Sotheby's is preparing a solo auction Demiana Hirst
ARTinvestment.RU   01 июля 2008

At the tender will be issued a wide range of products, ranging from monumental sculptures in formaldehyde to new paintings with images of butterflies, pills and cancer cells - Hurst Hurst would not be without something этакого ...

Several years ago in one of his first interview after the opening of the gallery at Ilyinke Gary told Tatintsyan D , that the current, popular, active artists do not like when their work appear on the auction bid. Then it was strange, but the gallery to explain what's wrong, and the logic was clear. While in general terms, the auction market to build a career hampered by the artist and his gallery work. They may provoke a sudden jump in prices to attract speculators (those who practiced flipping: I bought in the gallery - once ran in the auction) and the narrow range of genuine collectors who are interested in the possession of the property, rather than in its early resale. In addition, a recognized contemporary artists have their own established clientele, the people behind those in the queue, and the artist himself may choose his buyer. If the work goes to auction, it once (perhaps accidentally) achieved sky-high price to play into the hands of speculators and only auction house, that is, those who receive income from a particular sale. All the rest of this will result in injury: old collectors only confuses the market will create an imbalance, and to sell through a gallery of the rest of the collectors of such a price would be impossible. That is to say «dutye prices» lead to inflated expectations, and spoil the reputation of the gallery and the artist. So it turns out that the record auction gallery artists do not need. Besides the auction, in contrast to the gallery, not the educational objectives. He has no problem to explain the features of creativity and immerse in the intellectual atmosphere; page in our catalog - and more.

But, it seems, the star of Brit-art Demianu Hirst, the most commercially successful living artists, such doubts had already alien. He also faces a queue of customers, and in the career of every story is good, but auctions, he explicitly say not brezguet. Moreover, there is a positive experience. In October 2004, at Sotheby's was «clearance sale» property fashionable restaurant Hirst Pharmacy. In a restaurant that no longer exists, has been recreated entourage pharmacies: cabinets, furniture, crockery, cutlery - are subordinate to the overall design idea of the artist. Sold everything - from big and doroguschih kollazhnyh paintings to ryumok and ashtrays on the very democratic prices. Boom led to such a format unthinkable: the audience for hours standing in queues to place a bet and get into the auction hall. Almost from scratch natorgovali then to 11 million pounds, while expectations were high at 4.9 million pounds. Obviously, Hurst liked, and this fall he will again work with Sotheby's, only in the new sound formats, such as the best of Hirst ... Pre Hurst apologized to the spirit of that, they say, this move does not mean the end of its galleries, simply auction - that is another, and in general the world is changing and all the ways you want to try.

15 and 16 September 2008 at Sotheby's auction scheduled solo Demiana Hirst Beautiful Inside My Head Forever ( «The most beautiful of my designs»). At the tender will be issued a wide range of products, ranging from monumental sculptures in formaldehyde to new paintings with images of butterflies, pills and cancer cells (Hurst Hurst would not be without something этакого). Previously known that a central piece of the auction will be a monumental sculpture «Golden Taurus». In physical terms, this beef bull, installed in an aquarium with formaldehyde. Horn and hooves of the bull made of gold. Metal fittings trehmetrovogo «Aquarium» also plated. But, understandably, not in this value. The sculpture - a depository of ideas and metaphors from religion and philosophy, a particular interpretation of beauty, the problems of life and death. In fact, it's just bunch so that more than twenty years developing Hurst. Estimeyt «Golden calf» of 8-12 million pounds.

Remember that in the ranking of most expensive living artists work Demiana Hirst «Sleeping Spring» ( 9.7 million pounds) still holds third place, behind the painting «Sleep Inspector benefits» Lusiena Freud (33.6 million dollars), and sculpture «Inflatable Flower (Purple)» Jeff Koons (12.92 million pounds ). That is, for this competition is only with Koons, and in light of the upcoming auctions of the auction results did not seem so much invulnerable.

Source: www.sothebys.com , artinvestment.ru