which has been held in Tokyo since 2002. It attracts hordes of aspiring artists who pay a few hundred dollars to hire a patch (booth would be too grand a word) to show their art in the vast Tokyo Big Site. They hope to catch the eye of a panel of judges who in the past have included French collector and billionaire owner of Christie’s François Pinault. For Murakami, whose art production AUCTION company Kaikai Kiki promotes a whole stable of artists, Geisai is a breeding ground for fresh new talent. “The mood at Geisai is rough-andtumble, but close to 200 new artists have been scouted by galleries or done work following Geisai, and we have created the opportunity for even more to produce and exhibit their work,” Murakami told The Art Newspaper. Murakami is also launching a scaled-down version of Geisai in Miami Beach this December in a 3,500 sq. ft space at Pulse Miami (in the Soho Studios in the Wynwood District, 6-9 December). Around 30 22 JUNE 2007 LONDON 4 pm artists will be chosen by a panel of judges who include Tom Eccles, Director of the Center of Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Meanwhile the Miami- and New York fair Pulse is inaugurating a London edition during Frieze from 11 to 14 October at 5-7 Tavistock Place. The galleries who have already signed up include Max Protetch (New York) and Travesia Cuatro (Madrid). “We already have strong connections with London,” says fair director Helen Allen; the founder of Pulse is Will Ramsay, who also runs the Affordable Art Fair in London and AFA fair in New York. G.A. collectors to consign? Alexander Acquavella (R1) says that fairs give potential buyers greater context for works of art and the chance to compare quality and price. And discretion still exists: not everything in the fair is on display, some works are only shown to selected clients. Dealers’ established relationships with their clients are also an advantage. An example hangs on the Acquavella stand. The gallery has sold Kandinsky’s 1925 Above and Left (illustrated) for three times in the last 43 years; it has now been consigned to the gallery once again ($6m). Stockpiling works and revealing them at fairs is also effective, though it is tough in today’s market. Christophe Van de Weghe (T5) is showing a small red and yellow 1968 untitled Rothko ($4.85m), Basquiat’s Donut Revenge, 1982 ($3.9m) and Bacon’s Two Figures, 1961 (price undisclosed). But with top paintings so hard to obtain, some dealers are even introducing the guarantees which auction houses use to secure the best works. David Nash of Mitchell-Innes & Nash (T4) says, “I don’t like doing it but sometimes I have to give a guarantee on works these days.” Bob Mnuchin of L&M (E2) admits that he has negotiated a tiered deal with a consignor whereby the gallery will pay $5m for a work, then take the first 10% of any CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 The new director of Art Basel— to follow Sam Keller who steps down in December following Art Basel/Miami Beach to head the Beyeler Foundation—will be announced today at 10am. The identity of Mr Keller’s successor has been the best kept secret since Watergate; all our attempts for advance disclosure have been firmlyrebuffed by the Art Basel team. However, our own Deep Throat suggests that Mr Keller’s responsibilities will be divided and that the frontrunners include Martin Schwander, currently one of the curators of Art Unlimited, and a former director of the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Our very own correspondent Marc Spiegler resolutely declined to comment but was intriguingly seen emerging from a meeting yesterday evening at which the new director(s) were introduced to Art Basel staff. Meanwhile, Mr Keller’s success in leading Art Basel for the last seven years has turned him into a veritable work of art. A 2007 portrait painting by Zheng Guogu (detail above) is on offer for $84,000 with Grace Li Gallery at the Volta art fair. Canadian pavilion at Venice Biennale to go to Miami? The Art Newspaper understands that Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell are in negotiations to purchase David Altmejd’s riotous fairy-tale installation on show in the Canadian pavilion at the Venice Biennale (until 21 November). The Rubells were unwilling to comment. The Index is a series of interconnected structures of wood and steel with flocks of stuffed birds and squirrels throughout. There are also half-human, half-avian bodies (left) and the figure of a giant. The entire installation is framed by mirrors which turn visitors into part of the work. Aged 32, Altmejd, who lives in London, is the youngest artist to represent his country at the Venice Biennale. He is represented by Stuart Shave of Modern Art and Andrea Rosen; the latter is showing the artist’s Wood Clock, a tree trunk covered with moss and birds, on her stand at Art Basel (T3) G.A. www.phillipsdepury.com +44 20 7318 4010 2 THE ART NEWSPAPER ART BASEL DAILY EDITION 12 JUNE 2007 Gossip Stars descend on Galerie Gmurzynska When asked why the vest was quite so large, dealer Javier Peres replied— with a perceptible smirk—that it had been designed to fit his clearly impressively-sized boyfriend. Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (strings attached) One gallerist and his dog For anyone who enjoys a spot of celeb spotting at this year’s Art Basel Vernissage, there is the assurance by Gmurzynska gallery that Nastassja Kinski will be gracing its stand from 5pm onwards today. Apparently Joan Collins had also promised to come but has been prevented by a change in her film schedule. For the younger visitor there is also the added bonus that Ms Kinski will be accompanied by her daughter, who happens to be an Olympic swimmer. Whether the stellar duo have been briefed on sales techniques remains to be seen, but their presence will certainly guarantee a busy stand. Proof positive that security is tighter than ever at Art Basel this year: ID tags are apparently now mandatory not only for the exhibitors but also their canine companions. This one belongs to a pooch called Polux who was keeping his gallery affiliation under his collar. Now that the collector ploy to get in to the fair early dressed as a cleaner or security guard has been well rumbled, perhaps the next option will be to pose as a pet. Peres Projects’ Lady Daddy burns rubber Much excitement surrounding the launch of the second edition of Peres Projects’ Daddy magazine which was being handed out on their stand at yesterday’s Liste opening. Provocatively wrapped in shredded black latex, the publication goes under the name of Lady Daddy and comes accompanied with a voluminous black string vest, its back embroidered with Lady Daddy in fluorescent pink. Clowning around Art Basel is not the only circus in town…next to the Art Basel Messeplatz is a big top with all the trimmings, from trapeze artists to jugglers. Did a resident of this verita- Last night, Art Basel’s latest strand, “Theater Basel”, was launched with “an untitled concert”, a collaboration between artist Rirkrit Tiravanija and the Basel Sinfonietta, curated by Jens Hoffmann (director of CCA Wattis in San Francisco). The evening started conventionally enough with Basel’s packed main theatre listening attentively to a limpid piece for piano and strings by Alan Hovhaness followed by a more stridently modernist work by veteran US composer Elliott Carter. The formally-clad orchestra was all assembled for the third item which was Rirkrit’s “Orchestral Score for Luis Buñuel” when the conductor fell to his knees, first tying his shoelace and ble pleasure palace decide to check out the works on show at the fair last weekend? UK artist Mike Nelson told The Art Newspaper he was taken aback when a dwarf in full clown make-up wearing a pinstripe suit knocked on the door of the artist’s bus-cum-work of art parked in front of Art Unlimited. “We just looked at each other and he walked away,” said Nelson of the only visitor who could Terence probably climb into the bus’s many hidden cubby holes and crannies. Holding a mirror up to Art Basel Anish Kapoor’s public art project Sky Mirror V (2004-07, below), the latest in the UK artist’s series of big and bold looking- glasses, has already been bagged by a major Spanish pri- Koh shows the Swiss how to party New York artist and decadencemeister Terence Koh’s last Swiss manifestation was an all-white show at the Basel Kunsthalle—with powder, chocolate and other less salubrious substances providing an environment of blinding brightness. But for “God”, his current exhibition at De Pury & Luxembourg’s Zurich Gallery (left, My Path to Heaven. Are You Blind Bastard God) he has gone to the opposite extreme, lining the gallery with black plastic and illuminating it only by strobe lights, with a fog of incense and lashings of Hermès perfume adding to the heady atmos- ART BASEL 2007 DAILY EDITION then polishing his shoes with an immaculate white handkerchief. Events then began to unravel further with janitors wheeling in an industrial-sized fan, members of the string section wandering off-stage still playing and the piano being wheeled off with the pianist lying on top. Then waiters brought in and laid a full size dining table, serving food and drink to the string section first, and then the entire orchestra, as the event became one big party on stage. The few notes played spelt out Bruce Nauman’s piece Violin Tuned D.E.A.D. and no doubt Luis Buñuel would have appreciated being the conceptional underpinning of such a playfully subversive piece. Published by: Umberto Allemandi & Co. 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At the opening on Saturday night, those en route from Venice to Basel—including the Royal Academy’s Norman Rosenthal, who is writing Koh’s catalogue essay, art consultant Sandy Heller and gallerist Mary Boone—were treated to a full-on sensory assault with perfume filling the air, a drum and bass band and performance by Koh himself, in a transparent PVC suit (most of which he shed) and high-heeled boots. Koh writhed and cavorted with his art works, licked the floor and worked himself into a trancelike state. And who says no one lets their hair down in Switzerland? 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The highly reflective stainless steel changes according to the light, and can camouflage itself, becoming a virtual ‘non-object’.” Another 35foot piece from the “Sky Mirror” series bowled over New Yorkers last year when it was shown at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Channel Gardens at Rockefeller Center. “A limited number of other small mirror works are in major private collections,” said a spokesman for Lisson Gallery. Has art world vanity reached new heights we wonder? linson, Sara Bissen, Julia Michalska Project Manager: Patrick Kelly Printed by Bazdruckzentrum ©2007 The Art Newspaper Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this newspaper may be reproduced without written consent of copyright proprietor. The Art Newspaper is not responsible for statements expressed in the signed articles and interviews. While the publishers take every care, the contents of advertisements are the responsibility of the individual advertisers. 