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Are you beginning then followed with an asserton that a for- FAKE or MISFORTUNE mer Artorum employee (Amanda Schmit) to think the art had actually fled a harass ment suit against THERE WAS a tme when newspapers used Landesman. He duly resigned. to feature something called ‘art critcism’. world is less about This was informed opinion about art and art and more about For decades Landesman had been a player artsts by experienced (and occasionally on the internatonal art circuit, famed for qualifed) observers who traversed the UK careerism, proft his primary-colored suits and recognised to alert readers about interestng things in from Manhatan to Art Basel and beyond. the visual arts. That system had its faults and personal The brother of Broadway producer Rocco (old gits who clung on way beyond retre- Landesman, Knight started at Artorum in ment) but overall was a good thing. In re- Mike von Joel aggrandisement? the 1980s and ran the magazine with part- cent tmes the lack of sufcient advertsing ners and co-publishers, Anthony Korner, revenue from arts sources has promoted Editor You are not alone. Charles Guarino and Danielle McConnell. more feature based coverage, which in turn has narrowed the scope to the ‘block-buster’ New York art advisor, Todd Levin, called for exhibitons invariably created by major in- every internatonal gallerist and artst to pull sttutons and venues. Newspapers also advertsements and image rights from the decided that investment was the buzz-word Academician Peter Blake, who also acts magazine. He was not alone, and his pro- for those interested in ART – and thus there as honorary president of The Arts Club in posal refected the general online consen- is no lack of column inches for big tck- Dover Street. His creatve vision is seem- sus. Artsy tried to get a spectrum of leading et aucton sales and lifestyle pufs about ingly undimmed at 85. Lately, we are told, galleries to confrm they would join Levin’s super-rich ‘collectors’. a new large-scale mural by the great man suggested magazine boycot, but failed to was being unveiled at the West Hollywood fnd a single signifcant candidate from a It was therefore good to see The Telegraph Elementary School in Los Angeles. NEW trawl that included Hauser & Wirth, Alison introducing an item on collectng Old Mas- MURAL BY BRITISH POP ARTIST SIR PETER BLAKE Jacques Gallery, Frieze, Art Basel, TEFAF, ter paintng in their 5 Minute Expert column screamed the headlines. However, on closer FIAC, David Zwirner, Galerie Thaddaeus – a pocket brief on period paintngs. Our inspecton it is apparently a collage of more Ropac, Victoria Miro, Skarstedt Gallery, expert guide to this fascinatng subject was than 80 works submited by WHES students. and Marlborough Gallery. Jermyn Street commercial dealer, Mark Illustratng themes such as diversity, creatv- Weiss, who warmly defnes an ‘Old Master’ ity, and innovaton, their work was then Of course, one fnds the most vociferous re- as being any picture pre-1800. ‘Of course, ‘inter preted by Sir Peter’. Our hero, when acton has come from a 5,000-strong group, whether or not it’s by a true “master” is an- commentng on his fnished work, is quoted mostly art world women, who have signed other queston,’ he jovially cautons nervous as saying: ‘I developed [it] using their origi- a leter and have been busy distributng Telegraph readers. This is clearly not the nal ideas and creatons’. When you also add it across social media channels with the same Mark Weiss currently under threat the fact that the actual mural was painted hashtag #NotSurprised. An excerpt reads: of litgaton by Sotheby’s, over the trade on-site by well-known local celebrity artst, Philip Mould of a Frans Hals picture, An Unknown Man. Debi Cable, one begins to wonder just how ‘We are not surprised when curators ofer It was sold to an American collector with on earth this became badged as ‘new mu- exhibitons or support in exchange for sex- Sotheby’s taking a commission on the £8.4 ral by…’ etc. Can this be an unfamiliar foray ual favors […] We are not surprised when million ‘private treaty’ sale. The aucton into the world of conceptual art for the old a meetng with a collector or a potental house experts have now decided it is a fake Royal College alumnus? patron becomes a sexual propositon. We and are going at Weiss though the courts (as are not surprised when we are retaliat- reported by the ATG). It also cannot be the ME TOO? I’M NOT SURPRISED ed against for not complying […] Abuse of same Mark Weiss supposedly implicated in power comes as no surprise.’ the sale of a suspect ‘1610’ Orazio Gentles- AS HYSTERICAL allegatons of current pred- chi, David with the Head of Goliath, to a UK- atory celebrity behaviour spread, like an Wendi Norris, a San Francisco-based deal- based American collector – and also linked STD in Hollywood, to fashion and televi- er and advocate for women in the arts was to a discredited (and formerly unknown) sion – and every art form in between – not also quoted as saying: ‘You get into conver- French dealer, Giulano Rufni, 71. Rufni one has yet been tested in court (historic satons all the tme in the art world that you once claimed he had discovered ‘a string of cases featuring grey old lizards and clergy- could never get into in the corporate world Old Masters’ – an asserton that has since men excepted). In case readers were under […] Just because you’re looking at erotc art, been rescinded. And it most certainly can- the impression that the traditonally fetd doesn’t mean you should have some fetsh- not be the same Mark Weiss exposed by a art world was exempt from this debacle, it es you try to go actualise in the ofce.’(?) natonal newspaper in 2011 as conductng has been revealed that the revered bible At the tme of writng, Knight Landesman a poison pen campaign against famboyant of the jargon-addicted snake oil salesmen, Peter Blake has not been convicted (other than on the fellow dealer, Philip Mould. For two years Artorum, has felded its very own can- internet) of any ofence by a court of law. Mould fought to save his business and mar- didate. Allegatons of sexual harassment (see note) riage as alteratons to his online Wikipedia against co-publisher Knight Landesman entry, false allegatons of infdelity and f- immediately produced good ’ole American SMOKE AND MIRRORS nancial problems, were planted in newspa- knee jerk reactons from all corners – calls pers and on the internet by an unidentfed for a boycot, an open leter, undying sup- THE FIRESTORM the Artorum crisis caused enemy. Mould’s own private investgators port for the traumatsed staf. And so on. on the internet only reinforces the uncon- event ually revealed an adjacent gallery, run Like Harvey Weinstein, Landesman, 67, trollable nature of this uncalibrated medi- by a certain Mark Weiss, as the culprit. This was claimed to have the power to make um. And yet it is one that many artsts and fellow was obliged to resign in disgrace from and break careers. ArtNet News – the frst galleries have commited their economic the Society of London Art Dealers. And the agency to break the story – apparently had futures to. Hypnotsed by the cash saving natonal newspaper exposing the scandal? no shortage of anecdotes from women (and trending web services (like Instagram and The Telegraph of course. men) who said they’d been ‘groped’. Unfor- the cult of bloggers/infuencers) appear tunately for ArtNet, their former editor, Ben to ofer, no negatve factoids are allowed SEXTON BLAKE Gennochio, was also dragged into the Kleig to spoil the illusion that very important art light and – accused of sexual harrassment – world persons spend their tme glued to an IT IS ALWAYS rewarding to hear news of was ‘relieved of his positon as director of iPhone or tablet. Or that these same lumi- the UK’s greatest living illustrator, Royal the Amory Show’. The New York Daily News Knight Landesman naries carefully examine each and every

6 | STATE email. The more high-profle the individual, a live knowledge score and guide them to family trust sold Salvator Mundi (c.1500) via governments have been avidly promotng. the more speculatve emails they receive, the most appropriate artcles). Christe’s New York for £342 million, includ- However, in order to implement this inita- and those not having a minion to do it ing fees, to an anonymous phone bidder last tve, University gauleiters have demanded simply erase them en masse themselves. GET A GIMMICK November. In 1958, the same paintng had the right to charge up to £11,100 a year, The damaging revelatons that high visi- been sold by Sotheby's for just £45. How- compared with the £9,250 annual fees paid bility ‘infuencers’ are simply paid to plug THE EARLY press barons knew the beneft ever, extensively ‘restored’ and ‘document- by regular undergraduates. It is not uncom- brands, products and events, is blithely ig- of a good ‘stunt’ and over 100 years lat- ed’ as a Leonardo, it was brokered privately mon for students to be taught by an aca- nored. Keying ‘buy followers on Instagram’ er the overly compettve art world has to Rybolovlev in 2013 for £97 million. Chris- demic who isn’t even earning that much. into Google Search immediately ofers easily learned the value of a gimmick. Un- te’s created an unparalleled circus around The £2000 premium allegedly ofsets the 11,500,000 results. Dito for Twiter, Face- tl 25 February 2018, visitors to the Design the lot, taking the paintng on a world tour, loss of a third year of fees. book and Linkedin. The glamorous blog- Museum will be able to enjoy an exhibiton with events in London, Hong Kong and San ger, Jenna Abrams (@Jenn_Abrams), had of neck tes from lefwing broadcaster, Jon Francisco. In New York, hung in a dimly lit, SNOUTS IN THE TROUGH 80,000 Twiter followers and her observa- Snow. These, along with coloured socks, long room, it was likened to a shrine by tons were regularly cited by Buzzfeed, The are the harmless trademark of this genial some visitors – and the promotonal video NEARLY ALL Britsh universites enjoy a New York Times, The Telegraph, and other C4 news anchor. But really! The display in for the sale featured Leonardo DiCaprio and charity status – recognised with lucratve media agencies. Untl, that is, it turned out ‘she’ the museum’s main atrium masquerades as Pat Smith suitably impressed by the paint- tax exemptons. The Guardian newspaper was a total fake, created by a Russian, gov- an exploraton of the design process behind ing. Not all observers were seduced. Todd recently provided an interestng overview ernment-funded, troll farm in St. Petersburg. Snow’s distnctve te collecton, that he Levin (again) told The New York Times: ‘This of greed at the top of university manage- ‘selects each morning based on his mood was a thumping epic triumph of branding ment (précised here). Professor Dame Former Facebook vice president for ‘user but is conscious that “the te should nev- and desire over connoisseurship and reality.’ Glynis Breakwell, former vice-chancellor growth’, Chamath Palihapitya, who ad- er distract from the news”.’ Of course, the of Bath University was paid over £468,000 dressed a Stanford Graduate School of DM show itself made ‘news’ via chums in a But who was the mystery buyer? All eyes (not including an interest-free car loan of Business event, claimed social media spectrum of print and broadcast media. The swivelled, naturally, towards Qatar and the £31,000; £20,000 in expenses; plus almost was leaving users ‘vacant and empty’. tes are mostly created by textle designer Gulf states – and the new Abu Dhabi Louvre £5,000 for her gas bill). Ousted afer a rabid The 41-year-old added: ‘The short-term, Victoria Richards and uniquely woven in silk outpost and a Saudi strongman currently media backlash, she will take a year ‘sabbat- dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve by Vanners, one of the UK’s last te-making awash with cash. Last November, Crown ical’ before stepping down in 2019 – pock- created are destroying how society com panies. Naturally you too can snap up Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi etng another £230,000 in the process. At works.’ He said: ‘We get rewarded with a replica at the Design Museum Shop from Arabia, aka MBS, ‘arrested’ some 200 of the Bangor University the vice-chancellor, John these short-term signals – hearts, likes, limited editons of 25, a snip at £125. kingdom’s richest and infuental business- Hughes, gets £245,000 a year – and lives in a thumbs up. And we confate that with men, ofcials and princes in a corrupton grace-and-favour country house subsidised value and we confate that with truth. Snow’s harmless foray into the artworld clampdown and power grab. Detained in to the tune of £750,000. At the University No civil discourse, no co-operaton; mis- gimmick derby pales alongside a work called the Ritz-Carlton hotel, they have all been of Bolton, yacht and Bentley owner, George informaton, mistruth... and it’s not an De Profundis, staged by Mikes Poppe, a Bel- handing over hundreds of billions of dollars Holmes, got a £960,000 loan to buy a man- American problem – this is not about gian ‘artst’ born in Antwerp in 1983. Which in assets to avoid further investgaton into sion close by, on top of being awarded an Russian ads – this is a global problem.’ might explain it. In an Ostend courthouse, their afairs The AD Louvre is next door in 11.5% pay rise. Sir Christopher Snowden, Unsurprisingly, Facebook rejected the Poppe chained himself to a block of marble the United Arab Emirates, whose Crown the vice-chancellor of Southampton Uni- ‘outdated’ opinions of their former and meant to show the ‘burden of history from Prince, Mohammed bin Zayed, is a close versity, was awarded a increased pay pack- no doubt disgruntled employee. which artsts cannot escape’ and intended personal friend of MBS. The AD Louvre has age of £424,000 last year – £72,000 more to free himself (both metaphorically and ofcially announced already that it expects than he earned the previous year. Analy- MEANWHILE One enterprising company, literally) by chiselling away at the marble. to house the Salvator Mundi. sis shows that more than seven out of 10 Private Jet Studio, has even devised a hire Poppe, who ate, slept, washed and drew vice-chancellors are either members of the opton for photo shoots on grounded Gulf- while atached to the 3.28 yard long chain UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE commitees that set their pay, or can sit on stream jets. Want to impress your social had to give up afer 19 days and be cut free them – as Glynis Breakwell did. The average media ‘followers’ with a fake lifestyle? It is by aides. And Joseph Beuys made it all look SURPRISINGLY, THERE are stll those who package for a vice-chancellor was £277,834. $250 for a two-hour session in a private jet so easy! think universites and colleges are dedi- parked on an airstrip in Moscow – hair and cated to learning and the nourishment of As charites, universites are controlled by makeup extra. What about hiring contem- FAKE or FORTUNE? exceptonal ability – as opposed to large trustees (aka councillors). At Bath, for exam- porary masterpieces by the hour to pose corporate-style businesses equally dedicat- ple, most stem from fnance and business alongside and be a ‘major collector’ and art REGULAR READERS will know we are end- ed to proft and power. The wacky socialist (like Rothschild Asset Management and au- investor on Instagram? Now there’s an idea! lessly entertained by the adventures in art- experiment that decreed higher educaton ditors PwC) and they universally outnumber land of Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian busi- (HE) should be ‘on demand’ for all – even any student representaton. Over at Man- NEWS - BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT nessman stroke oligarch, who has enjoyed the most untalented – has turned university chester University, half the trustees come colossal resale losses (in % terms) on his tme into an extended gap year, introduced from business – predominantly AstraZen- The Times and sunday Times are among fne art investments. Two Rybolovlev trusts spurious degree courses of litle merit, and eca, where the university’s vice-chancellor, the latest publicatons to get funding from in the Britsh Virgin Islands recouped ‘less destroyed Britain’s historic apprentceship Nancy Rothwell, has served as a non-exec- Google’s Digital News Initatve inno- than $50 million’ when the Russian sold system. But above all, the sheer numbers utve director. Two members of her leader- vaton fund. This very rich publisher has Paul Gauguin’s Otahi, according to court wantng a three year sabbatcal from real ship team come from this pharmaceutcal received a ‘large’ grant (defned us up to papers fled in New York. That’s about 60% life has enabled the transiton from grant frm, while three trustees are either cur- €1million / £900,000) to develop James below the $120 million Rybolovlev paid. He aid to tuiton fees. So today we are told (by rent or former employees. But no longer ‘an A.I. digital butler’ that individualises sold Gustav Klimt’s Wasserschlangen II for the University & College Admissions Ser- the Bishop of Manchester, previously a the way content is distributed to readers. $170 million, less than the $183.8 million vice) that advantaged teens (read rich) have traditonal appointment. Rothwell also sat Google says: ‘Their readers love the cu- purchase price. His Auguste Rodin sculp- tghtened their grip on university places. In on her own university’s pay commitee, ac- rated order, the fnite experience and the ture, L’Eternel Printemps, fetched $20.4 mil- 2017, a third of 18-year-olds were accept- cording to the University & College Union, editorial selecton […] by using self-learn- lion, an aucton record for the artst but less ed for HE, and the most afuent group in- as did Hughes and Holmes. Nice work if you ing algorithms and a bespoke artfcial in- than a half the $48.1 million he originally creased their entry rate to 53.1%. Interest- can get it... ! telligence.’ The Murdoch-owned ttles are paid. Overall, Rybolovlev reportedly invest- ingly, the UCAS data also shows that white among publishers around Europe receiving ed about $2 billion in some 38 works, pro- pupils are less likely to go to university than NOTE grants, including: Reuters for Ampersand cured privately via controversial Swiss art any other ethnic group. Which appears to Our positon on the Artorum and any other allegatons in the same vein is this: as and when the (personalised news programmes – a mon- dealer and ‘free port’ mogul, Yves Bouvier. support the general view that Britsh HE accused is tested and proved guilty by a legitmate etsable mid-form digital video experience insttutons focus their recruitment drives legal entty they should absolutely bear the full weight of the prescribed penalty. No one is enttled by employing content personalisaton and But wait, with the astonishing world record on the wealthy of faraway places. Now they to coerce, bully or abuse subordinates under any ad targetng); and the Financial Times, made at aucton for a paintng hotly dis- have a new wheeze. To be able to cram in circumstance. However, ei incumbit probato qui dicit, non qui negat must be the mantra of any €300,000 for Quantfying Knowledge puted as being by Leonardo da Vinci, have even more students, ‘accelerated degrees’ civilised and liberal society. ‘Convicton’ by the (harn essing the unique knowledge quant- the fortunes of its former owner – Dmitry will allow them to complete a course in internet mob is getng all too prevalent across all stratas of society. Fake views = fake news. fcaton tech nology to provide users with Rybolovlev – fnally changed directon? His two years instead of three – something all

