V olume 2 Issu a publication dedicated to contemporary art e 1 Deutsche Bank Collection Sindika Dokolo Foundation Fundación/Colección Jumex The Pulitzer Foundation Nato Thompson Charles Esche Pablo Helguera and much more... Contributors Shannon Fitzgerald Seoidín O’Sullivan Tommy Lanigan Schmidt Guest contributor Guest contributor Guest contributor Interview with Collector, Sindika Dokolo A Contested Collection Amen Bitch St. Louis, MO, United States Dublin, Ireland New York, NY, United States Shannon Fitzgerald is an independent Seoidín O’Sullivan is an artist who is Tommy Lanigan Schmidt teaches at the curator and writer based in St. Louis. currently living and working in Dublin, MFA program at the School of Visual Boot Print She recently curated the exhibition Our Ireland. She grew up in Zambia and South Arts in New York. His work has been Commodity: Juan William Chávez, Sarah Africa where she completed a degree in included in the American Century show A biannual publication dedicated Frost, Leslie Mutchler for the Regional Fine Art. In 2003 she completed a Post at the Whitney, the Venice Biennale, to contemporary art Arts Commission, St. Louis and is curat- Graduate Diploma in Development and the Whitney Biennial in 1991. He ing an upcoming exhibition, Brandon Studies through which she investigated is represented by Pavel Zubok Gallery June 2008 Anschultz; Transmission/Destination for models of thought that are based on a in NY, and is included in collections at VOL 2 / ISSUE 1 the Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis, concern for social and ecological justice. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 2008. She has published works in many In 2007 she completed her Masters in Whitney, the MOMA, and collections Georgia Kotretsos museum catalogs; most recently, she Fine Art study at The National College around the world. Athens, Greece contributed an essay in Karyn Olivier: A of Art and Design, Dublin. Her prac- Editor-in-chief Closer Look, a catalog accompanying the tice is largely project based. Seoidín’ s Dana Turkovic exhibition of the same title at Laumeier research investigates socio political and Guest contributor Timothy Ridlen Sculpture Park, St. Louis (2007). She was ecological narratives and presents them Amass Chicago, IL, United States Chief Curator at the Contemporary Art in critically engaged and poetical ways. St. Louis, MO, United States Museum St. Louis, where she worked She was artist in resident in Studio 468, Senior Editor from 2000-2007, where her exhibi- St Andrews Community Centre, Dublin Dana Turkovic teaches in the art depart- tion credits include the thematic group last year where she developed a com- ment at Webster University. She is a Juan William Chávez exhibitions Staging: Janieta Eyre, Julie munity food garden project. Her col- recent graduate of the Masters course St. Louis, MO, United States Moos, Zwelethu Mthethwa and the laborative film project ‘Trespass’ with at Goldsmiths College - University of Creative Advisor Contemporary’s inaugural and travel- Irish artist Aoife Desmond was recently London in curatorial studies. Though she ing exhibition A Fiction of Authenticity: awarded Irish Arts Council funding. She spent many years as the senior designer Contemporary Africa Abroad co-curat- will be traveling to The Land Foundation Elizabeth Wolfson for the UCLA Hammer Museum, she has St. Louis, MO, United States ed with Tumelo Mosaka. She has curated in Thailand in August and September turned her attention to creative curato- Editorial Assistant solo exhibitions of new work by interna- this year to develop further work for rial endeavors. She has organized exhibi- tional artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Michael ‘Trespass’ project. tions in Los Angeles, London and Oxford Paul Britto, Dzine, Yun-Fei Ji, Larry Krone, in the United Kingdom and in St. Louis at Juozas Cernius Michael Lin, Ruby Osorio, Keith Piper, Walid Sadek the Contemporary Art Museum, Boots New York, NY, United States and William Pope.L, among others. Prior Guest contributor Contemporary Art Space, Ellen Curlee Proof-reading to moving to St. Louis, Fitzgerald worked Ill with Home: on the autobiography of Gallery and White Flag Projects. She at the Institute of Visual Arts (inova), Moustafa Farroukh is also a regular contributor to Review Bryan Reckamp University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Beirut, Lebanon Magazine and St. Louis Magazine. She Fitzgerald has taught in the department Saint Louis, MO / San Franscisco, CA lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. United States of Art and Art History at Webster Born in 1966, Walid Sadek is an art- Layout/Design University, St. Louis. ist and writer living in Beirut. His early work investigates the violent legacies Publisher Laura Fried of the Lebanese civil war partially and Boots Contemporary Art Space, Inc. Guest contributor inadequately experienced by a young Speech as Strategy Christian-born Lebanese: Home Play Copyright © 2008 St. Louis, MO, United States (1996); The Last Days of Summer Boots Contemporary Art