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Ron Arad – the art of design [2008年12月22日]

The world of contemporary design is illuminated by a small number of bright stars whose popularity has an industrial production base, whose reputations have been confirmed by museums and whose prices are driven by galleries and auction rooms. Ron ARAD is indeed one of these design stars: from 20 November 2008 to 16 March 2009, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris is hosting a retrospective exhibition entitled No Discipline which will be transferred to the MOMA in New York (28 July to 19 October 2009) and then to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2010.

Old Masters Art Market more demanding than ever [2008年12月14日]

Compared with the rising stars of the contemporary art market from China, India and the Middle-East whose markets have been stimulated by speculative temptation, the market for works by Old Masters is much less volatile and therefore much less risky. However, it is not completely sheltered.

Christie’s and Sotheby’s in Hong-Kong: the state of play [2008年12月07日]

In 2007, China redistributed the cards in becoming the third auction market globally. Beijing and Hong Kong have rapidly established themselves as new growth relays and the scene of some particularly aggressive investment over the past two years.

Mark Rothko [2008年11月30日]

London’s Tate Modern is currently holding an exhibition of Mark Rothko’s later works through to 1st February 2009. The collection plunges the viewer into his deep “colorfields” – chromatic spaces for meditation.

Has photography proven crisis-proof? [2008年11月23日]

Confronted with the crisis, the results achieved on the sale of the last photographs in the Jammes collection on 15 November at Christie’s were more measured than alarming. Prices on old negatives are proving resilient, with modern and contemporary photography being harder hit.

Contemporary art loses its shine [2008年11月17日]

The market for contemporary art, the most speculative segment of the art market (+108% since 2003), has not withstood the shocks of the current financial turmoil. The results of the prestigious November sales in New York organised by Sotheby’s and Christie’s on 11 and 12 November are most discouraging.

Buyers much more cautious at New York sales [2008年11月09日]

The financial crisis is taking its toll on the art world. The prestigious and high-profile Modern and Impressionist Art sales in New York were very disappointing. Moreover they suggest very difficult times ahead. The results recorded by Sotheby’s and Christie’s from 3 to 6 November 2008 are way below the auctioneers’ expectations proving that even the ultra top-end of the market is now impacted by the crisis.

The crisis spreads to the art market [2008年11月02日]

The impact of the financial crisis on the art market – traditionally perceived as a financial safe haven – is now clearly confirmed. A market downturn is no longer a theoretical scenario… it is a reality. Since the beginning of September, the art market has contracted for the first time since 1990.

Contemporary Korean Art [2008年10月23日]

On the one hand, Korean art is being driven by changes within the country that started 20 years ago with the Olympic Games in Seoul and the first fully democratic elections, and on the other hand, by the remarkable success of contemporary Chinese and Indian artists.While Asian auction houses, such as Borobudur Singapore and Seoul Auction Center, are driving the market there, the global majors, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, recently integrated Korean art into their Contemporary Asian Art sales. Korea also has its own art fair, the KIAF, whose seventh edition ended in September.

Artprice and the Fiac have published an exclusive report on the 2007/2008 contemporary art market, in partnership with Axa Art [2008年10月20日]

For the 35th edition of the Fiac (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain) and in partnership with Axa Art, Artprice, Fiac’s press partner, published an exclusive reference report on the contemporary art market worldwide.This book delivers key information to understand what is at stake on the international art market. It will be distributed to the media and to all the visitors coming to the Grand Palais and the Carré du Louvre from 23 to 26 Oct. 2008.<%/DESC%>

The 180-page study printed in English and French is a guide for the art market as seen through the prism of auction in 72 different countries. It includes analyses such as Structural change: towards a new world order; The art market in the new economic reality; Sculpture: an “in vogue” medium; The Chinese wave still flooding the market; India, the new Himalaya of the market; Affordable contemporary art; The best first appearances at auction in 2007; The heavyweights of the contemporary art auction market; Galleries insight with exclusive interviews; a top 500 of contemporary artists; a report on the market of Design; International contemporary art fairs and galleries: an exclusive overview by sociologist Alain Quemin.

FIAC 2008 [2008年10月13日]

From 20 to 27 October, Paris will enjoy its annual period of intense proximity to the world of Contemporary Art with a series of events, public sales and exhibitions not the least of which being the 35th edition of the FIAC (International Contemporary Art Fair) from 23/26 October at the Grand Palais, the Cour Carrée (next to the Centre Pompidou) and in the Jardins des Tuileries.

