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EX PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA OF BRAZIL GRAYSON Natural History Museum LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE PERRY RA CBE Monopoly Money an on-going investigation into his Serpentine Gallery POTTER In the last issue, it was noted that the mega-company, SAC Capital, by the ADAM WAYMOUTH; ; Royal Academy art world had gone all breathless over the all-powerful Securities & Exchange ANNIE MORRIS Dinner. 2013 scandal breaking around Syrian art Commission. The accusations are of Photographers' Gallery Photo: Dafydd Jones collecting dynasty, the Nahmad family. insider trading, a heavy duty offence in SIDDARTHA MUKHERJEE; , 34, ‘director’ of the New the rarefied world of American business RACHEL FEINSTEIN; JOHN CURRIN 3 Grayson Perry CBE (b. 1960) is the new generation at York gallery has now been indicted, along ‘ethics’. The SEC has teeth: remember Rialto Fish Market. Venice the Royal Academy, catching the public eye through his art with several others, over a $100 million Michael Milken (10 year prison sentence (a reinterpretation of the classical narrative vase – with a strong gambling and money-laundering network and made to pay $900 million in fines) or autobiographical element) and cross-dressing. Perry's female connected to Russian organised-crime. Ivan Boesky (3.5 years jail time and fined alter-ego ‘Claire’ is a regular feature of the art circuit, and He faces a maximum of 92 years in jail. $100 million) unlike its spineless lately the broadcast media, and he is an open defender of the transvestite lifestyle. Grayson lives in London with his daughter UK counterpart. Already two former and wife, the author and psychotherapist, Philippa Perry. When contacted in London (where else) members of Cohen’s staff have been He won the in 2003. following the FBI raid, patriarch David arrested for insider trading offences Nahmad was quoted as saying: ‘I know although he himself strenuously denies almost nothing’ about the material seized any complicity – however, he has been ROXIE NAFOUSI & at his son’s [NYC] gallery. However, back indicted on a lesser charge of failing to GRAYSON PERRY in 2004, in a sexual harassment lawsuit supervise the two dealers in a right and Royal Academy Pinchuk Foundation. Venice DINOS CHAPMAN Serpentine Gallery against that was settled proper manner. Wall Street was also agog out of court, the plaintiff, when it was revealed SAC Capital had HOT & COOL ART employee, described Helly as little more paid the Fed’s approximately $614 OSCAR MURILLO than a figurehead, and said all important big spenders by the galleries and auction million to settle the insider trading case – Institute of Contemporary Arts EDITOR decisions were made then by David and rooms – appeals directly to the nouveau without admitting any wrongdoing.(!) Mike von Joel Lyle Owerko his older brother ‘Joe’ (Giuseppe). riche arrivistes from the former Soviet bloc [email protected] NEW YORK Intriguingly, the current indictment states. They are especially fond of the SAC Capital is already feeling the fall-out Anne Chabrol alleges that the illegal enterprise ‘was fawning, black-tie evening events loyally of the ‘no smoke without fire’ variety and PUBLISHER PARIS financed by a number of different manned by glamourous auction since February has reportedly had 30%+ Karl Skogland individuals and entities, including… of their investor funds withdrawn. In a David Tidball totty. [email protected] Nahmad’s father’ [Forbes magazine]. It succinct June essay on Cohen’s position, BERLIN There is nothing the art business loves EDITORIAL transpires that Helly Nahmad’s cellphone more than when the super-rich decide to Vanity Fair magazine claimed his ASSISTANT William Wright conversations were spied on covertly by add ART to their portfolios of yachts, obsessive raison d’etre has always been to the FBI. In one, he speaks of ‘using the be the biggest, the best and Number JULIANO SALGADO; LEILA SALGADO; SEBASTIAO SALGADO; Caroline Harris SYDNEY show-off properties and trophy wives. It’s EX PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA OF BRAZIL; OLIVER STOCKEN [email protected] family’s art business as a cover to move rich pickings for the dealers, auctioneers One. Winning is everything to Cohen, so Elizabeth Crompton around illicit money, advising a woman the damage is – effectively – already done, (Chair of the Trustees speaking) Natural History Museum MELBOURNE and art ‘advisors’ and a raw deal for the DESIGN DIRECTOR named Lisa to wire $150,000 to the rest who can only hope to reap the tail as the people he always desperately wants Tor Soreide DISTRIBUTION account of his father, David’ [as reported wind behind these rabid acquisitors and to impress are distancing themselves from RICHARD BACON & JONATHAN YEO BAILEY Panta Rhei Pace Gallery & STOCKISTS by ]. At the time of the wounded lion. The Vanity Fair EDITOR-AT-LARGE their record breaking headlines. Art13 London Olympia Julie Milne writing no charges related to the use of article’s lead quote shouts: ‘If Steve Michaela Freeman [email protected] [email protected] the art business to launder money are Capital Punishment Cohen gets off he will be the O.J. contained in any indictments. ‘My son Dependent on trade favours, the arts Simpson of insider trading.’ And it is still AD EXECUTIVE PUBLISHED BY likes publicity a lot,’ David Nahmad told media chortle and genuflect accordingly, possible Cohen could face a permanent Julie Milne State Media Ltd. Forbes magazine in 2007, ‘I don’t like inflating these new ‘collectors’ themselves suspension from Wall Street. But then CORRESPONDENTS LONDON publicity’. Mr Nahmad senior was also to the status of artists. Take the example there is always the art world – Steve is Clare Henry [email protected] adamant that the Helly Nahmad Gallery of Steve Cohen, hedge funder and Wall sure to find it much less ‘ethical’. Ian McKay in London had nothing whatsoever to do Street . He started acquiring art PRINTED BY William Varley with the whole affair in the USA. only in 2000 and his boots are now licked The Life of Brian Garnett Dickinson Hillel Nahmad’s cousin – also named Dear old , oft referred to as Georgina Turner Rotherham S63 5DL by every art worker he comes across, Hillel and also known as ‘Helly’ – runs however exalted. Back in 2006, the arts the ‘distinguished critic’ by his mentor – the Cork Street based London gallery. media nudged and winked and gurgled the Daily Mail (not ) – While he attended London’s prestigious pops up again to tell the world about LARA BOHINC SEBASTIAO SALGADO TIM NOBLE with schadenfreude at news of his little MARIANNA STATE MAGAZINE is available through selected Courtauld Institute, the New York Helly his forthcoming suicide plans. All Sewell Photographers' Gallery Natural History Museum Serpentine Gallery mishap with billionaire buddy, Steve Studio Voltaire galleries, libraries, art schools, museums and reputedly dropped out of an art course at Wynn, the Las Vegas casino magnate. As ever wanted was to be accepted by the other art venues across the UK. Christie’s in 1997. The family’s worth is Cohen was about to buy Picasso’s 1932 politburo of Academia, but it was never estimated at $3 billion, including one of oil of his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter going to happen. His fall-back role of Totally free, STATE is about new the best collections of Impressionist and (Le Reve) for $139 million, Wynn newspaper critic has slipped into that manoeuvres in painting and the Modernist art in the world, with one of inadvertently stuck his elbow through the of pantomime dame of late – as Sewell the largest holdings of Picasso in private now regales readers with his tales of visual arts – combined with f22, canvas creating a [silver] dollar sized hole. hands. Needless to say, they are the homosexual dalliances on park benches a supplement on developments in Good ‘ole boys together! Now, following darlings of the top auction houses and a near perfect restoration (nothing can be and other exotic activities. the fusion of art & photography. high end art business. 100%) Cohen has bought Le Reve from Wynn for $155 million. And why not Last July, it was a rough draft public It is not a review magazine – Red Sales in the Sunset you might ask? He already has a number suicide note (and musings on the final it is about PEOPLE worth serious We are told there are 300,000 Russians of iconic, status pieces including Francis curtain) given the usual regal treatment consideration; PLACES that living in London and it is regarded as Bacon’s Screaming Pope, and Damien the Daily Mail reserves for any jottings by are hot and happening; and a ‘second’ city to Moscow. The super- Hirst’s infamous shark in 224 gallons of their ‘distinguished critic’. When the old PROJECTS developing in the rich Eastern Europeans have quickly formaldehyde (Cohen paid $8 million for stick popped up on television, recreating the 18th century Grand Tour (SkyArts), international art world. discovered that wealth cushions you from the 22-ton piece in 2006). Because – anything and everything in the UK, elsewhere, Steve’s multi-million dollar he made a damn good fist of it. The Recepti on & dinner. Rialto Fi sh Market. Venice To apply to stock STATE Magazine, please mail especially interference by the authorities – investment manoeuvres are under some further potential of Sewell TV should have be spotted. Old critics usually just Julie Milne: [email protected] not something readily enjoyed by the very severe scrutiny. 