10.06–24.11.07 Chiesa di San Gallo Campo San Gallo San Marco 1103 Venezia SPONSORING INSTITUTION Peggy Guggenheim Collection (The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation) SUPPORTED BY Haunch of Venison / London James Cohan Gallery / New York Kukje Gallery / Seoul IMAGE Bill Viola, Ocean Without A Shore, 2007 Production still. Photo: Kira Perov Performer: Blake Viola WWW.OCEANWITHOUTASHORE.COM Bill Viola / Ocean Without A Shore / 4 THE ART NEWSPAPER ART BASEL DAILY EDITION 12 JUNE 2007 News from Dallas, Venice, Athens, New York and London $200m collection of British contemporary art for Texas Dealer Kenny Goss, who visits Art Basel today, and his partner, singer George Michael, will put their art on display in Dallas next month BASEL. The art dealer Kenny Goss and his partner, singer George Michael, have revealed details of their art collection, which they estimate to be worth $200m. The couple have been buying art for the last 11 years and now own work by over 30 British artists. They include Chris Ofili, Grayson Perry, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gavin Turk, Sarah Lucas, Gilbert & George, Bridget Riley, Gary Hume, and Banksy, among others. The couple also own one of the largest collections of work by Damien Hirst and recently purchased the artist’s Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, a vitrine of a sheep pierced with arrows and preserved in formaldehyde, from White Cube in London. Speaking to The Art Newspaper yesterday from his hotel in Zurich, Mr Goss said: “Art is about our experi- I New Too expensive: Hirst’s $100m diamond-encrusted skull ences in life. Everything we buy has a personal resonance. St Sebastian was a gay martyr. This work is almost auto- commissions Francesco Vezzoli for Guggenheim Following his hit video Caligula at the last Venice Biennale and his fictional TV ads (starring Sharon Stone and Bernard-Henri Lévy) for a mock US Presidential campaign which are on display in the Italian pavilion at the current Venice Biennale (until 21 November), artist Francesco Vezzoli is to transform the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in New York in November. Vezzoli is restaging Luigi Pirandello’s 1917 play Cosi’ è (se vi pare) [There You Are If You Think You Are] as part of Performa07, the biennial of new art performances which runs from 1 to 20 November across 20 venues in New York. According to a spokesman, Vezzoli will work with both known and unknown actors in a production which “will implicate the audience in a dramatic examination of celebrity, the relativity of truth, the necessity of illusion, and the instability of the human personality”. The performance will be coproduced by the Gagosian Gallery. The other artists commissioned by Performa07 are Carlos Amorales, Sanford Biggers, Nathalie Djurberg, Japanther, Isaac Julien, Daria Martin, Kelly Nipper, Adam Pendleton, and Yvonne Rainer. C.R. J For information: www.performa-arts.org Bill Viola for St Paul’s Cathedral US video artist Bill Viola has been commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral in London to create a permanent installation for the church. A spokesman for St Paul’s says that the artist is “working through the concept…the piece should be ready by October 2008 or in the next couple of years at the latest”. The work will be located “by the end of the side aisles on either side of the high altar”. An exhibition of contemporary images of Christ at St Paul’s in 2004 included Viola’s video The Messenger. Meanwhile, the artist’s three-screen video Ocean Without a Shore is on display at the San Gallo church in Venice as part of the Biennale (detail, right). At Art Basel, Viola’s Isolde’s Ascension (The Shape of Light in the Space After Death), 2005, is with the Cohan gallery (W7). G.H. biographical for George.” The couple also bought a dove suspended in formaldehyde, The Incomplete Truth, 2006, from the same show. They say they also “considered” the purchase of Hirst’s $100m For the Love of God, a platinum skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds but that it is “out of our price range”. They also own 25 works by Tracey Emin. “I love everything she does,” says Mr Goss. Mr Goss will visit Art Basel today with the collection’s curator, Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi. He says he intends to buy a painting of cheerleaders by Gary Hume from White Cube (E5). Mr Tattoni-Marcozzi says the amount the couple spend on art every year “fluctuates” according to the time they have to visit exhibitions. According to Mr Goss: “Everything George makes from his current tour will be spent on art.” The Goss-Michael collection opens to the public in Dallas in a 6,000square-foot building in early July with “A Tribute to Tracey Emin”—a display of the couple’s entire holdings of work by Emin. It will be followed at the end of September by a show of new work by James White and then by an exhibition of four major works by Damien Hirst, including Saint Sebastian. The couple hope to build a new, larger space for the collection and foundation in the next five years. “Dallas is a very conservative community,” says Mr Goss. “There are no works by Hirst or many of the other artists in our collection on display. We want to educate the community and inspire young artists.” The foundation will include space in a separate building for a British artist to live and work; it will also host lectures and seminars. “A place like this is desperately needed in Dallas,” Kenny Goss and George Michael have bought Damien Hirst’s Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain (detail above) from White Cube in London where it is on display until 7 July said Mr Goss. When