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Auction house Phillips de Pury & Company moved decisively against the general trends in the art market. At that moment, when all rolled up trade in contemporary art and expand sections of the old masters, Phillips de Pury brings to their calendar, another 17 (!) New auctions. And all are devoted to modern art - Latin American, Japanese, Italian, African and so on. The first of a series of new auctions called briefly and clearly - NOW.

"We often obsessed about the future or remain in the past - writes in the foreword to the catalog chairman of Phillips de Pury, Simon de Pury - and we must be able to devote all their energy and commitment at present. If you can do that, the quality of your future and your past dramatically improved. " All: and this philosophical premise, and concludes the introductory story to note that the directory is printed on the obtained after recycling paper (ie not caused damage to the environment) - NOW distinguished from ordinary trading. The catalog represents a middle ground between conventional and auktsionnikom magazine on contemporary art, followed by an interview with the flagship sovriska (curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and ternerovskoy Prize winner Keith Tyson), followed by news of art (including the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow). Then - 300 works by contemporary photographers, designers, artists, made in the period from 2000 to 2009. Today you can imagine.

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In the photos submitted to Stephen Gill, whose work is devoted to the underside of mass culture. Simply put, it takes the reverse sides of billboards; for billboards, except for their own ugly underside, found parked cars, garbage or emptiness (estimate £ 10-15 thousand for the 20 color prints). German photographer Michael Reisch annoy any signs of human presence: it removes only the desert landscapes, and then processes them on the computer, erasing all signs of civilization. As a result, the mountains and valleys Reisch become the embodiment of the notions of "eternity" and "firmness" (£ 8-12 thousand). Much further in his love for humanity and computer technology has advanced Emily Ollcherch - it constructs from the ruins of ancient Roman monuments and neighborhoods filming something in the style of Piranesi, entitled "kyaroskuro" (£ 5-7 thousand).

In the design section draw attention to themselves devices for seats - just call them chairs language is not rotated. Tina Roeder drilled in the usual plastic chair thousands of holes, turning it into a delicate, lace-like object (£ 1,2-1,8 thousand). Mario Minale created his chair from the designer Lego, reinforced aluminum (£ 20-25 thousand, probably, because of the high cost of raw material). A Tom Pryce treated much closer to the comfort of his works - in a pile of white polypropylene tubes he carefully melt a hole for the seat (£ 4-6 thousand).

Most auction your own modern art. Here there are leading figures, and neophytes. For example, silk-screen diptych sold melancholic Briton Gary Hume (£ 2,5-3,5 million), which in 1999 exhibited at the British pavilion at the Biennale in Venice. But Dr. Lakra closed up artist is not so long ago - before this Mexican was a professional tattooist. Now he covers the typical ink patterns beauties with vintage posters (£ 2-3 thousand).

In the actual art reigns, as it should be in the current ranking, Damien Hirst. Diptych of a series of "biopsy" - a giant image of human cell mutants, sprinkled like sugar, glass beads (£ 60-80 thousand). For contemporary artists, not, as we know, nothing is sacred - and they were willing to mock the work of their colleagues. Polish artist Peter Fuss has made a copy of the object of Damien Hirst's "For The Love Of God" - is the same skull, but not made of platinum and diamonds, and their plastics and glasses, called "For The Laugh Of God". In 2007, Fuss's skull was worth £ 1 thousand (a skull Hirst - $ 100 million). It is possible that time will judge that the skull is better - happily skalyascheesya Fuss rated product is already a £ 6-8 thousand, and a platinum skull try to sell.

London, September 26

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