STATE | 7 AN ART NEWS COVER RESTATE MONITOR IMAGE HI-FLYER HUNT DIES at 60 PAULINA KOROBKIEWICZ NOT MANY people knew the Mark Hix late British racing driver, James Shoreditch Hunt, had a younger brother. Much less that he was a key play- London 2017 er in the New York art world and former curator of prints and photographs (for more than 20 years) at the Andy Warhol Foundation (AWF). Tim Hunt, who has died aged 60, was easily identifiable by his dark rimmed HOT & COOL ART spectacles and smart suits. Born at Cheam, Surrey, in 1957, the son of a merchant banker, he was ed- EDITOR CONTRIBUTING ucated at Well ington College. He Mike von Joel EDITORS married and later separated from [email protected] Kate Enters cult writer, Tama Janowitz, fresh Holly Howe from the success of her book, PUBLISHERS Lou Proud Slaves of New York, a collection Lee Sharrock of interconnected short stories Karl Skogland about New York City strivers. She [email protected] Emily Spicer William Varley described her marriage to the Jeremy Levison gallerist as that of two people Tim Hunt New York gallery owner and Warhol Foundaton executve (courtesy Judith Benhamou-Huet) EDITOR at LARGE [email protected] who needed a lot of space. ‘His Below: Irving Blum with Andy Warhol, late ‘60s (courtesy Interview Archive) Michael Barnett bubble was too big and my bub- Botom: Tim Hunt with then wife, Tama Janowitz, Art of Giving event, 2012 ADMINISTRATION CORRESPONDENTS ble was big, so it was like, we’re not even together.’ Hunt was also anga, who helped the artist pro- Julie Milne famous for his assoc iation with duce nearly all early silkscreened David Tidball [email protected] the defunct Andy Warhol Art paintings. Simon’s painting was BERLIN Authentication Board (AWAAB) awarded a B by the AWAAB (A for CREATIVE DIRECTOR – a now discredited arbiter of the ‘work of Andy Warhol’ – B for ‘not Elizabeth Crompton Silvia Maietta artists’ works mired in litigation the work of Andy Warhol’ – C for [email protected] MELBOURNE and accusations of favouritism, ‘not able at this time to form an contradictory adjudications and opinion’). Furthermore, owners PUBLISHED BY PRINTED BY commercial conflict of interest. who have their works reviewed State Media Ltd. State Media Limited. In one memorable case, a friend have to sign a contract by which LONDON LONDON of Warhol, filmmaker Joe Simon, they forgo any right to a legal [email protected] SE1 3UW bought a painting in 1989 for appeal. Irving Blum, the dealer $195,000, a red silkscreened whose Ferus gallery staged a self-portrait. The 24-by-20-inch seminal Warhol show in 1963, STATE MAGAZINE is available through 1965 work had been previously proposed that who submits a selected galleries, libraries, art schools, handled by Christie’s and Ronald painting definitely affects what museums and other art venues across the UK. Feldman, a well-known Manhat- the board will say. ‘My sense is tan dealer in Warhol. It had also that if it’s a charmed member of FREE Totally free, STATE is about been examined by Fred Hughes, the inner circle they’re inclined new manoeuvres in painting Warhol’s executor and the late to accept it. And if it comes from and the visual arts - combined chairman of the AWF, who signed another source they’re inclined with f22, a supplement on an authentication on the back of not to. It’s arbitrary, I believe.’ developments in the fusion of the painting. In the course of his The AWAAB closed in 2012 when

TALES OF AN ROGER art & photography. fight with the AWAAB, Simon also the costs of defending litigation BALLEN 26NOW PHOTOGRAPHY OTHER 26 WORLD got affidavits of authenticity from threats from extremely wealthy FREE It is not a review magazine Paul Morrissey, Warhol’s Fact- and powerful art investors be- 26 | HOT & COOL ART - it is about PEOPLE worth ory film director in the 1960s; came increasingly and financially serious consideration; Billy Name, the Factory’s house onerous. PLACES that are hot and photographer; and Gerard Mal- (source: AWF/ Condé Nast/Telegraph) MARK HIX A PLAN FOR happening; and PROJECTS ALL SEASONS developing in the international art world. COOK OF THE YEAR To apply to sTock sTATE MAgAzinE, please mail TO MARK 250 years since James Cook set sail from Plymouth, the Julie Milne : [email protected] British Library will tell the story of Cook’s three great voyages through twitter.com/statef22 www.facebook.com/statef22 original documents, many of which were produced by the artists, scientists and seamen on board the ship. Drawings by the Polynesian www.state-media.com high priest and navigator, Tupaia, who joined the first voyage at Tahiti and accompanied Cook to New Zealand and Australia, will be going on YOU CAN GET STATE log on to public display for the first time. Cook’s own journal detailing the first BY POST crossing of the Antarctic Circle and handwritten log books, original artwork and maps, will chart his three key explorations. This major www.state-media.com SIMPLY ADVANCE US exhibition will also include work by expedition artists John Webber, YOUR OWN P&P select State and click Sydney Parkinson and William Hodges. Magazine opton [THE MAGAZINE IS FREE] Britsh Library 27 April - 28 August 2018

8 | STATE NEWS ‘I don’t listen to what art critcs say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critc to fnd out what art is.’ { JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT }RESTATE

DM’s BD Museum and Leading Cultural Destination of 2017 as part of MORE THAN 780,000 people the global LCD Awards. In March have visited the Design Mus- 2018, the DM will present Hope eum since it opened on to Nope: Graphics and Politics Kensington High Street on 2008 - 2018. The exhibition will 24 Nov ember 2016, a six fold explore the diverse methods increase compared to their that have been used to create final in Shad Thames. The and communicate political move to Kensington tripled the messages over the past ten museum’s size to 10,000sqm. It years as social media and now also houses two temporary instant graphic design has exhibition galleries, a 210 seat given every man and his dog a auditorium, a library, restaurant political voice. and learning spaces. The DM 224-238 Kensington High St, W8 6AG was awarded the Best New 28 March - 12 August 2018

painting is, and the current news FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES headlines highlighting a macro issue about the public health and A NEW YORK City woman and The artist of this painting, Bal- safety of women.’ It is fair to say her sister launched a petition to thus, had a noted infatuation with that alternative views to this are demand the Met remove a 1938 pubescent girls and this painting available. Balthus painting called Thérèse is undeniably romanticising the Dreaming. Why? Because it shows sexualisation of a child.’ Her peti- Balthus was born Balthasar a girl sitting on a chair with her tion continues: ‘Given the current Klossowski de Rola (1908- FLYING DUTCHMAN knee up, that exposes her under- climate around sexual assault and 2001). The Met held an exhib­ THE VAN Gogh Museum wel- by the Louvre. The museum wear. Mia Merrill, 30, argues this allegations that become more ition titled Balthus: Cats and Girls comed a new record of some now positions itself – alongside actually depicts a young girl in a public each day, in showcasing - Paintings and Provocations in 2,260,000 visitors, making it MoMa NY, the Louvre, the Met sexually suggestive pose when this work for the masses, The Met 2013. The exhibition was pref- the most visited museum in the and Saatchi Gallery – firmly taken from a man’s point of view. is romanticising voyeurism and aced with a warning that some Netherlands in 2017. The Eras- in the international top five of Her Care2 petition has attracted the objectification of children.’ of its content might be ‘disturb- mus University Rotterdam museums on social media. The more than 6,000 signatures to She concludes: ‘Ultimately, it’s a ing’. The Met has declined to be examined the reputation of the museum’s own website attract- date. Merrill opines: ‘They are a small ask in consideration of how bullied by Merrill and her sister, 18 most famous art museums ed more than 3.2 million unique renowned institution and one of expansive their art collection is Anna Zuccaro, 26, and refused to in the world and respondents visitors in 2017. the largest, most respected art (they can easily hang up another remove the picture. ranked the Van Gogh Museum museums in the United States. painting), how overtly sexual the (source: The New York Times) in first place, closely followed (source: Netherlands Museums)

NEW £100,000 ARTS GRANT? QUESTIONS BEING ASKED ABOUT SPONSOR

A MYSTERIOUS foundation that Stephen Christopher Lennon ‘Zimbabwean English film pro- describes itself as a ‘UK based in- (aka Andrew McMaster and Paul ducer, author, entrepreneur ternational charity that supports Harris), has a criminal record and philanthropist’ according to filmmakers, actors and individ- with convictions for a number of his website. uals studying or working in per- offences, including football-relat- forming arts worldwide’, has ap- ed violence and trying to travel The Charity Commission res- pointed former English Defence on false documents. He founded ponded to press enquiries: ‘We League leader Tommy Robin- the EDL in 2009 to oppose to the are aware of reports that the son as a ‘Goodwill Ambassador’. spread of ‘militant Islam’ – but MMBF Trust, which is not regis- The Matthew Martino Benevo- quit in October 2013, when he tered with the Charity Commis- lent Fund (MMBF) announced: was allegedly persuaded to leave sion, has been referring to itself ‘We are pleased to announce after speaking with anti-extrem- as a charity and plans to make that Tommy Robinson will, as ist think tank, Quilliam. significant grants. Any exclusive- part of his role, oversee our new ly charitable organisation with £100,000 arts grant scheme be- The Nottingham-based organ- an annual income of more than ing launched in February 2018. isation was founded by Matthew £5,000 is required by law to regis- This will trigger the launch of the Martino (aka Mathetes Chihwai) ter with us unless spec ific exemp- MMBF Tommy Robinson Award who reportedly developed Essex tions apply. We are also aware of scheme that will offer grants and TV and owns the online Harlow reports about the organisation’s funding to creatives and artists area publication, Essex Magazine. links to a controversial speaker.’ across the UK.’ Robinson, born Chihwai (pictured right) is a (source: AP)

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DURO OLOWU DANIEL LISMORE BRIGETTE REID NICHOLAS SEROTA

Opening of Frieze Masters

JEAN PIGOZZI

FRANK COHEN CHRISTINE BLAKE CHARLES SAUMERAZ - SMITH PETER BLAKE

EDMUND DE WAAL JEFF MCMILLAN CORNELIA PARKER SARAH MORRIS

NIALL MCDIARMID

YINKA SHONIBARE Opening of Frieze, Regent’s Park MARC QUINN

ANGELA MERKEL, CUT-OUT SANDRO KOPP Frieze London, October 2017 ‘Art is a line around your thoughts.’ QUOTEUNQUOTE { GUSTAV KLIMT } PEOPLE NO FOOLIN’ THEM

WHITECHAPEL ART ICON

THE FIFTH artist to receive the annual Art Icon honour is Mona Hatoum. The Whitechapel Gallery, in partnership with Swarovski, will present the 2018 award on 29 January 2018 at a gala dinner hosted by Iwona Blazwick and Nadja Swarovski (of the Swarovski Executive Board). Swarovski is a longstanding sponsor of the Gallery and its programme. Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and has lived in London since 1975. ‘They [artsts] are all socialists who want to be rich. Richard Hamilton took us for lunch in 1968 or 1969, in a brand new Porsche with a Labour stcker on it’ Gilbert & George in the Times Magazine 4th Annual Parade of the Unshrinkables Royal Academy on Friday November 10th, 2017 DREAM ON ABSENT FRIENDS THE CHELSEA ARTS CLUB TRIBUTE HAS A SOMBRE UNDERTONE

THE ORIGINAL Unshrinkables, or be cared for in the London Mili- ‘I do not think arts insttutons to give them their proper name – tary Hospitals. The Unshrinkables, Ralph Rugof should take money from people the United Arts Volunteer Rifles as they became known (due to who treat life so recklessly’ came about in the first few weeks their white woolly jumpers re- VENICE BEANO 2019 of the 1st World War in August sembling the Unshrinkable un- Mark Rylance on discovering the source of the Sackler Foundaton wealth (Purdue Pharma, 1914, writes Stephen Bartley. dergarments then advertised by THE DIRECTOR of the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, fned $634.5 million by the US Government for Members of various male Clubs the Wolsey company), provided Ralph Rugoff, has been appointed Curator of the 58th La Bi- fraudulent claims about the highly destructve in London, eager to participate in many of the volunteers for these ennale di Venezia to be held in Venice, 11 May - 24 November, pain-killer, Oxycontn). the hostilities, but who were too Hospitals. Thirty members from 2019. Based in London, Rugoff has run the Hayward Gallery old, married, unfit, or otherwise Chelsea Arts Club answered an since May 2006. LIVING THE LIFE ineligible for Kitchener’s New appeal for help at the 3rd Lon- Army, took matters into their don General Hospital, Wand- own hands and formed their own sworth, and it was there that they volunteer militias. Members of created The Gazette, which em- Chelsea Arts Club were among ployed their outstanding literary, the first, and new recruits could graphic and humorous talents. be seen practising their basic drill The sculptor Francis Derwent every morning in the garden be- Wood produced life-like masks fore breakfast, wearing woolly at his ‘Tin Nose Shop’ for casu- jumpers for warmth, and broom- alties with severe facial injuries. sticks in place of the rifles which Another group of Unshrinkables were so desperately needed on led by Solomon J. Solomon RA, the Front Line. Actors, architects, who designed the battalions fa- ‘I like the light to be a partcular musicians, writers and journal- mous ‘Duck & Skewer’ cap badge, way, so I have a Himalayan salt ists were also welcomed into the formed the Camouflage School ranks. in Kensington Garden. As the War lamp at one end of the desk and a progressed, many joined regular daylight lamp at the other’ As their numbers grew, the Royal fighting regiments in Flanders Entry in an ArtNews ‘my diary’ column by Academy offered space for offic- and elsewhere, or stayed at home Baroness Rawlings Chrissie Iles, the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz es and the use of their courtyard becoming gunners, drivers – and Curator at the Whitney. for drill and parades. Field trips wardens, defending London from UK ART IN EURO-PARLIAMENT at weekends to Lord Desbor- the Zeppelin attacks. HOW TO WRITE A HEADER ough’s estate at Taplow Court in WHEN Baroness Rawlings was a Tory MEP between 1989 Bucks, entailed a route march of As part of the WW1 Centenary, and 1994, she chaired a committee which spent £80,000 on some 4 miles from the railway members from Chelsea Arts Club 12 paintings to exhibit in Brussels. They include works by the station before gathering to carry and others decided to pay hom- Scottish artist Peter Doig. In 2015, Doig’s Swamped, a paint- out trench digging, bridge build- age to this extraordinary band of ing of a moonlit white canoe, sold at auction for nearly £20 ing and war games, sustained by creative individuals, by reforming million. There are also works by Michael Craig-Martin. The a staple diet of ‘bully beef stew’ and parading in a similar manner question exercising our Lords is: Will the British art collection and brandy. As they marched to their predecessors. In 2017, in the European Parliament along on the public highways, plum pudding and brandy butter be repatriated when the UK some thought that they might be was kindly provided to the Un- leaves the EU? Lord Ashton German prisoners of war. This shrinkables by Fortnum & Ma- of Hyde, a Tory culture min- was too extreme for some of the son, something the shop supplied ister, has observed: ‘The more elderly artists, such as John 100 years ago for many troops at Government has not yet ‘Modigliani was the Weinstein Lavery, who quickly returned to Passchendaele and elsewhere on made a decision’. of his day’ his brushes, painting the first of the Western Front . (Source: AP) William Moore in Evening Standard Notebook a series of works depicting early casualties arriving back home to (source: L.Cpl. Bartley, Stephen. Hon. Sec. & Treas.) Peter Doig

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Contrary to many reports, Salvator Mundi was not the last Leonardo in private hands. { The Duke of Buccleuch owns Leonardo’s } Madonna of the Yarnwinder. RESTATE

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST The last few moments were tense as the crowd as well as Jussi Pylkkänen, the auctioneer, knew they were a part of history.

DAILY TELEGRAPH In New York, where no museum owns a Leonardo, the painting was hung at the end of a dimly lit, long room, giving it the appearance of a shrine. Thousands of art lovers queued for hours outside Christie's Rockefeller Center headquarters to view the painting.

THE NEW YORK TIMES Nina Doede was in awe when she saw the painting. ‘Standing in front of that painting was a spiritual experience. It was breathtaking. It brought tears to my eyes,’ said Doede, 65.

ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience,’ said Svetla Nikolova. ‘It should be seen. I'm so lucky to be in New York at this time.’

WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT... David Bailey (on right) with a villager, Nagaland, India SALVATOR MUNDI MISSIONARY

POSITION THE GUARDIAN Thomas Campbell, former director of the Met [said] that while IT IS HARD to think of David Bailey as a grey OAP, the price was ‘eye-popping, it should come as no surprise in a becoming 80 on the second of January. In the UK he market where speculation, marketing and branding have displaced is so synonymous with modern photography that in connoisseurship as the metrics of value. Someone is gambling that every mind’s eye he remains ever boyish, irreverent this painting will attract audiences in the way that the Mona Lisa and precocious. Today, he has perfected the irascible draws crowds at the Louvre’. and garrulous demeanour that so terrifies the young, short-skirted journalists regularly dispatched from CONSERVATION STORY the fashion glossies to get an update on a Sixties icon. When she fnally fnished conserving the work, Dianne Modestini Of course, the grizzled pugnacity is all a sham and admitted it felt like a painful breakup. She suffered separation he is heartily tired of all the Sixties retro-nonsense anxiety. ‘I felt a whole slipstream of artistry and genius and some (‘swinging for about 500 people!’). Bailey might have sort of otherworldliness that I’ll never experience again.’ been a dyslexic Leytonstone lad – once – and even retained a working class attitude to pretension, but Nanjai Longwa, Nagaland. India INDEPENDENT he is an astute and learned man, and when it comes This is your only chance to buy a genuine Da Vinci. to camerawork – a genius (there is no other word for Nagaland today appears as a mix of tradition, nostal- it). The camera is Bailey’s creative tool with which to gia and the new. It can be disconcerting – if not dis- couraging – when a tribal chief appears in a baseball EVENING STANDARD make manifest his experience. It’s a tool over which Whilst millennials try and work out how many sandwiches they will he now has absolute mastery and control, and over cap and state officials look sedate in shirt and tie. But Bailey’s skill, and a life time of experience, identified have to miss out on to be able to buy a house, someone has bought the years he has used it to create some enduring and a Leonardo da Vinci painting for £323 million. important images. He also has commensurate skill in the primal essence of this semi-isolated region and the process of taking photographs. He once noted: ‘If I the result is a package of images that are – on more than one occasion – strangely moving. Out in the THE SUN go to Delhi, I get off the plane and I start photograph- Some experts reckon the mystery buyer could have been diddled. ing, because five days later it all starts to look normal’. villages, Bailey captures the elderly men still dream- But even so, after 60 years of being a working snap- ing of the certainties of the past where communities were united by an ancient history. Bailey’s brilliance VULTURE per, one might be forgiven for assuming Bailey now Jenny Shaltz told Vulture.com: ‘Any private collector who gets potters around his various studios ruminating on his as a maker of a portrait is such that he captures the subtle menace of the warrior in these old tribesmen suckered into buying this picture and places it in their apartment or legacy. Not so. He’s just been on a foreign mission – to storage, it serves them right.’ Nagaland, in India. – the spears, knives and machetes they all carry are anything but tourist decoration. And what makes BLOOMBERG Anyone can be forgiven for never having heard of a study a portrait in Bailey’s eyes? ‘When someone ‘Jesus Christ.’ That was the reaction of mega art dealer Larry Nagaland (it’s a state in Northeast India. It borders knows that you’re taking their picture.’ In the large Gagosian after a rediscovered painting by Leonardo da Vinci the state of Assam to the west, Arunachal Pradesh towns, his lens records the schizophrenia that comes became the most expensive work ever sold. and part of Assam to the north, Burma to the east, when a deep seated culture tries to embrace the mod- and Manipur to the south). And apparently the ern world and its ersatz rewards. Does the Bailey wit FORBES head-hunting tribes of the Naga Hills have been an manifest itself in a group shot of confident male stu- Salvator Mundi is the frst and only da Vinci painting to be verifed obsession of Bailey’s for years. Each of the 16 tribes dents in Kohima (the state capital)? – a nod maybe at as an original in the 21st century. The last da Vinci painting verifed is unique in character with its own distinct customs, his famous picture of the three Kray brothers from as a master original was the Benois Madonna in 1909. language and dress; surprisingly they are mostly Box of Pinups, in 1965. Or maybe it’s just coincidence. Christian and with English as the official language. But there is one telling shot of the photographer on BUSINESS INSIDER The last outbreak of rural head-hunting reportedly a verandah, setting up to snap the chairman of the ‘It is every auctioneer's ambition to sell a Leonardo and likely the occurred in 1990. But it is still a remote region and Nagaland council – using a Rolleiflex mounted on a only chance I will ever have,' Jussi Pylkkänen said. ‘It's the pinnacle you have to admire Bailey as he wheezed up and tripod. It is reminiscent of Terry O’Neill’s capture of my career so far.’ down hill with his team to create a terrific portfo- of Bailey in his studio with Jean Shrimpton’s leg, lio now published by Steidl, rather grandly entitled back in 1964. There on a tripod, his trusty Rolleiflex. WALL STREET JOURNAL Bailey’s Naga Hills. The asthmatic breathing Bailey Thankfully some things never change. Billionaire collectors in the saleroom watched the win with their owes to catching psittacosis from a parrot and BAILEY’S NAGA HILLS David Bailey & William Dalrymple cellphone cameras held aloft as though they were at a rock concert. definitely not as funny as it sounds. STEIDL £40 HB 176 pp, 140 col images ISBN 978-3-95829-170-6

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Howard Hodgkin Salman Rushdie

Antoni Przechrzta

Marcus Harvey’s Myra

Damien Hirst Gavin Turk Anthony Gormley

Tom Phillips RA Simon Paterson

Peter Doig Dinos Chapman Anthony D’Ofay David Collins Kay Saatchi Charles Saatchi Endar Emin Tracey Emin Jeremy Paxman

Allen Jones Julian Barnes 1997-2017 IT IS ONLY 20 YEARS SINCE SAATCHI’S SENSATION EXHIBITION OPENED PANDORA’S BOX But it already seems like history…

A CONTROVERSIAL show culled from the private collecton of Charles Saatchi, who was already under the microscope for getng his Julian Schnabel holdings showcased by the Tate in 1982 amidst accusatons of market manipulaton. This was parroted by New York City mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, who accused Sensaton of atemptng to boost the value of the work by showing it in insttutons and public museums.