3 Photographers' Gallery Contemporaries Party. Ramillies St. London 3 Natural History Museum Sebastio Salgado:Genesis Cromwell Rd. London 3 The ICA Fundraising for New Commissions Fund. Institute of Contemporary residents of Moscow. The flexible, Back on Wall Street and in the fade away. Not this one... not just yet! 3 3 3 twitter.com/statef22 www.facebook.com/statef22 vimeo.com/statef22 Arts, The Mall. London Pinchuk Foundation Future Generation Art Prize, Palazzo Contarini Polignac. Venice Royal Academy Annual Dinner 2013. Piccadilly. 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{ { ...... { AN ART ‘We ‘Thosehave art who in orderdo not want to NEWS ‘Imagination rules the world’ notimitate to die anything, of the truth.’ produce nothing.’ RESTATE MONITOR { NAPOLEON BONAPARTE {{ FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHESALVADOR DALI BRIT AWARDS QUOTEQUOTEUNQUOTEUNQUOTE Leslie Waddington, the chairman of London’s Waddington Custot Galleries received a lifetime achievement award from the Federation of European Art Galleries Association at Art Basel. Leslie opened his own gallery in 1966. Wandsworth based painter Albert Irvin was made an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Hans-Ulrich Obrist OUT OF AFRICA TOUGH AT ‘TOP The World’s first Contemporary African Art ‘I’m a very clever person. I think Fair will take place at Somerset House, I could be making even more London, 16 - 20 October 2013. Over 15 galleries money in another field. I’m showcase work by more than 70 artists with limited to the income I can a programme of talks, panels and lectures organised by artistic director, Koyo Kouoh (to make as an artist...’ include Chris Dercon, Director of Modern on one man’s struggle. and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, of the Serpentine Gallery). Taking its name from the 54 countries on the continent, 1:54 will feature a host of leading organisations who will gather in London Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831 Sam Taylor-Wood to create the most significant cross-sectional- (Johnson) Suspension series Anthony Fawcett joins Rise Art insight into art from the African Continent ever seen. Taking place during Frieze Week, the fair TATE SECURES CONSTABLE Sam Taylor-Johnson confirmed to direct the SOCIABILITY extends from painting, and photography film adaptation of E.L. James's bestseller Marketing guru Anthony Fawcett, once John to African art in its many varied forms. Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831), bought by the Tate for £23.1million, was Fifty Shades of Grey. Brit Kelly Marcel, was Lennon’s majordomo, has joined London previously on a 30 year loan to The . ‘It's one of the quintessential images of named as the film's screenwriter, despite based Rise Art to advise on strategies for FAN CLUB 19th century British art and it's worth every penny,’ 's told the BBC. a fiercely public campaign by author and 2014. Famous for his melding of Beck’s ‘She’s like a witch out of Grimm’s It was acquired through major grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the , The Manton occasional film-maker, Bret Easton Ellis. Beer labelling with key artists like Gilbert Fairy Tales. A small bird-like Foundation and Tate members. The purchase was a partnership deal between five national and As artist Sam Taylor-Wood, she created a & George, and the Chapman carapace of a body that was regional galleries: the National Museum Wales; the National Galleries of Scotland; Colchester number of elegant photographs using ropes Brothers – the whole range now being & Ipswich Museums; Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum; and Tate Britain. (Source: BBC) and suspension techniques, so would seem collector’s items – Fawcett has a successful fitted with extraordinary eminently qualified for a BDSM saga. track record in marrying art to commerce electric venom... ’ without losing its cool edge. Rise Art was ANOTHONY GORMLEY on fellow MEANWHILE... founded by Scott Phillips and Marcos sculptor, . Dan Fox is appointed as Co-Editor of frieze, Steverlynck to take the ‘hard sell’ out of Twenty three posts will be lost and departments. The museum employs 650 he has worked there since 1999, most buying artwork and building a collection. another 111 jobs changed under a major staff at sites across Wales, including recently as Senior Editor (New York). Jörg Encompassing emerging talents and more restructuring of National Museum Wales. Cardiff, St Fagans, the National Waterfront Heiser (Berlin) and Jennifer Higgie (London) recognised names, the team balance the The museum said budget cuts meant it had Museum in Swansea and the National Slate both remain as Co-Editors and all three will serious side the business with a more to make £2.5m savings over three years – Museum in Llanberis, attracting over 1.75 work together. Fox has also written the light-hearted division, which encompasses it would continue with a strong curatorial million visitors annually. (Source: AP) introduction to the new digital publication children, hospitals and charitable donation. Leonard Lauder Alan Yentob, BBC politburo and conservation team of 120 across all its frieze Interviews, which comprises 15 Fawcett will be instrumental in integrating conversations with key artists and thinkers some high profile contemporary artists into MET MADE UP including: Clement Greenberg, Bridget the Rise Art domain. Tycoon Leonard Lauder has donated his SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA Riley, Wolfgang Tillmans and JG Ballard. www.riseart.com $1billion collection of Cubist art to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Superannuated BBC arts boss Alan Yentob is now under fire for failing to declare that he is Chairman Emeritus of the Estee Lauder paid two separate salaries by the Corporation. Yentob, 66, is paid one salary of £183,300 ER... YES cosmetic company has pledged 78 works as BBC Creative Director. He declares this income in the official online register of the BBC’s ‘It’s what is done with the HOT&COLD including pieces from , 100 senior managers as his ‘salary and total remuneration’. However, a Freedom of materials of art not the materials and Juan Gris. Lauder has Information enquiry confirmed he is paid a second salary as editor and presenter of arts d further contributed funds to a $22million series Imagine. The BBC and Yentob are refusing to reveal how much, but insiders say it themselves that produce Art...’ GREAT GATSBY CGI F***ING RUCKSACKS research centre for modern art which will is ‘easily’ in the region of £150,000 pa. Meanwhile, his old pal and new DG, Lord Hall, has Not all viral email teasers are Ban them from all public museums & art galleries now! And everywhere there bear his name. (Source: Met Museum) announced another era of total transparency at the BBC. (Source: Daily Mail) defending Equivalent VIII (aka Tate Bricks) rubbish. This is BRILLIANT. Chris Godfrey, VFX supervisor on the film, isn’t a desolate moor nearby. MEANWHILE... MEANWHILE... posted a 'before & after' reel of optical magic. Andy Brown POP-UP EVENTS Durham University has been criticised by The Arts Council squandered £535,000 on lose support has been arrived at, said an from Animal Logic put the Already hi-jacked by entrepreneurs students for spending £1.4m on art while the artwork by Anthony McCall entitled ACE source, by ‘cutting from the bottom sequence together. keen to make mucho cash without the paying staff less than the living wage. The Column, a spiral of steam that should have up’. While 421 organisations in the nearly inconvenience of tax, public liability £50m Palatine Centre opened in October risen more than six miles into the sky from 700-strong portfolio of funded bodies http://vimeo.com/68451324 insurance etc. 2012 and houses key student services and a floating platform on the River Mersey receive £200,000 or less, the Royal Opera – no seriously, take a look! the University’s headquarters. The Centre in Wirral. After 15 months of repeatedly House's £26 million is just over 7% of the BEARDS was part of the wider £60m Gateway failing to make it work it has been annual Arts Council total budget. Then HIBROW.TV Jeremy Paxman has the coolsters of Programme, funded through a mixture of abandoned. McCall's fee was £40,000. comes the Southbank Centre at £20 Portal for intelligently curated Arts and running for the capital grants from the Higher Education The project was to have been part of the million. The National Theatre, English video. So good ACE is trying to scupper Rankle & Reynolds barbers. How long before all artland follows? Serpentine 2013 Funding Council, university reserves, much derided Cultural Olympiad tie-in National Opera and the Royal Shakespeare GREED it by over-funding their own limping property disposals and bank borrowing. with London 2012. (Source: AP) Company receive between £17.5 and £16 The new DoubleTree by Hilton London opened with a specially commissioned painting by ‘If you look at the patrons of version The Space (£3.5 million so far, £294,000 was provided within the original million each. Additionally, some local CITIZEN British artists, Rankle & Reynolds. Following a £10 million refurbishment, the hotel installed the arts in the past 50 years, £8.5 million pledged for 2014) project budget under the ‘% for art’ scheme; If severe cuts to the Arts Council go councils have already carried through PHOTO-JOURNALISTS the large canvas entitled Serpentine 2013, as the finishing touch to the new-look lobby. the balance was funded from savings in the ahead there will be increased pressure to drastic cuts (in the case of Somerset: I don't think there are Featuring a montage of images drawn from the surrounds of nearby Hyde Park, the work 28 staff photographers fired wholesale capital programme as a whole; but Durham sacrifice one heavily funded sacred cow. 100%) to their arts and culture budgets. many aristocrats...’ focuses on overlaid vistas along the Serpentine lakeside. Alan Rankle and Kirsten Reynolds MAD TRACEY FROM M&S by the Chicago Sun-Times in favour of

decided to buy more artworks including The figure of 500 organisations that could (Source: Guardian) DAME VIVIEN DUFFIELD Who could illustrate YBA fame game began collaborating in 2008, this is their second major commission available on public view

Picasso and . The university (usually) free phone-cam snaps in London. The hotel is situated opposite Gardens with a spacious 24-hour fitness on bluebloods’ short arms manoeuvres better? d allegedly had 555 staff earning less than the from bystanders. centre, and 228 guest rooms. www.doubletree.com and deep pockets living wage of £7.45 an hour. (Source: AP)

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hDON’T MISS OWARDS the This was yet another rehearsal of end of June, his twin preoccupations with money Lowry and the and death. Painting of Modern Life Perhaps the most revealing of his LIFE opened at Tate tales though was his account of seeing Britain. As a fan Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of of Lowry’s work, an Author in London. He saw it seven I eagerly awaited the reviews only to times, but it was not the fact that its SENTENCE Tbe astonished by the avalanche of director was Zeffirelli and its stars faint praise that ensued. The nadir was Ralph Richardson and Vivien Leigh that Henri Loyrette the chorus of disdain from the smug mattered to him: it was the young girl in commentariat of a radio programme the play who never spoke. GOING... Clive Barker Overnight Bag 2010 who decreed that ‘he couldn’t paint’ ‘She was wonderful, wonderful,’ he said, Henri Loyrette, the former director of the Unique bronze with black patina. Signed & dated (this from journalists who obediently and he went on to make two haunting Louvre, goes over to the private sector praise the emaciated smears of post- black and white paintings of this young as president of Admical, a non-profit WHITFORD FINE ART modernists); ‘he was repetitive’; ‘his girl with long straight hair. Lowry’s organisation representing corporate g 9 OCTOBER – 1 NOVEMBER 2013 buildings look like theatre flats, penchant for attractive young women is a sponsors in France. He takes up the post in lacking volume’ etc., etc. matter of record. His support (including October. Loyrette stepped down from the British Pop Sculptor Clive Barker. Championed financial) of the prodigiously gifted Sheila Louvre in April. Appointed in 2001, he by the now legendary Robert Fraser, Clive T.J.Clark ably disposes of these quibbles Fell is one instance, but he was also made no secret of his enthusiasm for Barker is one of the unsung heroes of the ‘60s in the catalogue of the show while devoted to his ‘niece’ Carol Lowry who raising private funds and for closer ties British movement. Remaining faithful speculating that Lowry’s very success was not actually a blood relation, and at with American institutions. His pet to sculpture as a medium, Barker’s renegotiation project, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, will provide of factory-made consumer goods in gleaming provokes those reactions. He cites the his death he bequeathed her his entire the Louvre with brand-name rights worth metal finishes anticipated Jeff Koons by over Mike Leigh play, Abigail’s Party, which estate. Putting it kindly he perhaps €400 million from the Emirate over 20 years. Unaccountably overlooked, here is a features a Lowry reproduction hanging sublimated his desires in his painting. 30 years from 2015. MEL GOODING chance to reassess vintage Barker alongside on the set as something that (Source: Art Newspaper) some more recent works. luvvies could safely despise. My own Trying to recall those events of five As a leading critic, you have spent many years evaluating and analysing modern art, Whitford Fine Art. 6 Duke Street St. James's. bleak suspicion is that it only took one decades ago, I read Tilly Marshall’s book, especially painting and the theoretical positions taken by painters. There have been London SW1Y 6BN Nero to turn his thumb down and the Life with Lowry. She recounts positive GOING... unprecedented schisms in the practice of art and widely debated questions about the very rest of the pack followed suit. things, their shared enthusiasm for the At the Museum of Contemporary Art essence of what constitutes 'art' today. Do you feel conflicted - or have you evolved a No matter. Despite Clark and his wife work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, for (MoCA), Los Angeles, director Jeffrey philosophical empathy towards the new generation of art & artists? Anne Wagner engaging in a Marxist example, but she also reveals Lowry as Deitch is stepping down. The institution critique of Lowry’s work as being ‘a a man to have been a sacred monster, said that an executive search committee I am not a theoretician, nor am I an art historian, and I have never developed a calendar of working class experience’ although ‘sacred’ could be dispensed with. has been formed to find a replacement, led ‘position’ independent of my performance as a practical critic engaging with real (he did, after all, say that his initial He was mean, a ‘committed scrounger’ by the co-chairmen of its board of trustees, works of art in real historical situations. stimulus was seeing Stanley Houghton’s as she put it, capricious and unbelievably Maria Bell and David Johnson, along with play Hindle Wakes) and the nuances of rude. On one occasion there was a dinner Joel Wachs, a former trustee and the My aim has always been to propose, more or less persuasively, possibilities of social class (Lowry was a rent collector held in the gallery and the two guests president of the Andy Warhol Foundation. critical and philosophical response to the reader, and that would hold true for my with a non-too-compassionate eye for were Lowry and Norman Cornish, who Richard Koshalek has resigned the descriptions and critical analysis of individual works of art in any medium or his clients), their estimate of him as was still a working miner but making a Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, ‘form, on the work of particular artists who do all sorts of different things, and on 1 LS Lowry Mill Scene, 1971 Image Courtesy Tate Britain being a major painter is one that I can name for himself as a painter. On the returning to Los Angeles where he broader trends or movements in the art of my own historical time (which certainly readily support. flimsy pretext that he didn’t like talking previously led MoCA. It is unlikely that encompasses the many manifestations of the ‘Modern’). about art, Lowry objected. Koshalek will be rehired as MOCA director say insiders. (Source: LA Times) Working as commissioned I have never thought of my ‘opinion’ as mattering It’s easy for me to imagine a typical ‘Either he goes or I go,’ he said. (opinions are what people have about the weather); what matters is to be Lowry landscape: the soot-stained red intelligent, informed and ‘passionate’ (in Baudelaire’s sense), and, of course, brick of the mills (as characteristic, With gentlemanly forbearance, Cornish illuminating; anything might be grist to the critical mill, but I have loved a lot though of a cooler red than that of L.S.LOWRY got up and left, Lowry’s bullying having GONE Constance Caplan, chair of the Hirshhorn of modern painting, and I’ve been happy to acknowledge that in a great deal Hopper’s Manhattan brownstones), the prevailed. Museum board of trustees, announced her of my work. chimneys as deftly placed as Seurat’s The Marshall’s son Simon, who often resignation, the third member to leave verticals, that strange off-white ground UNEASY ENCOUNTERS ferried Lowry around as an unpaid since early June and totalling seven since MEL GOODING (72) BRITISH CRITIC & AUTHOR. BARNES, LONDON. JULY 2013. which sometimes seems as immaterial chauffeur, recently said that Lowry last year. Her email letter to colleagues as ectoplasm. And the figures, always could be exceedingly amusing but also was reproduced in the Washington Post hurrying somewhere or clustered around building up a client base of judges, ‘It changed the mood,’ he added. an absolute little sod. The family, who and appeared to reveal serious misgivings LOUIS ANQUETIN the entrance to a football ground like so barristers, academics, consultants and media perhaps ironically called Lowry’s cruel as to the credibility of the administrative The DIA is housed in a 658,000 square foot Avenue Clichy, evening, 5 o’clock 1887 many iron filings around a magnet. One people. There would frequently be soirées at This is not the authorised version of depictions of misfits ‘sordid’, doubtless infrastructure of the Hirshorn and its building with 100 galleries holding such Twenties critic called them ‘pink and which Lowry would hold court, amusing that innovation. The advice is said to have regarded enduring his boorish antics as parent, the Smithsonian Institute. masterpieces as Rodin's Thinker and a EYKYN MACLEAN grey anthropomorphic vermin’. Still, and occasionally insulting his potential been given by Bernard Taylor, one of his the price to be paid for befriending an art (Source: Washington Post) seminal Van Gogh self-portrait. If works g 26 SEPTEMBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2013 this exhibition is only partial. With the clients. I met him on several occasions and tutors at Salford School of Art, but it is star. But they also genuinely liked him.

were to be sold it would discourage decline of the north-western industrial on the first he said, ‘Who do you write for?’ the account he gave me. Of course it As for me, I’m still a fan of his paintings, patronage and donations, and likely create Van Gogh in Paris examines the years 1886 to scene, Lowry moved to the north-east, ‘,’ I replied. could easily have been deliberate especially the sturdy pictorial architecture an exodus of the remaining administrators. 1888 when the artist was living and working in staying at the Seaburn Hotel, ‘Oh yes, The Manchester Guardian,’ misinformation. of his studies of ships on the River Wear.