Space, Inc. (1997). He later began to posit, mostly All rights reserved Laura Fried currently serves as the in theoretical texts, ways of under- Assistant Curator at Contemporary Art standing the complexity of lingering For submissions and ad opportunities civil strife in times of relative social and Museum St. Louis. In addition to col- contact Georgia Kotretsos at: economic stability: A Matter of Words laborating with Paul Ha and Anthony [email protected] Huberman in exhibition research and (2002); From Excavation to Dispersion: planning, and as a co-curator of the Configurations of Installation Art in Post- Contemporary Front Room, Laura Fried War Lebanon (2003); The Acquisition is also responsible for overseeing a num- of Death: the Ends of Art and Dwelling Boots Contemporary Art Space ber of ongoing exhibition programs at the in Lebanon (2004). His recent written 2307 Cherokee St. Contemporary, including Great Rivers work endeavors to structure a theory St Louis, MO 63118 Biennial, Flat Files, and the Emerson for a post-war society incapable of, or at United States Visiting Critics and Curator series. Fried least reluctant to, resume normative liv- joins the Contemporary from MASS ing: From Image to Corpse (2006); Place at Last (2007); Seeing Rude and Erudite Juan William Chávez MoCA as a two-year curatorial fellow, St. Louis, MO, United States where during her tenure she orga- (2007). Concomitantly, a number of Director nized two exhibitions, including Adam art installations propose a poetics for a Cvijanovic and Peter Garfield: Unhinged. social experience governed by uneasy In collaboration with MASS MoCA, contiguity with the remnants and conse- Bryan Reckamp the Williams College Museum of Art, quences of violence: Love is Blind (2006); Saint Louis, MO / San Franscisco, CA, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Knowledge of the Expelled (2007); and United States Institute, Fried acted as a coordinator of Mourning in the Presence of the Corpse Agent the 2007 Berkshire Conference, a forum (2007). Walid Sadek is assistant profes- that brings together international leaders sor at the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University Georgia Kotretsos in the arts and business communities to Athens, Greece address issues facing the current cultural of Beirut. Agent landscape. Prior to her graduate work and tenure at MASS MoCA, Fried man- aged an art gallery in the Chelsea neigh- Jon Peck borhood of New York. Fried received Miami, FL, United States her Bachelor’s degree in English and Art Agent History with Distinction from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and www.bootsart.com she holds a Master of Arts in the History [email protected] of Art from Williams College and the 314.772.BOOT (2668) Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. www.bootsartnews.blogspot.com Join Facebook and Myspace groups: Boots Contemporary Art Space Table of Contents Pedestrian Project by Juan Wlliam Chávez 5 Amen Bitch: Light-Love-Life...BLING! by Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt 6 Amass by Dana Turkovic 7 The Power of 4: St. Louis by Boots Contemporary Art Space questions by Juan William Chavez, Georgia Kotretsos and Tim Ridlen 8 Creating Public & Private Art Collections: Interview with Helene Zucker-Seeman by Georgia Kotretsos 12 The Fair View: Interview with Christos Savvidis by Georgia Kotretsos 13 Between the Bosporus and Madison Avenue: A Conversation with Orhan Taner by Juozas Cernius 13 A Collector’s Carte Blanche: An Interview with Barbara Steiner of Leipzig’s Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst by Tim Ridlen 14 A Collection at Work: An Interview with Friedhelm Hütte of the Deutsche Bank Collection by Tim Ridlen 16 In the Spirit of Mutual Funds: Interview with Collector Rik Reinking by Georgia Kotretsos 17 Taking Matters Into One’s Own Hands: Interview with Collector Eugenio López Alonso by Georgia Kotretsos 18 Building a Collection of Contemporary Art in Africa: Interview with Collector Sindika Dokolo by Shannon Fitzgerald 20 A Contested Collection by Seoidín O’Sullivan 22 The Artist Who Told on the Art World: Pablo Helguera by Georgia Kotretsos 24 Speech as Strategy: Laura Fried IMs Nato Thompson on Discursive Space and Democracy in America by Laura Fried 25 Expedition into the Heartland: Interview with Charles Esche, Kerstin Niemann and Stephanie Smith by Juan William Chavez 26 Ill with Home: on the autobiography of Moustafa Farroukh by Walid Sadek 28 Each dart is attentively placed on a map that guides the focus of every issue. A diverse body of invited contributors discuss various proj ects and ideas with an eclectic assembly of Boot Print participants. At the same time, the members of the Boot Print team, who are all practic ing artists, are teaching themselves to meet creative needs and aspirations on a Issue 1 is the manifestation of six hustling months. personal level as well. It’s a healthy collaboration, a moderated exchange of ideas between Juan, Tim, and myself – their input, perspective and clarity of thought adds to the critical conversation we are sharing with you.