The first American version of the popular British event, apparently, is going to be very successful

Source: artinfo.com

yesterday in a huge tent on the island of Randall in New York opened the first American edition of the fair Frieze, which has already managed to cause divergent responses - from enthusiastic to skeptical. Vip-preview was a success: among others was attended by artists Tracey Emin (Tracey Emin), Maurizio Cattelan (Maurizio Cattelan), and Chuck Close (Chuck Close). However, the stars like P Diddy and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the fair in Miami , was not observed. By pavilions increasing walking professionals and experts that suggested to many observers respectful judgment about the seriousness of the event.

This is confirmed and dealers - for example, sales director of the gallery Cheim & Read's Adam Schaeffer ( Adam Sheffer), who sold the first evening a number of things in the price range of 25 to 175 thousand dollars, so enthusiastically carried out similar to the year art boom - 2007 m.

In the first minutes of the Fair Gallery LissonGallery sold sculpture Anish Kapoor (Anish Kapoor) and Haroun Mirza (Haroon Mirza) of 809 and 40,000 dollars respectively. The London gallery Victoria Miro sold Yayoi Kusama number of works (Yayoi Kusama), whose popularity has grown against the backdrop of a recent retrospective at the Tate. Metro Pictures Gallery of sold works by Robert Longo (Robert Longo) and Cindy Sherman (Cindy Sherman) - for 425 and 950,000 dollars respectively.

Through activity dealers buyers very optimistic and predict that Frieze Fair will be in the future, the main trade fair event in the city. In contrast to the lush, but frivolous Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New-York, and indeed seems to be set up very seriously. This is confirmed by the dealer Gegner Andreas (Andreas Gegner) from the gallery SpruethMagers, has sold work yesterday, Jenny Holzer (Jenny Holzer) and Rosemary Trokel (Rosemarie Trockel): according to him, the audience is not chasing "tchotchke" and prestige, but it looks really interesting , non-obvious things.

rating scale and the mood of the competitors came yesterday, another director of the New York Fair - Armory Show - Noah Horowitz (Noah Horowitz), and the dealers, meanwhile, might and main activities were compared between the a. According to Sean Kelly (Sean Kelly), participating in both events, Frieze Fair Armory exceeds the number and rank of the galleries represented, however, in his opinion, supported by seven-digit sum of the proceeds to the Armory, the city is a place for both clients and events.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru