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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 house 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
AUCTION 14 DECEMBER 2006 NEW YORK 2pm
SYBILLE KESSLAU Prototype lounge chair, model no. 1, 2003
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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 Jeff Koons 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. Damien Hirst 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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