At the RA, many of the 44 artsts (but by no means all) were of the YBa brand – Young Britsh Artsts – that had gathered momentum in the previous ten years. The exhibiton will forever be etched in the mind of the public at large by Marcus Harvey’s powerful, large scale depicton of Myra (a Myra Hindley portrait twice vandalised during the show). Damien Hirst had fve of his signature pieces including the cows head/fy killer Jake Chapman (A Thousand Years), all soon to be regarded as iconic. A pensive Royal Academy posted this disclaimer to visitors on Sam Taylor-Wood Jay Jopling entry: There will be works of art on display in the Sensaton exhibiton which some people may fnd distasteful. Parents should exercise their judgment in bringing their children to the exhibiton. One gallery will not be open to those under the age of 18. In the event, the 110 works were visited by 284,734 people, roughly 2,800 a day.

The visionary RA exhibitons secretary, Norman Rosenthal, was a prime mover in invitng a wider audience to see these works for the frst tme. It caused a public furore and media frenzy, with crowds queuing outside Burlington House. The BBC described it as ‘gory images of dismembered limbs and explicit pornography’. The Mothers Against Murder & Aggression protest group picketed the show with Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley’s victms. Myra Hindley herself sent a leter from jail saying her portrait should be removed from the exhibiton.

Sensaton toured to Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum Malcolm McClaren Katrine Boorman Danny Moynihan Nicola Bruce (30 September 1998 – 30 January 1999) and New York’s Brooklyn Museum (2 October 1999 to 9 January 2000). The Australian leg was cancelled. SENSATION ROYAL ACADEMY Jarvis Cocker 18 September – 28 December 1997 King and Queen of the Castle How Andy and Christne Hall turned Georg Baselitz’ castle into an enormous art gallery

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16 | STATE Above: Hall Foundaton Schloss Derneburg Museum Derneburg, Germany Photo: Stefan Neuehausen WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE. into an enormous art space, which occupies 70,000 You fall in love with a piece of art, buy it, and usually sq feet. It opened on 1 July 2017, with not one, not Opposite: stck it on your wall. If you’re lucky, you might buy two, but seven immense shows. Five are solo shows Andy and Christne Hall 2017 Schloss Derneburg Museum some more, and those can go up too. And then featuring the work of Antony Gormley, Barry Le Photo: Helen During you buy a couple of extra works, and realise you Va, Malcolm Morley, Hermann Nitsch, and Julian have nowhere to put them. It’s a challenge most Schnabel, while the remaining two are group of us can deal with, but for Britsh-born collectors shows – The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Image Andrew and Christne Hall, it really is a challenge Works from the Hall Collecton, a group show when the number of works in your collecton is in curated by Chrissie Iles from the Whitney Museum; the thousands. and Für Barbara, an exhibiton of works by female artsts curated by dealer Leo Koenig in honour of Thankfully, they came up with a soluton to avoid recently deceased gallerist Barbara Weiss, a lifelong having to hide everything away in storage. In 2007, advocate for women in the arts. they created the Hall Art Foundaton to loan works to museums and galleries, opened a space So how did it all come about? Hall (66), an oil in Reading, Vermont, in 2012 to exhibit some of it trader who is chairman of Astenbeck Capital themselves, and this summer, opened their new Management, studied art for his O Levels in the gallery space at Schloss Derneburg, located near suburbs of London. He moved into the sciences, Hanover in Germany, to share even more of their studying chemistry at Oxford, while his wife collecton with the public. Christne studied microbiology at Bristol. But when they were courtng (they have known each other STATE visited the schloss (German for castle) this since school), they regularly went on dates to the summer, ahead of its ofcial opening, to get a Tate and to Charles Saatchi’s space on Boundary private tour from Christne and have a chat with Row in North West London, which would turn out Andy (as he is beter known), as to how this to be an inspiraton for them when they decided project came together afer purchasing the space to exhibit their collecton to the public. ‘Back in almost 10 years ago. the ’80s he did these stunning shows. I remember when Christne and I went to see them, we were Set in grounds spanning fve acres, Schloss like "woah this is amazing – how cool to do that”.’ Derneburg is not your average castle. For 30 years, it was both the home and studio of the artst Hall didn’t start collectng untl he moved to Paris in his late 20s to do an MBA at INSEAD. While Georg Baselitz Sing Sang Zero 2012 Georg Baselitz, before the Halls purchased it and Photo: Wayne Chisnall conducted extensive renovatons to transform it brushing up on his French at Berlitz, he discovered

STATE | 17 that his French teacher was a fan of contemporary adding to your bank account? You should be doing art, and together they would go around the city’s something", so I upped the game a litle bit. But it galleries. ‘It was eye-opening to me that you could was really afer 9/11 that I thought this could all actually buy that stuf. I thought art belonged to end tomorrow, so one should maybe be living for museums but no, you could buy it for yourself, so I the present a bit more. I also had lunch with an did buy a few things, not that at the tme I had any art dealer friend in New York, who told me that clue what I was doing!’ some people view art as a legitmate asset – it's not like just spending money on a yacht, or buying They contnued buying litle bits and pieces here an expensive car, and once I started, there was no and there, but in 1988, afer receiving ‘what seemed going back.’ like a huge bonus, I thought let's buy a serious piece of art.’ They requested catalogues from Sotheby’s The Halls then expanded their interest in German and Christe’s, spoted an artst whose name Hall artsts, adding works by Baselitz, A R Penck, and recognised from all those years back in Paris, and ‘we Jörg Immendorf to their collecton, and met ended up buying this rather beautful Joan Mitchell gallerist Leo Koenig along the way. It turned out paintng which we stll have’. They contnued to buy that Koenig was the godson of Baselitz, and he work sporadically, ‘depending on how rich I was arranged for the couple to meet the artst at his feeling’ laughs Hall, but it was stll with a view to studio and home in Derneberg, Germany. This led hanging the works in their home. to them buying Baselitz’s art collecton (120 pieces of his and his contemporaries’ work) and eventually But things started to change in 2000 when Hall led to them buying Schloss Derneberg from him turned 50. ‘It was some sort of midlife crisis or a year later. Hall explains: ‘I was exploring the whatever, and Christne said "What is the point of possibility of building a space in Connectcut near Hall Art Foundaton, Reading, Vermont

FOCUS ON ART

With an estimated 5,000+ works in your collection, it can be tricky to know Installaton View Julian Schnabel what to choose for your opening exhibiton. Here’s what the Halls went for at Photo: Wayne Chisnall Schloss Derneburg (afer having a bit of a rethink following the implementaton of the German art export laws.) the Halls are fans, and Schnabel has produced portraits of both TEXT | HOLLY HOWE of them. As Andy Hall said: ‘We show the work because we like it. Do I have a mission Antony Gormley Barry Le Va to repositon an artst? If that happens, I guess so much Probably the most ‘mainstream’ of all the artsts American sculptor and installaton artst, Le Va the beter, so yeah maybe.’ on show, the Gormley exhibiton is incredibly started making “process art” (where the emphasis The exhibiton showcases impressive. European Field from 1993 is on show, of the work is on the creatve process rather than seven large bronze sculptures featuring 35,000 tny terracota fgures, as well as the fnished result) in California in the 1960s. installed both indoors and on Sleeping Field, which was exhibited at the White This exhibiton features over ffy works including the grounds, together with a Cube in Bermondsey in 2016 and features 700 installatons, sculptures, collages, and works series of paintngs on found fgures. There are around 40 more fgures on on paper. Included is Cleaved Wall: Short Wall tarpaulin. show, as well as a selecton of works on paper and Grouping, where eight cleavers are individually other sculptures. driven into the wall with blunt force. The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Image Works from Malcolm Morley the Hall Collecton is a group show curated by Chrissie Iles Being the frst ever winner of the Turner Prize from the Whitney Museum. competton in 1984, Morley should be beter The exhibiton includes videos known but he’s not. The photorealist painter by artsts such as Omer Fast, moved to the States in the 1960s, and has been Tony Oursler, and Hito Steyerl, working there ever since, which may explain why as well as light installatons by his name is not instantly recognisable in the UK. Anthony McCall. A partcularly The exhibiton features around 30 of his paintngs, relevant video in the current including those of ships. The white border around politcal climate is the 2005 the paintng is a wity touch by Morley; it is not work by Javier Tellez, ttled actually a paintng of a ship, but of a postcard performance and music. The exhibiton includes One Flew Over the Void, which features a human with the picture of a ship on it. Hall commented: around 50 works datng from the mid-1960s, cannonball fying over the border between Mexico ‘Compared with other collectors we tend to have including installatons, paintngs, sculpture, works and the United States. a bit of a bias to established artsts who are a litle on paper, photographs, flm (beware if you’re of the radar screens, like Malcolm Morley. He’s squeamish!) and sheet music. Included in the Für Barbara is a group show of female artsts, been around forever but he’s not the frst artst show is Nitsch’s work The Pharmacy, which dates dedicated to the late German gallerist Barbara that springs to mind, so doing a show like the one from 1965, and was clearly an inspiraton for some Weiss. Her stepson – gallerist Leo Koenig – has we have here is great. It’s like a mini retrospectve.’ of Damien Hirst’s works. curated the exhibiton which features over a hundred works from the 1950s to the present day. Hermann Nitsch Julian Schnabel Artsts include Lynda Benglis, Tracey Emin, Nan Goldin, Mona Hatoum, Carmen Herrera, Candida An Austrian avant-garde artst, born in 1938, who The golden boy of the ’80s and ’90s, Schnabel Höfer, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Maria Installaton View Hermann Nitsch is a founder of The Viennese Actonism movement. dramatcally fell from favour in the art world before Lassnig, Lee Lozano, Aleksandra Mir, Catherine Photo: Wayne Chisnall His work combines paintng and sculpture with resurrectng himself as an excellent flmmaker. But Opie, and many many others.

18 | STATE Above: Installaton View Bethan Huws Above Right: Installaton View Antony Gormley Below: Tony Oursler Shock-Rock 2002 Photos: Wayne Chisnall Above: Damien Shrigley Hot Dog Repair 2013 where we lived at the tme where we could start Below Lef: Carmen Herrera Photo: Wayne Chisenhall doing shows […] but we ended up buying the Below: Installaton view Anselm Kiefer Hall Foundaton at MASS MoCA Photo: Arthur Evans castle because I ratonalised it as given that we were thinking of building a space in Connectcut, why not have a space in Germany instead? It has a prety amazing atmosphere and the castle didn't actually cost a lot of money, so it was an efcient way of acquiring a lot of real estate and what beter place to show German art?’

But litle did Hall know at the tme that the Germans were planning a change in the law regarding the export of art works. As of 2016, you now need to apply for a license if you wish to export a work valued over €300,000 and over 75 years old within the EU, or over €150,000 and over 50 years old outside the EU. Hence why Hall has decided to play it safe with the opening exhibitons, as despite receiving assurances from the local authorites, there’s stll no guarantee as to how things will pan out. ‘I just don't want to be the guinea pig for this law. Afer talking to various lawyers who all gave a diferent answers, we

concluded that there wasn't enough clarity for us he does view the aucton houses as a place to fnd As for art fairs, they now avoid them like the to bring all our Baselitz collecton as it might not be a good deal: ‘I think generally speaking, unless it's plague. Hall recalls: ‘When we frst started going able to leave. Now ordinarily I would might not care a completely new artst, I think the opportunites to fairs, we would go to booths of these famous about that, but at this point in my life, I do care. are in the auctons. The top “Triple A” pieces go dealers and ask how much a piece cost, and they [The law] has existed for a long tme in Italy and has for crazy prices but... I don't want to get specifc, would say it's sold. Well okay, maybe you could the same downside for Italy because it means that but we bought something the other day which stll tell me, but no, it's sold, get lost. But now you as things approach that 50-year limit, the Italian was ridiculously undervalued relatve to what the have people who know who we are and you can't collectors move them out of the country and then cheque would be to the gallery that represents keep them of you. They’re calling "Andy" and I'm sell them, which is why all the Arte Povera stuf is the artst. We bought it for a quarter of what they thinking who is this person? You walk past a booth startng to come up at aucton. Fairly stupid.’ would want for a similar piece.’ and you can see that there is nothing there that is remotely of interest but then you get one of these Especially as Hall has no plans to sell his When they do make a purchase, it is always with gallerists pouncing on you and they want to show collecton. ‘Obviously art costs a lot of money, consideraton. Hall explains: ‘Funnily enough, it you every work and explain it all. So we just don't and you can't separate the price from the object never really interested me buying one of this and one really go to art fairs now!’ so it's obviously something I have to think about. of that and one of the other, to build up a collecton But if you wanted to put it in stock market terms, of trophies, which I think is what most collectors do. And as for his day job, despite passing retrement age, the stock market talks about value investng and I always had at the back of my mind being able to Hall is stll hard at it. Asked if he had any retrement momentum investng, and I'm defnitely more of show groups of works which told a story, whether plans, he simply says ‘We'll see how the wind blows’. a value investor.’ While he admits he has traded it was about the artst and their career or if it was He sighs. ‘It allows me to buy art so we shall see.’ some works with gallerists like Koenig, he can’t a theme of works which would ft into some sort of recall ever consigning something to aucton. But category of ideas. It was very hubristc.’ hallartoundaton.org

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STATE caught up with Anthony Gormley to learn more about his practce and how he worked with the Halls to create his immense exhibiton at Schloss Derneburg. Gormley has known Andy and Christne Hall for over 15 years, and they frst started discussing the exhibiton back in October 2016.

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What was your vision for the installaton?