asked how he thought Dallas would react to the collection, Mr Goss said: “They’re going to love it.” C.R. Pinault signs deal for second Venice museum but loses director VENICE. On 8 June, the French collector and billionaire owner of Christie’s, François Pinault, signed an agreement with the Venetian authorities to turn the city’s disused customs warehouse, Punta della Dogana, into a new museum for his collection of modern and contemporary art. The previous day, reports in the French press revealed that former French culture minister, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, who has served as the director of Pinault’s other Venetian museum, the Palazzo Grassi, since 2005 has accepted the post of president of the Versailles museum. He replaces Christine Albanel who has been appointed Culture Minister for the newly-elected French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. The new director of Palazzo Grassi Fair director arrested ATHENS. Greek police arrested Michalis Argyrou, the new general director of Athens’ contemporary art fair, Art Athina, last weekend because a film by Eva Stefani which shows scenes from pornography films set to the Greek national anthem was deemed offensive. Mr Argyrou and Miss Stefani have been charged with offending public morals. If convicted they could face a maximum sentence of ten months in jail. M.G. and Punta della Dogana, who is expected to be announced shortly, will have a daunting task. Mr Pinault is to spend up to $110m to convert the dilapidated Customs House in Venice in time for the next Venice Biennale in 2009. Japanese architect Tadao Ando is to design the new museum. Mr Pinault’s decision to move his collection to Venice and his willingness to spend millions restoring buildings in the city has been greeted with enthusiasm by municipal authorities. According to Mr Pinault, the day he signed the agreement to buy an 80% stake in the Palazzo Grassi, the mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, took him by the arm and said: “Now lets talk about the Dogana.” “I took him to the place and it was love at first sight’” said Mr Cacciari. Georgina Adam MARTIN IAN DAWSON TRACEY EMIN CERITH WYN EVANSANGUSFAIRHURST ADAM FUSSGILBERT& GEORGEANTONY GORMLEY MARCUS HARVEY DAMIEN HIRST JAMES HOPKINSGARY HUMEJOHN ISAACS JIM LAMBIE MICHAEL LANDYSARAH LUCAS MARY MCCARTNEYGARRYFABIANMILLERJAMESNARESTIMNOBLEANDSUEWEBSTERCHRISOFILIRICHARDPATTERSONSIMONPATTERSON GRAYSONPERRY MARCQUINN BRIDGETRILEYBOBANDROBERTASMITHSAMTAYLOR-WOOD WOLFGANGTILLMANSGAVINTURK JAMESWHITERACHELWHITEREADADAMBALLBANKSYDONBROWNGLENNBROWNRICHARDCALDICOTTJAKE&DINOSCHAPMAN MATCOLLISHAWMICHAELCRAI G-MARTI NIANDAWSONTRACEYEMINCERITHWYNEVANSANGUSFAIRHURSTADAMFUSSGILBERT& THE GOSS-MICHÆL GEORGEANTONYGORMLEYMARCUS HARVEYDAMIENHIRSTJAMESHOPKINCOLLECTION SGARYHUMEJOHNISAACSJIMLAMBIEMICHAELLANDY SARAHLUCASMARYMCCARTNEYGARRYFABIANMILLERJAMESNARESTIMNOBLEANDSUE WEBSTERCHRISOFILIRICHARDPATT H EPERRYN E W F RI OLEYBOB U NANDDROBERTA A TSMIITHSAMTAYLOR-WOOD O N TERSONSIMONPATTERSONGRAYSON MARCQUI NNBRIDGET WOLFGANG TILLMANSGAVINTURKJAMESWHITERACHELWHITEREADADAMBALLBANKSYDONBROWNGLENNBROWNRICHARDCALDICOTT JAKE&DINOSCHAPMANMATCOLLISHAWMICHAELCRAIG-MARTINIANDAWSONTRACEYEMINCERITHWYNEVANSANGUSFAIRHURST ADAMFUSSGILBERT&GEORGEANTONYGORMLEYMARCUSHARVEYDAMIENHIRSTJAMESHOPKINSGARYHUMEJOHNISAACSJIM LAMBIEMICHAELLANDYSARAHLUCASMARYMCCARTNEYGARRYFABIANMILLERJAMESNARESTIMNOBLEANDSUE WEBSTER CHRISOFILIRICHARDPATTERSONSIMONPATTERSONGRAYSONPERRYMARCQUINNBRIDGETRILEYBOBANDROBERTASMITHSAM TAYLOR-WOOD WOLFGANGTILLMANSGAVINTURKJAMESWHITERACHELWHITEREAD ADAMBALLBANKSYDONBROWNGLENN BROWNRICHARDCALDICOTTJAKE&DINOSCHAPMANMATCOLLISHAWMICHAELCRAIG-MARTINIANDAWSONTRACEYEMINCERITH WYNEVANSANGUSFAIRHURSTADAMFUSSGILBERT&GEORGEANTONYGORMLEYMARCUSHARVEYDAMIENHIRSTJAMESHOPKINS GARYHUMEJOHNISAACSJIMLAMBIEMICHAELLANDYSARAHLUCASMARYMCCARTNEYGARRYFABIANMILLERJAMESNARESTIM NOBLEANDSUE WEBSTERCHRISOFILIRICHARDPATTERSONSIMONPATTERSONGRAYSONPERRYMARCQUINNBRIDGETRILEYBOB ANDROBERTASMITHSAMTAYLOR-WOODWOLFGANGTILLMANSGAVINTURKJAMESWHITERACHELWHITEREADADAMBALLBANKSY DONBROWNGLENNBROWNRICHARDCALDICOTTJAKE&DINOSCHAPMANMATCOLLISHAWMICHAELCRAIG-MARTINIANDAWSON TRACEYEMINCERITHWYNEVANSANGUSFAIRHURSTADAMFUSSGILBERT&GEORGEANTONYGORMLEYMARCUSHARVEYDAMIEN HIRSTJAMESHOPKINSGARYHUMEJOHNISAACS JIM LAMBIE MICHAELLANDYSARAHLUCAS MARYMCCARTNEY GARRYFABIAN MILLERJAMESNARESTIMNOBLEANDSUE WEBSTERCHRISOFILIRICHARDPATTERSONSIMONPATTERSONGRAYSONPERRYMARC QUINNBRIDGETRILEYBOB AND ROBERTA SMITHSAMTAYLOR-WOOD WOLFGANG TILLMANSGAVIN TURKJAMES WHITERACHEL WHITEREAD ADAM BALLBANKSYDON BROWNGLENN BROWNRICHARD CALDICOTTJAKE&DINOS CHAPMAN MAT COLLISHAW MICHAELCRAIG-MARTINIANDAWSONTRACEYEMINCERITHWYNEVANSANGUSFAIRHURSTADAMFUSSGILBERT&GEORGEANTONY GORMLEYMARCUSHARVEYDAMIENHIRSTJAMESHOPKINSGARYHUMEJOHNISAACSJIMLAMBIEMICHAELLANDYSARAHLUCAS MARYMCCARTNEYGARRYFABIANMILLERJAMESNARESTIMNOBLEANDSUE WEBSTERCHRISOFILIRICHARDPATTERSONSIMON PATTERSONGRAYSONPERRYMARCQUINNBRIDGETRILEYBOBANDROBERTASMITHSAMTAYLOR-WOODWOLFGANGTILLMANSGAVIN TURKJAMES WHITERACHEL WHITEREAD ADAM BALLBANKSYDON BROWNGLENN BROWNRICHARD CALDICOTTJAKE & DINOS CHAPMANMATCOLLISHAWMICHAEL CRAIG-MARTINIANDAWSONTRACEYEMINCERITHWYNEVANSANGUSFAIRHURSTADAMFUSS 2500 CEDAR SPRINGS ROAD, DALLAS, TEXAS. 