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ART BASEL/MIAMI BEACH DAILY EDITION FRIDAY 8 DECEMBER 2006 Contemporary Up and away: floating over Miami design takes on the world Design Miami to expand to China; prices hit record levels

MIAMI BEACH. Design Miami, the XYZ, a design collective based fair devoted to modern and con- in Shanghai,” Contrasts director temporary design which opens Mike Bruhn says. to the public today, is set to ex- Evan Snyderman, co-owner of pand to China—a sign of the in- New York’s Tribeca-based creasingly global popularity of gallery R 20th Century, says Ko- this field. rean buyers have long been no- The founders of Design tably sophisticated clients. Miami, now in its second year, “Early on, they began buying property developer Craig Robins well,” says Mr Snyderman. A and curator Ambra Medda, are particular favourite is the Amer- considering both Shanghai and ican designer Wendell Castle. On Beijing as possible host cities for Thursday, R 20th Century sold a Pop culture: artist-designed balloons on parade down the South Beach shoreline. See p2 one or more fairs. “We will ex- 1961 walnut student chair yes- pand in Asia as culture has terday for $65,000. “The Chi- proved an important platform for nese, Japanese and Indians are real estate development,” says growing in number,” adds Paris Mr Robins. He and Ms Medda, gallerist Patrick Seguin. LA art is here to stay who is fluent in Mandarin Chi- Design Miami, housed in the nese, recently visited China. Moore building in the Design High-profile shows drive reappraisal Asians collectors are now District, is beginning to resemble showing significant interest in long-established international this niche market, according to fairs such as the Paris Biennale MIAMI BEACH. Los Angeles- him, because this is not easy dealers. The Shanghai-based des Antiquaires, with a VIP pro- based artists are now getting the work—it’s gnarly and primitive, Contrasts Gallery at Design gramme, a slew of lectures and a sort of attention reserved in re- even if it also alludes to Brancusi Miami is showing decorative arts fair magazine. The current event cent years for the YBAs, the and Rodin,” says Kordansky. by contemporary Asian design- has 20 dealers with four new- Düsseldorf photographers and “Now more people are willing to ers. Its objects include extraordi- comers: Espasso from New York the Leipzig School painters—a take a look at it.” nary lamps—a riff on fin de with Brazilian furniture, Dansk fact borne out by major shows At Nada, Cherry Martin has siècle lighting dripping with Mobil of Copenhagen, Pfurniture here in Miami and a recent exhi- work by sculptor Nathan Mabry beaded fringe, peacock feather from New York, and Sebast- bition at the Pompidou Centre in —whose solo gallery adjoined and gilt lace—priced at $20,000 ian+Barquet, a new venture set Paris. Not surprisingly, this is CONTINUES ON P8 Thomas Houseago at Rubell each. “They are neo-rococo, by CONTINUES ON P8 being reflected in sales in Miami. Preparing for Art Basel/Miami Beach, young Los Angeles art dealer David Kordansky (N42) London hosts rare Chinese sale expected a strenuous week. His sculptor Thomas Houseago has LONDON. The auction The Art Newspaper believes it been the subject of rising inter- Phillips de Pury will sell 41 comes from a member of the Ital- est, but Kordansky knew that works of art by contemporary ian Borghese family. The works, with Houseago’s work dominat- Chinese artists from a private almost all oil-on-canvas paint- ing a huge solo gallery in the collection with an estimated ings, are by 27 different artists Rubell Collection’s “Red Eye” value of $2.1m to $3.1m, it an- who are becoming well-known in show (until 31 May 2007), the nounced yesterday. The firm said the West and whose prices have temperature could only rise. “I that it will be the largest ever risen dramatically in the last two knew demand would be high, but auction of contemporary Chinese years. Among them are Fang it’s been bigger than I expected,” art from a single-owner collec- Lijun, Tang Zhigang, Wang says Kordansky. “I could have tion; it will be held in London on Guangyi, Yue Minjun, Zeng sold some of the sculptures 20 6 February next year as an Fanzhi, and Zhang Xiaogang. The Shanghai-based design times over.” But with the long- evening sale, with about 30 other location of the auction is to be an- collective XYZ’s extra - term in mind, he has focused on lots of contemporary art. The nounced, as Phillips de Pury’s ordinary lamps are on show placing Houseago’s sculptures— firm has given an undisclosed new London headquarters, a for- at Design Miami which sell in the $10,000 to guarantee on the sale. mer postal sorting office in Victo- $30,000 range —in prestigious While Phillips would not re- ria, is undergoing renovation. collections. “It’s been great for veal the name of the consignor, Georgina Adam