To give as good a sense of my practce as the spaces allowed, associatng works the Halls already owned with older and newer pieces, and allowing the diferent spaces and atmospheres of the castle to resonate with the works chosen.

How does that installaton at Schloss Derneburg difer from an exhibiton in a typical museum or gallery space?

There are a great variety of rooms and spaces and the varied and colourful history of the castle, startng as a monastc foundaton and becoming both an aristocratc home and an artst’s studio, allows for a lively dialogue and changes of scale – cloister to cow barns, chapel to grand recepton room, library to kitchen, cell to cellar, all distnct and all ofering a diferent atmosphere.

What was the process for the installaton of European Field?

All of the Field works have been installed with a group of volunteers. At Derneburg I worked with a group of great students from the nearby Braunschweig University of Art. It took a week of energetc work. Antony Gormley’s Installatons at Schloss Derneburg Being, July 2017 - December 2018 Now that you work with a larger team, what skills Photo: Wayne Chisnall have you learned during your career that have helped you manage your team and guide the The work all comes out of this technique. I work directon they take? on the body from the other side of appearance. My reason is the advantage of working with I used to think that I made my work, now I think feeling rather than trying to describe accurately it’s the other way around. The work informs what the efects of light hitng the skin of another body. my assistants and I need to do. We have to listen to what it [the work] is telling us. Every work suggests Do you stll use your body as a cast for your a path to follow in order to clarify, extend, and sculptures or do you see yourself moving towards make more apparent aspects of the work that are computer modelling? stll latent. If Leonardo had been alive today, he would be What is the process for making a cast of your using Rhino sofware. We have to use all the tools body? I heard you sometmes meditate during available. I have switched from making the plaster the process? moulds that characterised all of the work for the frst 30 years to now making digital scans. It has I adopt the positon which I have selected for a liberated the work to a certain degree. Digital sculpture and am wrapped in scrim, which is an technology is only a tool and allows us to model open-weave jute cloth, and plaster. Because the virtually but the work depends on a contnual plaster dries quickly, within ten minutes, the work testng of fall balance and structure in making. is divided into diferent sectons. Usually I stand on a piece of scrim which wraps around my feet. What is your favourite part of the installaton at Then my torso is covered. There are two sectons Schloss Derneburg? for my legs, front and back. Finally my assistant wraps my head. The whole process takes about an European Field. hour, perhaps an hour and a half. Then I am cut out of my mould and it is reassembled. It would have And what is your favourite piece at Schloss been impossible for me to make my work without Derneburg that isn’t from your exhibiton? having learnt Vipassana meditaton. This allows one to use the body as a tool for stealing the mind. Anthony McCall, Between You and I, 2006.

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www.hermeslucas.com Entrepreneur Natasha Arselan is hoping that her online auction house will protect artists’ future careers, whilst make the art object a rarefied commodity again.

The online gallery is nothing new, nor is the noton of a website that only sells art by emerging artsts, but writer and curator Natasha Arselan has set up the world’s frst online-only graduate aucton house for whom she describes as ‘pre-emerging artsts.’ And she’s had some high level input. It was Tracey Emin’s idea, while the two were brainstorming beside a pool in Miami, to include a price cap that will help protect the future value of artsts’ output. Plus, each work will also have a reserve price, so no artst will be lef out of pocket. On the roofop terrace of Shoreditch House, Arselan discusses what makes her business so very diferent. Natasha Arselan Photo: Andree Martn TEXT | EMILY SPICER

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to ignore the increas- With AucArt, Arselan believes she has ing for an investment naturally want ing trend towards buying art online. found a soluton: ‘[We will upload] reassurances that their new additon Internet sales reached an estmated only seven works a week and there will appreciate in value and that the $3.75 billion in 2016, up 15% from the will be new content every single day.’ artst has a future. Atractng new cli- previous year, giving the online market Each piece will be put up for aucton ents, is, therefore, a challenge, but, ac- an 8.4% share of the overall art market, for a week, which she says, ‘will create cording to Hiscox, the number of online according to insurer Hiscox. Even the an urgency, just like an art fair, and I art buyers that have purchased more most esteemed aucton houses have think that’s what other platorms are than a single artwork in the last 12 started to get in on the acton. The lacking. [There] is such statc content months has increased to 65% in 2017, combined income from online sales and so much of it. It’s not an enjoyable up from 63% in 2016. So it seems that at Sotheby’s, Heritage Auctons and experience.’ a loyal customer base is the key to suc- Christe’s accounted for 19% of web- cess in this burgeoning sector. sales in 2016. Arselan has combed degree shows across the country to fnd artsts at the Arselan’s hand-picked, curatorial Two of the most prominent players embryonic stage of their career, when approach could be a reassuring feature. in online contemporary art sales are their prices are lowest. ‘We’re the only And AucArt is ofering a diferent calibre Saatchi Art and Artsy. Unlike their site to specialise in early career, so a of art to the mass-produced pieces you more established and distnguished four year bracket where you can’t fnd so ofen fnd on what are essentally counterparts, who specialise in the that artwork anywhere else. I can tell no more than online art supermarkets. secondary market, i.e. resale, these you now, we have consigned some But don’t make the mistake of referring relatve newcomers are largely aim- absolute scorchers.’ Among her top to the work she sources as afordable: ing their business at buyers with less picks is Royal Academy graduate Oto ‘It devalues and cheapens the artwork cash to splash, although some pieces Ford’s Guts of Guston. ‘His works are before we’ve even seen it,’ she says. ‘I can sell for tens of thousands of expressive, gestural conversatons,’ think it’s probably every young artst’s pounds. And the volume of available she says, ‘and his unique compositons worst nightmare to be marketed using work is staggering. Artsy and Saatchi appear to be interdisciplinary.’ The the word ‘afordable’ and it’s disre- Art each ofer close to 500,000 paint- fact that Guston’s images look like spectul to any serious artst.’ ings, drawings, sculptures, prints and paintngs, but are in fact made digitally, photographs, and are contnually look- appeals to Arselan, who admits to liking While online sales and auctons are ing for new ways to encourage sales. In ambiguity in the art she sources. And increasing, it remains to be seen where 2015 Saatchi Art announced a mobile this theme contnues in another of her buyers will turn to for their investments app, which enables users to ‘virtually favourite fnds – Florence Sweeney’s in the future and even the professionals preview’ an artwork in their own home, sculptural Unfurl. ‘It appears delicate can get it wrong. Two years ago, the simultaneously enabling artsts to up- and fragile, yet is made from Jesmonite curmudgeonly critc Brian Sewell told load their work instantly. All of this is and aluminium, two very strong and The Telegraph that he had himself aimed at ensuring the highest possible durable mediums,’ she enthuses. made some bad choices, and noted turnover and makes buying art as easy that, ‘no one should buy works of art as shopping for a new pair of shoes. But Understandably, buyers can be nervous for investment – art is for pleasure Oto Ford The Guts of Guston 2017 with a bewildering amount of choice about purchasing work by unknowns and enlightenment.’ And most people available, fnding something that you only seen online. The ‘expert curators’, in the know agree that when it comes can live with and that will prove a good as ofered by Saatchi Art and others, down to it, the best thing you can do

www.aucart.com investment is akin to huntng for the are more akin to sales people than is buy something you want to see on proverbial needle in a haystack. impartal advisors, but those look- your wall – anything else as a bonus.

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STATE PROMOTION Gibraltar Today A cultural renaissance on ‘the Rock’ is being spearheaded by the Arts

TEXT | TRACEY POGGIO

THE MAJESTY and dominance of the from 1704 when joint British and Dutch imposing limestone rock that presides forces seized the Rock in their battle over the Strait of Gibraltar, has been the against the French. Gibraltar would be catalyst for warring factions for genera- ceded to Britain in perpetuity as part of tions. It is unsurprising that through its the Treaty of Utrecht 1713, which end- chequered past Tarik’s Mountain, as it ed the War of the Spanish Succession. was known by the Moors, has remained Peace followed but it was the American a beacon drawing artists and writers to War of Independence that would lead its shores romanced by legend, tolerance to Gibraltar’s greatest blockade and from and heroics. As the shadow of Brexit hov- which some of Gibraltar’s key historical ers over Britain and Europe, Gibraltar paintings originated. remains a modern day contradiction of terms. Proudly British, Gibraltarians are HISTORICAL KEYNOTE a totally inclusive society whose DNA is matched with its Moorish, British, Mal- The Great Siege remains one of the long- tese, Spanish, Portuguese, Genoese, Jew- est endured by British Armed Forces. A ish, and Hindu ancestry. dispute had arisen in earlier years be- tween Spain and Great Britain over com- Last October members of the Gibraltar merce between Europe and the Americas. Fine Arts Society presented Gibraltar In 1778, France declared war on Britain - As Seen By Five Artists in London. The with Spain following suit. The two na- Chief Minister, the Hon. Fabian Picardo tions sought to secure Gibraltar and its QC MP, hosted a private viewing of the control of the Mediterranean. Spanish exhibition. It sought to express five vis­ Lef: Paul Cosquieri Soundgarden Rock (detail) 2017 Above: Gustavo Bacarisas View of Gibraltar 1954 and French fleets isolated access to Gib­ ions of modern day Gibraltar as seen raltar by sea. The winter of 1779 was through the eyes of its artists. Gibraltar is the hardest the garrison would endure, a small territory, just 30,000 inhabitants, but the British refused to surrender. In but with large aspirations. Its community 1781, unable to starve the garrison out, is fused together by a diverse footprint the allies planned further attacks, but the of European ancestry, coloured with night before the British garrison made a vib rancy and culture. To understand surprise counter-attack and destroyed its flourishing arts it is important to the enemy entrenchments. From the understand Gibraltar’s anguished history safety of the fortified Rock, the British and its role in shaping the modern day used a new-style gun-carriage (devised Gibraltarian society. by George Koehler) to fire downwards from openings carved into the rockface ‘UN PARQUE NATURAL’ and linked by an innovative man-made tunnel system. Gibraltar also resisted Six and a half square kilometres and a the Bourbon allies’ greatest attack, on 13 haven for natural wildlife, the Rock’s September, 1782. It wouldn’t be the last pos ition at the crossroads of the Atlantic time its inhabitants came under threat. and Mediterranean make it an attractive This was a period of inspiration for art- path for bird migration, with a number of ists, drawn to the romance of Gibraltar’s rare species among common sightings. fate. The Bay of Gibraltar is home to three John Trumbull The Sorte made by the Garrison of Gibraltar 1788 species of dolphin and offers occasion- Perhaps the greatest visual account is al sightings of whale. Meander through cally recognised as the last known home Empire, Gibraltar came under Moorish John Singleton Copley’s Defeat of the the streets still encased by the original of Neanderthal man. The Neanderthals Rule in 711AD. The Gibraltar Museum, Floating Batteries. This would later be city walls and Gibraltar’s legacy is omni- were Gibraltar’s first ‘artists’ and wall which houses the remains of an original described by John Constable as ‘almost a present, from the eclectic architecture of drawings can still be seen in Gorham’s Moorish Bath House, and the Medieval history of the defence of Gibraltar’. Amer- its buildings to the street names, which Cave. Gibraltar’s first recorded history Moorish Castle, are both are fine exam- ican artist John Trumbull painted The depict key moments in time: Turnbull’s dates to 950BC, when the Phoenicians ples of the remnants of Moorish culture. Sortie made by the Garrison of Gibraltar Lane, Prince Edward’s Road, Morello’s lived on the Rock. They would be fol- in 1788. Depicting the celebrated coun- Ramp. Gibraltar’s past is embedded in its lowed by the Carthaginians and later Over the period 1309-1333, the Moors ter-attack the garrison made against the present. the Romans, who worshipped Hercules and Castillians would battle for control besiegers, it hangs in the Metropolitan in shrines which they called Mons Calpe, of Gibraltar until 1462, when it submit- Museum of Art in New York. In 2016, Gibraltar’s Gorham’s Cave the Hollow Mountain. Legend claims ted to Spanish rule. Queen Isabella I of Complex was designated a UNESCO Gibraltar as one of the Pillars of Hercu- Spain presented Gibraltar with its Coat The Great Siege made heroes out of World heritage site, and is now histori- les. Following the collapse of the Roman of Arms in 1502. Its British legacy dates many. General George Augustus Eliott,