75201 +1 214 696 0555 GILBERT& GEORGEANTONY GORMLEYMARCUSHARVEY DAMIEN HIRST JAMESHOPKINSGARY HUMEJOHN ISAACS JIM LAMBIE www.gossmichaelcollection.org MICHAELLANDYSARAHLUCASMARYMCCARTNEY GARRYFABIANMILLERJAMESNARESTIMNOBLEANDSUE WEBSTERCHRISOFILI RICHARDPATTERSONSIMONPATTERSONGRAYSONPERRYMARCQUINNBRIDGETRILEYBOBANDROBERTASMITHSAMTAYLOR-WOOD WOLFGANGTILLMANSGAVINTURKJAMESWHITERACHELWHITEREADADAMBALLBANKSYDONBROWNGLENNBROWNRICHARD CALDICOTTJAKE&DINOSCHAPMANMATCOLLISHAWMICHAELCRAIG-MARTINIANDAWSONTRACEYEMINCERITHWYNEVANSANGUS FAIRHURSTADAMFUSSGILBERT&GEORGEANTONYGORMLEYMARCUSHARVEYDAMIENHIRSTJAMESHOPKINSGARYHUMEJOHN ISAACSJIMLAMBIEMICHAELLANDYSARAHLUCASMARYMCCARTNEYGARRYFABIANMILLERJAMESNARESTIMNOBLEANDSUE The Warhol Sale 20th June 2007 Please contact Angus Maguire for further details: [email protected] Key Service (negative), polymer paint on canvas, 1985. Est. £50,000-70,000 Key Service (positive), polymer paint on canvas, 1985. Est. £50,000-70,000 Th e H o r i z o n Ti m e p i e c e b y M a rc N e w s o n , s i g n e d a n d n u m b e re d e d i t i o n , i n re d g o l d w i t h red gold dial. Phone: + 1 3 05 572 920 1 www. i k e p o d . c o m Contemporary Art AUCTIONS LONDON, NEW BOND STREET 21 & 22 June 2007 34-35 New Bond Street London W1A 2AA EXHIBITION OPENS 15 June 2007 ENQUIRIES Cheyenne Westphal Oliver Barker Francis Outred +44 (0)20 7293 5400 [email protected] www.sothebys.com Damien Hirst (b.1965) Lullaby Spring (detail) stainless steel and glass cabinet with painted cast pills 182.9 by 274.3 by 10.2cm.; 72 by 108 by 4in. Estimate: £3,000,000 - 4,000,000 $6,000,000 - 8,000,000 €4,400,000 - 5,860,000 PABLO PICASSO SMALL FIGURE. PARIS, 1907 (CAST IN 1964) MUSEO PICASSO MÁLAGA. © VEGAP, 2007 SUCCESSION PICASSO, PARIS. LUIS ASÍN © MUSEO PICASSO MÁLAGA 4 June -16 September 2007 Palacio de Buenavista C/ San Agustin, 8 29015 Malaga, Spain www.museopicassomalaga.org picasso small figure the collection in context CATALOGUES & SUBSCRIPTIONS UK +44 (0)20 7293 6444 WORLDWIDE +1 541 322 4151 6 THE ART NEWSPAPER ART BASEL DAILY EDITION 12 JUNE 2007 Other fairs in Basel Liste goes up market Design Miami/Basel dealers double as patrons ■ Liste 07, marketed as the “young ■ The second edition of Design Miami/Basel, sponsored by HSBC Private Bank, opened last night with strong sales and considerable international interest. The fair also announced that Swedish design group, FRONT, had won its Designer of the Future Award. Last year, the fledgling fair was staged in a deconsecrated church, but has now relocated to the Markthalle, a vast domed structure dating from the 1920s. Twenty-two galleries are taking part, five up from last year. “Given the space available, I have encouraged the dealers to curate their shows with a definite point of view, as opposed to just displaying merchandise,” says Ambra Meddah, show founder and director. “I looked at what every other design fair was doing and decided to do the opposite.” A clear trend is the emergence of the dealer patron, commissioning cutting-edge design. “I don’t buy and sell vintage furnishings,” says Clémence Krzentowski of Galerie Kreo, Paris. “I prefer to work closely with designers in producing things that amaze collectors and are of this time.” His limited editions include a Wieki Somers tea pot in the shape of a rat’s skull with its own fur tea cosy, priced at €1,000. Zaha Hadid is the most prominent contemporary designer represented with three dealers featuring her work. The Kenny Schachter Rove Gallery sold Hadid’s multifunctional “sculpture”, titled Belu, edition of 12, for €75,000 within minutes of the fair opening. Jean Prouvé, considered the father of prefabs, is the most visible period designer at the fair. Four dealers, Jousse, Patrick Sequin and Galerie Downtown, all from Paris, and Magen H. Gallery from Chicago, feature the late modernist designer’s furniture. Galerie Patrick Sequin had a 1950 desk for €200,000 reserved within the first half hour. One of Prouvé’s prefab houses, constructed in 1944 specifically for war-torn Alsace-Lorraine, is also on sale for €280,000 with the same dealer. This seems a modest price compared with the $4.9m paid for Prouvé’s immaculately restored Maison Tropicale, one of three prototypes, at Christie’s last week. Brook S. Mason Zaha Hadid’s Belu sold for €75,000 through the Kenny Schachter Rove Gallery Dan Colen’s To Be Titled, 2007, (detail) at Peres Projects sold for $100,000 scale, Peres Projects had already sold a nine part work by 28-year-old US artist Dan Colen for $100,000 within an hour of the preview opening. Collectors seen weaving their way through the stands included Anita Zabludowicz, Denis and Debra Scholl, Paris restaurateur Robert Vifian and Miami collector Rosa de la Cruz. Jane Morris and Eyal Lavi Volta artists reclaim materials ■ Collectors crowded yesterday’s opening of the third edition of the Volta show, among them Susan and Michael Hort, who rushed in half an hour before the fair officially opened to VIPs. Others included Anita Zabludowicz, Hugo and Clara Brown, and Fatima Maleki. Though it is one of the smaller, satellite events, this year’s fair was described by visitors and exhibiting dealers alike as very professional with a high quality of art on offer. Many of the artists whose work is on display have pieces in international private and public collections, including Neil Hamon and Elaine Tedesco who are also currently on Booming auctions diminish supply for dealers CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 additional sum above that, with the remainder split between the gallery and the vendor. At Art Basel he is showing a 1984 Basquiat for $5m and works by Murakami and Warhol, among others. While the top modern works are increasingly hard to find there is however plenty of fresh contemporary work on the primary market available at Art Basel though many of these have been reserved in advance of the fair’s official opening. SCAI (W6) has reserved Tatsuo Miyajima’s balloon-like digital dis- art fair in Basel”, opened yesterday with 61 galleries, four times the number who took part 11 years ago in 1996 when the fair launched. It traditionally focuses on dealers of less than five years standing, with artists under 40 years old But this 12th edition had an unprecedented number of relatively established galleries which exhibited in the Art Statements section of Art Basel last year: including German gallery Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Art Concept from Paris, Doggerfisher from Edinburgh, Hotel from London, and three US galleries—Kordansky, Connelly and Peres Projects. There are 12 US galleries, which the organisers say “shows that Liste is now taken seriously”. But dealers suggested that the change was a result of the secret jury removing an unofficial quota on the number of exhibitors allowed from a single country. Prices also vary widely: many of the 17 new galleries still offer work for low prices, including Japanese gallery Yamamoto Gendai with works by Ukama Naohiro at €1,500 ($2,000). At the other end of the play CF Plateaux No 3, 2007 (price undisclosed), while Carroll Dunham’s Blue Cloud, 2007, priced at $120,000 is on reserve at c/o-Gerhardsen (P1). Other contemporary works are still available at Art Basel and many stands will be renewed on a daily basis. Tomio Koyama (K3) is showing different emerging artists every day at prices from $3,800; Benjamin Butler’s Untitled (Leafless Trees), 2007, is on offer for $14,000. Despite much being reserved on its stand, Eigen+Art (Q3) still has drawings by New Leipzig School artists Martin Eder and Matthias Weischer (€1,800, $2,350). Meanwhile at Art Statements which opened to VIP visitors yesterday there are a few remaining photographic works by Aneta Grzeszykowska, (Film Stills, 2006, €2,800 to €30,000, $3,600-$39,000 at new exhibitor Raster (A1). And an owl and matching skeleton, Proposal Number Seven, Pair of Owls by Peter Liversidge are on offer at the Ingleby Gallery (A24) for €9,000 ($11,700). Georgina Adam and Melanie Gerlis show at the Arsenale section of the Venice Biennale and have similar works on view with Galeria Leme from São Paulo (G25). Much of the work on view uses reclaimed materials, such as archival documents, prints and newspapers. Zheng Guogu’s paintings at Grace Li Gallery from Zurich (G23), priced from $84,000 to $104,000, are based on press photos from the Art Basel website, including a portrait of outgoing director Sam Keller, overlaid with text from the fair’s press releases (see p1). At Los Angeles gallery Cherry and Martin (G10), Nathan Mabry’s totemic figures sit on minimalist furniture by Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt. And Meredyth Sparks with Galerie Frank Elbaz from Paris (F28) decorates portraits of rock stars like Patti Smith and Billy Idol with strips of aluminium foil and glitter. Sculpture and installation also dominate the fair, with a number of works scattered outside the main hall as part of a sponsored sculpture programme, including a wooden hut by Ragnar Kjartansson occupied by a man wearing white briefs unremittingly strumming a single chord. At Galica Arte Contemporanea (G3) Arcangelo Sassolino’s untitled hydraulic piston, triggered by a motion sensor, gradually splits blocks of hardwood as visitors walk by the work. Helen Stoilas and Louisa Buck Cartier steps in to replace Bulgari as Art Basel sponsor BASEL. The Italian jewellers Bulgari, which has sponsored Art Basel’s series of talks—Conversations—for the past three years, has not renewed its support following the end of its contract in December 2006. Bulgari was unwilling to comment although its withdrawal is believed to be due to a change of guard in its communications department. The decision was good news for French jewellers Cartier, says Art Basel director Sam Keller, as they have been keen to support the fair but have been prevented from doing so by an exclusivity clause in the Bulgari contract. Cartier have committed themselves to a three-year participation in Art Basel and Art Basel/Miami Beach through their Fondation Cartier museum, a jewel in Paris’s contemporary art scene. Their booth at this year’s Art Basel, at the entrance of Hall 2, is displaying the work of the French installation artist Pierrick Sorrin. The British branch of Cartier already sponsors an art award at Frieze in London every October which will continue as before. From this year Cartier will also sponsor Frieze projects, a series of artist commissions. M.G. Principal Sponsor Design Miami/ Basel 12/13/14/15/16 June 2007 Basel/ Switzerland The new forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating design For more information Call +1 305 572 0866 Email [email protected] www.designmiami.com THE ART NEWSPAPER ART BASEL DAILY EDITION 12 JUNE 2007 8 Public art Mike Nelson: on the road with wax pumpkins and an opium den I Canny collectors should seize the chance to buy UK artist Mike Nelson’s The Pumpkin Palace tourist bus parked outside Art Unlimited (Galleria Franco Noero) because his work is rarely available for sale. Nelson’s stock has risen sharply lately; his Mirror Infill special project at Frieze last year, a hidden redlit rabbit’s hole built between the fair stands, has bagged him another Turner Prize nomination this year (he was previously nominated in 2001). “I’ve converted a Red Crescent mobile hospital inside the bus into a war veterans’ opium den,” said Nelson. Disoriented visitors wind their way around a warren of heated cubby holes until they reach a carpeted den perched on top of the bus housing Paul McCarthy: Santa meets sex in small towns,” he added, explaining the impetus behind the travelling bus which