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I Burlesque Bronco You to curate a local project that from the artist’s studio in New confusion, renegade art fair brings art to the masses. “There York and that they have doubled Frisbee is distributing limited is something for everybody to their gallery attendants to deter edition posters by New York enjoy,” said co-organiser Sam any future visitors looking to writer and artist Nick Stillman Borkson. Although things put their feet up. publicising incorrect addresses seemed to be running smoothly and directions to various Miami during set up, Borkson conced- I Flintstone fax a fair fairs. The deceptive work is ed the possibility it all could go favourite part of a larger curatorial ven- horribly awry: “Some people ture in which Frisbee organis- will die,” he gravely predicted. ers have been blanketing this free-form retail exercise Miami with graphics by 119 was Barbara Kruger’s shop- I Lights out at MoCA artists. One minor issue: poster- ping bag emblazoned with ing is illegal in Miami. “I got “Plenty Is Never Enough”, Everyone knows the need for a busted,” says Frisbee co- which remained unsold as good sit down after tramping founder Anat Ebgi. “I got a evermore frantic staff failed to round the fair and its dozens of ticket [for $115], and my car locate it’s price. satellite events, but whatever was towed.” Instant karma? possessed the Dallas collector I Art vs beach: who, on visiting the Artificial I Buying frenzy at beach wins! Light exhibition at MoCA’s Deitch/Paper store Goldman warehouse space, sank himself into one of Ivan A veritable sand storm at Art Navarro’s pair of Black Electric “It’s not going to be a party, it’s Positions sees the dealers fight- Dita Von Teese astride a giant Chairs in black-light neon? This only shopping,” announced ing back the beach—and losing. lipstick at the Delano Hotel left despite the fact the chair was The (fully functioning) fossilised Jeffrey Deitch’s chief doorman Harris Lieberman’s container the cocktail sipping crowds conspicuously placed on a stone fax machine on the desk of to last night’s crowd gathered has sprung a few leaks from its slack jawed. pedestal marked off limits with the Crousel stand (D5) has been outside the much awaited 99- roof, allowing a steady stream the usual white floor tape. The attracting considerable attention: cent store, a joint venture with of Miami Beach’s finest pure- I Full of hot air? outcome was anything but rest- a collector was overheard yester- the magazine Paper. In the grain sand to slowly fill up his ful with the $35,000 work of art day confiding to her companion end, only fifteen at a time were otherwise empty booth. Representing various heavenly utterly destroyed and the perpe- that she was contemplating buy- let in but, nonetheless, absolute Meanwhile, gallery Punto Gris bodies, the 18 balloons in yes- trator, although miraculously ing the unique piece (by artist mayhem ensued, with shoppers from San Juan has dispensed terday’s “Skywalkers” parade unharmed, in deep disgrace. duo Allora & Calzadilla) “as my jostling each other to take with the container altogether, are “ambassadors of the uni- MoCA assures us that a new daughter would love it: she’s a home Kenny Scharf fridge opting for a few umbrella-cov- verse”, from Friends With You’s piece is being hastily shipped in big fan of the Flintstones”. Proof magnets, Andy Warhol soaps ered tables, lined with sand ZoZo, a mushroom-shaped positive of children’s persuasive and Alex Katz mugs. We blame sculptures of watermelons, manifestation of the cosmos, to purchasing power—even in the the anxiety of Christmas shop- pineapples and bananas. Fruit Misaki Kawai’s Mt Fuji, which art world. ping left too late. Even the for- Market, an edition of five came all the way from Tokyo mer Financial Times’ arts edi- ($5,500 each) by Brazilian artist just to “see flamingos”. The I Signpost to nowhere tor Peter Aspden was seen hav- Laura Belém, comes with its event took only three months to ing a rather unseemly struggle own instructions on how to plan and is a collaborative proj- Visitors must feel disoriented to procure a Robert Indiana make the sand sculptures should ect between Art Center/South shuttling between this week’s Love doormat and a a big bully come and kick one of Florida, Legal Art and Scion, innumerable openings, parties skateboard. It was somewhat them over. Impermanence who approached Friends With and events; now, to add to the ironic that an early casualty of comes at no extra charge. I Baldessari: “I need to be a bit angry when I work”

