Wanderlust Auction Catalogue Published by the Contemporary Art Society. Wednesday 13 March 2013 Old Vic Tunnels, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN Preview during Wednesday 6th March to Friday 8th March 2013 at the Contemporary Art Society, 59 Central Street, London EC1 www.contemporaryartsociety.org The Contemporary Art Society is a national charity that exists to encourage an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art by a wide audience and to donate works by important and new artists to museums and public galleries across the UK. Sponsored by: INDEX INDEX Silent Auction (Cont) Committee List 2 Ayan Farah 49 Artist List 3 Alistair Frost 51 Mission Statement 4 Rachel Goodyear 53 Director’s Introduction 5 Noémie Goudal 55 Event Chair’s Welcome 7 Raphael Hefti 57 Sophie von Hellermann 59 Alex Hoda 61 Live Auction Kerstin Kartscher 63 Fiona Banner 11 Peles Empire 65 Simon Periton 13 Oliver Laric 67 Clare Woods 15 Lorna Macintyre 69 Edward Burtynsky 17 Ryan Mosley 71 Conrad Shawcross 19 Sarah Pickstone 73 Saskia Olde Wolbers 21 Laure Prouvost 75 Toby Ziegler 23 Ged Quinn 77 Jennifer Steinkamp 25 Ivan Seal 79 Paris Design Experience 27 Veronica Smirnoff 81 David Brian Smith 83 Dolly Thompsett 85 Silent Auction Mimei Thompson 87 Contemporary Art Trip to Berlin 31 Francis Upritchard 89 Henny Acloque 33 Sinta Werner 91 Annie Attridge 35 Sara Barker 37 GL Brierley 39 Thank You 96 Laura Buckley 41 Partners & Supporters 98 Shezad Dawood 43 Conditions of Business 104 Harm van den Dorpel 45 Auction Information 106 Marcin Dudek 47 Silent Auction & Pledge System 108 THE WANDERLUST COMMITTEE WITH SINCERE THANKS TO THE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & THEIR GALLERIES Nicholas Berwin Valeria Napoleone Henny Acloque Oliver Laric Myriam Blundell Olga Ovenden Annie Attridge Lorna Macintyre Philippa Bradley Veronique Parke Fiona Banner Ryan Mosley Daniela Colaiacovo Françoise Sarre Rapp Sara Barker Saskia Olde Wolbers Laurence Coste Ellen Shapiro GL Brierley Simon Periton Sarah Elson Dasha Shenkman Laura Buckley Sarah Pickstone Antje Géczy, Chair Mark Stephens Edward Burtynsky Laure Prouvost Joanna Gemes Cathy Wills Shezad Dawood Ged Quinn Kira Heuer Dina Wulfsohn Harm van den Dorpel Ivan Seal Paul Hobson Anita Zabludowicz Marcin Dudek Conrad Shawcross Linda Keyte Henry Zarb Ayan Farah Veronica Smirnoff Michael King Jill Zarzycki Alistair Frost David Brian Smith Audrey Klein Rachel Goodyear Jennifer Steinkamp Martina Klemmer Noémie Goudal Dolly Thompsett Zach Leonard Raphael Hefti Mimei Thompson Fatima Maleki Sophie von Hellermann Francis Upritchard Alex Hoda Sinta Werner Kerstin Kartscher Clare Woods Peles Empire Toby Ziegler 2 3 M ISSION STATEMENT DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION Encouraging an appreciation and understanding of The Contemporary Art Society is a national charity that fundraises to purchase and place new works of contemporary art in museums and galleries across the UK for audiences contemporary art by a wide audience and donating to enjoy. Founded 100 years ago, we have played a unique and largely solitary role in works by important and new artists to museums and building inspirational collections of modern and contemporary art for audiences – of all ages and background – across the country. In doing so, we ensure the widest possible public galleries across the UK. access to the art of our times – an enduring legacy for future generations, which now exceeds more than 8,000 works gifted through the support of our members and patrons. The Contemporary Art Society is a national Throughout our history, we have always used our independent curatorial eye to spot talent and to secure works for collections when they are still affordable. Damien charity that encourages an appreciation and Hirst had barely graduated from Goldsmith’s when we purchased the first work by him to understanding of contemporary art in the UK. enter Tate’s collection in 1991, several years before he won the Turner Prize. Countless artists who are now household names – Bacon, Freud, Gauguin, Hepworth, Matisse, With the help of our members and supporters Moore, Picasso, Spencer – are in regional collections because of our continuing mission to acquire works during the past century. we raise funds to purchase works by new artists Our Annual Fundraiser provides vital funds for our mission and in doing so which we give to museums and public galleries supports living artists – often early in their career when they need support and recognition most – and has a direct inspirational and educational impact on millions where they are enjoyed by a national audience; of people who visit museums across the UK. It provides an opportunity for you, through your support of this event, to make a lasting contribution to how the story of the history we broker significant and rare works of art by of art is captured in public collections for audiences today and tomorrow. important artists of the twentieth century for This year’s event – Wanderlust – celebrates