The city has an estimated $18bn debt. Paris, a transition away from his dark, Dutch Sunderland, off and on for the next was his rejoinder. I also enjoy the answer he gave someone Currently 40% of the city’s streetlights are period toward the bright colours and expressive fourteen years. ‘It’s gone national,’ I said. He ignored me. On another occasion, at an exhibition of his who asked him what he thought about out of order, pensions are in danger and impasto of his acclaimed later painting style. ‘The Manchester Guardian. D’you know existentially bleak north-eastern seascapes, when he wasn’t painting. ambulances are in short supply. Unlike most Alongside, is a selection of works that Van Gogh { US museums, DIA’s collection and facilities would have actually seen during his time in During those years he became a virtual they asked me to be their ? I he pointed at an almost entirely white ‘Painting’ was the reply. Detroit Institute of Arts are owned by the city, which makes them Paris, including Monet, Pissarro, Toulouse- fixture at Newcastle’s Stone Gallery turned them down.’ painting with little distinction between sea ‘Paris is the only city vulnerable to creditors. But according to Lautrec and Gauguin. He knew many of these which had been established in the early and sky, the only division being a narrow DETROIT MONEY SPINNERS defenders, the collection is not a traditional artists personally and attended weekly soirées ‘60s by Mick and Tilly Marshall, initially (In 1939 he had indeed declined their promontory with a tiny figure at the end in the world where Although the provisions of Chapter 9 asset because it is held in a charitable trust in Toulouse-Lautrec’s Montmartre studio. The along Cork Street lines, to represent offer.) He went on to inform me that of it. Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life starving to death is municipal bankruptcy technically shield for the people of Michigan. City officials exhibition includes two works by Toulouse- 20th century modernism. (I bought an changing the ground of his paintings to the ‘See that figure at the end there?’ he said. Tate Britain: 26 June – 20 October 2013 Detroit from being forced to sell any asset, recently admitted Christie's had been Lautrec that Van Gogh would most have excellent Henry Mundy there in 1962.) familiar off-white was the suggestion of a ‘That’s me. I’ve had enough. The tax man’s Open until 20.00 on Fridays, Saturdays and still considered an art.’ some still fear money could be squeezed paid $200,000 to appraise the museum's certainly experienced freshly painted. Mick Marshall had an amazing skill at Manchester Guardian art critic. destroyed me. I’m going to jump in.’ Sundays, with last ticket sale at 19.00. out of the Detroit Institute of Arts, whose holdings in June. CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN Eykyn Maclean, 30 St. George Street, { collection is valued at over $2.5 billion. (Source: Detroit News) London W1S 2FH

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actually encouraged me, so I opened with ‘Strasbourg is a border town so it has Italian three prominent Norwegian artists and German influences also. I lived in (Unni Askeland, Crispin Gurholt, Markus Strasbourg until 18, then with my family to Brendmoe) and got a lot of press. A gallery Paris. I studied Economics at the Sorbonne is a massive investment but I thought I’d for 3 years and went to Birmingham on a take a chance. It would take me ten years university exchange programme. This is working for someone else to get where I where I discovered the beauty of England am in only 18 months. and although I have travelled around, the UK has been my base ever since. ‘Wandsworth? My favourite galleries An art gallery is a business and I always 1 Alban Legs 2012 are Lisson and Victoria Miro and they wanted to run my own business. Art has GIRL POWER are not in the centre – also this street has been a lifelong passion and although it is ‘Art fairs are still very important and I restaurants, cafes, and is a social hub for very challenging it is possible to succeed. want to develop this further. You have to the immediate area. It is near the railway My previous career was in IT project create a reason for people to come and see station. I also wanted to be near home management and that certainly was more you and art fairs are a great way to do this. IN ART too (Putney) as I was going to be working lucrative. I married in 1997. My husband, Confidence is very important and to be 24 hours a day. I actually got the artists Jerome, is very much involved and this has seen to promote in New York, Brussels, European born dealers are opening spaces in London like never before I got the space so the pressure encouraged me to go forward. It is very Singapore... it is essential. They are before, tempted by London’s burgeoning reputation as one of the was on. ArtEco was the name of my much ‘our’ gallery. We met in Paris while expensive and you have to pay for these essential axis for contemporary art and the increasing number of blog so we first opened under that – but I was studying and I dragged him to events in advance, but I have not lost the gallery will be in my name in the England. Why not Paris? The image of Paris money on a fair in four or five years. Of serious collectors domiciled in the city. And an impressive number future. attracts artists, especially in the 20th century. course, my husband is a great psychological of new galleries are controlled and curated by women. It is a beautiful city, the architecture and and financial support – the whole family ‘We have shown contemporary photography. museums, but it is of the past. It’s not the could not live in London on my gallery NOTES ANNA McNAY I represent a photographer now (Alison place anymore. But there are wonderful income, but it is a viable business to be in. Stolwood) and she has done well with one French artists and my aim is to promote OME ‘IMMIGRANTS’ are well been going strong since 1995. Meanwhile particular corporate client. At a dinner in them internationally. Art is where the ‘French art is perceived as heavily politicised, established, like New Yorker over in Kensington, the enigmatic New York I met Italian, Daniele Tamagni, money is and it is collectors that make the especially that emanating from the streets. , an adopted Anna Lapshina’s Salon Vert private views and asked him to exhibit (Global Style art world. When you speak to dealers in The artists I work with are not necessarily East Ender since 1984, who have become quite the hot ticket. Battles). He presented images of African Paris you discover it is very depressed. politically engaged. They want to showcase has been settled in Herald people who express themselves through the their ideas. Maybe it was who SStreet, Bethnal Green, since 1999. One of Some come from Europe, with Swedish way they dress. In Congo it is elaborately ‘I did not open a gallery from scratch of introduced the political aspect? Bringing the first women to present contemporary Maria Stenfors’ gallery, based near formal, colourful suits; and Africans came course. I first began in 2006, without a these images off the street and into your art in the East End, she boasts Turner Kings Cross since 2010, outstanding in and said how pleased they were to permanent space, by participating in art home somehow introduces or reproduces Prize winners Wolfgang Tillmans (2000) in ART 13’s young galleries section, see such a positive view of their country. fairs and pop up shows, building a solid that original energy. Some of the material and (1997) amongst her and half-Italian Francesca Fiumano’s Botswana is apparently crazy about heavy contact list and artists have now been with (cardboard) gives the impression it has been artists. Across town in , is a recently launched Fiumano Projects, 1 metal, it’s a huge trend. It was all very me for a number of years. Really it was my ripped off a wall somewhere. Maybe it is a Kristin Hellegjerde joint venture by Monika Sprüth and which, blending a good measure of Italian theatrical and a big success. collaboration with Alban that kick-started subliminal return to an ancestral custom of Philomene Magers. The offspring of two spirit balanced by English pragmatism, I do have friends from many countries the gallery. He had a career as a set designer cave painting or illustrating the walls of a successful individual ventures back home was set up in Connaught Street to aid and my husband too – we have buyers for animated movies and decided to focus church? I now get asked now if artists will in Germany, architecture-trained Sprüth artists who do not necessarily fit a from New York, LA, Italy, Brazil, Germany, on his own art ten years ago. He has been come to someone’s house and paint directly Norway – and then there is the internet. an outstanding success for us in every way. onto the wall. With clients, I simply want brought with her a desire to counter a traditional artist/gallery relationship. NEW DEPARTURES They have come to trust me and will buy When I first looked for a space everyone to create an emotion first and then involve world ‘over-run by male artists’. With a Others hail from further afield, such as In any trawl around the London circuit one cannot fail the emergence of London as an international art hub through an on-line image, I have even sold said “open in the East End” because of my them with the artists’ story.’ high number of women on their books, Heashin Kwak, whose Hanmi Gallery in Sprüth Magers has succeeded. Maple Street seeks to promote art and to notice the number of women heading up increasingly also seems to have been the catalyst for attracting women off Facebook – someone simply saw some- interest in street art. But you have to be thing they liked. Also the neighbourhood where the money is and Kensington is design from her native South Korea. important galleries. The modern art business was once dealers from Europe to compete in what is an increasingly Gallery Kristin Hellegjerde is also opening up to me now – they are good for me – also there is a strong French In 2008, Italian Pilar Corrias was the regarded as essentially a man’s world. Women who made over-heated domestic market. www.artecogallery.com pleased we are here in this street. Michael is community here so there is a cultural French Art Studio first woman for a decade to open a Not all have a public gallery space, with any sort of impact were noteworthy by their rarity. Peggy The art world is noted for its chic and style – attractive very helpful, it’s like a family business so he connection of course. www.thefrenchartstudio.com gallery in the West End. Step-daughter Moroccan Nadia Echiguer dealing in Guggenheim and Gertrude Stein, whilst key players women have always been a gallery prerequisite. But a is usually involved with the hanging, but of the actor Henry Fonda, Corrias’ first her national art from ‘an exciting secret in the evolution of 20th century art, were also much combination of glamour and intellect becomes a formidable he is stepping back a bit now we are up and 5 Caroline la Luell great art world coup was to commission gallery’ aka her home; and Swiss disparaged for their private lifestyles. Today, women are force and London is suddenly not short of galleries running because he is project architect on architect Rem Koolhaas to redesign her photography specialist Helene Schneider undeniably a significant presence in UK art spaces, but owned and directed by women with just such power. the new Norton Simon Museum in Palm Eastcastle Street gallery space. Her and her business partner, Camilla Beach for Fosters. namesake, Spaniard Pilar Ordovas, may Zervoglos, readily admitting that dealing PORTRAITS: ED SYKES be a recent galleriste, with her Savile Row from home was probably the sole reason ‘Art Fairs are a very daring thing when venue opening in 2011, but she is certainly they were able to stay afloat in the early you have just opened. I would like to do Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery no virgin to the art business. During her days. Presenting at shows and art fairs, It was fun, good health insurance and good ART14, it was a terrific exposition this year. time at Christie’s, she was responsible for the Flaere Gallery benefits from their WANDSWORTH is not an inner London pay – but it was not a career. I also wanted I want to do more solo exhibitions, and the sales in 2008 of both Lucian Freud’s ability to speak English, French, German borough renowned for its galleries, even to write but had no discipline to sit alone – shows especially commissioned for my Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), and Chinese – in a competitive and very in the Victorian ‘old town’. With one I am far too social for that. space. On reflection, I do prefer a strong achieving the world record for a living much international business, such exception – Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery So back to New York and a course in narrative, and art that demonstrates skill artist, $33,641,000 at Christie’s in New enviable skills cannot be undervalued. (aka ArtEco) located in a terrace of art business where I began to blog on art and originality.’ York; as well as Francis Bacon's Triptych traditional shops in the trending Old around 2007, and also worked as an estate 1974-1977, the most expensive work of York Road. Born in 1972 in Norway, agent to fund my studies. In New York Hjellegjerde is anything but a Wandsworth I met and married a German architect, French Art Studio art ever sold through Christie’s in London local – or traditional. Her space was Michael Wurzel, who was working on the IT IS LESS surprising to find Caroline la at £26,340,500. LINKS converted under the auspices of architect Hearst Tower at the time. We have two Luell with a space in Gloucester Road, www.maureenpaley.com Out east in Walthamstow, on what she www.spruthmagers.com Michael Wurzel (of Foster + Partners) who 1 Manuel Felisi Untitled 2013 children, both born in New York (aged 4 minutes from South Kensington and the www.pilarcorrias.com as head of the New York office oversaw the & 6). Then there was a chance to come to Lycée français Charles de Gaulle – the focus describes as ‘the doorstep of central www.ordovasart.com new Sperone Westwater Gallery. He also America and spent one and a half years London – we thought we might be here for for the French community living in Central London’, Ukrainian artist Nadiya www.tokarskagallery.co.uk happens to be Kristin’s husband. studying acting in New York. I continued 6 months – and I fell in love, even though London. A non-descript row of shops Pavliv-Tokarska’s gallery, also open www.daniellearnaud.com since 2011, hosts group shows with modelling to make money but I never lost everything costs double New York. But disguises the French Art Studio whose www.salon-vert.com ‘I come from one hour north of Oslo, very my accent, which somewhat limited theatre over there the art world is hardcore, its cut narrow frontage belies the sharp white emerging artists as well as community www.mariastenfors.com rural. Norwegians are great nomads and I roles to stereotypes, although I did develop throat – as it is in Berlin too, where there space ranged over two floors within. events, such as life drawing classes. www.fiumanofineart.com travelled whilst at Oslo University doing a a serious interest in performance art at this is a small industry. Here it is much more Born in Strasbourg in 1971, La Luell’s Equally successful in pulling in clients off www.hanmigallery.co.uk Literature degree – to Italy, Singapore and time. It was all very hectic. friendly. So Christmas 2011 we decided to programme reflects the current trends the beaten track is French, Danielle www.moroccanfineart.com Bangkok. I funded it by doing high- To get some peace I moved over to open a gallery, although I thought it would in Paris, with a clear accent on narrative Arnaud, whose Kennington gallery has www.flaere.com fashion modelling for the equivalent of Elle Los Angeles and for the next seven years have been easier in Berlin and that I’d never graphics and a dynamic sourced from street magazine in Singapore. Then I went on to worked as a movie stand-in in Hollywood. afford London. The Norwegian Embassy art and pochoir.