To inaugurate the Art “I often give the same weight to tect—but I didn’t have enough need to be a bit angry when I Conversations programme yes- a word as I would an image. I money because the art bubble work.” terday, Hans Ulrich Obrist started by trying to make lan- burst. He would say to me: ‘You • On Miami and art fairs: “I first quizzed legendary Californian guage relevant as art and then to want a place where you can get came to Miami to see a public conceptualist John Baldessari make photography acceptable as laid and you will need a bathroom work by my good friends Claes about his recent stints as curator art. I wanted them to be up there, near your bedroom so you can Oldenburg and Coosje van and exhibition designer as well arm-wrestling with painting and pee at night!’ ” Bruggen. I was introduced to as his new body part paintings not ghettoized, like photography • On teaching: “Early on after Craig Robins and one of his ear- “Nose & Ears Etc.”, seen at the was in photography galleries. I graduating, I supported myself liest purchases as a collector was fair. How had he been able to am happy to have been a soldier through teaching. There was a a work of mine. I have a live up to his seminal 1971 per- on the front lines.” crossover and I thought the only love/hate relationship with art formance, I will not make any • On collaboration: “Although the way to make this job interesting fairs, I love looking at art and the more boring art? work was never realised, the first was to make it like art. quality gets better and better but • Baldessari on retrospectives: John Baldessari: looking back time I worked with an architect Conversely, I think my art I hate the social part.” “Retrospectives are useful to on a long career was with Rem Koolhaas and cer- became examples of what I was • On money: “I’m lucky— artists—you get to see the arc of tain things emerged that would thinking and talking about, money wasn’t an issue for my your life and how your work has work, which can be useful, have never happened without that whether through my writing, jot- generation. Talent was cheap so evolved. I keep trying to rein- allowing you to see where you collaboration. Frank Gehry said tings, reflections or ideas.” you had to be obsessed and do vent myself, but there is always are going next.” he would do my house—this was • On Los Angeles: “I like the city art in your spare time.” a thread going back through the • On language and photography: before he became a star archi- because it is kind of ugly and I Ossian Ward

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Russians in Miami Russian collectors approach fair with care…