the way in which artists travel in diverse ways in their imagination to alternative realities, sometimes travelling back in public collections through our networks of patrons time through the history of art, to parallel universes and future worlds. Wanderlust has been devised and led with creativity and vision by one of my Trustees, Antje Géczy, and private collectors; we establish relationships who has built upon the many achievements of the previous Event Chair, Sarah Elson to commission artworks and promote contemporary with the support of a Committee of leading collectors and philanthropists. Words fail to adequately express our gratitude to Antje, with whom it has been such an inspiration – art in public spaces; and we devise programmes of and great fun – to work, and to the Event Committee for their industrious and committed support. Our annual fundraiser would not be possible without the generous and vital displays, artist talks and educational events. Since support of the participating artists and their galleries – the majority of whom have been so generous as to create new works for the auction in return for a commissioning fee 1910 we have donated over 8,000 works to museums from the Contemporary Art Society. We are indebted to them in particular. and public galleries — from Bacon, Freud, Hepworth We hope you have a great evening. We rely on your generosity – so please, if you see a work you love, give it a good home. You can feel confident of making a smart and Moore in their day through to the influential purchase for a great cause! artists of our own times — championing new talent, Paul Hobson supporting curators, and encouraging philanthropy Director, Contemporary Art Society and collecting in the UK. 4 5 EVENT CHAIR’S WELCOME One hundred year ago, just at the time the Contemporary Art society was formed, the German term Wanderlust entered the English language and common usage. Originally describing a desire to travel to see the world, in subsequent decades it came to represent a state of mind – a longing or an ache to voyage away from the everyday to experience new and extraordinary worlds, even if as indeed was often the case, only in one’s imagination. It is this idea of Wanderlust – and the way in which artists travel in their imagination to alternative and parallel realities, both in the past and in the future, that we celebrate tonight. After all, it is the time honoured role of artists to open up our vistas to new ideas and experiences, creating art that offers new perspectives on the world we live in and ourselves. The funds raised tonight will be used to further the mission of the Contemporary Art Society to purchase and gift new works of contemporary art to museums and public galleries across the UK where they will be enjoyed by millions for generations to come. All of the artists participating in this evening’s auction have generously created new works for this event in return for a modest commissioning fee. We are extremely grateful to them, and to their galleries, for this vital support of our mission. In creating new works, they extend to us all an invitation to travel with them as our guides to those places only artists can voyage to, and then to take these works home and into our lives as mementos of our journeys. As Chair of the Wanderlust Event Committee, my own journey to this evening was made much more enjoyable, much more interesting and much more inspiring due to my fellow travellers on the Event Committee. I would like to thank each and every one of them for the tremendous support and guidance they have offered over the past year to bring this exciting concept to fruition. It has been a great privilege and pleasure to journey with them. I would also like to thank Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Art Society, as well as Laura Eldret, Ludmilla Ivan-Zadeh and especially Dida Tait, for enabling us to realise this unique and ambitious venture. This event has been supported once again by our auction partner Sotheby’s and we would like to express our sincere thanks to them and to Olly Barker for his support of the live auction – the night simply would not be the same without his charisma and energy! Boucheron has generously sponsored our fundraising gala for the second year and we are indebted to them, as we are also to Goldlake, Oliver Wyman and Vue Entertainment. And now, I invite you to enjoy the evening and allow yourself to be guided through time and space, from the distant past to the barely imagined future, with some of the most exciting new and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists working today. Antje Géczy Event Chair and Trustee, Contemporary Art Society 7 l ive auction 9 Front of Flap / Coated Paper Left Page / Coated paper Right Page / Uncoated paper Inside Flap / uncoated paper Lot #1 Live Auction Fiona Banner Selected Biography Much of Fiona Banner’s work explores 1966 Born in Merseyside, England Fiona the problems and possibilities of written Lives and works in London Banner language.