Free Arts a success
ARTinvestment.RU   24 октября 2008

While at the Frieze Art Fair sales were very sluggish, the Free Art Fair of contemporary art lovers rashvatyvali work like hot cakes

Last week in London was free art Free Art Fair . All week, fans of modern art could go back and choose the ones you'd like to work, and on Sunday 19 October, they can pick up these pieces. However, work was only 40, but willing to buy them - much more so visitors to the fair had to draw lots.

works, among which were the popular things artists Gavin Turk (Gavin Turk), and Stella Vine (Stella Vine), differed in one hour and twenty minutes. The total value of the paintings, sculptures and installations, exhibited at the fair is 100 thousand pounds. The most expensive work on the Free Art Fair is estimated at 15 thousand pounds.

event proved so popular that the official site Free Art Fair collapsed not stand the influx of willing it to register. Fair Organizer Dzhoff Jasper (Jasper Joffe) said that the Free Art Fair is an excellent alternative to the sale-blockbuster type of solo auction Demiena Hurst (Damien Hirst). He noted that the Free Art Fair more like a festival than fair - even those who were unable to obtain a some work, enjoy what may take part in this event. The mood at the fair was as much fun than at Frieze Art Fair , where sales were very sluggish.

Free Art Fair was held in London for the second time. She has already appeared clientele - for example, a student villages Johansen (Selam Yohans). Last year at the Free Art Fair moved to the picture of Stuart Kamberlenda (Stuart Cumberland). The student is a huge fan of the creative artist, and so once again came to the fair in the hope of obtaining another's work. But instead Kamberlenda out a collage of her sister's organizer, the artist Dzhoff Chantal (Chantal Joffe). «I fell in love with him - says the villages. - In addition, there was another girl who wanted a picture of Stewart Kamberlenda». She adds that it is not going to sell the work, which she won at the fair. Not that she slept two nights on the street in front of the building, where the Free Art Fair, that is so easy to part with the works of their favorite artists, who may, she never would have been able to buy at the regular market or auction.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: bbc.co.uk , artinvestment.ru



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