MIAMI BEACH. Russian collectors this’—then continue on to the Mark Quinn. But, like Ms Bul- market does not have anyone have been hitting the headlines next aisle. It’s like a supermar- lock, Ms Kay is not yet buying at with the experience needed to worldwide, buying mainly at ket.” She is one of the collectors the fair. “It is more expensive build a sophisticated collection,” auction. Sales are often seen as a prepared to buy directly from and each year the prices go up. I she adds. But the mega-rich Rus- good starting point for novice dealers. “But I don’t buy any- prefer to buy from galleries or sians have a penchant for se- buyers. But are these new collec- thing from Moscow galleries be- auction houses, or from collec- crecy—the Russian buyer of the tors now starting to gain the con- cause there are not enough tors directly,” she says. Like Ms $95m Picasso Dora Maar au fidence to build relationships professionals in contemporary Bullock, she is committed to ed- Chat, 1941, remains unidenti- with dealers, and get the most art in Russia, yet,” she adds. ucating younger Russian artists fied—and if agents are prowling from the art fair experience? That seems to be the case for and potential collectors. In Janu- the fair, they are keeping their There are more Russian col- other Russian collectors. Stella ary she plans to close her two clients’ identities to themselves. lectors at Art Basel this year, but Kay, the wife of a Russian busi- commercial galleries in Moscow One dealer told The Art Newspa- in general they are here to learn nessman, operates two galleries and within four years will open a per that most galleries never sell rather than buy. “In Russia, peo- in Moscow and has amassed foundation of contemporary Janna Bullock to the Russian oligarchs. “They ple are only starting to collect,” around 100 pieces by interna- Russian and international art. think everyone is trying to cheat says Semyon Mikhailovsky, or- tional contemporary artists in- But, where are the oligarchs come to fairs,” says Ms Bullock. them. They want to negotiate and ganiser of the “Modus R” exhi- cluding Warhol, Mapplethorpe, whose incursions into art have “They have hired top interna- start at 50%. It is just too diffi- bition (see right). “They are Alex Katz, David Salle, caused such excitement? “They tional curators for their collec- cult,” he claims. coming to Art Basel to see Spencer Tunick, and are too busy or too arrogant to tions because the Russian art Jason Edward Kaufman how it works. The social life is very important to these people. They want to be part of the international …while artists attack “unbridled capitalism” scene.” Among the handful of Russian For the first in Miami: not in the fair it- the Guggenheim Founda- drifted into a dangerous collectors present is Janna Bul- time, Russian self, but in an exhibition in tion’s representative in Eu- state, with people in love lock, the chief executive of art has a the Design District organised rope and the Middle East, with the false glamour of un- RIGroup, a development com- palpable to coincide with ABMB. On developer Craig Robins has bridled capitalism,” says Ms pany based in New York and presence the initiative of Nic Iljine, donated space for a survey Kikodze. “We try to show Moscow. She started collecting show organised by the Cul- culture in formalism, a lan- contemporary art five years ago, tural Mission Foundation, a guage independent of politics and completed the contemporary Moscow-based institution es- and money.” art programme at Sotheby’s Insti- tablished in 2005 to promote One convert to their cause is tute in London this summer. “I Russian art abroad. Director Moscow banker Alexander come here to educate myself, to Semyon Mikhailovsky, a St Esin who, at 36, has become see where the market is going, Petersburg-based art histo- a collector of contemporary what is important, but I tend not to rian, has borrowed work art. When Mr Iljine asked buy from fairs,” she says. from St Petersburg dealer him to support the Russian She has acquired around 300 Marina Gisich and Moscow show in Miami, he agreed to works by Warhol, Basquiat, Har- galleries Aidan, Regina, fund the fabrication and in- ing, Nevelson, Anselm Kiefer, Stella, and XL, the only stallation of Moscow artist Andreas Gursky, Thomas De- Russian gallery in ABMB. Andrei Filippov’s 30-foot- mand, Kiki Smith, and Yoshit- He says ABMB offers “an tall steel saw blade (left), omo Nara for her foundation. ideal opportunity to present that rises from the ground She also has a Leon Kossoff and lesser known Russian artists near the show. “The descent a 1950s Picasso. The founda- to an international audi- of the Iron Curtain 60 years tion’s mission is “to educate ence”. ago led to a temporary halt young artists in Russia who Titled “Modus R” (for “Rus- in free cultural and social haven’t been exposed to interna- sia, reconstruction, and revo- exchange between Russia tional art”. She mounts tempo- lution”), the exhibition and the United States,” he rary exhibitions in RIGroup’s includes 20 Russian artists says. “The reverse process properties, and plans to open a whose gritty, anti-luxury ob- is currently underway and new headquarters in Moscow in jects criticise contemporary Russian art is now reinte- 2008 with a two-floor gallery of Russian society. Co-curator grating into the world contemporary art from the foun- Eugenia Kikodze, an inde- artistic process. Filippov’s dation collection. pendent curator from work represents a new gen- She comes to ABMB every Moscow, says the show eration of Russian culture, year. “It’s phenomenal,” she strives for an “anti-glam- and I wanted people to see says. “Wealthy gentlemen and orous” effect. “Russian cul- it,” he says. their wives walk around pointing ture since Perestroika has Jason Edward Kaufman to works—‘We’ll take this and Corrections and clarifications Russian buys up Hirst’s Moscow show ■ The artist who created the hash pipe screen on sale at the Di- etch/Paper store featured on p8 of yesterday’s issue is Tobias Wong. MOSCOW. has have print runs after they’ve seen ■ The newly-created post of curator of Latin American art at the Mu- opened a show in Moscow’s Tri- the original in, say, a museum,” seum of Modern Art in New York, held by Luis Perez-Oramas, will umph Gallery, which has all been said Marat Guelman, a leading be funded by the Estrellita B. Brodsky Endowed Fund for Latin sold to a Moscow businessman. Moscow gallery owner. “In American art. “New Religion” was first shown Russia, people know of Hirst, ■ The Rubell Family Collection is open on Sunday. in London in 2005. The works but no one has seen his works in ■ Art Chicago has not ceased to exist, as we reported in yesterday’s are in editions of up to 150. “In the original.” gossip column (p2). It was bought by Merchandise Mart earlier this the US, people buy art works that John Varoli year and is set to take place from 27 to 30 April 2007.

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The touring show of neons which urges us variously to fied. Nauman said of his neons: and light-rooms currently at “Eat and Live, Go and Die, Try “I had the idea that I could Miami’s Museum of and Live, Sick and Die”. The make art that would kind of dis- Contemporary Art (until 7 organisers (the Milwaukee Art appear, an art that was supposed January 2007) only explores one Museum) have secured this to not quite look like art.” aspect of Nauman’s pioneering spectacular loan from private Since then his experiments in career, but is nevertheless a Japanese foundation Benesse the traditionally gaudy medium rewarding and occasionally Art Site. The many other signif- of neon have generated a sub- hilarious experience. icant pieces from all over the genre within contemporary art Spanning his first body-relat- world compound the exhibi- practice, from to ed and text-based light pieces tion’s comprehensive feel. James Turrell. from the 1960s through to his The only let-down is the At Art Basel/Miami Beach, strip-lit environments and nar- decision to “hide” his carniva- Gemini GEL (F14), have sold a row corridor pieces, the show lesque, cavorting figurative number of prints by Nauman culminates with Nauman’s most neons in one x-rated room, (four types; each in an edition of ambitious neon, One Hundred since their cartoonish depic- 60) for $5,500 each. Live and Die, 1984 (right), tions of sex are absurdly simpli- Ossian Ward

