List headed by the famous art dealer Larry Gagosian

Recently ArtReview magazine has once again published its annual list of 100 most influential people in the world of art. " This year's first place of mega-dealer Larry Gagosian (Larry Gagosian), recently opened a new gallery - this time in Paris. He now has nine exhibition spaces - plus a shop on New York's Madison Avenue and an office in Hong Kong. Gagosian - the dealer that represents only the top artists, these "heavyweights" (which to him made known and popular other gallery owners). This spring, for example, one of the Gagosian gallery showing of Monet, the other - Roy Lichtenstein, the third - Richard Prince, the fourth - famed French artist Tatiana Truve ... In summer the Gagosian Gallery in London held an exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso Mediterranean period.

Last year's leader - the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist (Hans-Ulrich Obrist) - moved to the line below. Principal place of work is London gallery Serpentine, where he recently gave a two-day marathon consisting of performances of more than 50 artists.

Upper ranking ArtReview looks like:

1. Larry Gagosian , the art dealer, gallery Gagosian;
2. Hans Ulrich Obrist , curator of the Serpentine Gallery (London);
3. Ivan Wirth (Ivan Wirth) , the art dealer, gallery Hauser & Wirth;
4. Tsvirner David (David Zwirner) , the art dealer, gallery David Zwirner;
5. Glenn D. Lowry (Glenn D. Lowry) , Director of the Museum of Modern Art (New York);
6. Beach Kuriger (Bice Curiger) , Director of the Kunsthaus (Zurich), curator of the Venice Biennale - 2011;
7. Sir Nicholas Serota (Sir Nicholas Serota) , Director of the Museum Tate Modern (London);
8. Eli Broad (Eli Broad) , the billionaire collector from California;
9. RouzLi Goldberg (RoseLee Goldberg), founder of the festival Performa;
10. Francois Pinault (François Pinault), The billionaire collector in France.

Of the artists turned out to be the most influential Chinese Ai Weiwei (Ai Weiwei) , who took 13th place. For Aya art is inseparable from politics: one of his most famous projects, "Names of Sichuan Earthquake" (dedicated to disclosing the names of children - victims of terrible disasters), cost him his confrontation with the Chinese authorities, almost ending the worst way. The last time the artist was in news for its installation in the Turbine Hall of London museum Tate Modern. Work is worth of 100 million "sunflower seeds" (the basis of the diet of the peasants during the "Great Leap Forward"), made from the most that neither is a traditional Chinese material - porcelain. Hay wanted visitors walked through the "seed", but then it turned out that the dust raised by them is dangerous for health. Installation, fortunately, is not removed, but now you can only admire it from above. Information on a note to investors: according to research firm ArtTactic, in Aya is the highest among Chinese artists chances to become the "longevity" of the art market.

full list can be viewed here .

material was prepared by Julia Maksimova AI

Sources: artreview100.com , artinvestment.ru