Charles Saatchi: Sharks are good, and feces artists - too

[ikoku]

Сообщение от AlexanderG

Ne soglasen. Vy sozdaiote kartinu, a agent, diler, galerist v kompanii s muzeiami, pressoi, kuratorami, kollektsionerami - sozdaiut tovar.

Eto kliuchevaia mysl '. Tol'ko poniav ee vozmozno osoznanie art rynka.

But I'm not against the market and art market, and it is present as is the work in this area, but we're talking about Saatchi and on his talent to take out the corpse of artists making their names are legendary and the prices of their products prohibitively high. I mean only that "supraliminal". If D. Hurst was worth a couple of zeros less, then perhaps confusion and controversy over his extraordinary "talent" does not arise.
And it is these extra zeros I call the void, and not labor people, forming the art market.
Finansofye and art of the pyramid collapse because of the presence in them of these "voids", and that created difficulty is the century. Cyril Syzransky quoted the example of the Egyptian pyramids, they are due to the fact that all the blocks in snugly adjusted to each other, no voids.

[observer]

Сообщение от Vladimir

Two works that are next to the auction for the TOP of the sixties, but completely different stories. In late Chubarova sales - on the fingers of one hand. And with the context.

What this means in terms of normal language? Samopokupki?

[Vladimir]

Сообщение от observer

Samopokupki?

That can not be argued, but the view is there. Very suspicious transactions. Out of nowhere, the very first two sales and just under a million dollars. Very suspicious. For many observers - white thread. Here's a piece of an interview with Popov http://artinvestment.ru/invest/ideas...interview.html plus editorial comment:

S. AP: Right. I was in this sense does not like a story that happened to Chubarova. (In June 2007, great resonance in the art market has caused a fantastically successful result achieved at the Phillips de Pury auction of three-meter abstraction Chubarova Eugene (b. 1934), established in 1994. Exhibited on the auctions with the estimate: 100-150 thousand pounds, the picture was sold for 720 pounds (600 thousand without a fee). At that time it was only the second abstraction Chubarova, appeared at the auction. The first was sold three months earlier at Sotheby's for $ 240 right away thousands of pounds without commission. Chubarova Record paintings allowed her to formally adopt third place in the list of the most expensive works of the sixties - immediately after the work of Ilya Kabakov and Erik Bulatov. - AI .).

[Seriy]

once there is a market, auctions, quotes, that is, and tested in the financial markets instruments of manipulation of these environments.

[vanhoi]

but how are you? http://janhoi.narod.ru/

[observer]

Сообщение от Vladimir

That can not be argued, but the view is there. Very suspicious transactions. Out of nowhere, the very first two sales and just under a million dollars. Very suspicious. For many observers - white thread.

The same view is and buying Krasnopevtsev per million. Given the reputation of the merchant demonstrably acquire this still life, the fact that he has about a half dozen similar works and his "business" connection with the auction, it looks like you were pleased to express, very suspicious.

Prior to that he was there and also for one million purchased dubious plate Malevich and immediately began to give some media interviews that he believes Sotheby's experts. Where is this platter, in a collection?

A similar view exists on the record sales Kabakov. Not much surprised if over time it turns out that the successful vendor and the purchaser will be a happy one and the same owner of Russia's auction.

[Vladimir]

Сообщение от observer

A similar view exists on the record sales Kabakov. Not much surprised if over time it turns out that the successful vendor and the purchaser will be a happy one and the same owner of Russia's auction.

Record Krasnopevtsev bought seemingly Alex Lachman. In whose interests - not in the know. Krasnopevtsev was outstanding. Record Kabakov (beetle) is known to be in the congregation, Vyacheslav Kantor.

[fross]

Сообщение от Vladimir

record Krasnopevtsev bought seemingly Alex Lachman. Whose Interest - not in the know. Krasnopevtsev was outstanding. Record Taverns (beetle) is known to be in the collection Vyacheslav Kantor.

A suite?

[observer]

Сообщение от Vladimir

record Krasnopevtsev bought seemingly Alex Lachman. In whose interests - not in the know.

That's it, I think, and you know, everything connected with his name - very suspicious.
By the way, Moscow's "collector" named Elect, in the summer claimed that millions Krasnopevtsev still have this buyer.