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TEXT MIKE VON JOEL | IMAGES COURTESY MAYOR GALLERY

N OCTOBER 2010, the Perhaps more telling are Bates’ own James Mayor gallery in comments on identity and origins. New London’s Cork Street had Zealanders are fiercely patriotic and yet another exhibition of constantly battle against the benign interest. The Mayor Gallery is prejudice of their near neighbour, Australia. famed for its museum quality In the UK, antipodeans were then figures of shows aimed at those with a fun, epitomised by Barry Humphries’ 1950s serious interest in Modern creation, Edna Everage and Peter Cook’s Art and the evolution of 20th Barry McKenzie strip in Private Eye. David century painting. Surprisingly, this one Hockney (as a homosexual, illegal until seemed a departure for the gallery – surely 1967 in Britain) quite possibly shared Ian exhibition of proto-Goldsmiths graduate Barrie Bates’ inner sense of alienation. art was a little outside their remit? The 1 Self Portraits (Apple sees Red on Green) 1963 obligatory neon writing piece; the ironic On that American trip, the pair saw that box of Ship Matches inside a bottle; the ‘blondes have more fun’ on a (now infamous) text piece loudly shouting: For Sale; a half Lady Clairol Instant Creme Whip television eaten melon sculpture in bronze; and some ad campaign (by Doyle, Dane, Bernbach). raunchy, grainy black & white sex photo- Both went platinum blonde as a result, and graphs? But wait a minute. The true impact it opened the door for Hockney to leave of these works was made clear on closer behind his dour Bradford origins. For Bates, inspection – when the dates of execution it ushered in the birth of his new persona revealed them to have been created some 50 (and now total identity) Billy Apple. The years ago, between 1960 and 1969. The transformation took place on Thursday, show, by Billy Apple, was not some post- 22 November, 1962, in the studio/flat of YBA group pseudonym, but an artist in his artist Richard Smith. Apple has noted: mid-seventies whose last significant UK ‘The brand was also a way to get away from appearance was at the Serpentine Gallery the New Zealand connection. Suddenly, in 1974, in a major survey show called you’re from nowhere, you’re brand new. I From Barrie Bates to Billy Apple. was created there in 1962.’ [editor’s note: British art-niks fall into two camps – Gilbert & George first appearance as ‘living those that are familiar with Billy Apple 1 Billy Apple at Gala Cafe, Auckland ©2010 Richard Leonard (RIK) sculpture’ was in 1970]. and those that know him not. The latter include quite a few sophisticated observers of Blake, Ron Kitaj, Allen Jones and Peter I could call myself an art director, and In April 1963, Billy Apple made an contemporary art, who can be forgiven for Phillips already well ensconced. There was assemble a team of specialists to produce exhibition for Victor Musgrave’s Gallery their oversight because, unaccountably, a revolution brewing in colour printing the work.’ In this, Bates predicated the One (now regarded as a highly influential Apple himself has been somewhat (in February 1962 the Sunday Times modus operandi of young artists at the space) near Grosvenor Square. It consisted disregarded by the British art establishment. launched the first colour supplement) end of 1990s, whilst deviating from his of head shots (front and back) of the artist And the more his story is revealed the more and the youth of Britain were flexing their contemporaries like Richard Hamilton, photographed by Robert Freeman. These extraordinary becomes this situation. cultural and economic muscles in direct who espoused ‘Pop’ criteria whilst were litho-printed with red and green response to an onslaught of consumer retaining the ‘hand of the artist’. backgrounds (colour of apples) and hung Barrie Bates was born on 31 December, and visual stimulants, predominantly in pairs on a level that exactly matched the 1935, in Auckland, New Zealand, of a American. When Bates and Hockney took an economy artists own head height. The self portraits Croatian mother and English-Irish father. flight to New York in 1961, it was Bates deliberately evoked the bland, repetitious As a young man he attended evening classes Barrie Bates was officially on the graphics who secured a month’s work experience presentation of new products of that era at the Elam School of Fine Arts, where he course, but soon wrote himself an open in an ad agency and in the office of Herb and, again, anticipated a device that would befriended a Robert Ellis. Coincidentally, brief whereby he moved around the various Lubalin (‘who gave me work experience be used by Jeff Koons some 25 years later. Ellis was a graduate of the Royal College of RCA departments, contributing at will. in his studio for a month. Herb was an Apple also presented some sculptural works, Art in London (11,390 miles away) and He exhibited alongside the painters in amazing creative director and typographer. including a red painted heart on a plinth, this may well have been the reason that, at the Young Contemporaries and Young I learned how to make type talk from him’). pierced by a butchers price tag showing 24, Bates left New Zealand on a scholarship Commonwealth Artists exhibitions. The This was the Madison Avenue of Mad Men 2/8d (Love for Sale 1961); and three cast – his destination? – the Royal College of sculpture school did his casting and the and one of the most celebrated was British and painted bronzes (2 minutes, 33 seconds Art, where he studied graphic design from design department printed onto his canvasses. born, David Ogilvy. 1962) showing progressively eaten apples. 1959 until 1962. The RCA at this period The commercial graphics mind-set is and It is logical to assume Apple was well aware needs no introduction. It was the halcyon was the key to Bates’ (Apple’s) position. On a second US trip in 1962, Bates of Jasper Johns’ foray into painted bronze days of students , Derek He told Anthony Byt: ‘Advertising had a networked the art scene, meeting key objects (Light Bulb 1958; Two Ale Cans Boshier Frank Bowling and Pauline Boty. language that art didn’t have at the time, players like Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli, 1960) at this time, especially as he had 1 Ship in a Bottle 1963 Of Pop goes the Easel.(2) And with Peter which gave it structure. It taught me that Jasper Johns and Henry Geldzahler. met the artist in New York.

