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The Curious Case of the Latin American Art Market: Low Volatility, Undervalued Stars, and Tenacious CollectorsLanguage EnglishEmailPrintSaveTweetPin Itby Shane FerroPublished: May 17, 2012Is Latin American art one of the few remaining categories left for the truly passionate collector?
Earlier this week, at the Artvest art finance conference in New York, Latin American art was often brought up as an example of a market that produces modest returns, but also boasts low volatility. Despite steady growth, Latin American art is, it seems, one of the few categories that has remained isolated from the frenzy that motivates hedge fund managers and Russian oligarchs to bid eight and nine figures for trophies by blue-chip modern masters. As such, the speculators and "art investors" are kept out, and great pieces of art from Latin American artists continue to be an attractive buy for collectors.
According to Virgilio Garza, the head of the Latin American art department at Christie's New York, "the nature of our market is very non-speculative. People are really passionate about this field — they don't sell things that easily or that often, so we see steady but upwards growth." As an example he pointed to one of the highest-estimated works in the upcoming sale, an abstract painting from 1944 by the Chilean artist Matta. It was executed during one of the artist's most important periods and has never before been sent to auction — two very good reasons for collectors to salivate over it. "La révolte des contraires" has been traded privately, but has only seen two or three owners, meaning each kept it for upwards of 30 years. Despite the fact  that Garza refers to the work as "one of the best [Mattas] that has ever been offered," it is estimated to fetch $1.8-2.5 million — the price of a third-tier Picasso, or 1/60th of "The Scream."
Fernando Botero is perhaps an even better example. In the May issue of Art+Auction, Julia Halperin referred to him as "Latin America's wealthiest and most recognizable artist." There are more than 30 Botero lots coming up for auction next week, and last November, many of the works sold by him nicked the high end of, or surpassed, pre-sale estimates. Yet, the best examples of his work sell for $1-2 million, nowhere near his contemporaries from Europe or the United States, and not far above where his prices were 20 years ago.
In November, the best result for a work by the artist was the gigantic sculpture "Dancers" (2007), which Christie's placed outside its Rockefeller Center headquarters for the few days before the sale. It hammered down for $1.76 million (est. $1.5-2 million), a record for the artist's sculpture. Compare this to stars in the contemporary market, artists who are around the same age: the record for a Lucian Freud work at auction is $33.6 million. For Gerhard Richter it's $21.8 million, set at last week's contemporary evening sale at Christie's. Botero's work — at least the paintings of his signature corpulent figures — have been fetching more than a million dollars at auction since the early 1990s. Back then, Richter's work was still in the mid-six figures.
But is the Latin American art market set for an explosion? It's possible that in the near future it will catch fire just as other 20th century art categories have. "You still have undervalued artists, you have opportunities, but it is not the same as 10 to20 years ago," noted Alejandro Zaia, the chairman of the Latin American art fair PINTA, which is held annually in New York and London. Slowly but steadily, prices are heading up. A rare Diego Rivera work is estimated to sell for $4-6 million next week at Sotheby's. Even better, Axel Stein, a Latin American art specialist and vice president of business development at the auction house, told ARTINFO that work by Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist who was once known only for being Rivera's wife, has sold privately at Sotheby's in the last year for above $10 million.
But as Latin American art's star rises, its distinction also fades. Zaia explained that many artists born and raised in Latin America are choosing to move to art-centric metropolises in the United States and Europe such as New York, London, and Berlin. As such, they are becoming part of the "mainstream flow," and collectors in U.S. and Europe are more exposed to their work. At the same time, they maintain connections with their primary galleries in their home countries, and are thus collected both locally and internationally.
"When you hear the name of Vik Muniz or Fernando Botero, it is very hard to call them Latin American artists, except for the fact that they were born there," said Stein. "The world has adapted a global art language."
What does make art Latin American, versus contemporary or modern, these days? Take the work of Muniz. The artist was born in Brazil, but lives and works in New York. Three of his works are being offered next week in the Latin American sales, two at Phillips and one at Christie's. But almost a dozen works were sold last week in the contemporary sale. (To make it more complicated there are two Muniz lots slated for the Phillips photography sale in London this week.)
