アート・バーゼル、成功への宿命 (アーティストたちによって裸にされたアート・バーゼル、さえも*) 2022年度 ART BASEL - Doomed To Succeed (ART BASEL Stripped Bare by Her Artists, Even*) 2022 version
“Hauser & Wirth” owners, art dealers Manuela Wirth and Iwan Wirth, June 13th 2022 @ ART BASEL
No masks anymore in Basel.
Question: How do you show to the global art scene, that ART BASEL in Switzerland is back again?
Answer: The organiser sends with immense effort 20.000 VIP invitations around the world and your local top player has to get all the media attention.
Exactly that happened. On the Swiss fair’s first VIP day Hauser & Wirth announced that Louise Bourgeois “Spider” sold for 40 Mio US$, a record for the artist.
Hauser & Wirth stated that Bourgeois’ work was sold by and bought from a private collection. Please keep in mind, that sales at art fairs are self-reported by the galleries, making independent verification difficult, and works are often sold before the fair’s preview days. (H&W’s spokesperson declined to comment on when the work was sold). The gallery focused on American artists, obviously targeting collectors and the media from the U.S..
Iwan Wirth, June 14th 2022 @ ART BASEL
Thomas J Price interview in front of his work “Moments contained” (2022), Gallery Hauser & Wirth @ ART BASEL Unlimited
Zeng Fanzhi “E Series 2022, No. 10” 2022. Oil on canvas, 240 x 240 x 6 cm @ Gallery Hauser & Wirth
Zeng Fanzhi “E Series 2022, No. 10” 2022. Oil on canvas, 240 x 240 x 6 cm, detail @ Gallery Hauser & Wirth
Advertising by “Hauser & Wirth Zürich” in the city of Basel.
Left: Michael and Susan Hort family from New York
Read more @
The Art Megacollectors Who Live in Their Own Contemporary Museum
Jerry Saltz, Feb. 26 2016
Once a year, to coincide with the Armory Show weekend in March, megacollectors Michael and Susan Hort open the art-covered 17,000-square-foot spread of their downtown home to hundreds of art-worlders, who come to peruse the couple’s collection of more than 3,700 works of contemporary art. This time, they’ll be serving bagels next door.
full text:
https://www.vulture.com/2016/02/art-collectors-who-live-in-their-own-museum.html
Close by Fondation Beyeler during ART BASEL 2022:
モンドリアン ノ ピュア・デザイン mondrian’s pure design
https://art-culture.world/articles/mondrian/
2022年6月13日:今日のバーゼル。天気が良くて、乾燥しています。マスクがどこでも必要はありません。
世界から2万人のVIPが来ます。グローバル・アート・シーンの中心。トップ・プレーヤーHauser & Wirthご夫妻は真剣なムード。バーゼル市の中、珍しく、Hauser & Wirth Zürichの広告ポスター。日本から来たアートディーラー達:Taka Ishii Gallery、Take Ninagawa、Tokyo Gallery+BTAP。Art Basel Unlimitedでは内藤 礼のインスタレーション作 (Taka Ishii Gallery)。
As a reference, see older entries:
大注目を浴びた池田亮司 (アーティストたちによって裸にされたアート・バーゼル、さえも*) 2021年度
IKEDA Ryoji attracted considerable attention (ART BASEL Stripped Bare by Her Artists, Even*) 2021 version
https://art-culture.world/articles/art-basel-2021/
アーティストたちによって裸にされたアート・バーゼル、さえも*
ART BASEL Stripped Bare by Her Artists, Even*
https://art-culture.world/articles/art-basel-stripped-bare-by-her-artists-even/
最高かつ最も重要な絵画@アート・バーゼル(アーティストたちによって裸にされたアート・バーゼル、さえも*)2019年度
The best and most important painting @ ART BASEL (… Stripped Bare by Her Artists, Even*) 2019 version
https://art-culture.world/articles/art-basel-2019/
バーゼルのアート + カルチャー 2018 Art + Culture from Basel 2018
https://art-culture.world/articles/art-culture-from-basel-2018/
バーゼルのアート + カルチャー 2018(続報)
Art + Culture from Basel 2018 (follow-up)
https://art-culture.world/articles/art-culture-from-basel-2018-follow-up/
日本のポスト・ムラカミ世代:名和晃平と占部史人。長谷川祐子のとんでもないアーティスト トーク@アートバーゼル2014年
Japan’s Post Murakami Generation – NAWA Kohei and URABE Fumito. An Absurd Artist Talk With HASEGAWA Yuko @ ART BASEL 2014
https://art-culture.world/articles/japans-post-murakami-generation-日本のポスト・ムラカミ世代/
スイスの「ハウザー&ワース」が香港に新スペースオープン:「マーク・ブラッドフォード個展」、東京にギャラリー進出も間近?
Hauser & Wirth opens with Mark Bradford in Hong Kong, could be Tokyo next?
https://art-culture.world/articles/hauser-wirth-ハウザー-ワース-香港/
リステ・アートフェア・バーゼル、クール&トップ、日本から参加した、説得力のあるアーティスト 五月女 哲平と田口 行弘
LISTE – Art Fair Basel, cool & top, with strong + convincing artists from Japan: SOUTOME Teppei + TAGUCHI Yukihiro
https://art-culture.world/articles/liste-art-fair-basel-2019/
Topless at the Rhine in Basel
Now listen to Global director Marc Spiegler (whom I know since 20 years…, when he was still a journalist for The Art Newspaper.)
And listen please to the excellent answers, commentaries by art consultant Lisa Schiff (U.S.)
Geopolitics aside, the art world became broader, fundamentally no big changes. My impression is, that with the next ART BASEL edition, we’re back to normal.
We may even expect surprising, positive numbers sales-wise and a spike of visitors for this year.