taken in Siberia in 1931, where Allora & Robert they were exiled. They are standing in the wooden hut they Calzadilla: Kusmirowski: built with their hands; one of the children in the picture is sonic warfare good health Kusmirowski’s grandmother and another is her sister. Every half hour, Kusmirowski Best known for their lyrical Visitors might be surprised at drinks some vodka which he and subtly political work, artists Johnen+Schöttle’s stand (C9) by brewed himself, perhaps to Allora & Calzadilla have taken the presence of a silent, sad man underline the self-reliance a new turn for their Moore dressed in simple worker’s garb forced on his family by the exile, Space project, which opened and with grubby bare feet, or possibly to survive in the very last night, installing a concrete- standing beside a large “death” different art fair environment. grey fortification inside the photograph of a family gathered The work, Ungut, 2006 (below), gallery as an anti-war statement. around the corpse of a young girl. is priced at €14,000/$18,500, “The war machine has its own The man is the Polish artist which also includes a bottle of typologies of architecture,” Courtesy of the Moore Space Robert Kusmirowski and the the Kusmirowski vodka. says Jennifer Allora. “And this Emperor Hirohito inspecting an not modelled on any particular photograph is of his family, Georgina Adam piece is a hybrid of the war acoustic locator array.) country’s border fortifications, dwelling: there’s the bunker The noise emanating from the Guillermo Calzadilla explains: and the cave, but also the ruins bunker amalgamates dozens of “We used different aspects from left behind by war.” pieces of music that have been different bunkers in different From the structure’s turrets used by the military, including regions and different times in point trumpets, not howitzers, victory songs such as “Am Adolf history. So it’s a visual montage and a constant cacophony blares Hitler Platz”, Tchaikovsky’s as well as an audio montage.” forth at mind-numbingly high 1812 overture, and pieces used (E8) is offer- volumes. “Instruments like trum- by US psy-ops teams for interro- ing two inkjet colour photo- pets were first developed as tools gating prisoners, such as Barney graphs with pencil pieces from of war to move soldiers,” points the Dinosaur’s “I Love You”. 2004 by the artists for $6,750. out Allora. (Above, Japanese Stressing that the bunker is Marc Spiegler

he has embedded a blueprint of simultaneously, from which Guillermo the Aqua development into the Perpetual Art single works can be selected and plaza’s pavement, which lies sev- played full size with audio (right). Kuitca: wet eral feet below ground and is Machine: All artists are welcome to covered with a thin pool of water. submit their work to the col- and dry art “I wanted to create the illusion DIY show lection at www.perpetualart that the water is distorting the machine.com, which has map image, but the image itself amassed a remarkable 1,000 Inside the Aqua residential is actually distorted,” he says. In the elite game of ABMB videos from 100 countries. “It’s complex is a new public work Sperone Westwater (F11) has everyone likes to feel included. Friendster for video artists,” by Guillermo Kuitca. In the sold two paintings by Mr The Perpetual Art Machine says Aaron Miller who collabo- ness and investment”. middle of a traffic roundabout, Kuitca: a 2004 map to the (PAM) at Scope Miami caters to rates on the project with Lee Scope Miami has also provid- the artist—who will represent Indianapolis Museum of Art for such a sentiment, inviting visitors Wells, Raphaele Shirley and ed the group with a stand (86), Argentina in next year’s Venice $200,000; and a 1994 diagram to curate their own video Chris Borkowski. Unlike other where the progenitors of the Biennale—has created a plaza in of the Metropolitan Opera programme from a database. online video archives, such as project have a selection of the shape of the island itself. House to a Miami collector for Videos can be searched by YouTube, PAM is exclusively pieces from the PAM archive His work often deals with $135,000. keywords and two cinema-scale for the promotion of works of available for as little as $1,800. mapping and diagrams and here Jason Edward Kaufman projections then show 32 pieces art that carry a tone of “serious- Mark Clintberg Visit our booth M23 to receive a FREE issue of THE ART NEWSPAPER WWW.THEARTNEWSPAPER.COM