acts as a magnet for “the underclass” in society. The work was commissioned for a show celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Capp Street Project artist-in-residence programme at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco in 2003. Gareth Harris Wim Delvoye: majestic heavy machinery I Paul McCarthy’s status as taboobusting master of the monumental is confirmed by his gigantic Santa with Butt Plug (Hauser & Wirth), installed in front of Art Unlimited. This nine-tonne, six-metre high colossus brandishing an oversized dildo and a bell is one of an edition of three (plus an artist’s proof), with an earlier version already in the collection of Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. More scatalogically spectacular provocation from the 62-year-old US enfant terrible can also be found at the Middleheim Sculpture Museum in Antwerp (until 28 October) where an exhibition devoted exclusively to his wax pumpkins. A book on witchcraft and a yellowing newspaper report on the first Gulf War add to the confusion. “I like the sense of getting to the point where you forget you’re looking at art,” said Nelson. The bombing of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001 is the starting point for the piece, says Nelson. “World events can affect individuals outdoor inflatable sculptures includes a giant pile of excrement. Louisa Buck I Belgian artist Wim Delvoye likes lorries; his 1999 cement truck, hand carved from teak, caused a stir at the 1999 Venice Biennale while Dump Truck, shown at Sudeley Castle in the UK last year, is another gothic-esque rendition of heavy machinery. His latest nod to industrial transportation in the Messeplatz, Flatbed Trailer, 2007 (Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin), is the largest work Delvoye has ever created, made out of almost ten tonnes of steel and measuring 23 metres across. The piece, on sale for €1m, took two years to put together. According to Delvoye, “it’s rare to see a contemporary work now that has taken longer than a week to assemble”. But this long production period has paid off because the value of the metal has Art Dealers Association of America increased over two years, says Delvoye, adding that “it’s good to park your money in steel”. He stresses that whoever buys the work “must have a plan for storing the piece as it’ll be costly to move” and hopes that a US collector purchases it. “My art attracts all kinds of bizarre, maniac people,” he says. G.H. ADAA, 575 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 John Berggruen Gallery Cheim & Read James Cohan Gallery Paula Cooper Gallery Marian Goodman Gallery www.berggruen.com www.cheimread.com www.jamescohan.com www.paulacoopergallery.com www.mariangoodman.com Hall 2.0 Booth J3 Hall 2.0 Booth B1 Hall 2.1 Booth W7 Hall 2 Booth Q4 Hall 2.0 Booth E4 Pierre Huyghe Specializing in American and European paintings, drawings and sculpture. Works by Donald Baechler, Willem de Kooning, Mark di Suvero, Richard Diebenkorn, Anish Kapoor, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Frank Stella, and Wayne Thiebaud Donald Baechler, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, William Eggleston, Louise Fishman, Adam Fuss, Jenny Holzer, Jannis Kounellis, Jonathan Lasker, McDermott & McGough, Joan Mitchell, Jack Pierson, Pat Steir and Juan Usle Richard Gray Gallery Leonard Hutton Galleries L&M Arts www.richardgraygallery.com www.leonardhuttongalleries.com www.lmgallery.com Hall 2.0 Booth S1 Recently Acquired Masterworks & New Contemporary Works Including: Abakanowicz, Calder, Dine, Dubuffet, Hockney, Katz, Klamen, Lichtenstein, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Plensa, Warhol Hall 2.0 Booth K2 Russian Avant-Garde Post War American European Modernism Hall 2.0 Booth E2 Lehmann Maupin Gallery Luhring Augustine Matthew Marks Gallery Barbara Mathes Gallery Anthony Meier Fine Arts www.lehmannmaupin.com www.luhringaugustine.com www.matthewmarks.com www.bmathesgallery.com www.anthonymeierfinearts.com Hall 2.1 Booth H3 Kutlug Ataman Art Unlimited Booth J-5 Hall 2.0 Booth P4 Hall 2.0 Booth C3 Hall 2.0 Booth P3 Hall 2.0 Booth P1 Robert Miller Gallery Moeller Fine Art David Nolan Gallery www.robertmillergallery.com www.moellerart.com www.davidnolangallery.com Hall 2.0 Booth W8 Hall 2.0 Booth R3 Modern and Contemporary Art Skarstedt Gallery Sperone Westwater Zwirner & Wirth www.skarstedt.com www.speronewestwater.com www.zwirnerandwirth.com Hall 2.0 Booth C2 Condo, Kippenberger, Oehlen, Prince, Sherman, Trockel Hall 2.0 Booth T3 Hall 2.2 Booth T1 Antoni, Condo, Crewdson, Lambri, Morimura, Mucha, Oehlen, Sternfeld, Smith,Tunga, Wolfe, Wool b] PS\S¿b 63<@G AB@33B A3BB:3;3<B ]`UO\WhSR Pg Acconci, Beninati, Calame, TD Hancock, Y-F Ji, de Jong, Mueck, NJ Paik, Paine, Sawa, Smithson, Shonibare MBE, AE Taylor, Tomaselli, Wenders and Viola Basquiat, Cornell, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Hammons, Haring, Kelly, Klein, Murakami, Oldenburg, Picasso, Richter, Warhol Darren Almond, Vija Celmins, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Charles Ray, Tony Smith, Cy Twombly, Terry Winters Yayoi Kusama /@B 23/:3@A /AA=17/B7=< =4 /;3@71/ A/D3 B63 2/B3A 430@C/@G ³ # & <Se G]`Y 1Wbg Carl Andre, Jennifer Bartlett, Sophie Calle, Mark di Suvero, Sam Durant, Wayne Gonzales, Sherrie Levine, Julian Lethbridge, Christian Marclay, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Walid Raad, Andres Serrano, Rudolf Stingel, John Tremblay, Dan Walsh Art Unlimited at Art Basel Ackermann, Artschwager, Bontecou, Bourgeois, Calder, Chamberlain, Katz, Koons, Kusama, LeWitt, Long, Melotti, Nevelson, Rauschenberg, Reinhardt, Richter, Sandback, Serra, Smith, Stella, Whiteread