Concerning the “fair value” of a work by an emerging artist, too much speculation is nowadays going on. Lisa Schiff says publicly, what most art specialists know and why they’re feeling annoyed:
“I don’t understand how people can pay up to 3 million dollars at auction for an artist under 30 who has never exhibited in a museum. Those reputations are not based on aesthetic quality but on investment bets and on word of mouth sharing of information. The highest price that it is acceptable to pay for a young artist is 25,000 dollars,”.
In this case, we’re talking about painter Anna Weyant, who is only 27 years old and has never been chosen by a curator for a museum show; means: a NOT critically acclaimed artist.
Read:
The Making of Anna Weyant, Art’s Hot New Superstar (22 May 2022)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-making-of-anna-weyant-arts-hot-new-superstar
In comparison to “ART BASEL Miami Beach” or “FRIEZE L.A.”, galleries tend to bring the best works to ART BASEL, Switzerland. The “trashy” works (Lisa Schiff’s words) will be send to the U.S., the serious ones to Europe. Which explains the difference regarding taste, knowledge, real interest in art between Europeans and U.S. citizens.
17th of June…
Two days ago art advisor Lisa Schiff appeared again, prominently on artnet with her profoundly written analysis about the art market. As she has the pulse on the Zeitgeist, from the “American perspective” so to speak, we should carefully take note about the facts she is actually concerning about.
artnet:
As an Art Advisor, I’ve Watched ‘Meme Art’ Destroy All Logic in the Art Market. Here’s What We Can Do About It
The traditional way of determining value in the art market has gone out the window. And that could be catastrophic for the entire system.
Lisa Schiff, June 15, 2022
https://news.artnet.com/opinion/meme-art-op-ed-lisa-schiff-2131139
Read more @
Today’s The Art Newspaper: “Could Japan rise again? New fair to launch in Tokyo in July 2023”
“TOKYO GENDAI”
https://art-culture.world/articles/tokyo-gendai/
2022/6/17:
Conversations | Going Neutral? Institutions and Climate Change
What choices are available to museums wishing to address the urgency of climate change while also needing to consider their financial resilience in 2022 and beyond? In a time of intensified geopolitical conflict and displacement, how can they ensure that culture and climate change remain on the agenda? From infrastructure to programming, how can institutions best respond? The directors of the Mori Art Museum, the Climate Museum, and M+ gather to reflect on current and planned actions in the museum sector that involve investing in a greener and fairer future.
Miranda Massie, Director, Climate Museum, New York
Mami Kataoka, Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and President, CIMAM (remote)
Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+, Hong Kong (remote)
Moderator: András Szántó, author and cultural strategy advisor
Mami Kataoka is Director at Mori Art Museum. She joined the Mori Art Museum in 2003, taking on the role of Director in 2020. Beyond Tokyo, Kataoka has held positions at the Hayward Gallery in London, where from 2007 to 2009 she was the institution’s first International Curator; she has also acted as Co-Artistic Director for the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012), Artistic Director for the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018) and is currently Artistic Director for the Aichi Triennale 2022. Kataoka has been serving as a Board Member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) (2014-) and currently the President of CIMAM.
https://artbasel.com/stories/conversations-art-basel-2022-institutions-and-climate-change
During Art Basel, dinner party @ Fondation Beyeler. Amongst the guests, Ms. MIKI Akiko, Artistic Director of the Benesse Art Site Naoshima 三木あき子(ベネッセアートサイト直島インターナショナルアーティスティックディレクター)(Courtesy Mr. Jline)
Quote from The Art Newspaper:
“The performer, Olesya Lesnaya, is from Vinnytsia in west-central Ukraine. She fled in late March and is now being hosted as a refugee by Toche in Geneva. “It is highly important to constantly remind people what the reality of the situation is back home,” Lesnaya says.”
Link_https://www.instagram.com/olesya__lesnaya/?hl=en
Compare with:
岡﨑乾二郎個展:超ダサくて、面白くない、気取った描き方
Solo show by OKAZAKI Kenjiro: a painterly process which is pretentious, dull and sucks
https://art-culture.world/articles/okazaki-kenjiro-岡﨑乾二郎/
2022/6/19
check it out! @
リステ・アートフェア・バーゼル、クール&トップ、日本から参加した、説得力のあるアーティスト 五月女 哲平と田口 行弘
LISTE – Art Fair Basel, cool & top, with strong + convincing artists from Japan: SOUTOME Teppei + TAGUCHI Yukihiro
https://art-culture.world/articles/liste-art-fair-basel-2019/
Yesterday a one-page feature about German art dealer Daniel Buchholz in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung caught my eye. Amongst his successfully practicing artists are names like veteran Isa Genzken, who taught him a lot about being an art worker in the global art industry. Besides prominent photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, Anne Imhof, who in 2017 won the Venice Golden Lion for her artistic practice in the German Pavillion, stands out with an eclectic out-put, as actually conservative oil painting (à la Gerhard Richter?) seems to be her latest “approach” in conquering the art market. (see attached pic)
Daniel Buchholz emphasised in the article, that caring of his artistic protégés includes advice, storage and the creation of an archive, as well as the maintenance of their secondary market – something through support purchases at auctions, which is rarely talked about.
Nota bene: “through support purchases at auctions”.
I have never read such a “taboo-sentence” from another art dealer in the world. In this regard, we have to give applause to Buchholz for being straight forward while showing a fine, honest attitude. One reason, why he is highly respected in the German art scene.
Compare with my pictures from 2017:
yukimasaida
The language of music and the language of painting.
We are connected by it.
Sumi – chan, you are truly a beautiful man.
Great session no,2. with @cateen8810
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb9_NtLuPw9/
Curator-at-Large, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC.
Incoming Director, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
to be continued…. つづく、、、