8 THE ART NEWSPAPER ART BASEL/MIAMI BEACH DAILY EDITION 8 DECEMBER 2006

Design Artists blur boundaries at Art Basel/Miami Beach

MIAMI BEACH. Five years ago, min. At Brooke Alexander and there was only a sprinkling of Mai 36 Galerie (both F15), a NY dealer turns to contemporary design design among Art Basel/Miami Franz West sofa and Richard Beach’s vast selection of con- Artschwager chairs upholstered New York gallery Barry Fried- temporary art: this year tabletop in cow hide were snapped up man completes its shift from objects by Picasso and other immediately. An East Coast traditional to contemporary art contemporary ceramics and fur- museum reserved Thai Ameri- and design with the opening of niture by many artists are all can artist Rirkrit Tiravanija’s an 18,000 sq. ft gallery in over the fair. installation of stainless steel Chelsea this autumn. “There is a blurring of bound- flooring, a book case and a pic- The head of this new venture aries, with functional objects nic table with two benches will be Marc Benda (right), a 30 crafted by artists growing in along with a Plexiglas mural for year old Zurich native, with Mr prominence just as photography $150,000 with the Berlin Friedman (left), best known for 300 gallery strong neighbour- did ten years ago,” says Steve gallery Neugerrienschneider his early forays into Wiener hood. The renovation has cost Wilson, who with his wife Laura (F10). “The piece is not so Werkstatte. $2m. “When we saw the suc- Lee Brown, the Brown Forman much about furniture, but the Located at 515 West 26th cess of Design ’05, we realised heiress, was shopping for their Lalanne chair Utopian design of the 1970s. It Street, the new gallery Fried- we could reach four times that substantial collection of contem- is a social stage,” says Nathan man & Benda will be the first audience if based in downtown porary art, 21 C Foundation, record sales. New York-based Peter, the gallery assistant. ground floor entity devoted New York,” says Mr Benda. based in Louisville, Kentucky. Paul Kasmin (J16) sold close to Meanwhile, another collector heavily to design in the entire B.M. Having filled their Louisville 21 20 chairs and tables by the snared a Picasso chased silver C Hotel with acquisitions, they French couple Claude and Fran- centre piece with fish decoration the artist and commissioned ing a Peter Fischli and David are now planning to do the same cois Lalanne at prices from for $120,000 from the Paris from silversmith François Weiss 2005 coffee table, made in Texas. $30,000-$350,000. “It’s func- dealer Hopkins Custot (J11). Hugo. The Munich gallerists of cast black rubber, for Some dealers are reporting tional sculpture,” says Mr Kas- The piece had been designed by Sprüth Magers (C12) are hold- $250,000. B.M. Design takes on the world LA art is here to stay

CONTINUES FROM P1 ing to spend $250,000 than there CONTINUES FROM P1 Foxy Production (currently at up by Latin American paintings were five years ago.” Houseago’s in the Rubell Collec- Nada), which shows both Ster- specialist Ramis Barquet, who And it is not just early 20th- tion. It sold out rapidly, racking ling Ruby and Violet Hopkins. has launched his second New century masters that are fetching up what must have been well over “It helped the international col- York gallery this month and is high prices. In a significant new $300,000 in total sales. “I feel lectors connect the dots between believed to have a deep-pocketed development, numerous dealers, lucky to be involved, but it’s all the young LA artists and the Mexican backer. from New York-based Antik to so surreal,” says Mabry. “I’m two older ones that they already The popularity of design is New York’s Barry Friedman, are years out of grad school and I’m knew.” Throughout the week he driving up prices. A Serge showing limited-edition furni- getting phenomenal feedback.” says, visitors recognised the Mouille desk lamp is $46,000 at ture by a range of new artists. Although the Rubell show will large Hopkins painting on his the Paris Galerie Downtown, Antik is showing furniture by a not increase the market for, say, stand, because of its similarity to while probably the most expen- former builder, David Giovan- established artists such as John the one in “Red Eye”. “You can sive piece at the fair has to be nitti. A pair of his loungers in Baldessari or Doug Aitken, it can tell the ones that just came from Marc Newson’s riveted alu- black Neoprene are priced at really boost careers for younger the Rubells,” he points out. A Very Touching Moment…, minum Lockheed Lounge (chair) $6,500 each. artists. “The attention toward LA The Rubell show dovetails al- 2006, by Nathan Mabry at Sebastian + Barquet. The same Paris Galerie Kreo sold 12 artists had been building pro- most perfectly with the Pompi- piece sold at Sotheby’s New Marc Newson aluminium and gressively, but the “Red Eye” dou’s recent “Los Angeles Angelenos tend to get rankled York in June for $968,000. It is glass Chop Shop tables, 2006, show widens the audience,” says 1955-85: the Birth of an Artistic over the notion that LA is just now on offer at $2m. for $170,000 each, in just 20 Michael Gillespie of New York Capital,” combining seminal fig- the latest Leipzig or Mexico Such shock prices are becom- minutes. Fashion designer ures such as Baldessari, Chris City, a city momentarily bene- ing the norm, partly because of Donna Karan was among the Burden, Mike Kelley and fiting from the art world’s re- scarcity. “Jean Prouvé furniture, celebrity buyers: she snapped Charles Ray, with emerging lentless neophilia. Kordansky even if it’s priced over $1m, is up three mahogany totems by artists such as Mabry, Karl Haen- says the main difference now is impossible to find,” says James Francois Stahly at the Magen del, and Ry Rocklen. “The strik- that the international art world Zemaitis, Sotheby’s 20th-century H Gallery. ing thing about Los Angeles is accepts that “LA culture” design expert. “Now there are six Although much of this mate- that the great LA artists also means something more than times the number of buyers will- rial is brand new, its value has al- teach, so they have a direct effect Hollywood. “What’s interesting ready been confirmed in the on the scene there,” points out to me about the Rubell show is marketplace. “Editioned furniture Don Rubell. “Take Karl Haen- that it reveals how big the city’s is the trend of the future and it del, for example, who studied scene has become,” says Philip has already achieved validity in under Kelley and McCarthy, but Martin of Cherry Martin, which the auction houses,” says James in the end I think was more in- represents Mabry. “They were Zemaitis, an expert at Sotheby’s. fluenced by Baldessari.” some artists in that exhibition Brook Mason Given successive generations whom I don’t know person- of such high-achieving artists, ally—30 years ago, you could have fit the LA art scene in a Ron Arad’s Blo-Void 3, 2006, Gateway/Prostitute’s Bolster, single room.” edition at Barry Friedman 2006, by Sterling Ruby Marc Spiegler

