RE- Auction Catalogue Published by the Contemporary Art Society Tuesday 11 March 2014 Tobacco Dock, 50 Porters Walk Pennington Street E1W 2SF Previewed on 5 March 2014 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London The Contemporary Art Society is a national charity that encourages an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art in the UK. With the help of our members and supporters we raise funds to purchase works by new artists Contents which we give to museums and public galleries where they are enjoyed by a national audience; we broker significant and rare works of art by Committee List important artists of the twentieth century for Welcome public collections through our networks of Director’s Introduction patrons and private collectors; we establish relationships to commission artworks and promote contemporary art in public spaces; and we devise programmes of displays, artist Live Auction Lots Silent Auction Lots talks and educational events. Since 1910 we have donated over 8,000 works to museums and public Caroline Achaintre Laure Prouvost – Special Edition galleries – from Bacon, Freud, Hepworth and Alice Channer David Austen Moore in their day through to the influential Roger Hiorns Charles Avery artists of our own times – championing new talent, supporting curators, and encouraging Michael Landy Becky Beasley philanthropy and collecting in the UK. Daniel Silver Marcus Coates Caragh Thuring Claudia Comte All funds raised will benefit the charitable Catherine Yass Angela de la Cruz mission of the Contemporary Art Society to purchase new works of contemporary art Gary Hume & Giorgio Locatelli Matthew Darbyshire for UK public collections. Sarah Jones Haris Epaminonda Tania Kovats www.contemporaryartsociety.org Christina Mackie Haroon Mirza Silke Otto-Knapp Toby Patterson Mick Peter Olivia Plender Elizabeth Price Fiona Rae David Raymond Conroy Michal Rovner Samara Scott Rose Wylie Thank You To Our Supporters Partners & Supporters Conditions of Business Auction Information Silent Auction & Pledge System The RE- Committee Heidi Baravalle Liz Bauza Philippa Bradley Daniela Colaiacovo Jeremy Deller Caroline Douglas Fiona Rae Sarah Elson Bob and Roberta Smith Antje Géczy John Stezaker Kira Heuer and Gavin Turk Linda Keyte Ambassadors Michael King Audrey Klein Livia Firth Martina Klemmer Honorary Chair Paula Lent Suling Mead Mark Stephens Valeria Napoleone Chairman, Contemporary Art Society Flavia Nespatti Midge Palley Caroline Douglas Veronique Parke Director Françoise Sarre Rapp Dasha Shenkman All welcome you to RE- Mark Stephens Cathy Wills Dina Wulfsohn Anita Zabludowicz Jill Zarzycki Chairman’s Welcome Director’s Introduction There are an extraordinary number of returns, I am indebted to my colleagues on the Board It is my great pleasure to welcome you to Our track record in identifying outstanding revisits, and repetitions of all kinds in the art of Trustees of the Contemporary Art Society; the Contemporary Art Society 2014 Annual artists early in their careers is exemplary: from world today including restaging exhibitions a dedicated, dynamic and driven group of Fundraiser. Now in its 6th successful year, Paul Gauguin’s painting Tahitians (circa 1891), and performances which give the viewer and individuals and I would like to thank them all this glamorous event is absolutely at the core gifted to Tate in 1917, to Laure Prouvost’s collector an opportunity to RE-interpret. With for the help they have given in creating what is of what we as an organisation work to achieve. Monologue, (2009), gifted to the Whitworth Art this gala, the Contemporary Art Society has now a fixture in the art world calendar. I am also in The Contemporary Art Society fundraises to Gallery last year, the Contemporary Art Society commissioned prominent established artists great admiration of the staff of the Contemporary place contemporary art in public collections has always championed the great talents of the as well as younger emerging artists to explore Art Society who work so hard, not just on the across the UK. For over 100 years we have age. None of this would ever have been possible these ideas: Re-imagine, Re-cycle, RE-style, fundraiser, but on all they continue to do to worked with the great museums and galleries without the enlightened patronage of our RE-create and RE-invent. The resulting work ensure that the organisation thrives and develops. in this country, supporting them in collecting supporters, many of them pioneering and well includes those where artists upcycle materials Caroline Douglas, our brilliant new Director, the most exciting art of their times and creating known collectors in their own right. You help in interesting ways and others where artists has given the gala RE-newed energy and expertise a permanent legacy for future generations. us to be the smart money. reinterpret previously examined concepts. and has brought to this challenge a pragmatic as well as enlightened approach. Dida