Entries Tagged 'Artists' ↓
September 3rd, 2008 — Art market, Artists, Exhibitions, Painting, Photography
We read, in the Art Newspaper (right HERE), that the Richard Prince works currently on view at London’s public Serpentine Gallery are for sale.
Richard Prince, “Untitled,” 1983. Image: zine.artcal.net
According to the article, this raises “questions about the relationship between publicly-funded galleries and their sponsors.”
Actually, since the Serpentine is not involved in any sales from the show, it raises more relevant questions about the power of commercial dealers in today’s art world. Naturally it behooves both dealers if their clients are able to purchase works complete with lofty provenance - that is, the Serpentine’s seal of approval.
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September 2nd, 2008 — Articles, Artists, Collecting, Miscellaneous thoughts on art, Sculpture/Installation, Video/New Media
Matthias Arndt and Tiffany Wood in their Berlin apartment. Image: artinfo.com
This article about art dealers who collect design (is there anyone who doesn’t, anymore?) may leave you with a case of the too-coolies. Check out the article at ArtInfo HERE.
VoCA thinks it’s time for a little (non-ironic) bad taste.
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August 22nd, 2008 — Artists, Events/Talks, Exhibitions, Halifax, Painting, Sculpture/Installation, Toronto, Video/New Media
1. RADIANT DARK
August 26 - October 19, 2008
Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge Ontario
Loyal Loot Collective’s Log Bowls. Image: loyalloot.com
Just when we were wondering when a multi-disciplinary exhibition would come along that combines art, design and architecture, here it is, courtesy of Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson of MADE in in Toronto.
MADE is a design shop in Toronto that specializes in young Canadian design. Taking the current trend toward gothic luxury, the two have brought together 29 designers including:
Andrée Wejsmann – click HERE
Loyal Loot Collective – click HERE
Molo Design – click HERE
Propellor Design – click HERE
Tamara Rushlow – click HERE
And many more…
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August 21st, 2008 — Art market, Articles, Artists
Ryan Mcginness’ book Sponsorship: The Fine Art of Corporate Sponsorship. Image: thegiantpeach.com
With the increasing economic slowdown in the US affecting banks and corporate sponsors of contemporary art, Anthony Haden-Guest asks whether banks will jettison their investments in the art world—their sponsorship of major events, institutions large and small?
At stake are tens of millions of dollars in funding. Read the full article from Portfolio.com, right HERE.
VoCA wonders what the ramifications will be here in Canada.
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August 20th, 2008 — Articles, Artists, Photography
VoCA was trawling other art blogs looking for Canadian-related content when we found THIS article, courtesy of Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes - see our blogroll on the right.
Edward Burtynsky, Silver Lake Operations #2, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007.
Image: metiviergallery.com
Photographer Ed Burtynsky. Image: blog.longnow.org/stone ink gallery
“Photographer Edward Burtynsky made a formal proposal for a permanent art gallery in the chamber that encloses the 10,000-year Clock in its Nevada mountain.
The gallery would consist of art in materials as durable as the alloy steel and jade of the Clock itself, and it would be curated slowly over the centuries to reflect changing interests in the rolling present and the accumulating past.
Photographs in particular should be in the 10,000-year Gallery, Burtynsky said, “because they tell us more than any previous medium. When we think of our own past, we tend to think in terms of family photos.”
Edward Burtynsky, Silver Lake Operations #1, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007.
Image: metiviergallery.com
Read the full article HERE.
Burtynsky is represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto. Please click HERE for gallery website.
August 18th, 2008 — Art market, Articles, Artists, Montreal
…says Carol Vogel in the New York Times. Dasha Zhukova, the 27-year-old girlfriend of mega collector Roman Abramovich is set to open a new contemporary art space in Moscow. The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture already features an enormous installation by (VoCA favorite) Montreal’s Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
A light installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow.
Image: nytimes.com
Check out our interview with him HERE.
Read Vogel’s article HERE and FlashArt’s take HERE
August 15th, 2008 — Artists, Collecting, Exhibitions
Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection
August 15 – October 19, 2008
The Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Afterstudy for Marianne Moore, 1976. Planographic lithograph. Image: artsearch.nga.gov.au
VoCA Recommends a trip to Buffalo - especially for new collectors, or collectors interested in works on paper. More than 130 works on paper by 40 artists from the Forman Collection are on view, including work by
Stuart Arends - click HERE
John Beech - click HERE
Erika Blumenfeld - click HERE
Rudolf de Crignis - click HERE
Marcia Hafif - click HERE
Winston Roeth - click HERE
and Mark di Suvero - click HERE
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August 11th, 2008 — Artists, Exhibitions, Montreal
The Musée d’art contemporain, with the generous support of its Foundation, has purchased 37 works by 24 artists participating in The Québec Triennial.
Additionally, many of the pieces are currently on loan pending eventual gifts, while others are in the process of being purchased.
Please note the names of the following artists as ones to watch:
-David Altmejd - click HERE
David Altmejd, Le Berger, 2008. Image: canadianart.ca
-Gwenaël Bélanger - click HERE
-Valérie Blass - click HERE
-Anthony Burnham - click HERE
-Patrick Coutu - click HERE
-Michel de Broin - click HERE
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August 8th, 2008 — Artists, Events/Talks, Exhibitions, Toronto
An exhibition of work by this year’s Sobey Art Award Finalists opens August 27, 2008 at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Tim Lee, Goldberg Variations: Aria, BWV 988, Johann Sebastian Bach, 1741 (Glenn Gould, 1981) 2007. Image: canadianart.ca
This exhibition features over 50 contemporary artworks, including paintings, sculptures, performance art, video installations and photography, by the Award’s finalists, five of Canada’s most up-and-coming young artists.
The $50,000 Sobey Art Award is presented annually to an artist under 40 who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. This year’s finalists include VoCA favorites Daniel Barrow (click HERE) and Tim Lee (click HERE).
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August 6th, 2008 — Artists, Exhibitions, Painting, Photography, Sculpture/Installation
Speaking of women artists, one of VoCA’s very favorites, Tracey Emin, has a retrospective exhibition on now in Edinburgh.
The typically outspoken artist Tracey Emin. Image: fawcettsociety.org.uk
Watch this brilliant, fascinating BBC newsclip of Emin doing a walkthrough of the exhibition HERE
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Andrea Carson writes on contemporary art, architecture and design...