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STATE PROMOTION later enobled as the 1st Baron Heath- Gomila, represents a group of artists field of Gibraltar, was painted by Royal open to wider influences from Spanish, Academician Sir Joshua Reynolds in British and international art, with a 1787. Currently in the National Gallery, trend of approaching art not only as an Reynolds work captures the man with- aesthetic practice, but as a wider social out whom Gibraltar would not exist in its tool. There is a willingness to engage current identity. One of Gibraltar’s most more than just artists into the world of influential painters, Gustavo Bacarisas, art explains Cosquieri: ‘There’s a mis- was born in 1873. Bacarisas’ work is conception that the Fine Arts Society is characterised by his rich use of colour. He open only to artists as active producers. studied in Paris and his work has gained It thrives on all art consumers, lovers, international acclaim. and supporters who want to join and witness the growth of local art at cultur- A PLACE IN HISTORY al evenings, exhibitions, lectures and the varied events we organise for members.’ With the advent of WWII, another defin- ing period of Gibraltar’s history arrived, John Singleton Copley Defeat of the Floatng Bateries 1791 one that and would put its inhabitants A VISION FOR TOMORROW at great risk. Following the German oc- strengthened relations with America and cupation of France, it was feared that an Britain’s diminished authority after the CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS There are currently four galleries in Gib- alliance with General Franco in Spain Suez Canal crisis, took Spain’s historic SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE raltar but the Government is supportive would allow Germany to attack. Gibral- claim on Gibraltar to the United Nations. in developing the visual arts scene which tarian wives and families were evacuat- Gibraltarians were given a constitutional Paul Cosquieri, President of the Gib- has seen the recent opening of a new ed, dispersed as far as Jamaica, Madeira, veto on the issue. A referendum returned raltar Fine Arts Society, describes the contemporary art gallery. Government Scotland, Northern Ireland and London a virtual unanimous vote to remain un- modern day art scene as ‘conservative commitment is further endorsed by its – although those arriving in the British der British jurisdiction and an infuriated in nature but alongside a classically recent project with world renowned capital would experience the full horror Franco duly closed the Spanish-Gibraltar Gibraltarian mind set which thrives on British street artist, Ben Eine, who has of the Blitz. The last evacuees did not border – it would not re-open fully until maintaining a tight unit at the expense created a signature visual on the façade return to the Rock until as late as 1951. 1985. of individuality’. The Society, which acts of 19th century Ince’s Hall theatre. General Eisenhower was headquar- as the central hub of art related activities tered in one of the Rock’s tunnel com- LOOKING TO THE FUTURE in Gibraltar, is working closely with the The art of every generation is a form of plexes, which had been extended under Ministry of Culture to foster the develop- expression that will drive debate and as the instruction of Winston Churchill. It Gibraltar has thrived in the years ment of art in the community, while also Gib raltar turns to a fresh chapter in its was also Churchill who – acknowledg- post-Franco. It welcomes over 11 million looking at ways to forge closer links with fluid history. So a new era begins, a re- ing the legend that claimed if the Bar- visitors each year by land, sea and air. Its the British Arts Council. A number of naissance of artistic story-telling by the bary Macaques left Gibraltar so would GDP puts it at one of the wealthiest jur- artists have seen recent international people who help shape it. the British – ordered additional packs of isdictions in the world today. Inevitably successes such as local portrait artist Macaques to keep the numbers plentiful. Gibraltar’s defensive stance throughout Christian Hook, who won the Sky Arts history and its more recent call for self Portrait of the Year competition. below: Ben Eine painted the façade of the 19th century After Queen Elizabeth II’s 1954 vis- -determination has shaped the persona Ince’s Hall theatre. it to Gibraltar, Franco, emboldened by of today’s Gibraltarians. Local artist, now Berlin-based, Francis

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TEXT | PHILLIPA BEALE

THE EXHIBITION aimed to highlight multi religious society, the very idea the concerns of the five artists whilst of Brexit is perplexing. Gibraltarians being a showcase for the current do not understand why Britain, their political and economic situation in mentor and Alma Mater, would want which Gibraltar finds itself since the to leave Europe, and his work explores Brexit referendum. The artists involved, this schizophrenic situation. Paul Cosquieri, Shane Dalmedo, Nina Danino, Carolina Santos Floriano and Gibraltar has for 300 years guarded Karl Ullger were chosen anonymously the Straits and stuck loyally to Britain. by the curator, who picked their work A curious phenomenon, considering because Gibraltar was relevant to their that the culture is European and the practice. official language English — but the colloquial language is Llanitowhich, Paul Cosquieri found that growing a mixture of Andalusian Spanish and up behind a closed frontier meant English and may include extended vo- that one could not escape the cabulary taken from Genoese, Hebrew, shadow and sheer physicality and Maltese and Portuguese. This is mainly omnipresence of the Rock. Shane how many Gibraltarians communicate Dalmedo’s subject is an exploration amongst themselves. Gibraltar is a by- of the human condition, where word for reasonable tolerance where sculptures become keepers of stories Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Muslim and secrets and form a dialogue communities all live in harmony and between the audience and the artist. respect each other. Nina Danino, the most well known of the artists, draws ideas from inter- In Gibraltar, the climate is tropical but subjective experiences, cultural the cultural events are Anglo Saxon; references, geography and a sense comprising Theatre, Dance, Fine Arts of place. Being Spanish, Carolina exhibitions, Book Fairs, Royal Academy Santos Floriano actively intervenes exhibitions and its own National Art in scenarios which provide different Gallery. It is a friendly place to live, perspectives offered by the Campo with a great community spirit and a de Gibraltar and its’ peculiarities. caring Government. Gibraltar exempli- This is precisely the type of reflection fies the saying 'small is beautiful’; and that has served her as inspiration. as Solomon Levy, a past Mayor of Gi- Karl Ullger is the only artist that has braltar said: ‘an example to the world’. dealt directly with Brexit, where over 90 per cent of Gibraltarians voted The Chief Minister, the Hon. Fabian Picardo QC MP, to remain in Europe. He feels that and Mrs Picardo, hosted a private viewing of living in a totally multi-cultural and Five Artsts at the Bermondsey Project Space

PAUL COSQUIERI KARL ULLGER

Born in Gibraltar in 1963 Paul was win- Karl Ullger describes his approach to his ning prizes from childhood. Awarded a work: ‘Mysterious and captivating, my scholarship to Chelsea School of Art, he earthy brown to purple palette can give undertook a one-year foundation course at times a morbid feeling as well as un- in Art and Design. Following his foun- known and negative connotations but dation year, he concentrated his studies this same colour palette can also be dig- on Graphic Design. Paul’s work is char- nified and portray sophistication. Black acterised by many influences and by his will also punctuate colour schemes that innate desire to push the boundaries by rely on strong contrasting colours. I rare- experimenting with new materials, media ly use black from the tube. I mix a great and styles from painting to photography “black” with Prussian Blue, Burnt Umber and sculpture. His painting has undergone and Alizarin Crimson. numerous transformations from his early Neo-Expressionistic style Rock paintings ‘Using “black” and dark purples help me to his abstract series coined as ‘Abstract achieve my goal of portraying Gibraltar Paul Cosquieri Popism’. as a place with a lot of conquest and sov- ereignty history. Inspired by her dark up- In his series Between a Rock and a Hard popular weekly life drawing and por- per town alleyways to scenic dusk land- Place he uses the structure of the Rock trait sessions at the Fine Arts Gallery, scapes overseeing Africa and Europe. as a foundation to seek new forms of Gibraltar. He has been President of the The multicultural architectural influence texture, shape, form and colour, nearly Fine Arts Society since 2014 and is in- has always turned my head. From Jew- always resulting in a representational, strumental in organising regular annual ish, to Maltese to Italian and Portuguese. yet abstract painting. Paul is a commit- art exhibitions such as the FAA Summer Gibraltar offers this palette platform ted artist, constantly involved in multiple Show, the Affordable Art Show or the Na- of architectural diversity which is very Karl Ullger creative projects such as organising the tional Celebrations Exhibition. much a key point in my art. Being born STATE PROMOTION and brought up in the old town, it is very close to heart. Gibraltar’s future is rocky The Minister for Culture, Media & Sport, the Hon. but without doubt will stand strong as Steven E. Linares MP, introduces the Five Artsts one of the Pillars of Hercules. My paint- exhibiton at the Bermondsey Project Space ings hopefully capture this through an honest artist’s depiction.’ now create interactions in real-sized settings, in comparison to the earlier CAROLINA SANTOS FLORIANO boxed versions.’

‘My dedication to art is born as a creative NINA DANINO impulse that seeks first and foremost aes- thetics and emotion. I actively intervene ‘Many of my works draw from inter-sub- the scenarios, model the reality captured jective experiences, cultural references, in my personal search for beauty. Thus, geography and a sense of place. Gibraltar I obtain a photograph constitutive of the is an entry point to the local, the region- reality manipulated in background and al and to the wider Mediterranean from form, a plastic exercise that goes beyond where I can travel out as far out as I want. the illustrative representation and that seeks to position the spectator in wider ‘These three works capture the ephem- horizons where new realities are created. eral quality of a region which is physical- but perhaps also lost in time. The beach- ‘The different perspectives offered by es featured in Apparitions, the view of the landscape of the ‘Campo ode Gibral- the natural landscape in Terrace and the tar’ have always made me think about weather in the audio of Meteorologies the peculiarity of this territory, and it is dematerialise borders and create elusive precisely this reflection that hasserved and ephemeral territories. as an inspiration for my last project: ‘Quiet places’ where I have transformed ‘My films have sometimes evoked a sense the landscape bringing it to a point of The distinct cultures that co-exist in this ornaments and objects are a very impor- of loss and in these works it is the weath- figurative abstraction, starting from the area influence the creativity of an artist, tant part of my expressive language as I er, a photograph, the haunting aspect of ‘Rock of Gibraltar’ to ‘Jebel Musa’ and although we have distinct nationalities, feel that these retain their own energy. cinema, especially the fleeting aspect of continuing the series with other land- share emotions and inspiration by nulli- They are keepers of their own stories acoustic memory – a song is heard waft- scapes of Andalusia that ever touched fying the borders and fulfilling this way is and secrets and so they add their own ing in the deserted beaches – the voices me. One of my goals with this project was one of the main purposes of art.’ language to mine when I use them in my of La Dolce Vita are heard calling to each to promote a playful experience with the work to form a new dialogue. other above the sound of crashing waves art by involving the spectator, inviting to SHANE DALMEDO in another lost contemporaneous beach send his own photographs of landscapes ‘My desire to tell my stories using stop – things which leave a sensation which with he only requirementthat they carry ‘I was born in Gibraltar where I have lived motion started some years ago. The cannot be grasped: remnants which have an emotional charge. Later these images for most of my life. I work in an art gal- challenge I encountered when I tried to left their impression on me.’ were manipulated to create a shared final lery and in my studio for the rest of the do this in Gibraltar, where at that time art. Curiously with this proposal I could time. I paint mainly on paper in acrylics, unlike today it was difficult to find the see how the majority of the participants I illustrate, construct 3D scenarios and equipment and materials that I needed Below: Nina Danino Guests regardless of their place of origin, sent make short films using live action and to achieve this, led me to create my diora- a flm stll from Terrace 2012 images where the ‘Rock of Gibraltar’ and stop motion. The subject of my work is mas inside boxes. These started off small Below Lef: Shane Dalmedo Cats Cradle its brother ‘Mount Jebel Musa’ appeared mostly I would say, to be an exploration scale. In my latest work I take this same mixed media 2016 as a reference point. into the human condition. Toys, dolls, idea and create them almost life-size and

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ART&MONEY

Jasper Johns Sean Scully PERSONAL ASSISTANT STEALS ARTWORK RAPIDLY BECOMING AN ART WORLD CLICHÉ Art&Money FAMILIARITY BREEDS COVER STORY PLAIN THEFT IT MAKES SOME sort of sense THERE CAN be few photographs for successful artists to employ more instantly recognisable other artists to work in their than Steve McCurry’s National studios if jobs need doing. They Geographic 1985 cover known might consider it ‘mentoring’ as: Afghan Girl. It made his art – but it helps if the assistant highly desirable to collectors, speaks the same ‘language’ which might be why his one- and demonstrates the correct time manager of print sales, a deference and awe of the ‘mas- Ms Bree DeStephano, was sen- ter’ at work. In today’s world, tenced to 9 to 23 months in pris- however, that tried and tested on in 2016 for stealing photo- apprentice system has collapsed graphic prints worth $628,000. when faced with the greed and According to the criminal com- entitlement of the post-60s gen- plaint, DeStephano would take eration. Now the courts are con- copies from the studio stock, victing a steady flow of artists’ such as The Afghan Girl, Taj on trusted studio assistants who Train, The Blue City, and Run- decided to steal from their em- ning at Sunset, and mail them to ployer for financial advantage. her co-conspirator, identified as Brandon Donahue, under the The latest victim of such betray- guise of a fictitious art gallery al is 72-year-old painter Sean she created, Marc Germain Art. Scully (definitely not a man to Donahue would then sell them, trifle with). Scully learned of send DeStephano the proceeds, the theft of a three-panel paint- and receive a percentage in re- ing almost by accident, when Jasper Johns courtesy Newsweek turn. The complaint also listed Bonham’s called to verify its 28 images that were sold illic- authenticity. Ironically, Scully at italy through the Open Shutter first thought it was a fake, say- Gallery. ing: ‘The composition was off. It was too symmetrical.’ And he alerted the NYPD to a potential- INSIDE JOB (AGAIN) ly bogus sale, sparking a two month investigation. The Irish A WAREHOUSE employee of 76 year-old Dale Chihuly, the painter, twice nominated for Sean Scully image: Liliane Tomasko courtesy Vice the Turner Prize, subsequently American blown glass sculptor looked for the work, in store for nearly three decades, to find it missing. Last October, Arturo Rucci, 50, Scully’s assistant in 2011, and an artist in his own right, was arrested for criminal possession of the 1985 painting, valued at $400-600,000. Last May, Scully’s geometric abstract James Meyer long tme assistant to Jasper Johns painting, Landline Sea (2015), made $1,692,500 at Christie’s New York. Rucci’s own hard- edge colour abstract paintings AS THE (under the name A.A. Rucci) sell at well under $2000 according to auction records. VALUE OF Steve McCurry one of the most generous of super-star photographers Brooklyn-based Rucci allegedly stole the triptych from Scully’s ART RISES Chelsea studio on W. 17th St. NYC, when in post. Recently, he THEFT had presented the work and agreed to a ‘consignment con- tract’ with Bonham’s Madison DIRECT Ave, meaning he would get a percentage if it sold. FROM TRAGIC BETRAYAL STUDIOS BACK IN 2014, James Meyer, an assistant for 25 years to the world famous artist, Jasper IS ON THE Johns, admitted the theft of 22 works from the artist’s Sharon, INCREASE CT studio complex. He received Fred Dorfman whose gallery made £4.5 million from stolen Johns’ artwork 18 months in jail. This time a and entrepreneur, stole more gallery was accused of complici- than 90 pieces worth in excess ty in the crime. Collector, Frank revealed the Dorfman Gallery by the 84 year-old Johns sold at who Johns hired to create a of $3 million. Christopher Rob- Kolodny sued Meyer, 53, and made around £4.5 million gross auction for £23.7million. Some- wax cast of a 1960 Flag sculp- ert Kaul went to jail for first cited Fred Dorfman, gallerist over six years, with Meyer tak- what tragically, a contrite Meyer ture got a 30 month spell in degree theft late last year. FBI and his gallery, Dorfman Pro- ing £2.6 million in illegal profits had been an assistant in Johns' jail for making unauthorised investigators claim that ‘89% jects LLC, for falsely represent- from the scam. Prosecutors said Connecticut studio for 25 years, copies he later attempted to of the thefts from institutions ing that Meyer had received 22 one buyer who agreed to return from the age of 21. sell. Brian Ramnarine, who are inside jobs’ and that ‘thefts Johns’ artworks as a gift and the artworks to Johns had spent owned the Empire Bronze Art by studio assistants follow the creating fraudulent documen- over £4.6 million on them. Last MEANWHILE And again in 2014, Foundry in Long Island City, same logic’. tation in support. The lawsuit year, an American flag painting the Queens (NYC) foundry owner admitted the crime. (Sources: NY Daily News/NY Observer/NY Post/BBC)