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1 Neon Red Signature 1967 1 The Hathaway Shirt Man 1964

To exhibit at Gallery One was a fine start ‘Apple’s pre-occupation has always in 1967, inspired by a René Magritte London was a much different place in Chia and Cucchi (the three ‘Cs’) and in the created a company; in 2008 he registered in cell-culture medium, in an environment for a young man on the rise, but the lure painting, it is still going strong today. Apple 1974. The ‘Swinging Sixties’ had morphed German vanguard, Georg Baselitz. Galleries his name as an official trademark (Billy that mimics the human body in of the USA proved too strong – and where been the self-referencing art world and Computers was founded in 1976 and now, into ‘Boring (beige-brown-mustard) were relieved to find something they could Apple®); he has collaborated with wine temperature, humidity and nutrition. could possibly be more appropriate than its skewed value structures.’ as Apple Inc., own original logo Britain’. Following a complaint to the actually ‘sell’ after a decade of artists with producers to endorse a selection of vintage ‘After a few months, you can get them to the Big Apple itself? It is hard to assess the { } as well as their own familiar motif. Police, the Arts Council were told to ‘ideas’. In comparison, a virgin New growths; and is tireless in his support of grow up immortal. They live forever,’ potential that Billy Apple turned his back close the exhibition and all advertising was Zealand keen to embrace a home grown favoured charities. He has also – not claims Hilton. By donating his cells to art on in London. Certainly that generation of Artschwager and Tom Wesselmann in the series. In the case of Hathaway, he printed A year after closing the project space, Billy removed. It became a cause célèbre with ‘art-star’, seemed full of promise. surprisingly – been busy trying to perfect a and science, Apple has relinquished all Royal College students made a whole career show, which took the form of an actual the image onto the same material the actual returned to a different UK for a prestigious, everyone weighing in. Norbert Lynton, Apple’s pre-occupation has always been new breed of apple with the assistance of control and the possibilities are open ended. out of it, surfing the cusp of the ‘Swinging supermarket. It was a hugely important shirts were made of (The Hathaway Shirt and as it turned out, controversial, 1974 then ACGB director of exhibitions, the self-referencing art world and its skewed horticultural expertise, but has yet to Thus creating a new Billy Apple after the Sixties’ wave whilst being located at the milestone event and got a three page spread Man 1964). But typically, Apple was on the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery: From mediated and a redacted exhibition limped value structures. In a bald statement with secure its commercial viability, although original is dead is not out of the question. centre of the cultural universe. in Life magazine – the same periodical move, leaving the constraints of Pop and Barrie Bates to Billy Apple. ‘The British to its close. Apple was frustrated and many possible interpretations, Billy created he has said: ‘it looked and tasted great!’ ‘Given that these cells live forever, who that had screamed Is he the greatest living developing a serious interest in technology. works in the show were various cast and depressed by the experience. a solid gold, 103oz, apple for Ray Smith, a knows in 100 years what we could do with In New York from 1964, he repeated his painter in the United States? about Jackson He later set up a pioneering project space printed body parts – my bronze throat, former Auckland Coin & Bullion Exchange Perhaps the culmination of artist as living his cells,’ declares an enthusiastic Hilton. uncanny ability to be in the eye of the Pollock back in August, 1949. he called Apple at 161 West 23rd street backside and index finger, my neon Billy Apple visited New Zealand the director. In 1983, this was (at NZ$85,000) artwork is now Billy Apple’s bid for And as Billy Apple approaches 80, this storm. Meeting with Leo Castelli – this (‘I rented it off Sam Dorsky, of the Dorsky signature and early 1960s activity works, following year, 1975, somewhat the the most expensive work ever made by a immortality through modern science. The surely is sweet music to his ears. time as Billy Apple – he narrowly missed Apple’s time with Bianchini was productive, Gallery. The Australian painter Brett which were presented on jumbo-sized prodigal son. Later, in 1979-80, he made a living New Zealander. Twenty five years Immortalisation of Billy Apple project is being taken on by this seminal gallery, but although he continued to fund himself by Whiteley, who was staying at the Chelsea contact sheets. The American pieces more extensive, working, tour (The Given later Damien Hirst would have the idea in collaboration with research doctor-cum- Castelli decently arranged for him to show working off and on in advertising. A 1965 Hotel diagonally across the street, leased the included videos, my works with alpha as an Art Political Statement) interacting of diamond-studding one of his own pet artist, Craig Hilton. All Apple had to do Billy Apple® American Works 1970-79 nearby. Ben Birillo was associated with the exhibition harnessed the new technology back half as a studio. When he went back waves and my tissue works, which with galleries around the country and motifs (skull) to produce For the Love of was roll up his sleeve and give a blood Mayor Gallery October-November 2013 Paul Bianchini Gallery, and was developing of Xerox copying. Apple memorably to Australia in 1969, I took it over,’ Apple documented nose-bleeds, excretory finding his conceptual ‘interventions’ well God in 2007. sample. Scientists at the University of NOTES an exhibition called American Supermarket. appropriated two high profile images from recalled in an interview last year). wipings, earwax extraction and semen. received. The scene in New York was rapidly Auckland isolated B-lymphocytes 1. Slogan of a 100% apple drink produced by SAB Miller Apple joined Roy Lichtenstein, Claes contemporary advertising – the Hathaway They were installed in the side room.’ moving away from theoretical art and Billy Apple returned to New Zealand on a from Apple’s white blood cells. The 2. Pop Goes the Easel. for the BBC’ s Monitor. Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Shirt campaign featuring a suave man with Back in London, the Beatles had also [editors note: Tracey Emin was 13 years towards the emergence of the new painting, permanent basis in 1991 and proceeded to B-lymphocytes were then virally Featuring Peter Blake, Peter Philips, Pauline Boty and James Rosenquist, Mary Inman, Richard an eye patch, and the Maidenform Bra launched a brand called Apple [Apple Corps] old in 1974] exemplified by Julian Schnabel; Clemente, consolidate his total Apple concept. He transformed so that they grow indefinitely . 1962

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Toby Christian Per Pluma Qap 2013 Patricia Camet Galeria Baró, São Paulo Emoticons 23, 2011 If you think Toby one of the less Latinate LAMB arts London/ names, you’d be right: he’s a London artist Galeria Paralelo, São Paulo who qualified for the fair by making work For 12 years the Peruvian artist Patti Camet in Brazil. This is from a series of texts the has been collecting packaging – from upcoming writer and artist wrote on phones, chocolates, pills, eggs, scissors etc – blackboards, developing his thoughts but and casting them in ceramic. Here, a square then clearing their grounds the next morning. metre of them, mounted on pine board, Drawn to the accidental results, he preserved brings anthropomorphic qualities to a them. The mop was wet enough that a cloudy combination somewhere between still life whiteness resulted as the chalk was wiped and abstraction. It’s one of a series which (hinting at Dubuffet’s ‘Texturologies’ of soil); anthologises various different emotions – and old enough that it deposited bits of by way of email emoticons – in this way. string, here accidentally forming what might Attractive, for sure – but are we, then, no be read as the artist’s initials (recalling more than the sum of what we’ve consumed? Antoni Tàpies’ use of ‘AT’).

