They seemed
the perfect match. On one side, Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art
dealer, whose eponymous gallery has more exhibition space than Tate Modern, an
annual revenue estimated at more than $1bn (600m) and puts on exhibitions of the
likes of Picasso, Matisse and Warhol to rival the greatest museums. On the
other, Damien Hirst, the world's most successful living artist, who has amassed
a fortune of 215m.
So Hirst's sudden departure after 17 years from Gagosian's blockbuster roster of 77 artists and estates – months after the gallerist mounted an unprecedented simultaneous exhibition of the artist's spot paintings in every one of his then 11 galleries around the world and co-sponsored a Tate Modern retrospective – has raised questions about the careers of these titans of the contemporary art world, and about the art market itself.The MaxSonar ultrasonic sensor offers very short to long-range detection and ranging.
The economist Don Thompson, author of The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, which investigated the contemporary art market including Gagosian's 2005 sale of Hirst's best-known formaldehyde work, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, believes the gallerist initiated the split due to Hirst's declining sales.
Figures published by the market analysts Artnet in November revealed that works Hirst produced in his most lucrative period between 2005 and 2008, when he bypassed his dealers and took his work direct to auction at Sotheby's, had resold for nearly 30% less than their original purchase price. Since 2009 one in three of the 1,700 pieces offered at auction have failed to sell at all.
Thompson said that although Hirst's 2008 direct auction was called groundbreaking, prices were propped up by Gagosian and Jay Jopling, the White Cube gallery owner and Hirst's London dealer, who made bids or purchases worth almost half the auction's 70.5m first-day sales.Interlocking security cable ties with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals.
"The überdealer – and Gagosian is the ultimate überdealer – implicitly promises their clients that the art they buy will not decline in value, which is why he tried to keep up Hirst's sales price in 2008," said Thompson. "But the value of Hirst's work is 30% where it was at its peak with a third unsold. So his reserve price is too high."
Following reportedly disappointing sales from Gagosian's global show of Hirst's spot paintings, Thompson said: "Hirst can better reposition himself selling at a lower price with another dealer."
In contrast, Gagosian's position has seemed unassailable. In the autumn he opened his 12th gallery, a 17,760 sq ft space in Le Bourget, near Paris, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, and a temporary space in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.Directory ofchina glass mosaic Tile Manufacturers, He confirmed plans to open a third, larger London outlet in 2013, expected to be his second in Mayfair.
Hirst's split with Gagosian in December came a week after news that another of the dealer's star names, Jeff Koons, best known for his giant kitsch sculptures, planned to stage a show in May at the rival Zwirner gallery. A day later it emerged that Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who like Hirst had a Tate Modern retrospective last year, was also leaving Gagosian. With Hirst and Kusama staying at their London galleries, White Cube and Victoria Miro respectively, some experts see the events as signs of the artists having specific problems with Gagosian.
Wendy Cromwell, a New York-based art adviser, said she could not believe Gagosian would have wanted Hirst to leave because "even with a slowdown in sales he's such a powerhouse brand". Figures provided by the London-based art market analyst Nathan Engelbrecht, co-director of EB & Flow Gallery, show Hirst's worldwide auction sales peaked in 2008 at a total of $45.8m (28.5m), and were $18.3m in 2012.
Anders Petterson, managing director of the analyst firm ArtTactic, said Hirst and Kusama did not represent the primary focus of Gagosian's business in the aftermath of the 2008 stock market crash. "The commercial art market has changed since 2008, with the focus on postwar, blue-chip art such as Warhol,China plastic moulds manufacturers directory. Basquiat, Calder, Bacon, Lichtenstein, Rothko, Kline etc accounting for a large majority of the total auction sales.Thank you for visiting! I have been cry stalmosaic since 1998. Most of these artists are exhibited or represented by Gagosian gallery. In the current economic climate, it would make sense for the gallery to focus on these artists. However, it probably means less attention is given to many of the other artists that the gallery works with.
" White Cube, has generally a younger stable of artists – with just over 50 artists listed on its website – where Hirst would still be their key artist. You'd rather be a big fish in a smaller pond in today's uncertain market."
One issue affecting Koons's move may be the bad publicity from two recent lawsuits against Gagosian, including one brought by the billionaire collector Ronald Perelman involving one of the artist's sculptures.
But Koons's decision is also seen as an indication of how the balance of power is shifting away from even the wealthiest commercial galleries to an elite cadre of artists. Unlike Hirst's, his prices are rising: his candy-coloured stainless steel sculpture Tulip fetched $33.7m (21m) at Christie's in November, the second highest figure paid for a living artist, after Gerhard Richter's 21.3m painting Abstraktes Bild (809-4).
