In New York a week passed fairs
ARTinvestment.RU   10 марта 2010

According to dealers, trade this year was not bad. Nevertheless, the 35 millionth customer Rauschenberg was found

From 4 to 7 March in New York was the largest in the city's Fair of Contemporary Art - The Armory Show. The participants noted that sales this year were much better than in the past, although the average price range of products took more likely than sverhdorogie work.

Armory-2010 could boast a record number of participants: their booths at the fair placed 289 dealers (in the past year the number of exhibitors was 239). In addition, an increasing number of "satellite fairs. Now they have about a dozen Armory. In those attending the event "vipov" - former president of Walt Disney Co. Michael Ovitts (Michael Ovitz), Greek tycoon Dakis Joanna (Dakis Joannou) and the head of OAO Novatek Leonid Michelson. Singer Bjork (Bjork), a yellow sweater and socks to match, paid a visit to his countrymen, Icelanders i8 Gallery.

Jill Silverman (Jill Silverman), a partner in the gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, said that this year their sales have grown by 40 percent. "The world has not collapsed - she said. - Americans are buying again." Gallery sold a painting of Georg Baselitz (Georg Baselitz) for 560 thousand dollars and less expensive work of Tony Cragg (Tony Cragg) and Anthony Gormley (Anthony Gormley).

«Fever Pitch incredible", - says owner of the Manhattan galleries Rental Joel Mesler (Joel Mesler). He managed to sell all his goods within two hours after the VIP-opening. Among the buyers - well-known collectors Susan and Michael Hort (Susan & Michael Hort), vice president of store chain Bed Bath & Beyond, Michael Eisenberg (Michael Eisenberg) and hedge fund manager Adam Sender (Adam Sender). Mesler proposed works cost from 3,5 to 35 thousand dollars.

this year Armory cost without such heavyweights as Gagosian, Barbara Gladstone and Matthew Marks. But at the stands of other top galleries (Hauser & Wirth, Sean Kelly, David Zwirner, etc.) prevailed recovery.

Representatives of the White Cube said that they were able to sell the painting by Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst) «skull and a glass of water" (2007) for 3.1 million pounds sterling. The new owner was the famous collector of modernist art - it is proof of the intersection of markets and modernity "kontemporari».

«now better odds historically significant work," - says a London art dealer Nicholas Logsdeyl ( Nicholas Logsdail). According to him, the work group Art & Language «Two black squares" (1967) went for 35 thousand pounds sterling, and sculpture of Anish Kapoor (Anish Kapoor) «Void" (1991) yielded 500 thousand pounds. Both works were purchased by American collectors. Logsdeyl added that the trade can not be called a brisk, but the results are good.

Gallery Sperone Westwater, participated in the Fair Art Show (3 7marta) was saved about a million dollars for an embroidered map of the famous Italian conceptualist Alighieri Boetti (Alighiero Boetti). Dealers Cheim & Read have found buyers for 28 of 30 small watercolors of Louise Bourgeois (Louise Bourgeois). 25 drawings, with images of flowers and silhouettes of pregnant women, brought to 65 thousand each, three went for 75 thousand. Abstract painting Joan Mitchell (Joan Mitchell) also found a new home - for her buyer laid 4 million.

total in the fair organized by the American Association for art dealers, galleries of 70.

«Star» Art Show was the picture of Robert Rauschenberg (Robert Rauschenberg), which offered gallery Faurschou. For canvas, on which were pasted pictures of zebras, X-ray and reproduction bottichellievskoy "Venus", requested $ 35 million. But that amount did not want anyone to spread. Perhaps the reason is that this picture is Rauschenberg's still not very well known. The artist created it in 1997 and kept in his six years, until gallery owner Jens Forshaw (Jens Faurschou) has expressed a desire to acquire it.

Among other unsold "blockbusters" - 6,2 million-De Kooning (gallery L & M Arts) and the 2 millionth Miro (gallery Richard Feigen). According to art adviser Todd Levin (Todd Levin), now customers are willing to part with money only if the price and quality is perfect. Revenge of everything ", as in the boom times to contemporary art, no one is going.

of attention last week attracted one of the new fairs - The Independent, which was attended by 38 galleries non-profit art institutions and thematic publications. Event organizers have decided to do without stands - Each exhibitor was given open space. Entrance to the fair was free. In the Independent, in contrast to the Armory, which represented mostly "conservative" painting and photography, have shown a significant number of large sculptures and installations. For example, a Berlin gallery Johann Koenig has exposed the work Jeppe Hein (Jeppe Hein), consisting of large, rotating mirrors. The product could be purchased for 50 thousand euro.

popular exhibit was the vintage car DeLorean, who was "promoted" a new documentary of the artist Duncan Campbell (Duncan Campbell). The film tells about John Deloriane (John DeLorean), founder of the DeLorean Motor Co. The car drove a non-profit gallery The Artists Space. Advertising has helped it sell 58 prints of the French team tysyachedollarovyh Claire Fontaine, entitled "Please, Lord, do so to be better tomorrow».

«Better", as we see, things are going in many, including the dealer, Michael Gillespie (Michael Gillespie), director of the gallery Foxy Production. For him, this Fair week was the most successful since 2007. "At the moment the feeling that the crisis in the art market are behind us" - he said.

Sources: bloomberg.com , theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru



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