Tait has “… I feel strongly that every penny one can The theme of this year’s event – RE- This was our starting point and it lends itself superbly orchestrated this event with her usual save ought to be given to young artists. At least was suggested by Antje Géczy and evokes well to the fascination today, well beyond the finesse and positivism. For the first time we are we who really feel the beauty and wonder of inspiring notions of environmentalism as confines of the artworld, for a RE-interpretation delighted to have formally collaborated with art ought to help them. There are heaps of well as acknowledging the necessity to reach of beliefs, assumptions and of ways of making. the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) with people who understand philanthropy … and back into our past to re-purpose ideas for the We have seen recycling and sustainability in whom we of course share very similar objectives young creators have such a terrible struggle.” contemporary world. The committee has been every industry and nowhere more visible than by supporting the exhibition and work of Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1909 steered this year with enormous intelligence, in fashion. So it seemed that Livia Firth, well contemporary artists in the UK. The ICA kindly acuity and panache by the wonderful Veronique known for her work with Eco-Age promoting hosted our preview evening on the 5 March and we Parke who has gathered around her a powerful ethical, sustainable fashion would be a fantastic are grateful to Gregor Muir, Malcolm Colin-Stokes group of people to encourage the generosity ambassador for this event. We are honoured and the ICA team. of a very distinguished group of artists and to have Livia Firth as Honorary Chair. gallerists. We would like to extend our warmest Finally, we at the Contemporary Art Society are thanks to Veronique, Sarah Elson and all the most especially grateful to our sponsors Goldlake, other members of the committee for their tireless Lavazza, Lexington Partners and Sotheby’s work on our behalf. We offer our most heartfelt without whom none of this would be possible. thanks to all those artists who have donated work, and most particularly to the five artists Mark Stephens who have agreed to be our Ambassadors for the Chairman, Contemporary Art Society Gala and for the next year. Our warmest thanks go to Jeremy Deller, Fiona Rae, Bob and Roberta Smith, John Stezaker and Gavin Turk whose advocacy for the Contemporary Art Society will be so invaluable. I am sure you will have an entertaining and exciting evening. I know you will be as enthusiastic as we are about the works in our auction, and I hope you will enjoy knowing that you are supporting the mission of the Contemporary Art Society now and into the future. Caroline Douglas Director, Contemporary Art Society The Contemporary Art Society and the RE- Committee are grateful to the artists and galleries who have generously contributed artwork for RE- in support of the Contemporary Art Society. Live Auction Lot No. Lot No. Caroline Achaintre Alice Channer KLOWS 2013 Maxi, Mini, Midi, Midi, Midi Hand-tufted wool, 270 3 150 cm (sky blue and cream) 2012 Estimate Cast and powder coated aluminium on oak dowel, 70 3 38 3 47 cm £8,000 – £12,000 Known for her tribal-like ‘tufted’ sculpture, Caroline Achaintre’s practice shares a relationship with fine art and contemporary applied art. Achaintre’s recent exhibitions include Decorum: Artists’ Carpets & Tapestries Estimate at Musée d’Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2014). £8,000 – £12,000 During Spring 2014 she will be artist-in-residence at Camden Arts Centre and later in the year she will present a solo exhibition at Tate Britain as part of Tate BP Contemporary Projects. A new work kindly donated by This is one of a group of the artist and Arcade Gallery. several attempts by Alice Channer to make sculptures of smoke rings. These works have taken different forms, but all involve casting the edges (wristbands, cuffs, necks) of stretchy clothing in aluminium in the form of smoke rings. Channer’s work traces the disappearance, mutation and possible evolution of a body in post-industrial environments. Recent solo exhibitions include Invertebrates at The Hepworth Wakefield andSoft Shell at Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany. A work kindly donated by the artist and the Approach, London. Lot No. Lot No. Roger Hiorns Michael Landy Untitled 2014 Saint Catherine Wheel 6 2012 Book and copper sulphate, approx. 24 3 15 3 4 cm Photographic paper, pencil, paint, 86 3 153 cm Michael Landy’s drawings the saints’ (Saints Alive, 2013). and graphic works are the He has recently exhibited foundation of his practice. at The National Gallery, Part of a generation of artists London; Thomas Dane that emerged in the 1990s, Gallery, London; Whitworth he has publicly destroyed Art Gallery, Manchester and Estimate all his personal possessions South London Gallery.