Most influential in the Word

Written by Administrator

Saturday, 05 September 2009

Damien Hirst at the head of the list of most influential people in the art. Today's artists earn their living fish diamonds in the human skull (Hirst), exhibiting in the gallery their beds due to worn condoms (Tracey Emin), or telling people jogging in the gallery (Martin Creed). For ordinary people the reasons why they do it, are shrouded in mystery, but it does not interfere with the fact that their productions are selling for really big money. Especially now, during the collapse of the financial markets, money from the exchanges and move en masse to fine art. Record-breaking auction of works of Freud and Hirst in recent months, according to experts who testified that there is really a crisis, and now by the same experts argue rather something completely the opposite - the money of investors flee to the good, which are more resistant to the turbulence of the markets and these are "timeless" works of art. An ordinary observer might conclude that the art world, everything goes. But this is not so - Mark Rappolt writes for the Daily Telegraph in the commentary to a 100 the most influential institution in the art world in 2008 the prestigious magazine ArtReview. Things that we see in galleries pass through a filter dealers, collectors, patrons, museum directors, or, sometimes, the artists. And they decide what later someone will buy for big money. This year at the top of the list of most influential people in the art world was a Damien Hirst, which at the time when Lehman Brothers employees packing their belongings into cardboard boxes, with the auction of his works gathered round Sumka 111 million British pounds. Because in today's crisis is safer to invest in zapiklowanego calf than in the stock market. Why Hirst found himself in the first place? Because a name for himself in a position where it does not need intermediaries. Auction organized by himself, without the participation of traders, who sold his work before - Gallery Gagosiana Larry (second item), Jay Jopling of White Cube (sixth item) and Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota (fourth position). In today's art market, as in shopping malls, dominated - Hirst in Europe, Jeff Koons in America (eleventh position). Each of them does not create itself. Their works are created in the big studios, which employ several hundred workers. The popular British artist Banksy, who represented Art niekierującej (yet?) Logic of a great industry, found himself on the 63 position. Banksy probably did not expect that his work is painted on the walls of London buildings will be in a few years sold at auction for several hundred thousand dollars. But Hirst is perhaps expected since bought several of them when they were still relatively cheap. Who buys all this? Of course, first of all Russians. Abramovich (54 on the list), significantly influenced by his girlfriend Daria Zhukova, recently bought a Lucian Freud painting for more than 17 million pounds (a record price for painting a living artist). Ukrainian Viktor Pińczuk, one of the oligarchs whom we owe Euro 2012, has a great deal and thus found himself on the spot 67 Who will be next on the top? - Asks Rappolt and perversely puts the Kinkade'a Thomas (100. the list), whose kitschy works are reportedly already in the tenth American household.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 September 2009 )