German Expressionism – aggression with a brush [2008年10月05日]

The price index for German expressionist masters has been particularly dynamic over the past 2 years.Underpinning this price progression: a rarefaction of the offer; some exceptional works coming to market and plenty of recent exhibitions.For example, Emil Nolde is currently being honoured with a retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris – until 19 January 2009.

The Campana Brothers [2008年09月29日]

The Brazilian brothers, Fernando and Humberto Campana, born respectively in 1961 and 1953, have injected new life into contemporary design and today their work features in dedicated exhibitions around the world : in the United States, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. In 1998, The New York MOMA hosted Project 66: Campana/Ingo Maurer. The following year (1999) the brothers were the subject of a first retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Bahia (Brazil) and they were awarded the Georges Nelson Design Interiors prize by the American magazine Interiors. After the dawn of the new millennium, their fame accelerated and their design acquired a veritable international reputation with pieces being integrated into the permanent collections of a number of museums, including the MOMA. From among their most successful creations, their best auctions have been generated by the doll chairs with the evocative name Sushi.

Damien Hirst / Jeff Koons – Artists and managers [2008年09月22日]

The two most well-known and expensive contemporary artists alive today have other talents in common. They both enjoy exceptionally high media profiles, both elicit controversy, both set their respective auction records in 2008… and both know how to communicate. They also both seem to be “financially aware”.September 2008 sees both on centre stage with just five days between the two. The American Jeff Koons, the most expensive living artist at auction today, is currently rubbing shoulders with French royal history having inaugurated his exhibition at the Palace of Versailles (10/09/2008 to 14/12/2008) while the English artist Damien Hirst has caused a mini sensation by selling directly through Sotheby’s…

American Pop Art – the bubble is leaking air… [2008年09月21日]

The general price index for American Pop Art – the epicentre of art market speculation since the beginning of the decade – is showing signs of waning. Although Andy Warhol is the third most expensive post-war artist, along with Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko, auction sales of his works since the start of 2008 have been less successful… Could this be a first sign of market saturation?

India, the new Himalaya of the market? [2008年09月15日]

Behind China, the other significant emerging force on the international art market is India. In the mid 1990s, India’s strong economic growth produced a new generation of patrons and sponsors willing to invest in the art of their fellow-countrymen. Today, the demand is global and fast-growing, substantially fuelled by the speculative incentive to earn attractive gains on quick turnarounds. The works produced by the new stars of Indian art are exchanged in auction houses in Hong-Kong and Dubai, London and New-York, New Delhi and Paris. After China, India looks like a new Eldorado for collectors / buyers attracted to the speculative potential.

Surrealism – a record year [2008年09月08日]

Surrealist art works are posting record prices. Stimulated by the sale of the Breton collection in April 2003 (Calmels-Cohen, Paris) and then by the André Lefevre collection in December 2007 (Aguttes, Paris), prices in the segment are reaching new peaks, having progressed another 21% over the first 9 months of this year. Over 10 years, the movement’s price index has gained 214%.

Jeff Koons [2008年09月01日]

The Palace of Versailles will soon (September 10) be staging a 3-month exhibition of the works of the American “master of kitsch”, Jeff Koons. Some works will even be installed in the very heart if the royal apartments. Aside from the aesthetic clash and the associated controversy, the exhibition represents an opportunity for France to host the work of the highest paid living contemporary artist in the world today.

Damien Hirst, star of the September sales! [2008年08月24日]

Discovered by the advertising magnate and collector Charles Saatchi, the leading icon of the British scene knows the market rules off by heart. He is a strategist in art marketing and is getting himself talked about again by organising an exclusive sale at Sotheby’s.

Art market shift – London ahead of New York [2008年08月17日]

The growing interest shown by emerging markets (China, the United Arab Emirates, India…) and good performances from traditional markets resulted in spectacular figures for the first half of 2008. This has silenced the sceptics who were still expecting economic woes to have a knock-on effect on auctions.The first Half of 2008 at auctions has so far countered gloomy and alarmist prophecies of a recession with sales of EUR 3.8bn (more or less equivalent to the EUR 3.7bn for the same period of 2007) and 504 bids over a million euros compared to 517 as of July 1st 2007. The art market has repeated the record performance reached in 2007 without beating it.