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Exhibitions in Miami Full listings at www.theartnewspaper.com

I Red Eye: LA Sunday, 10am-4pm; Saturday, I Mark Dion: South Florida I Elusive Signs: I Carlos Alfonzo: Extreme Artists from the Rubell 10am-10pm. The Scholl Wildlife Rescue Unit Bruce Nauman Works Expression, 1980-91 Family Collection Collection at World Class From today until Friday, with Light Freedom Center, Freedom From today to Sunday, 9am- Boxing, 170 NW 23rd Street, 10am-5pm; Saturday From today to Monday, Tower, 600 Biscayne Blvd, 6pm. The Rubell Family Miami ¤305 438 9908 and Sunday, noon-5pm. 9:30am-5pm. Museum Miami ¤305 416 9779 Collection, 95 NW 29th Street, Miami Art Museum, of Contemporary Art, Miami ¤305 573 6090 I Tamy Ben-Tor: 101 West Flagler Street, Miami 770 NE 125th Street, I Modern French Sources www.therubellfamily Girls Beware ¤305 375 3000 North Miami From today until to Sunday, collection.org From today to Friday www.miamiartmuseum.org ¤305 893 6211 1pm-7pm. Collins Building, and Sunday, 10am-4pm; www.mocanomi.org 139 NE 39th Street, Miami Saturday, 10am-10pm. I Pablo Cano: ¤305 572 0866 The Scholl Collection at World City Beneath the Sea I Artificial Light www.designmiami.com Class Boxing, 170 NW 23rd From today to Monday, From today to Monday, Street, Miami ¤305 438 9908 9:30am-5pm. Museum 9am-5pm. MoCA at I Modus R: Russian of Contemporary Art, Goldman Warehouse, Formalism Today I Margulies Collection 770 NE 125th Street, 404 NW 26th Street, Miami From today to Wednesday, at the Warehouse North Miami ¤305 893 6211, 11am-7pm. The New Building, From today until Sunday, ¤305 893 6211 www.mocanomi.org/ 3901 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami 9am-2pm. 591 NW 27th Street, www.mocanomi.org warehouse.htm www.modus-r.com Miami ¤305 576 1051 www.marguliesware I Today’s events house.com Breakfast at Cisneros Art Video Lounge, 11am-8pm Blurred Boundaries: I Zero Hero by John Bock Fontanals Art Foundation, Botanical Garden Building, Design as Business, 6pm From today to Friday and 9am-noon 2000 Convention Centre The Moore Building, 4040 NE Sunday 10am-5pm; Saturday, 1018 North Miami Avenue, Drive, Miami Beach 2nd Avenue ¤305 572 0866 9pm-midnight. The Moore Miami ¤305 455 3382 Thirty-five videos by estab- A panel discussion on design Space Loft, 3627 NE 1 Court, www.cifo.org lished and emerging artists with speakers Libby Sellers,

