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More Details Emerge About Futuristic On-line VIP Art Fair

Lindsay Pollock — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:41:56 +0000

A press release has been issued for the Jan. 22-30 VIP Art Fair, which we broke news of last week here on Art Market Views.

(Read that story here).

The fair’s website is also up and running, found here.

Big name participants include:

David Zwirner (New York), Galerie Max Hetzler (Berlin), White Cube (London), Gagosian Gallery (New York, London, Beverly Hills, Rome, and Athens), Gallery Koyanagi (Tokyo), Hauser & Wirth (Zürich, London, and New York), Anna Schwartz Gallery (Melbourne and Sydney), Xavier Hufkens (Brussels), Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco), Kukje Gallery (Seoul), Sadie Coles HQ (London), and James Cohan Gallery (New York and Shanghai).

Other tidbits:

The online fair permits free browsing. To have interactive capabilities, which do not include Larry Gagosian’s cell phone number, one must purchase a VIP ticket for $100.

Browsers may view artworks online using a zoom feature, 3-D views and watch videos for multimedia pieces.

Dealers and collectors will hold conversations via instant messenger, Skype and heck, the old fashioned phone.

Fair will offer online tours as well as the ability for collectors to create and post their own tour in the virtual VIP lounge.

Dealer James Cohan Launches ‘VIP Art Fair,’ Virtual Emporium for Armchair Buyers

Lindsay Pollock — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:15:58 +0000

In a radical twist on the art fair model, the new VIP Art Fair will exist only online, catering to busy collectors weary of the cost and hassle of traveling. It’s Second Life meets Gilt Groupe for the art biz.

Seasoned Chelsea dealer James Cohan has teamed up with Internet entrepreneur Jonas Almgren, to launch the fair, according to art market sources. The event is being billed as the “first ever” virtual art fair.

The first edition is slated for January, usually a quiet time in the gallery sale cycle. The fair is comprised of virtual stands priced $4,000 to $20,000, according to sources. The fair will be timed, and we believe, last for one week, like timed sales mounted by online retailers on member-only sites such as Gilt Groupe and Ru La La. (A VIP Art Fair web page, with a snazzy black and white logo, has been set up, but the site is not yet live. The fair also has a Facebook page with 22 fans).

Cohan already has signed aboard an impressive group of international dealers, despite a hefty booth price, the concept’s novelty and the dreary economy.

Participating dealers are thought to include Barbara Gladstone, Luhring Augustine, Yancey Richardson, David Zwirner, Marianne Boesky and Hauser & Wirth.

The venture will test collectors willingness to spend serious money on art acquisitions initiated online. While details have been difficult to pin down, here is what we surmise about how the fair will work: a select group of collectors will be permitted to browse the web-based fair anonymously, so that even dealers won’t know when a potential buyer has cruised a stand, according to sources. A collector may contact the dealer with queries and make an appointment to see the artwork in person if so desired. Exhibiting dealers are also permitted to have backroom spaces, like usual art fairs.

James Cohan, proprietor of the James Cohan Gallery, operates branches on West 26th Street in New York and Shanghai. The gallery is known for a strong roster of contemporary artists including Bill Viola, Beatriz Milhazes and Yinka Shonibare.

Jonas Almgren is founder and CEO of One Art World, a website combining gallery listings, online art sales and auction information.

In-N-Out at FIAC (Part II)

Lindsay Pollock — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:06:15 +0000

FIAC’s upcoming October 21-24 edition includes 192 exhibitors, including the 50 newbies who did not take part in 2009 (see list below). Notable names include Berlin’s Max Hetzler, New York’s Cheim & Read, Metro Pictures and David Zwirner and London’s Victoria Miro.

Sixty-four from 2009 did not return. Yesterday we posted the OUT list. Today we present the IN list.