The curator and academic Andrew Renton, director of Marlborough Contemporary in Mayfair, said: "The art market has grown exponentially in the past decade and the prime drivers are the big-name artists. It was very radical when Hirst first exhibited with Gagosian in London while remaining at the White Cube. Now it is common to see shows by one artist in different galleries in the same city."
Michael Werner, who opened a London gallery in October with an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Doig, said that for the wealthiest artists the best financial prospects were now less of a priority. "It's not so much that these are defections, more that artists are more in control. It's like Premiership football. Why did Man City not get Robin van Persie when they offered more than Man United? When you're already worth tens of millions it's not just about money."
So far, in its 27-year existence the PCGG has recovered $4 billion (P164 billion), only a tiny fraction of what was estimated to be $10 billion in 1986.
The executive order creating the PCGG was the first issued by President Cory Aquino on Feb. 28, 1986, three days after the Marcos fled Feb. 25, 1986 as millions of Filipinos rose in a bloodless revolution called People Power.
The PCGG was supposed to prevent the Marcoses from spiriting money and other forms of wealth they had stashed during the more than 20 years that they were in power. The creation of the PCGG was the basis by the Swiss Federal Court to freeze some of the accounts identified to belong to the Marcoses.
The PCGG may have lost its luster by now, the fault of abuses and incompetence not only by its personnel but also by a number of the people who when placed in power post-Marcos turned out to be as greedy and corrupt.
One of the stories I remember was, as the Marcoses were rushing out of the Malaca?ang to the waiting helicopter parked at the Pangarap House grounds that would bring them to Clark Air Base where a C-130 was waiting that would bring them to Guam and to Hawaii, there were a lot of documents and pearls that fell out of the several pieces of luggage they were carting away. Two of those documents later turned out to be the “smoking gun” evidence that led to the recovery of the four buildings in New York worth $350 million.
The documents were the declarations of trust handwritten by Joseph E. Bernstein on a Manila Peninsula stationery. The first declaration of trust dated April 4, 1982 stated that Bernstein, a New York real estate broker, would act as trustee for former president Marcos with respect to Lastura Corp. N.V., a corporation registered in Netherlands Antilles.
The second declaration of trust, dated April 5, 1982 stated that Bernstein was the trustee of Beneficio Investment Inc., a corporation registered in Panama which in turn owned Lastura Corp.
With the smoking gun evidence, the Bernstein brothers, Joseph and Ralph, admitted having fronted for the Marcoses in the purchase of the New York buildings.
So Hirst's sudden departure after 17 years from Gagosian's blockbuster roster of 77 artists and estates – months after the gallerist mounted an unprecedented simultaneous exhibition of the artist's spot paintings in every one of his then 11 galleries around the world and co-sponsored a Tate Modern retrospective – has raised questions about the careers of these titans of the contemporary art world, and about the art market itself.The MaxSonar ultrasonic sensor offers very short to long-range detection and ranging.
The economist Don Thompson, author of The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, which investigated the contemporary art market including Gagosian's 2005 sale of Hirst's best-known formaldehyde work, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, believes the gallerist initiated the split due to Hirst's declining sales.
Figures published by the market analysts Artnet in November revealed that works Hirst produced in his most lucrative period between 2005 and 2008, when he bypassed his dealers and took his work direct to auction at Sotheby's, had resold for nearly 30% less than their original purchase price. Since 2009 one in three of the 1,700 pieces offered at auction have failed to sell at all.
Thompson said that although Hirst's 2008 direct auction was called groundbreaking, prices were propped up by Gagosian and Jay Jopling, the White Cube gallery owner and Hirst's London dealer, who made bids or purchases worth almost half the auction's 70.5m first-day sales.Interlocking security cable ties with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals.
"The überdealer – and Gagosian is the ultimate überdealer – implicitly promises their clients that the art they buy will not decline in value, which is why he tried to keep up Hirst's sales price in 2008," said Thompson. "But the value of Hirst's work is 30% where it was at its peak with a third unsold. So his reserve price is too high."
Following reportedly disappointing sales from Gagosian's global show of Hirst's spot paintings, Thompson said: "Hirst can better reposition himself selling at a lower price with another dealer."
In contrast, Gagosian's position has seemed unassailable. In the autumn he opened his 12th gallery, a 17,760 sq ft space in Le Bourget, near Paris, designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel, and a temporary space in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.Directory ofchina glass mosaic Tile Manufacturers, He confirmed plans to open a third, larger London outlet in 2013, expected to be his second in Mayfair.