Richard Avedon – The eye without lashes [2008年08月10日]

He was one of the most sought-after 20th century photographers: he worked for Harper’s Bazaar for twenty years, spent twenty-five designing cover pages for Vogue, and twelve for The New Yorker and captured the reality of events and people of his time without a trace of sentimentality. From the glamorous world of fashion to the austerity of the struggling, lower middle classes of the American West, he devoted his talent to capturing flashes of truth.He was a photographer who embodied renunciation, working from No, replacing colour with black and white and sharpening the focus on his models with neutral backgrounds.

Iranian art boom – 2006-2008: “progress report” [2008年08月04日]

In two years, Dubai has clearly affirmed itself on the global art market with the first edition of Art Dubai in 2007 – inviting some 30 galleries from around the globe – and with the establishment of both Christie’s (2006) and Bonhams (2008) in the city. Since their arrival, the two action houses have been selling works by modern and contemporary artists from Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon and Iran and they have succeeded in fostering growing demand as well as significant price inflation. The Dubai prices represented his record.

London sales of Old Master paintings – Good results [2008年07月28日]

As 7-figure bids become commonplace in the speculative and volatile contemporary segment of the art market, bidding for less publicised older works is still buoyant. The Christie’s and Sotheby’s sales of Old Master Paintings on 8 and 9 July 2008 generated new records with rare masterpieces from private collections.

The New Realists – Six records in six months [2008年07月14日]

During their lifetimes, several New Realists gained considerable recognition in the United States. Their participation in the artistic maelstrom of New York during the 1960-80s partly explains their success at American and British auctions. Pierre Restany, a travelling art critic and polyglot involved in the emergence of the movement, worked towards their promotion in the USA; artist Niki de Saint Phalle, a French-Americain, frequently crossed the Atlantic; Jean Tinguely gained notoriety with his Homage to New-York, a cacaphonic happening at the MOMA in 1960 whose apotheosis was its intended self-destruction. The following year, Arman exposed for the first time in New-York, while Leo Castelli, a dealer of Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, opened his gallery to Yves Klein.

Jan Fabre – Artist and entomologist [2008年07月13日]

Originally from in Anvers in Belgium, Jan Fabre developed a French connection via his fascination for the work of his namesake Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) a 19th century entomologist and poet who described with tremendous accuracy and passion the life of insects, particularly beetles. Indeed, the iridescent carapace of beetles is a key material in the Jan Fabre’s work. Since 2002, the magnificent changing reflections of 1.4 million beetle shells decorate the ceiling of mirrors of the Royal Palace Brussels as part of his most impressive official order.

Art Market Confidence Index: a reversal in trend [2008年07月11日]

The confidence indicator for players in the art market has been falling for nearly a month. Having peaked at +31 points at the end of May following the excellent results from the May New York sales, this indicator has gradually turned down…haunted by the ghost of an unprecedented global economic recession.

Joseph Mallord William TURNER (1775-1851) [2008年07月10日]

Starting on 1st July 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of New-York is hosting the largest ever American retrospective exhibition of the work of William Turner (1775-1851) for 40 years (J. M. W. Turner, 1 July – 21 September 2008). Seascapes, landscapes, historic scenes – all the subjects the artist liked to paint – will be presented. The exhibition is organised in association with the Tate Britain Gallery which has lent a large number of its exhibited works. In fact the London museum is also the administrator of the Turner Fund which essentially manages the legacy inherited by the British Crown after the artist’s death.

The New York School [2008年06月26日]

The European artists who sought refuge in New York during the Second World War helped stoke up a simmering US art scene. A resurgence in US painting was in the making. A resurgence that would be abstract and manifest in two key movements: Action painting, consisting of gestural painting that emphasised the physical act of painting, and Color Field painting, characterised by large, flat areas of vibrant colour conducive to meditation.

Raining records in London [2008年06月25日]

In London, the European capital of the art market, Sotheby’s and Christie’s have once again confirmed the good health of the top end of the market. The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale of 24 June at Christie’s generated £144 million ($284 million), the largest sales volume ever posted by a European auction. The following day, Sotheby’s took £102 million, exceeding its aggregate high estimates by 7 million.

Contemporary art – New arrivals to the world of public auctions [2008年06月24日]

Every year, nearly 3,000 artists have their first work(s) sold at auction. This first sale is a significant step because for most people the prices they command represent a sort of benchmark which follows them throughout their career. Galleries find it less easy to support their favourite artists if the latter have not shown the capacity to generate sufficiently strong performances in the public auction arena. Likewise, a strong auction performance is an ideal trampoline for guaranteeing the success of future exhibitions on the primary market.So who got started in 2007? Artprice looks at the top 50 new entrants.

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