Célio Braga Untitled (07 meters) 2013 Galeria Pilar, São Paulo Célio Braga’s compositions were the stand-out among many dissections of the grid: they caught the flux of personal history by using strips of his friends’ clothes and characteristically Brazilian ‘wishing ribbons’ (tie round wrist with three knots: make one wish per knot, and they’ll come true when the bracelet wears away and falls off). The resulting barely-there paintings-of-sorts are Héctor Arce-Espasas named for their length – the longest one framed the booth’s entrance – and have the CLP-A8 (Black & Landscape) 2013 ability to change formation: as above, the De la Cruz Projects, San Jose artist wore one around his neck. Hung This freestyle riff on a Puerto Rican jungle A LATIN BEAT slightly away from the wall, shadows by a young New York based artist born in magnified their vulnerable irregularities. San Juan makes plenty of play of its raw linen With 60 galleries, PINTA, the Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show at Earls Court, was big background and the mud, collected from enough to provide for differing tastes while small enough to navigate with ease. TEXT: PAUL CAREY-KENT the site, which is smeared over much of the Ximena Garrido-Lecca Manuel Mérida Ivana Brenner acrylic. There’s a long lineage of abstracting Composition II 2011 Circulo Britanico 2013 Untitled, Diptych 2010 from trees, and I saw this as a refreshingly NOT SURPRISINGLY, the most emphasise the space between which was the dominant mode; and spontaneous take on Mondrian’s more Max Wigram, London Espace Meyer/Zafra, Paris/New York jaggedart, London consistent quality was in the solo shows elements, their inter-relationships and more emotionally and politically studied way of tackling the theme. There’s The Peruvian artist’s solo booth had There was quite a bit of kinetic art at Pinta, What looked like infestations of mussel also a political protest built in, consistent celebrating the influential veterans constructed depth, encouraging oblique charged representational work. Much sculpture, drawings, and a huge of bringing to mind the Venezuelan lineage of shells or sections of ruched curtains with Arce-Espasas’ broader installation and in the solo project booths curated viewing which promotes the side views of the former was successful within agricultural sacks which moved into Jesús Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez. solidified into scallopings of petal turned out practice, which often exposes the falsities in painterly territory. Composition II cunningly Their countryman, Manuel Mérida (born to be… paint hardened over metal armatures by Catherine Petitgas and Kiki as much as their austere frontages. But somewhat predictable limits; the latter the apparently paradisiacal: for what does combined branded sacks with a Pop art feel 1939) may well have been the leading (which, incidentally, had a comparable deforestation produce but mud? Mazzucchelli. Two fine, long-running there was plenty of spirited work on was – to be kind – rather hit and miss. and unbranded sacks with cheerful patterns crowd-pleaser with his combination of elegance from the back). Argentinean Ivana abstract painters were highlighted by view elsewhere. Looking at that, which PINTA, though well-programmed and which happened to echo a good few of the spectacle and respect: a Union Jack themed Brenner made a good first impression in Fair’s abstract paintings. The patchwork set of four rotating circular paintings. There Britain through her fungal way with what solo shows: 98-year-old Argentine, Luis – broadly speaking – adopted the endearing, has its eccentricities: no result also delivered on Garrido-Lecca’s were monochromes in red, blue and white looks like ceramic, and so played well Tomasello, often shown in England; language of painting, there were two cloakroom for bags or coats; no printed wider strategy of importing personally plus a threefold combination. They spun at against Livia Marin’s deconstructed and and 82-year-old Spanish-based César main camps: geometrically and map; open Wednesday-Friday but not at infected everyday Peruvian life into a the same speed, but due to the varying mixes stitched up crockery at jaggedart. Brenner’s western art context: such sacks are indeed of wood particles, sand or chalk acting as work is alluring, yes, but on closer viewing Paternosto, less well-known here. His kinetically inclined abstraction in the the weekend. made into blankets and curtains in her carrier behind their glass fronts, the pigment unnatural enough to discomfort. triple architectural wall installations South American neo-concrete manner, www.pintalondon.com home city of Lima. inside formed and unformed shapes at differing speeds.

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1 Riots 2013 Street Scene Courtesy: theeyeontheworld 1 Ina Otzko Interiors 72/12 Black and white photograph ©Ina Otzko Represented by Eric Franck Fine Art, London

EFORE BEING assassinated Cherished masters and aesthetic icons light in June, and temperatures of under - within interiors – it's unclear who and in February 1986, Olof were demoted with derisive scorn to banal 40°C in the many winter months (so what is real or reflection. These are the Palme impressed a social parodies, such as SIC's Tinno Vaitten: Facebook cools it's servers there). From calculated poses of someone acutely conscience into the fabric It Doesn't Matter Where You Are, YOU are being much ignored, and sparsely populated self-conscious, and tease the viewer by of Sweden, which has kept it THE DARK the Center of the Universe (2013). Here a by fishermen and reindeer herders (the not delivering a whole, a coherence. The wealthy, healthy and proud. twenty odd foot column made from Sàmi) the North has become one of the photographs are part of ‘interiors’, and BThus Sweden remains one of the least racist pizza boxes supports a cardboard abstract richest regions in the world – via its raw are accompanied by the poetry of Hanna nations of Europe – and a Swede pays over confusion, with lurid plastic blobs and materials, it's hydroelectric power, it's Bramness, such as the poignant: Seilte half his earnings in taxes to fund welfare coloured needles sticking into it. Konstfack industrial sectors, it's leading centres for på lengselens frosne elv: kom hit (Sailed services whose generosity resembles a deep, display the sterile interior of a home grind technological, military, scientific and space longing’s frozen river: arrived here). comfy sofa compared to Britain's ARTS of crisps and non-stop television. And research. Not least, there is the oil and begrudging safety net. In February 2013, Tales from the far North TEXT: GEORGINA TURNER so on. Such glocalism begs a desperate Europe's biggest iron ore mine. The people The Nordic identity is changing – of The Economist declared the Nordic region nostalgia for pine firs and frost. are healthy, sporty, handsome, and the course it is, but it is the possibilities that to be ‘the Next Supermodel’. area has the lowest unemployment rate in are very exciting. There is one noticeable So when riots erupted whilst I was in Musée d'Art Moderne's Nuit Blanche capital of Sweden, not least because it is CAPITAL CULTURE Sweden outside Stockholm. True, prosperity absence in all this. Of a search for the Stockholm last month, a baffled spokesman (White Night/Sleepless Night) in Paris. seen as a strategy to manage the 172 plus Stockholm still dominates Swedish art and can lead to self-entrenchment, propaganda, 1 Hilma af Klint The Swan, No. 17 1915 1 Jeppe Hein Path of Frequencies/Are You Happy other, of reciprocity, beyond self-reflection. for the Stockholm police declared: ‘We This brought international attention to cultures and to revamp its industrial roots. culture, with venues such as the Bonniers indulgence and too many Porsche Group IX/SUW, The SUW/UW Series Detail from the Installation A reflection, however clever, is superficial. don't know why they are doing this. There thirty contemporary Nordic artists and Property is reasonably priced, public Kunsthall. It opened in 2006, funded cars, rather than an enlightened culture. ©Courtesy Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk. Only a person can look back at another, is no answer to it.’ Of course, Scandinavia contrasted two tendencies. The first services are just, and there is new by the Bonniers Family, experienced But prosperity does offer a choice and can see the other, and can begin a vital is divided by the nefarious inequality which updated the Nordic traditions of an infrastructure. The initiator of Malmö art collectors who own and manage it definitely does lead to change. engagement. One based on an exchange is entrenching in Europe – it is seriously intense identification with nature (extreme Nordic 2013(1), Göran Green, recognised Scandinavia's main press and media Change. Always challenging, usually ‘We are not satisfied with just being Nordic. We of receptive gazes. worried about climate change! But in conditions of light, temperature) and a continuation of nature, light and organisation. Here, the art and ethos is interesting. want to be European - global. We want to reach socio-economic terms it can still afford to existential brooding. The second, more melancholia on the one hand, and an closer to Berlin, London and New York – the world and want the world to come to us. ’ be relatively insouciant and to keenly face a surprising, exposed a tension between a increasing sense of self as glocal (local plus the international art market circuit – HOME & AWAY competent and organised future. Why has sense of belonging, or rooted nationhood, global) on the other. But there is also a than Malmö and the homegrown. At the Kulturens hus in Luleå, JACOB FABRICIUS, former Director, Malmö Konsthall FURTHER READING such sober prosperity aroused revolt? Are and the lure of a wider, international new factor beyond these initiatives: the real So, for example, Jeppe Hein (Danish, Norrbottens, a travelling exhibition, { } Nordic Art the Swedish undergoing an identity crisis? sophistication. revolution is now the internet. Quite simply, living and working in Berlin, definitely REFLEX, explored the contemporary and The Modern Breakthrough 1860-1920 David Jackson / Hirmer Verlag These two tendencies – to stay or to be we babble more than ever before, further a glocal) shared the fruits of a year he changing identity of Northern Nordics. Two of the artists exemplify the changing through images and poetry. In contrast, ISBN: 978-3-7774-7081-8 CHARACTER BUILDING bold – re-surfaced at Malmö's reappraisal afield than before, and about everything. spent lost between quest and dust like Co-curated by Torill Haaland, North Nordic identity reminiscent of Obrist's Ina Otzko seeks to explore a wider world The Swedish themselves identify with a of the Nordic character through city-wide the rest of us. Norwegian Art Centre (NNKS) and duality. Dan Lestander takes the traditional rather than her known turf. She separates – Nordic character that often includes art exhibitions and events involving the There is love and there is lust. And, I Jan-Erik Lundström of Norrbottens preoccupations with the extreme cold, light perhaps divides – her identity as a sense of LINKS Finland and Iceland as well as Scandinavia ‘non-bureaucratic collaboration’ of realised, there is neither, as I wondered There is a North and South divide in Museum, ten artists born in the region and nature, to interpret and explore them belonging (where she comes from) and a Malmö Nordic 2013 http://malmonordic.se/ (Sweden, Norway, Denmark). In 1998, Malmö's three main art museums alongside in search of the communicating glocal Sweden. The North – in terms of light, of re-visit their national stereotypes, and their with a modern mind. For example, he sense of longing that leads her to explore as Hans Ulrich Obrist announced a radical the Art Academy, the private galleries, and through the 28 non-commercial art temperature – is even more extreme, and evolving sense of self as contemporary, explores the human ability to live the yet unknown qualities of being, of life. Hilma af Klint at Moderna Museet, Stockholm departure from the gory glamour of Abba Department of Culture. Malmö has fixed collectives which made up Malmö the nature is breathtaking. For example, in travelling and communicating artists, extreme cold, confront its impact; and Her naked body poses nonchalantly www.modernamuseet.se/en/Stockholm/ by launching the Nordic Miracle at the its political vision on becoming the art Konsthall's contribution to Nordic 2013. Norrbottens, there are 24 hours of balmy world citizens. expresses the human vital responses enough before mirrors within mirrors Exhibitions/2013/Hilma-af-Klint/