and others Kim Dingle, Lucio Fontana, Guillermo Kuitca, Mario Merz, Malcolm Morley, Bruce Nauman, Evan Penny, Susan Rothenberg, Tom Sachs, Laurie Simmons, Richard Tuttle, Not Vital, William Wegman, Jan Worst Exhibiting works by Andre, Beck, Cain, Castrillo Diaz, Chamberlain, Dickinson, Feher, Furnas, Judd, Kusama, Martin, Moffett, Moran, Polke, Richter, Shepherd, Simmons and Tran Hall 2.0 Booth K5 Featuring Steve DiBenedetto, Carroll Dunham, and Peter Saul. Also works by Artschwager, Baselitz, Bellmer, Bishop, Dumas, Ghenie, Gitman, Grosz, Kippenberger, Le Va, Nutt, Ross, Roth, Savu, Siena, Trockel, and Warhol Contemporary Painting David Hammons Art Unlimited Hall 1.0 Booth H7 Conceptual Photography May 9–June 23 at Zwirner & Wirth, NY THIS PAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY UBS UBS Art Banking – Banking on art When it comes to offering expert advice on investing across the spectrum of art – from paintings and sculptures to drawings, installations, photography and more – UBS has responded to the fact that many of its Wealth Management clients are very interested in art, have a valuable collection of their own or are looking to build one, and is one of the few financial service providers in the world to offer its private clients an exclusive range of services in this area. 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I The Furniture of Charles and Ray Eames Vitra Fire Station, Charles-EamesStrasse 1, D79576 Weil am Rhein, Tue-Sun: 10am-5pm +49 7621 702 3200 Furniture designs and sketches, prototypes and trial products by the US husband-and-wife design team who created the classic plywood and leather Lounge Chair (1956) are on show. Also on view is the information kiosk made for the IBM pavilion at the New York world exhibition in 1964-65. I Robert Gober: Work 1976-2007 Schaulager, Ruchfeldstrasse 19, daily: 10am-6pm, Wed: noon-6pm 061 335 32 32 Over 40 sculptures, several works on paper and five large-scale installations by Gober (b.1954), some on display for the first time, focus on the themes of childhood, sexuality and discrimination. I Jean-Frédéric Schnyder Museum für Gegenwartskunst, St Alban-Rheinweg 60, Tue-Sun: 11am-5pm, closed Mon 061 206 62 62 Curator Philipp Kaiser of the host museum charts the career of leading Swiss artist Schnyder, from his late 1960s fantastical objects made of wire, lego and bamboo to his Wanderung paintings series of autobahn views, first shown at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Left, White Mouse (detail), 1978. I Poor Thing Kunsthalle Basel, Steinenberg 7, Tue-Fri: 11am-6pm, Thu: 11am8.30pm, Sat-Sun: 11am-5pm 061 206 99 00 Eight international artists inspired by 1960s conceptual art show objects and closed Mon 061 681 93 20 This eight-section survey marks the 50th anniversary of the French movement which is seen as the precursor to Arte Povera. Over 400 works are on show including comic strip collages and political flyers from the May 1968 student riots in the French capital. and public collections. The Sick Child (1880-82), Puberty (1895) and Vampire (1895) are among the pieces on view. I The International Situationist: 1957-72 Museum Tinguely, Paul Sacher Anlage 1, Tue-Sun: 11am-7pm, I Robert Gober, Untitled, 1991 site-specific sculptures made of materials such as cellophane and polystyrene. Basel artist Martin Heldstab draws inspiration from everyday objects such as light bulbs or wooden pallets, giving them unusual twists of presentation. I Edvard Munch: Signs of Modern Art Fondation Beyeler, Baselstrasse 101, daily: 10am-6pm, Wed: 10am-8pm 061 645 97 00 How modernist are Munch’s paintings? The Fondation Beyeler focuses on the Norwegian artist’s contribution to modern art through 80 works on paper and 130 paintings on loan from over 100 private Today’s events Landscape for Fire and Tell Me by Guy de Cointet. Art Basel Conversations 9.30-11.30am, Hall 1, Second Floor, Auditorium, Messe Basel Nicholas Serota (Tate), Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zurich) and Alfred Pacquement (Pompidou Centre) are among the speakers discussing challenges facing institutions today. The talk is hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist. I Other Fairs DesignMiami/Basel 10am-6pm, Markthalle Basel Viadukstrasse 10, see p6 Liste 07 1pm-9pm, Burweg 15, see p6 Art Club 11pm-3am, Restaurant Kunsthalle, Steinenberg 7 Clothing label Carhartt presents DJ Blami and Dj Inaki. Volta 03 12pm-9pm, Ultra Brag Sudoquaistrasse 55 see p6 Art Film 10pm-12am, Stadtkino Basel, Klostergasse 5 Screenings this evening include Martin Creed’s Theatre Trailer for a New Film, Allan Kaprow’s Warm-Ups, Anthony McCall’s Scope Basel 10am-8pm, E-Halle, Erlenstrasse 15 Print Basel 11am-8pm, Messe fur Zeitgenossiche Druckgrafik, Rebgasse 12 3fVWPWb]`a O\R A^SQWOZ >`]U`O[a =^S\ 2OWZg O[&^[ A^SQWOZ >`]U`O[a 1W\S[O BVS C< ^`]XSQb TSObc`W\U S[S`UW\U Q]\bS[^]`O`g TWZ[[OYS`a T`][ <]`bV 9]`SO 1VW\O BOWeO\ 6]\U 9]\U AW\UO^]`S ;OZOgaWO >VWZW^^W\Sa ;gO\[O` O\R 7\R]\SaWO 1c`ObSR Pg 2OdWR 4`OhWS` 1c`Ob]`WOZ BVW`bSS\ 3[S`UW\U 1]\bS[^]`O`g AeWaa /`bWaba 1c`ObSR Pg @Sb] BVc`W\U 7\abOZZObW]\ /`bWaba /\]\g[]ca) >7F<7B) 5`OQ]) Gc[[g 7\Rcab`WSa) 7\dWaWPZS 6S`]Sa) 5O[OZWSZ @]R`WUcSh/gOZO 8ORS 4`O\YZW\) ;]\WYO 0`Od] >S`T]`[O\QS BVS :]dS 1O\\]\) H]S EOZYS` <SWZ 0`][eWQV) /ZSf ;WZ\S /RR`Saa 36OZZS 3`ZS\ab`OaaS # 0OaSZ AeWbhS`ZO\R 16"#& A1=>3 3`ZS\ab` ;OcZPSS`ab` /`b!&0OaSZ @O[ORO ;ObbS\ab` aQ]^S³O`bQ][ @WSVS\`W\U A1=>30OaSZ8c\S %% 7\bS`\ObW]\OZ1]\bS[^]`O`g/`b 4OW` 6O[^b]\a% $ ':]\R]\ " ;WO[W #' <SeG]`Y ! $! 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