Photo: Mark Coetzee Miami ¤305 438 1163 Breakfast and guided tour of are on view on nine screens. Louise-Anne Comeau, Geoffrey Mike Kelley’s Extracurricular www.themoorespace.org the exhibitions with curator Monge and Marcel Wanders. Activity Projective Reconstruction Juan Ledezma and artist Julio Readings in Classical #9 (Farm Girl), 2005, at the I Clamor Le Parc. American Schlock, 11:30am- Artist DJ Performance, Rubell Family Collection by Allora and Calzadilla 7pm, readings every hour 7pm-9pm From today to Sunday, 10am- Art Tours of Miami Design NADA Art Fair, Booth D11 Collins Park Beach between I The Sites of Latin 5pm. The Moore Space, 4040 District, 9am-noon The Ice Palace, 400 North 21st and 22nd Streets American Abstraction NE 2nd Avenue, 2nd Floor, 180 NE 40th Street, Miami Avenue, Miami Featuring Mexican artist and From today to Saturday, Miami ¤305 438 1163, Miami Design District New Museum of DJ Yoshua Okon. 9am-noon. Cisneros Fontanals www.themoorespace.org Tour several art spaces in the Contemporary Art in collabo- Art Foundation, 1018 North area including the new Moore ration with Altoids presents a Art Loves Film, 8:30pm-11pm Miami Avenue, Miami I Constructing New Berlin Space Loft. reading of Andy Warhol’s The ¤305 455 3382 www.cifo.org From today to Saturday, Philosophy of Andy Warhol: 10am-5pm; Sunday, 11am-5pm. Art Basel Conversations, From A to B and Back Again. I Forms of Classification: The Bass Museum of Art 10am-11:30am Alternative Knowledge 2121 Park Avenue, Art Guest Lounge, Entrance Art Salon, 1pm-8pm and Contemporary Art Miami Beach ¤305 673 7530 D, Miami Convention Centre Art Guest Lounge, Entrance From today to Saturday, www.bassmuseum.org A panel discussion on collect- D, Miami Beach Convention 9am-noon. Cisneros Fontanals ing with guest speakers Irma Center, Miami Beach Art Foundation, 1018 North I Five Fridas Braman, Sylvio Perlstein and A series of discussions on Miami Avenue, Miami From today to Saturday, Jordi Pujol. contemporary art. Today, ¤305 455 3382 www.cifo.org 10am-5pm; Sunday, 11am-5pm. The Art Newspaper’s Louisa The Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Visionaire Colouring Bar, Buck and collector Judith The Colony Theatre, 1040 I Video: an Art, a History Park Avenue, Miami Beach 10am-9pm Greer launch their book Lincoln Road, ¤305 674 1292 1965-2005, New Media ¤305 673 7530 The Raleigh, 1775 Collins Owning Art (7pm). Dennis Hopper presents a Collection, Centre Pompidou www.bassmuseum.org Avenue, Miami viewing of the 1969 classic From today to Sunday, ¤212 226 2196 Artist lectures at Miami Art film, “Easy Rider”. 9am-7pm. Miami Art Central, I Lorna Simpson Music, cotton candy, snow Museum, 1pm-4pm 5960 SW 57th Avenue, Miami From today until Friday, cones and colouring are on Miami Art Museum, 101 West Art Bar, 10pm until late ¤305 455 3333 10am-5pm; Saturday the agenda when you pur- Flagler Street, 305 375 3000 Pool Bar at the Delano Hotel, www.miamiartcentral.org and Sunday, noon-5pm. chase a set of toys. All the www.miamiartmuseum.org 1685 Collins Avenue, Miami Miami Art Museum, proceeds benefit the Lectures by Andres Serrano, Beach, ¤305 672 2000 I Mark Bradford: 101 West Flagler Street, Miami Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Carrie Mae Weems and Art and drinks at this South the Other Side of Perfect ¤305 375 3000 Aids Foundation. Enrique Martinez Calaya. Beach landmark hotel. From today to Friday and www.miamiartmuseum.org

8BIT by Marcin Ramocki THE INTERNATIONAL presented by artMovingProjects and Sarah Stanley/KBP

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Catalogue with essays by Lisa D. Freiman and Okwui Enwezor copublished by Yale University Press available at yalebooks.com.

The exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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