[Тютчев]

Shocking generosity

The sensation of the summer was a cultural statement by Charles Saatchi - a millionaire and one of the main figures in the world of contemporary art - the intention to donate his gallery in London's Chelsea to the British people. However, the first days of autumn brought disappointment: the deal supposedly fell through. What could make the super-rich people to voluntarily give my life's work, and the State - and refuse to take a gift?
Who is Charles Saatchi? The founder of an advertising agency, once the largest in the world. A fan and connoisseur of modern art, a discoverer of new names. Superkollektsioner, as is sometimes said. And, importantly, highly successful art dealer: works that have already visited his gallery, sold several times more expensive than the gallery owner paid for them. Such is the credibility of taste Saatchi - or, if such is the power of its brand.

Saatchi could in a short time to become a famous collector through his chosen collecting strategy - focus on shocking art. He's made a name Damien Hirst, ordering him to his famous work "The Physical impossibility of death in the minds of living" - preserved in formaldehyde 4 - meter shark. Visits Exhibition Saatchi shocked portrait infanticides Mira Hindley, composed of fingerprints smeared in paint children's hands (Marcus Harvey, "World") and sculptural self-portrait of Marc Quinn made of frozen blood of the artist.

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the summer of 2010 it became known that all his wealth, 67-year-old Saatchi has decided to donate the citizens of the United Kingdom. Why? The very secretive galerist his generosity did not explain, but the answer is obvious. When so much time on art, fame is just a little, want to go down in history as a collector does not dream to found a museum named after him. However Treat Saatchi, but, obviously, in our time, he deserves to perpetuate more than others.

Proposal Saatchi struck his generosity. He gave the building its gallery area of 6,5 thousand square meters, and with it - more than 200 works. Among them, for example, were "My Bed" by Tracey Emin, who made a splash, hitting a short-list Ternerovskoy Prize, and "Tragic Anatomy" Jake and Dinos Chapman, Saatchi exhibit of the famous exhibition "Sensation". Special mention deserves the only permanent installation in the gallery, the work of Richard Wilson's "20: 50" - a room with mirrored ceiling, filled with waste oil to the level of the waist. (It should be noted that Saatchi gave not all: many of the works he has left himself, and bequeathed to his relatives.) According to the plans for a collector, all the treasures were to be presented to the public in three batches in 2012 and then could start up of their new exhibit as part of the exhibits to lend to other museums.

 
In addition, as a gift experts perceived willingness Saatchi abandon their own behalf in the name of the future museum. He proposed to call it the London Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA London). The plan creator galleries, it will not be frozen and ossified Meeting, the composition of the exhibits will change. Saatchi representatives stressed that the state itself would incur no costs: salaries and other expenses will be funded from the money of the gallery, in particular - the sponsorship funds, proceeds from the store, restaurant and event venue. This entrance would remain free.

Why is it all went wrong? September 7 British media reports abounded that the transaction is set aside or, speaking more softly, was questioned. Moreover, all claimed to have changed his mind to give Charles Saatchi's gallery, while the British government changed its mind to accept it: negotiations with the Arts Council of England have failed.

Among the reasons observers called the opposition of officials with the fact that, according to the plan Saatchi, the new state museum will make buying and selling works of art: it would be inconsistent with the Code of Ethics of the British Museum Association. In addition, the authorities did not like the new State Museum of Contemporary Art will actually duplicate the role of the other galleries - Tate Modern. Saatchi from the beginning stressed that he should pay the exhibits in a public meeting, and give the country only gallery entirely, that it was a single "living museum". In contrast, I suppose, from the same "Tate".

According to unofficial data, now Saatchi is negotiating the transfer of the gallery with NGOs. Representatives of the gallerist hermit refused to comment, promising that all will become clear in the coming weeks.

Of course, I'm sorry to be if gallery in the end will not get British, naporovshis to bureaucratic obstacles. On the other hand, do not forget that Saatchi - professional advertisers, and their fame and fortune he gained, largely based precisely on their advertising talents, causing public shock and using the technology of the brands. No matter how altruistic nor looked his proposal for the future, we must bear in mind that here and now gallery owner receives a huge reputational dividends from his generosity. And if it turns out that he would not be the new Pavel Tretyakov, and remain, Charles Saatchi, it is not too surprising.

Cyril tadpoles

http://www.lenta.ru/articles/2010/09/08/saatchi/