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Bit of the Other Part Two

The hysTeria surrounding crypto-currencies (in fact at the moment they are commodities not a currency) is beginning to feel like a gold rush. News media are fan- ning the flames of desire with lurid stories of million- aires being made overnight after a modest investment in Bitcoin, just one of the so-called crypto-currencies available. already, apocryphal folk tales are relayed as gospel by the avalanche of believers chasing the get- rich-quick rainbow. allegedly, in May 2010 a Florida man, Laszlo Hanyecz, made the first ever Bitcoin purchase of ‘two large Papa John’s pizzas’ for a sum of 10,000 Bitcoins – then a single Bitcoin was worth a fraction of a penny. as of august 2017, those 10,000 Bitcoins were worth $41,000,000 and (at the time of writing) significantly more than that. As it was, his Bit- John Cryan courtesy WSJ coin transaction cost him the equivalent of $41, so he overpaid for his supper. it is now claimed that 22 May Big Freeze at Deutsche Bank is recognised in the cyberworld as #Bitcoinpizzaday? DesPiTe being mired in money 9,000 job cuts over the next five it was described by the Inter- This may well be silly season news, but the exponential laundering scams with r ussian years, and so far it has made national Monetary Fund as the growth in Bitcoin ‘value’ is no laughing matter. A five oligarchs, colossal fines for about 4,000 of these. Cryan, world’s most dangerous bank, dollar investment in May bank ing irregularities and mas- a plain-speaking 56-year-old with fears its collapse could 2010 would now be val- sive annual losses, John Cryan, yorkshireman, has now warned pull down the global system. CeO of Deutsche Bank, says he could slash nearly 50,000 No doubt the happy bankers on ued at well over $15 mil- that current bank workers are jobs in a battle to get the trou- the receiving end of this harsh lion. Throughout 2017 the still too ‘error-prone’ and ‘in- bled German lender back on austerity will be pleased to read price per Bitcoin in the UK Paulina Korobkiewicz efficient’. He said: ‘We employ track. Last July, Jacob Bourne, the substantial sponsorship giv- rose from a few pounds to 97,000 people. Most big peers the head of Deutsche Bank’s en annually to London’s Frieze over £14,000 in December have more like half that num- inflation trading desk, left after Art Fair (for over 15 years) has ber.’ in 2015, Deutsche Bank risky bets on US inflation led to been ‘ring fenced’ for another – a 2,306.55% increase in announced that it was making a loss of $60 million. in 2016 three years. just 12 months. When the press reported Mayfair art dealer, Eleesa Dadiani, as the first to accept Bitcoin for art purchases, it was greeted with wry smiles by the trade. it is assumed Ms Dadiani was the one laugh-

ing as the art world closed Eleesa Dadiani says Yes... for the Christmas break.

MEANWHILE The frenzied headlines have already attracted the attention of criminal scammers. The CeO of the Confido cryp- The Wolf says No... to-currency firm disappeared with $375,000, raised from investors via an initial coin offering on an unreg- ulated iCO platform called TokenLot – who put out a statement saying the Confido team had ‘pulled an exit scam’. Confido's social media and website disappeared following the deposits. One Joost van Doorn, Confi- do's alleged chief executive, claimed to have worked at Bill de Kooning in the 1950’s courtesy Terri Maxfeld Lipp Willem de Kooning Woman-Ochre 1950-55 eBay, PepsiCo and Zalando. This has been denied by these corporations. de Kooning Thieves Exposed? Brad Garlinghouse, CeO of Ripple, the fourth-larg- The Willem de Kooning paint- painting from its frame. Over 30 the a lters. The stolen painting est crypto-currency by value, was quoted as saying: ‘a ing, Woman Ochre, miraculously years on, it reappeared at the hung, roseman claimed, in a lot of what's happening in the ICO market is actually returned for free to the Univer- Manzanita Ridge Antiques private room behind a door. it is sity of Arizona Museum of Art shop in silver City, New Mexico, now believed the deceased cou- fraud.’ More than £52,502,000 in Bitcoin was hacked (UaMa) collection, made head- sold by one Ron Roseman, of ple, two wealthy school teach- (stolen) from NiceHash, a Bitcoin mining marketplace, lines due to its value: $165mil- houston. he had been clear- ers who travelled the world in December 2017. lion. The 40-by-30-inch oil was ing out the house of relatives, during their lifetime, were the pinched the day after Thanks- Rita and Jerry Alter, his late thieves. The savvy antique shop To cap it all, last December the infamous Wolf of Wall giving in 1985 when a woman aunt and uncle. a police sketch owner, David van Auker, rec- distracted the museum security at the time showed a blonde- ognised the style of the paint- Street, convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort, described guard at the base of the stairs, haired woman and dark-haired ing, researched the image and Bitcoin as a ‘huge, gigantic scam’ and warned would-be meantime a man walked up- man, who were now deemed to contacted UaMa – to universal investors not to waste their cash. stairs and used a blade to cut the have an eerie resemblance to acclaim and public gratitude.

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Bit of the Other Part Two

The hysTeria surrounding crypto-currencies (in fact at the moment they are commodities not a currency) is beginning to feel like a gold rush. News media are fan- ning the flames of desire with lurid stories of million- aires being made overnight after a modest investment in Bitcoin, just one of the so-called crypto-currencies available. already, apocryphal folk tales are relayed as gospel by the avalanche of believers chasing the get- rich-quick rainbow. allegedly, in May 2010 a Florida man, Laszlo Hanyecz, made the first ever Bitcoin purchase of ‘two large Papa John’s pizzas’ for a sum of 10,000 Bitcoins – then a single Bitcoin was worth a fraction of a penny. as of august 2017, those 10,000 Bitcoins were worth $41,000,000 and (at the time of writing) significantly more than that. As it was, his Bit- John Cryan courtesy WSJ coin transaction cost him the equivalent of $41, so he overpaid for his supper. it is now claimed that 22 May Big Freeze at Deutsche Bank is recognised in the cyberworld as #Bitcoinpizzaday? DesPiTe being mired in money 9,000 job cuts over the next five it was described by the Inter- This may well be silly season news, but the exponential laundering scams with r ussian years, and so far it has made national Monetary Fund as the growth in Bitcoin ‘value’ is no laughing matter. A five oligarchs, colossal fines for about 4,000 of these. Cryan, world’s most dangerous bank, dollar investment in May bank ing irregularities and mas- a plain-speaking 56-year-old with fears its collapse could 2010 would now be val- sive annual losses, John Cryan, yorkshireman, has now warned pull down the global system. CeO of Deutsche Bank, says he could slash nearly 50,000 No doubt the happy bankers on ued at well over $15 mil- that current bank workers are jobs in a battle to get the trou- the receiving end of this harsh lion. Throughout 2017 the still too ‘error-prone’ and ‘in- bled German lender back on austerity will be pleased to read price per Bitcoin in the UK Paulina Korobkiewicz efficient’. He said: ‘We employ track. Last July, Jacob Bourne, the substantial sponsorship giv- rose from a few pounds to 97,000 people. Most big peers the head of Deutsche Bank’s en annually to London’s Frieze over £14,000 in December have more like half that num- inflation trading desk, left after Art Fair (for over 15 years) has ber.’ in 2015, Deutsche Bank risky bets on US inflation led to been ‘ring fenced’ for another – a 2,306.55% increase in announced that it was making a loss of $60 million. in 2016 three years. just 12 months. When the press reported Mayfair art dealer, Eleesa Dadiani, as the first to accept Bitcoin for art purchases, it was greeted with wry smiles by the trade. it is assumed Ms Dadiani was the one laugh-

ing as the art world closed Eleesa Dadiani says Yes... for the Christmas break.

MEANWHILE The frenzied headlines have already attracted the attention of criminal scammers. The CeO of the Confido cryp- The Wolf says No... to-currency firm disappeared with $375,000, raised from investors via an initial coin offering on an unreg- ulated iCO platform called TokenLot – who put out a statement saying the Confido team had ‘pulled an exit scam’. Confido's social media and website disappeared following the deposits. One Joost van Doorn, Confi- do's alleged chief executive, claimed to have worked at Bill de Kooning in the 1950’s courtesy Terri Maxfeld Lipp Willem de Kooning Woman-Ochre 1950-55 eBay, PepsiCo and Zalando. This has been denied by these corporations. de Kooning Thieves Exposed? Brad Garlinghouse, CeO of Ripple, the fourth-larg- The Willem de Kooning paint- painting from its frame. Over 30 the a lters. The stolen painting est crypto-currency by value, was quoted as saying: ‘a ing, Woman Ochre, miraculously years on, it reappeared at the hung, roseman claimed, in a lot of what's happening in the ICO market is actually returned for free to the Univer- Manzanita Ridge Antiques private room behind a door. it is sity of Arizona Museum of Art shop in silver City, New Mexico, now believed the deceased cou- fraud.’ More than £52,502,000 in Bitcoin was hacked (UaMa) collection, made head- sold by one Ron Roseman, of ple, two wealthy school teach- (stolen) from NiceHash, a Bitcoin mining marketplace, lines due to its value: $165mil- houston. he had been clear- ers who travelled the world in December 2017. lion. The 40-by-30-inch oil was ing out the house of relatives, during their lifetime, were the pinched the day after Thanks- Rita and Jerry Alter, his late thieves. The savvy antique shop To cap it all, last December the infamous Wolf of Wall giving in 1985 when a woman aunt and uncle. a police sketch owner, David van Auker, rec- distracted the museum security at the time showed a blonde- ognised the style of the paint- Street, convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort, described guard at the base of the stairs, haired woman and dark-haired ing, researched the image and Bitcoin as a ‘huge, gigantic scam’ and warned would-be meantime a man walked up- man, who were now deemed to contacted UaMa – to universal investors not to waste their cash. stairs and used a blade to cut the have an eerie resemblance to acclaim and public gratitude.