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Oyster and Oyster Perpetual are generic distinctive Rolex GMT Master original, terms and not specific items, except for the made for Pan Am transatlantic pilots. 36mm Oyster Perpetual model, which goes These can be available from upwards by no other name. of £6,900.’ Rolex has produced specific designs suitable for the extremes of deep-sea diving, One of the great advantages of owning a mountain climbing and aviation. One portable piece of art is the very fact it can classic and iconic model is the Rolex GMT be enjoyed on a daily basis and has no Master. Originally developed in 1954 at the need to be locked away in secure storage. request of Pan Am Airways to provide its Wristwatches are generally robust items, crews with a dual time watch that could however exquisite, and collectors enjoy display GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) – (one assumes) the recognition factor that the international time standard for aviation comes with wearing a classic item of the and essential for Astronavigation – on the watchmakers art. David Silver agrees new and expanding international long-haul that this is the usual profile of the flights to far flung places. contemporary aficionado: ‘All our customers are wearers and not Throughout its history Rolex has been collectors in the traditional sense of the promoted by a sophisticated programme word. People with extensive collections of high-end and opportunist advertising. will go to their safe in the morning and There has been no shortage of famous choose their watch for the day, matching celebrities from the fields of entertainment, their outfit in the way you might choose 1 politics and sports, willing to endorse the David Silver, CEO of the Vintage Watch Company of Burlington Arcade, London. a tie or a handbag. Rolex is one of the top product in world-wide campaigns. From brands in the world, up there with Coca Brad Pitt and Sharon Stone, Picasso and Cola, Pepsi, and Kelloggs. In the ‘80s the Andy Warhol, President Eisenhower and Rolex was the ultimate status symbol, 1 Martin Luther King Jnr., Roger Federer and it said to everyone: “I’ve made it”. Now Rolex are renowned for celebrity endorsements, Jackie Stewart, the list of luminaries is an the mystique of the vintage is to own clockwise: Sharon Stone Submariner; Brad Pitt endless parade of avid fans each of whom something others don’t, to have something Gold GMT-Master; Channing Tatum Daytona; has a favourite classic model. Paul Newman rare and individual.’ Che Guevera GMT-Master Expresso. even had the accolade of having a model named after him: the Rolex Daytona Paul The wide appeal of Rolex generated by Newman (with Exotic Dial and white face slick advertising and celebrity connotations and lately proved to have also had the rare has made it – along with all luxury brands ‘Today Rolex is red Daytona designation). – a prime target for forgeries, especially the largest single as the skills of the Far East fakers become Across the world, brand new Rolex more sophisticated. For David Silver, luxury watch watches leave the store with a proud owner reputation is all, and it says a lot that the taking the first step in creating a family VWC website is trusted and generates brand.’ 1 Rolex 6240 Cosmograph 1 Rolex 4667 Oyster Chronograph { } heirloom to be handed down generation much of the new business the company after generation. But like any fine enjoys: The Rolex is instantly recognisable objet d’art – and a wristwatch at this level ‘We do ship all over the world and have 3 The evergreen Rolex 1675 GMT throughout the world, and its classic designs is certainly that – there are avid collectors ‘The brand is instantly recognisable had some very large sales generated purely Master. Developed in 1954 at the are refined but little changed since their first and specialists who encourage a vibrant from the website. Clearly the watches request of Pan Am Airways to provide appearance. In those early days the ‘wristlet secondary market. The integrity of the throughout the world, and its classic are not being made any more so they crews with a dual time watch that watch’ was in competition with the more watchmakers art is appreciated and are simply getting rarer as time goes by. could display Greenwich MeanTime, traditional pocket/fob watch. Interestingly, classic or vintage watches are trending designs are refined but little changed Auction prices alone chart the rise and the international time standard for it was a burgeoning market in the [hot] as highly collectable items – with the appreciation of vintage watches over the aviation and Astronavigation. since their launch edition.’ Colonies that gave the ‘wristlet watch’ its added bonus that beauty comes with { } last 10 years. However, a watch is a fillip – waistcoats and formal jackets were practicality and – like exquisite jewellery – mechanical object and this needs to be simply not worn in those far distant wear-ability! maintained, therefore a purchaser wants to outreaches of Empire. Rolex. It is a family concern and proud Like any ‘art’ collection there is always the buy from a source with the back-up of an One of London’s leading experts in of its prominent position in the trade: problem of knowing where to start, how extensive workshop. Our hardest task As a watch-maker par excellence Rolex the genre is the Rolex specialist, David ‘My father started the business 20 years to take that first step. But David Silver today is to find the pieces...’ have led the market with some visionary Silver, whose Vintage Watch Company ago in Bond Street. Originally, we sold has clear advice on this topic: innovations. The self-winding Rolex is exclusively devoted to the brand. vintage Rolex, Omega, and Longines, ‘We always say “buy something you love When Christie's New York sold items mechanism was offered to the public in Located in the prestigious Burlington however it became clear early on that and wear it”,’ he says, ‘Our starting point from the collection of Gordon Bethune 1931 and Rolex was the first to earn a Arcade, off Piccadilly, the VWC also Rolex was the most intriguing and it is to suggest a Rolex made in the year (Continental Airlines CEO) they realised SHOW TIME chronometer certification for a wristwatch. boasts it own dedicated workshops staffed would be unique to specialise in just the of your birth. For something a bit rarer? $590,000 for a 1950 Rolex Oyster that Diamonds might be a girl’s best friend but the classic watch has been the ultimate in The company had launched the by experienced horologists to oversee the one brand. We opened in the Burlington Maybe a vintage Rolex Submariner, made showed obvious signs of wear and tear. wearable fine art for over 70 years. An none is more iconic than the ubiquitous Rolex. waterproof wristwatch (the Oyster) back restoration and repair of all models of Arcade 10 years ago.’ famous by the early Bond Films, or a Whether or not, as some trade observers in 1926; case waterproofing to a depth are claiming, this 'un-restored' condition TEXT: MIKE VON JOEL PORTRAIT: ED SYKES of 330ft followed (the Oyster Perpetual is on trend is debatable. What is sure is Submariner). The first wristwatch to show that over 70 years on, the fine art of the LTHOUGH TODAY the In 1908, Wilsdorf registered the trademark Wilsdorf established the Hans Wilsdorf two time zones at once (Rolex GMT Master) classic Rolex wristwatch is as cool and name Rolex is synonymous of Rolex, the company name Rolex was Foundation and the parent company is and automatic changing on the dial of the desirable as ever it was. Even if Elvis with that elite grouping of registered later, on 15 November, 1915. still owned by a private trust, its shares are date (the Rolex Datejust) and the day and Presley did wear one! Swiss based luxury watch- Wilsdorf’s own writings state he simply not traded. It maintains its reputation for date (Rolex Day-Date) were all to be makers: Patek Philippe, made up the name. He was said to want obsessive secrecy with a dedicated finesse. refinements that captured the imagination AudemarsA Piguet, Girard-Perregaux and the brand to be easily pronounceable in of aficionados and collectors everywhere. Vacheron Constantin, many are surprised any language, it is also typographically Today Rolex is the largest single luxury The recently revived Rolex Prince of 1929 to learn that the brand was, in fact, balanced and short enough to fit on the watch brand. BrandZ (Kantar) has ranked remains the ultra-cool dress watch of LINKS www.vintagewatchcompany.com originally British. German-born Hans dial of a wrist watch. In 1919, Wilsdorf Rolex 5th on its 2013 list of Top 10 most choice and a vintage essential for any www.rolex.co.uk Wilsdorf and brother-in-law, Alfred left post-war England to avoid the excessive valuable luxury global brands, ahead of Rolex collection. James Davis, trading as Wilsdorf & Davis, taxation on the jewellery industries and Chanel and Cartier. ‘Rolex’s steel sports Rolex has three watch lines: Oyster FURTHER READING actually launched Rolex in London in moved to Geneva as the Rolex Watch watches are a guaranteed investment’, Perpetual, Professional and Cellini (the 100 Superlative Rolex Watches 1905, relocating to Geneva, Switzerland, Company (later it would be simply Rolex claims popular watch expert and Financial Cellini line is Rolex's contemporary Negretti & Goldberger. Damiani $200.00 only in 1919. SA). Upon the death of his wife in 1944, Times writer, Simon de Burton. interpretation of 'dress' watches). Rolex 1 Founder Hans Wilsdorf (1881 – 1960) 1 Contemporary Yacht Master in yellow gold 1 Contemporary Explorer in 904L steel ISBN: 978-8862080316

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