IN: GALLERIES WHO DID NOT SHOW IN 2009
Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporian, Paris
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Carlson Gallery, London
Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg/Paris/Saint-Etienne
Cheim & Read, New York
Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Crevecoeur, Paris
Gagosian, Paris (other Gagosian branch showed last year)
Galerie of Marseille, Marseille
Gladstone Gallery, New York/Brussels
Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid
Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt
Karsten Greve, Paris/Köln/St. Moritz
Bertrand Grimont, Paris
Max Hetzler, Berlin
Galerie Hussenot, Paris
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo/Kyoto
Francesca Kaufmann, Milano
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo/Kyoto
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Kurimanzutto, Mexico
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Mai.36 Galerie, Zurich
Metro Pictures, New York
MFC-Michele Didier, Brussels
Victoria Miro, London
Mitterrand+Sanz, Zurich
Parra & Romero, Madrid
Plan B, Berlin/Cluj
Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana/Berlin
Poggi, Bertoux Associés, Paris
Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
PSM, Berlin
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Salon 94, New York
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Schirman & De Beaucé, Paris
Standard (Oslo), Oslo
Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Tega, Milan
Elizabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck
Tschudi, Glarus/Zuoz
Ubu Gallery, New York
Michael Werner, New York
West, Den Haag
Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
David Zwirner, New York

In for 2010 in Secteur Lafayette (TOTAL # of NEW = 11]
Baumet Sultana, Paris
Bureau, New York
Gaga Fine Arts, Mexico
Köch Oberhuber Wolff, Berlin
Labor, Mexico
Marcelle Alix, Paris
Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin
Neue Alte Brucke, Frankfurt
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Silverman, San Francisco
Workplace, Gateshead

In-N-Out at FIAC (Part I)

Lindsay Pollock — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:46:55 +0000

FIAC!, the Parisian art fair with an exclamation point as part of its logo, has lost (or rejected) 64 dealers who took part in the 2009 edition. The fair takes place Oct. 21-24.

In this ever churning world, the fair — which boasts 192 modern and contemporary exhibitors – includes 50 new exhibitors, including 16 in a section devoted to dealers who have been in business less than 10 years. Overall 72 exhibitors are French.

Some of the prominent names on Art Market Views‘ OUT list (compiled by the ever helpful AMV’s contributor Mackie Healy) include Acquavella, Richard Gray, L & M Arts, Krugier and Pace Wildenstein (now Pace Gallery), who had all taken part last year in a joint stand orchestrated by Daniel Malingue. Other New Yorkers who exhibited in 2009 and are out for 2010 include Marianne Boesky and Bortolami.

Never fear. The fair has bolstered its New York representation, adding Gladstone, Lehmann Maupin NY, Metro Pictures, Salon 94, Ubu Gallery, Michael Werner and David Zwirner plus and Los Angeles dealer Blum & Poe. Tomorrow we will post the IN list.

OUT: GALLERIES WHO ARE NOT RETURNING

Gallery /City

ACB, Budapest
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Aiden Gallery, Moscow
Akinci, Amsterdam
Galerie Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich
Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
Art Attitude Herve Bize, Nancy
Balice Hertling, Paris
Anne Barrault, Paris
Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva
Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Marianne Boesky, New York
Bortolami, New York
Jean Brolly, Paris
Daniel Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne
Cabinet Interieur, London/Brussels
Castillo/corrales, Paris
Galerie Louis Carre & Cie, Paris
Claude Bernard, Paris
Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Pilar Corrias, London
Riccardo Crespi, Milan
De Expeditie, Amsterdam
Dependence, Brussels
Distrito 4, Madrid
DMK, Paris/Copenhagen
Down Town, Paris
Eric Dupont, Paris
Figge Von Rosen, Cologne
Enrico Fornello, Prato
Gabinete De Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo
Annie Gentils, Antwerp
Richard Gray Gallery, New York
Haas & Fischer, Zurich
Erna Hecey, Brussels
Herald Street, London
Eva Hober, Paris
Inda gallery, Budapest
Grita Insam, Vienna
Catherine Issert, Saint Paul de Vence
Galerie Krugier & Cie, Geneva
La B.A.N.K., Paris
La Blanchisserie, Boulogne-Billancourt
Serge Le Borgne, Paris
L&M Arts, New York
Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Malingue, Paris
Oriol, Barcelona
Pace Wildenstein, New York (now Pace Gallery)
Paragon, London
Patrick Seguin, Paris
Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova
Eric Philippe, Paris
Galerie Theirry Salvador, Brussels
Schleicher + Lange, Paris
Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels
Jiri Svestka, Prague
The Approach, London
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Vima Gold, London
Viltin, Budapest
Nicola Von Senger, Zurich

Antiques Dealers Launch New Show at Park Avenue Armory

Lindsay Pollock — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:54:05 +0000

By Mackie Healy, Art Market Views Contributor

The Art and Antique Dealers League of America have announced plans for a new ‘Spring Show,’ at the Park Avenue Armory. The event, which will include fine and decorative arts and antiques, will run April 28 to May 2, 2011.