STATE | 33 STATE of mind VEGETATi VE STATE RUMSFELD

AMERICAN PAINTING IN THE 1960’s ART QUIZ UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984? 5. What is the largest temple complex in the 1. Who took the image used for BLAM world? ‘As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know (1962) from the comic book All American 6. What is the name of the famous house Men of War (#89) by Russ Heath? we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in 2. Who used a gasoline station as one of his we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also rural southwestern Pennsylvania? most iconic motifs in his paintings? unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.’ 7. Which architect of Villa Savoye said: ‘I 3. Which is the name of the last painting by prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, Edward Hopper in 1966? and leaves less room for lies’? 4. Which British artist is considered to pave 8. Which building in Prague features on a the way for 1960s American Pop Art? 17. In which State did David Hockney paint 11. In 1853, Gustave Doré was asked to gold 2,000 Czech koruna coin? 5. Who said, ‘Making money is art and his famous painting A Bigger Splash (1967)? illustrate the works of which English poet? 9. Which masterpiece of Islamic architecture working is art and good business is the best 18. In many ways, Pop Art was a reaction to 12. Which American gallery hosted ‘Albrecht was built in Jerusalem by Caliph Abd al- art’? which previous artistic movement? Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolours, and Malik between 687 and 691? 6. Which American art movement that 19. Where in Paris is Modular Painting Prints From the Albertina’ in 2013? 10. What is the name of the twin towers that began in the 1960s, took photography as its (1969) by Roy Lichtenstein? 13. Along with George Grosz, which German held the title of tallest in the world between main source of inspiration? 20. Who got inspiration from Picasso’s printmaker is widely considered one of 1998-2004 in Kuala Lumpur? 7. Who is historically considered the Guernica to paint American People Series the most important artists of the Neue 11. The first performance in the Concert primary founder of the 1960s movement #20: Die? Sachlichkeit? Hall of Sydney Opera House was a program of Fluxus? 14. Which artist, born Phillip Goldstein in works by which German composer? 8. What is the name of the artistic 1913, was a painter and printmaker in the 12. What is the name of the most famous movement emerged in New York known as New York School? medieval bridge over the Arno River in ABC Art? 15. The author of Les Demoiselles D’Avignon Florence? 9. Name of the art magazine created in 1965 (1907) created 347 etchings at age 87. 13. Which emperor ordered the and edited by many leading North American 16. Which 18th century English poet and construction of the Colosseum? artists. painter used illuminated printing for most 14. Who designed Rome’s St Peter’s 10. Who was the first American to win the of his well-known works such as The book Basilica’s façade? Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1964? of Thel? 15. Which ivory-white marble mausoleum 11. Which American Minimalist said in 17. His only daughter, Marguerite, became built in 1632 in the Indian city of Agra 1968 ‘Ideas alone can be works of art’? PRINTS AND PRINTMAKERS his muse in more than 40 drawings. means ‘Crown of the Palace’? 12. What was the name of Andy Warhol’s 18. Which variant of engraving invented 16. Which Goddess represented the massive New York art studio opened in 1964? 1.Which gallery founded in London in 1852 during 17th century formed images from chryselepantine sculpture made by Phidias 13. Which painter influenced by film and houses an extensive collection of original subtle gradations of light and shade? for the Parthenon? television started painting large-scale prints? 19. Who did John Constable commission to 17. The palace (now a museum) Louis works, often with dramatically cropped 2. Which Italian painter founded the leading make prints after his paintings? XIV refused to live in before moving to faces in 1960s? workshop of prints in Venice before 1500? 20. Which Baroque painter is regarded as Versailles? 14. Which American artist widely known for 3. Which French printmaker became a the foremost Spanish printmaker active 18. Frank Gehry’s most popular museum in his iconic images of flags, painted According supporter of Oscar Wilde when he faced before Goya? Northern Spain. to What (1964)? imprisonment? 19. Under which artistic movement was the 15. Who painted Telephone Booths in 4. 17th connoisseurs came to prize this Golden Gate Bridge (1937) designed? 1968 now at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Dutchman’s etchings even more than his 20. Who is the architect of the popular (Madrid)? work in oil. Liège-Guillemins railway station? 16. Which Disney’s popular cartoon set the 5. Which German Renaissance printmaker tone for Roy Lichtenstein’s career in his is the author of the engraving Melancolia I painting of 1961? (1514)? 6. Which of the two Carracci brothers became an important printmaker? 7. Who is the author of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (1797-1799) from the series Los Caprichos? 8. What is the name of the popular Parisian club many times depicted by Toulouse- ICONIC ARCHITECTURE Lautrec? 9. The invention of which technique around 1. Which building is the latest addition to 1800 made it possible to produce large NYC’s skyline? edition of prints from a block of limestone? 2. Where can you visit The Lotus Temple? 10. Who said: ‘Engraving is not more an 3. Who is the architect of the Sagrada art of copying painting than the English Familia in Barcelona?

language is an art of copying Greek or Latin’? 4. Which palace located in Andalusia won

18. Guggenheim Bilbao 19. Art Deco 20. Santiago Calatrava Santiago 20. Deco Art 19. Bilbao Guggenheim 18.

20. Faith Ringgold Ringgold Faith 20. Jose de Ribera de Jose 20. Lucas David 19. Mezzotint 18. du Louvre, Paris Paris Louvre, du ée Mus 17. Athena 16. Mahal Taj 15.

xrsins.1.Cnr ere opdu Pompidou Georges Centre 19. Expressionism.

Henri Matisse Matisse Henri 17. Blake William 16. Picasso Pablo 15. 13. Vespasian 14. Carlo Maderno Maderno Carlo 14. Vespasian 13. Vecchio Ponte 12.

Mouse (Look Mickey) 17. California. 18. Abstract Abstract 18. California. 17. Mickey) (Look Mouse

Philip Guston Guston Philip 14. Dix Otto 13. DC Washington Art, of Wagner Richard 11. towers Petronas 10.

16. Mickey Mickey 16. Estes Richard 15. Johns Jasper 14. Katz

National Gallery Gallery National 12. Byron Lord 11. Turner William 10. 8. The Dancing House, Prague9. The Dome of Rock Rock of Dome The Prague9. House, Dancing The 8.

13. Alex Alex 13. Factory The 12. LeWitt Sol 11. Rauschenberg

Lithography 9. Rouge Moulin Le 8. Goya de 7.Francisco Corbusier Le 7. Fallingwater The 6. Cambodia 9. Aspen 10. Robert Robert 10. Aspen 9. Minimalism 8. Maciunas George 7.

rer 6. Agostino Carracci Carracci Agostino 6. rer ü D Albrecht 5. Rembrandt 4. 4. Alhambra, Granada 5. Angkor Wat, Wat, Angkor 5. Granada Alhambra, 4. Gaudi Antoni 3. Photorealism 6. Warhol Andy 5. Hamilton Richard 4.

Andrea Mantegna. 3.Toulouse-Lautrec 3.Toulouse-Lautrec Mantegna. Andrea 2. V&A 1. India Delhi, New 2. Center Trade World One 1.The Comedians Two 3. Ruscha Edward 2. Lichtenstein Roy 1.

1960s PAINTING AMERICAN PRINTMAKERS AND PRINT ICONIC ARCHITECTURE ICONIC

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COVER FEATURE The Philanthropic and Versatile Mark Hix

It started with food. And even the food was accidental. But as with every story there needs to be a startng point of sorts.

TEXT | KATE ENTERS PORTRAITS | PAULINA KOROBKIEWICZ

MARK HIX accidentally became a chef. was introduced to the balance between food Unsure of what to do when leaving school and art. Renowned for having interesting art he was faced with an important life choice on the walls they often commissioned new in his fifth year: either take a course in metal works. Through this process Hix himself work – or take a course of domestic science, met a lot of the artists featured and, when he the first time boys could do so. Hix and two decided to branch out on his own, he adopted of his friends decided to do go for it as they the format. thought they’d be surrounded by girls. This rather backfired when all the girls decided to Historically artists in places such as Berlin do metalwork. and Paris would gift artworks to restaurants to pay their bills. This has benefits on multiple This wasn’t the deciding factor to becoming levels. Hix himself feels it is important to use a chef. Hix did start working in a pub during the art as part of the décor and the look of weekends and dabbled with cooking whilst a restaurant, he therefore would only buy there, but it was only after a conversation from artists he knew. Knowing the history, with a careers adviser who outlined that he inspiration and background to the art was had no real option but to attend catering key, so when questioned he was able to college. This was the defining moment, an inspire potential further sales or interest inspirational and great lecturer who was in the artist in question. This has definite fun and talked about London’s opportunities comparisons to the old school role of patron. which inspired Hix to travel to the city as soon Hix recognises that a lot of artist are not given as he was able. It was not just the introduction the opportunities for exhibiting without to London that influenced Hix, the impact of formal gallery representation: ‘Big galleries an individual using their position to inspire aren’t interested and very rarely take and support young people has definite someone on that no one has ever heard of. I synergy with the development of his own think I fill a gap.’ philanthropic streak. It’s not just about hanging the artworks on London was a steep learning curve, but his restaurant walls however. When Hix through working for Chris Corbin and owned the Rivington Grill he used to throw Jeremy King at Le Caprice and The Ivy he opening night dinners for the local galleries. It was important that the local community of galleries, and artists, were supported. In Damien Hirst’s Cock and Bull dominates addition, he would tell his friends when he the room at the Tramshed Restaurant Photo: Paulina Korobkiewicz was opening a new restaurant space so they

STATE | 37 a potential gallery space in the basement. to the old Delfina Studios in Bermondsey – Initially named the C&B Gallery (Cock & Bull) which offered affordable spaces for artists, people apparently just did not ‘get it’ and but sold to Great Portland Estates for £8.1 friends within the industry kept asking why million in 2006. A situation indicative of the it wasn’t just called Hix Art ? For Hix to have current problem for contemporary artists strong representation and respect within located in large cities. the art industry a rename was imperative. He agrees it was a game changer as the new Hix himself has seen changes in East London. name gave the gallery a different gravitas Many galleries have become established such almost immediately. as the Maureen Paley Gallery and the Approach Gallery, and the area has always been seen as The ethos of this gallery space was to support the place where young, start-ups could flourish. emerging artists with occasional group This was a natural result of the fact that many shows from established artists scattered artists’ studios were based in the East End. But, through the programme. A staple of the Hix Hix says: ‘not a lot now as its bloody expensive Gallery programme is the annual Hix Award around here – which is a shame.’

The prize started at £1,000 fve years ago and wasn’t seen as signifcant within the art world. “ “Now however, with the support of Couts’ Bank, it is half the amount of the Turner Prize and is being taken seriously.

that gives recent graduates and students the Hix has always been seen as serious in his opportunity to show their work. The prize outlook on art and Hix Art does seem pretty started at £1,000 five years ago and wasn’t established, if quantified by the names you seen as significant within the art world. Now see on the panel for the award, many of however, with the support of Coutts’ Bank, it whom are from high profile commercial is half the amount of the Turner Prize and galleries. Harry Blain, for example, is very is being taken seriously. Hix admits that his supportive and sees the award and gallery as could help fill the walls. It was fortuitous same time in the same area: the East End of status and connections have been key in the complementary. The gallery is also a family that many of his friends at this time were London. Move forward a few years to The rapid growth of the award. It was easy to affair. Lydia Hix (Mark’s daughter and an renowned as part of the YBA movement in Tramshed in Shoreditch, key pieces in this ask Coutts to come on board. And it is not artist herself) also helps with the selection the ’90s. The connection with the YBA’s does Hix restaurant include the Henry Hudson surprising that they agreed: Coutts have process and may well be featured in a show seem timely yet it happened organically. This portrait of Mark himself and the Damien historically had an interest in entrepreneurs next year. The bold hope that in a few years’ group of friends have known each other for Hirst’s Cock & Bull which, incidentally, means and supporting young talent and that extends time the Hix Award will build up to challenge ‘donkey’s years’. It began when they were all the basic menu is on display. The benefit of to allowing the Hix Award winners to exhibit the Turner Prize doesn’t seem quite so pie in working as artists and entrepreneurs at the this particular location was the addition of in the foyer at their flagship HQ on the Strand the sky. – a very different audience to the east The chef/patron likes to collect himself end crowd. and has a personal, massive, self-professed ‘random’ collection, with items bought and The Hix finalists exchanged 20 years ago amongst his friends. will be looked after Some favourites are his early Bridget Riley as they continue pieces, he is also a great fan of Patrick to grow. Next year Caulfield and is proud to own a series of the gallery will host Tracey Emin drawings. An indication that an exhibition with Hix is a true collector is an anecdote he all the previous shares about a recent food festival he helped winners and down arrange in Lyme Regis (the location for his the line Hix would Hix Townhouse and Hix Oyster & Fish House). also like to support A concert – and sale of VIP guitars – took the awards winners place on the beach with famous musicians with more than just playing to only 2.5k attendees with the exhibiting space. express reason to raise funds for charity. He is looking at Hix decided to ask Tracey Emin to draw on a creative ways to Fender guitar and Sir Paul McCartney then offer studios to signed it. Hix thought initially that this guitar these artists in not would be going on to auction, but discovered a dissimilar model instead they were being raffled off at £1 a

Tracey Emin Chicken Soup 2008

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ticket. Hix bought £1000 worth of tickets so up the reputations of the younger YBAs. that he could be guaranteed to win it! A few Perhaps the art world doesn’t function that disgruntled and ‘chippy locals’ apparently way anymore. Hix doesn’t think that there said that the winning ticket should have is anyone else coming up in a similar role, been put back into the draw – Hix response: that there are many young galleries showing it would have ended up on eBay, which is not emerging artists, but no clear maverick. what it deserved! Without a lot of money it is very difficult and Hix admits that he is only able to do it through Hix has never sold anything, his cupboards the combination of food and art. and walls are full but even so, he always ends up buying a piece from the award shows. Is he So what is next for the Hix Gallery? 2018 will the new Saatchi? He doesn’t think so. He finds see a new curatorial profile, with plans to it interesting that Saatchi’s name doesn’t invite well known artists to curate exhibitions come up any more, but he has respect for how for an emerging artist. This provides a sharing integrated and vital Saatchi was in building of contacts, connections and opportunities.

It will be the established artist’s role to help The focus will always be to support emerging identify and select who they believe has the artists and to find ways to offer alternative possibility of becoming the next ‘big thing’. opportunities for artists. All very admirable These collaborative exhibition plans are and without a doubt the philanthropic and already coming to fruition. They include versatile Mark Hix will make it a success. crossing creative platforms with the music The driving force though is something very producer William Orbit, who will be co- simple. Above all else it is obvious the creative curating a show with an LA artist that he chef will be enjoying himself: ‘Yes it is always admires. There will also be an exhibition good fun, and it most definitely needs to be using this model in collaboration with Patrick fun…’. Hughes and the ten artists he currently works with. Both Hix and his gallery manager, Sophie Harriott, will support the curatorial process. IMAGES COURTESY OF MARK HIX & THE HIX GALLERY

UP LEFT: Henry Hudson Portrait of Mark Hix LEFT: Mark Hix with Joshua Raz 2016

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