Hirst's split with Gagosian in December came a week after news that another of the dealer's star names, Jeff Koons, best known for his giant kitsch sculptures, planned to stage a show in May at the rival Zwirner gallery. A day later it emerged that Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who like Hirst had a Tate Modern retrospective last year, was also leaving Gagosian. With Hirst and Kusama staying at their London galleries, White Cube and Victoria Miro respectively, some experts see the events as signs of the artists having specific problems with Gagosian.
Wendy Cromwell, a New York-based art adviser, said she could not believe Gagosian would have wanted Hirst to leave because "even with a slowdown in sales he's such a powerhouse brand". Figures provided by the London-based art market analyst Nathan Engelbrecht, co-director of EB & Flow Gallery, show Hirst's worldwide auction sales peaked in 2008 at a total of $45.8m (28.5m), and were $18.3m in 2012.
Anders Petterson, managing director of the analyst firm ArtTactic, said Hirst and Kusama did not represent the primary focus of Gagosian's business in the aftermath of the 2008 stock market crash. "The commercial art market has changed since 2008, with the focus on postwar, blue-chip art such as Warhol,China plastic moulds manufacturers directory. Basquiat, Calder, Bacon, Lichtenstein, Rothko, Kline etc accounting for a large majority of the total auction sales.Thank you for visiting! I have been cry stalmosaic since 1998. Most of these artists are exhibited or represented by Gagosian gallery. In the current economic climate, it would make sense for the gallery to focus on these artists. However, it probably means less attention is given to many of the other artists that the gallery works with.
" White Cube, has generally a younger stable of artists – with just over 50 artists listed on its website – where Hirst would still be their key artist. You'd rather be a big fish in a smaller pond in today's uncertain market."
One issue affecting Koons's move may be the bad publicity from two recent lawsuits against Gagosian, including one brought by the billionaire collector Ronald Perelman involving one of the artist's sculptures.
But Koons's decision is also seen as an indication of how the balance of power is shifting away from even the wealthiest commercial galleries to an elite cadre of artists. Unlike Hirst's, his prices are rising: his candy-coloured stainless steel sculpture Tulip fetched $33.7m (21m) at Christie's in November, the second highest figure paid for a living artist, after Gerhard Richter's 21.3m painting Abstraktes Bild (809-4).
The curator and academic Andrew Renton, director of Marlborough Contemporary in Mayfair, said: "The art market has grown exponentially in the past decade and the prime drivers are the big-name artists. It was very radical when Hirst first exhibited with Gagosian in London while remaining at the White Cube. Now it is common to see shows by one artist in different galleries in the same city."
Michael Werner, who opened a London gallery in October with an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Doig, said that for the wealthiest artists the best financial prospects were now less of a priority. "It's not so much that these are defections, more that artists are more in control. It's like Premiership football. Why did Man City not get Robin van Persie when they offered more than Man United? When you're already worth tens of millions it's not just about money."
So far, in its 27-year existence the PCGG has recovered $4 billion (P164 billion), only a tiny fraction of what was estimated to be $10 billion in 1986.
The executive order creating the PCGG was the first issued by President Cory Aquino on Feb. 28, 1986, three days after the Marcos fled Feb. 25, 1986 as millions of Filipinos rose in a bloodless revolution called People Power.
The PCGG was supposed to prevent the Marcoses from spiriting money and other forms of wealth they had stashed during the more than 20 years that they were in power. The creation of the PCGG was the basis by the Swiss Federal Court to freeze some of the accounts identified to belong to the Marcoses.
The PCGG may have lost its luster by now, the fault of abuses and incompetence not only by its personnel but also by a number of the people who when placed in power post-Marcos turned out to be as greedy and corrupt.
One of the stories I remember was, as the Marcoses were rushing out of the Malaca?ang to the waiting helicopter parked at the Pangarap House grounds that would bring them to Clark Air Base where a C-130 was waiting that would bring them to Guam and to Hawaii, there were a lot of documents and pearls that fell out of the several pieces of luggage they were carting away. Two of those documents later turned out to be the “smoking gun” evidence that led to the recovery of the four buildings in New York worth $350 million.
The documents were the declarations of trust handwritten by Joseph E. Bernstein on a Manila Peninsula stationery. The first declaration of trust dated April 4, 1982 stated that Bernstein, a New York real estate broker, would act as trustee for former president Marcos with respect to Lastura Corp. N.V., a corporation registered in Netherlands Antilles.
The second declaration of trust, dated April 5, 1982 stated that Bernstein was the trustee of Beneficio Investment Inc., a corporation registered in Panama which in turn owned Lastura Corp.
With the smoking gun evidence, the Bernstein brothers, Joseph and Ralph, admitted having fronted for the Marcoses in the purchase of the New York buildings.
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