Coleccionar Arte Contemporáneo

by Lindemann Adam

Palabras del sabioConsejos desde dentro acerca de cómo guiarse en el mercado del arte como un profesional.El arte trata de la vida, el mercado del arte trata de dinero. —Damien HirstYa seas un fan, un aficionado o un coleccionista de arte, este libro totalmente único debería estar en tu lista de lecturas obligadas. Como un libro de texto para una clase impartida por los mayores expertos del mundo, Coleccionar arte contemporáneo es el único libro que te enseñará todo lo que siempre has querido saber acerca del mercado del arte contemporáneo. La introducción explica el ABC de comprar arte en los mercados primarios y secundarios, en subastas y en ferias de arte y proporciona una visión general de la escena del mundo del arte y sus círculos sociales. El cuerpo principal del libro reúne entrevistas reveladoras con los mayores compradores del mercado global de el crítico (Rimanelli), el marchante (Boesky, Brunnet/Hackert, Coles, Deitch, Fortes, Gagosian, Gladstone, Glimcher, Hetzler, Lybke, Perrotin, Rosen, Shave, Wirth), el asesor (Cortez, Fletcher, Heller, Segalot, Westreich), el coleccionista (Brant, Broad, Habsburg, Joannou, Lambert, Lehmann, Lopez, Paz, Pinault, Rothschild Foundation, Saatchi), el experto en casas de subastas (Cappellazzo, de Pury, Meyer) y el conservador/director de museo (Dennison, Eccles, Heiss, Lowry, Peyton-Jones).A lo largo del libro hay capítulos sobre el año en el coleccionismo de arte—proporcionando una cronología de las más importantes subastas anuales, exposiciones, ferias, etc. alrededor del mundo—así como un glosario de términos que todo comprador debe saber. El texto está ilustrado por los artistas más candentes del mercado actual, incluyendo a Matthew Barney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Lisa Yuskavage y muchos más.

Genres: Art

298 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Robert Boyd · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book by very wealthy art collector Adam Lindemann. It consists mostly of interviews with high-level blue-chip dealers (I mean, "gallerists"--apparently calling someone who deals art a "dealer" is an insult these days), super-wealthy collectors, art consultants, and auctioneers, with a few museum professionals and one critic. All of them more-or-less agree on the irrelevance of critics. Most are willing to admit that the final judgment of art history might be very different than current tastes would indicate. Nonetheless, these people more-or-less uniformly agree that artwork that sells for a lot of money is, in fact, the best artwork--in other words, that the market decides what is the best art at any given time. None of them would express it this way--it's all about having an "eye." But underlying what they say in their interviews is a belief in price as indicator of quality. This is clearly insane for a bunch of reasons. One is that it devalues critical thought in favor of money. Critics can (and are) often wrong, but at least they are seriously engaged with asthetics. It also assumes that markets are right. These collectors suggest that artist X is great, therefore his work is expensive. But the willingness of collectors to purchase artist X is also why it's expensive. Supply and demand is a pas de deux, after all. And demand can make big mistakes--as we saw when all those institutional investors bought all those CDOs. Second, it excludes artists whose work is not (or cannot) be sold in galleries, in art fairs, and at auction. Performance artists, artists who specialize in public art, lots of "social practice" art, site specific art, etc.

In short, this book is more interesting for what it unintentionally reveals than for its overt content.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Inside look into the contemporary art market. Occupied with markets, strategies, investment, etc. and not the visceral enjoyment and ecstasy of feeling the art.