From 2002 to 2005 the league held a fair at the Lexington Armory on 26th Street. New York based furniture dealer and AADLA president Clinton Howell said the group was determined to re-locate uptown, calling the Lex location “a tough draw,” and “a difficult spot for a high-end show.”

Seventy-five percent of the fair’s booths are booked, and participants include Kentshire Galleries, Hyde Park Antiques, George Subkoff Antiques, Jack Kilgore and Company, Dalva Brothers, Arnold Lieberman and others.

The Art and Antique Dealers League of America is the oldest antiques and fine arts organization in America. It began as the Antiques Dealers Luncheon Club in 1926. In 1946, the name was changed to the Art and Antique Dealers League of America and today represents over 110 members in 60 fields of expertise.

More information can be found here.

A Quicky Tour Around Design Miami/Basel

Lindsay Pollock — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:24:08 +0000

Just when I thought I’d exhausted my supply of Basel related photos, here’s a few from the Design Miami/Basel fair which was located on the back side of the main convention fair. The fair is a blend of old and new and is always a bit of an aesthetic breather from the main fair. The stands are large, and since this is in fact a design fair, there is a strong emphasis on presentation.

Milan dealer Rossana Orlandi, whose necklace and bracelets caught my eye. She reminded me of an Italian Iris Apfel. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Richard Woods on display at Perry Rubinstein's stand at design fair. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

New York's R 20th Century presented a group of American designers. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Wendell Castle mirror at R 20th Century at the Basel design fair. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Wendell Castle standing beside his anthropomorphic jewelry case at the Basel design fair. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Brussel's Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud's flawless ceramics display at fair. Akiyama Yo on left. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Giraud's Ritsue Mishima hanging sculpture. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Carpenters Workshop Gallery stand, said to have attracted the eyeballs of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Matthew Barney at the Schaulager

Lindsay Pollock — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:12:09 +0000

There’s usually not much time during Art Basel to explore events beyond the convention center, but this year I managed to attend the annual brunch held at the Schaulager, a wondrous Herzog and de Meuron museum and art storage space (the architect team is based in Basel) where Matthew Barney ’s Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail including Drawing Restraint was installed on the first two floors.

I took a few photos of the building’s exterior where a pair of giant screens broadcast Barney’s video. Visitors were even able to watch the video as they waited for the tram across the street, a sort of high-brow drive-in. For moving pictures, Vernissage TV has great footage, found here.

Crowds gather outside the Schaulager. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

A shot from the coat check into the bookstore. A guard prevented me from taking more interior shots. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Exterior Schaulager with Barney video on screen. Gladstone's Max Falkenstein on right. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Left to right: Andrea Rosen, unindentified man, Barbara Gladstone, Neville Wakefield, Rosalie Benitez. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Exterior Schaulager with Barney video on screen. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Curator Neville Wakefield at Schaulager Matthew Barney show. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Exterior Schaulager with Barney video on screen. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

That's me in the middle, taking a photo in a mirror at the Schaulager. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

London based art writer Ossian Ward at Barney brunch. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Brisk Sales, Collegial Vibe at Basel’s Scrappy Liste

Lindsay Pollock — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:11:45 +0000

I covered the Liste fair for The Art Newspaper, an event that I recommend to any Basel fair-goer hunting for new talent. There was plenty of appealing work, much priced well under $10,000.

My story can be found here.

Here are some photos.

Outside of ramshackle brewery where Liste takes place. It's a 10 minute tram ride from the main fair. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Zurich dealer Claudia Groeflin (seated) presented solo show by Swiss artist Athene Galiciadis (on left)

San Francisco's Claudia Altman-Siegel and David Berezin. The stand won a prize for best new exhibitor at Liste. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock

Altman-Siegel stand at Liste

Art Basel as Launching Pad

Lindsay Pollock — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:03:43 +0000

Here’s a story I wrote with The Art Newspaper’s Charlotte Burns on the phenomenon of dealers using Art Basel as a venue to introduce and boost their newest names. Link to story here.

Big Art Rules at Art Basel’s Unlimited

Lindsay Pollock — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:59:32 +0000

In addition to the usual dealer stands, Art Basel includes a cavernous showplace dedicated to bigger artworks, videos and installations. Here are some photos from the 2010 Unlimited section.

Thomas Campbell, Director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with daughter and Whitney director Adam Weinberg at opening of Art Unlimited. © Photo: Lindsay Pollock