The answer turns out to be fairly subjective. "There is the incorrect idea that an artist upgrades by moving to other categories," said Garza. Choosing a category for a particular artist is an organic process, not a given. "'Jackson Pollock' by Vik Muniz [referring to Muniz's "Convergence: Number 10, After Jackson Pollock (From Pictures Of Pigment)," 2008] just looks better in contemporary."
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Sale of the Week, May 20-26: Sizzling Latin American Art Auctions in New YorkLanguage EnglishEmailPrintSaveTweetPin ItPhoto Gallery: Slideshow: Latin American Art Sales at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips de Pury & Companyby Shane FerroPublished: May 17, 2012SALE: Latin American Art
LOCATION: Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips de Pury New York
DATE: May 21-24
ABOUT: Latin American art week begins next Monday at Phillips de Pury with an evening sale focused on more contemporary, avant-garde works, especially the neo-Concretist group of Brazilian artists such as Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark (whose foldable, kinetic sculptures, entitled "Caranguejo," 1984, could bring $30,000-40,000). Colombian artist Fernando Botero continues to be one of the most sought-after Latin Americans at auction, especially his signature sculptures of rotund women. Phillips is offering a white marble sculpture, "Reclining Woman with Drapery" (2004) for an estimated $600,000-800,000.
As the week wears on, the focus will shift more toward the modern, and the top estimated lots at Sotheby's and Christie's are all from the 1930s and 40s. At Christie's, the top expected lot is a canary-yellow hued abstract "inscape" by Matta, "La révolte des contraires" estimated to fetch $1.8-2.5 million. The work has never been offered at auction, and has had only two or three owners since it was painted in 1944, according to Latin American department head Virgilio Garza. Thre is also a wide selection of Botero works, mostly paintings, and a somber 1937 canvas by Uraguan modernist Joaquin Torres-Garcia, "Grafismo universal sobre fondo gris" (est. $1-1.5 million).
The last evening sale of the week is at Sotheby's on Wednesday, where a rare Diego Rivera painting featuring a young peasant girl holding a basket, staring despondently across the room, will hit the block. "Niña en azul y blanco (retrato de Juanita Rosas a los diez años de edad)" (1939), which was last seen at auction in 1992 at Christie's, is estimated to sell for $4-6 million. Sotheby's will also be offering a part of the collection of the late billionaire art collector Theodore Forstmann, mostly works by Botero and Rufino Tamayo. 
OTHER INTERNATIONAL SALES:
Sale: Dortheum Auction Week May 2012
Location: Dortheum Vienna
Date: May 21-24
Sale: The Gunter Sachs Collection Evening Auction
Location: Sotheby's London
Date: May 22, 7pm
Sale: Wines, Single Malt Whisky, and Man's Chan Cognac Collection
Location: Bonhams Hong Kong
Date: May 23, 6pm
Sale: Modern Art Evening Sale
Location: Lempertz Cologne
Date: May 22
Sale: Wine
Location: Christie's Hong Kong
Date: May 26, 10:30am
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ART HK 12 (Hong Kong International Art Fair)
17-20 MAY 2012
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Chemould Prescott Road: Dhruvi Acharya
XL Gallery: Alex Buldakov
Sperone Westwater: Wim Delvoye
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Tomio Koyama Gallery: Atsushi Fukui
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ART HK 12 (Hong Kong International Art Fair)
17-20 MAY 2012
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SCOPE, the world's leading contemporary art show, proudly returns to Basel for the sixth year. Renowned for curating cutting-edge contemporary art from around the world, SCOPE will return to its high-profile venue in historic Kaserne, running concurrently with Art Basel, and just blocks away. SCOPE Basel opens to Press and VIP's on Tuesday, June 12 with the First View benefit from 1–9pm; the fair will run June 12–17, 2012. SCOPE Basel's 5,000 square meter pavilion in the heart of Basel will present 80 international galleries of the highest caliber, including a selection of new galleries from SCOPE's Breeder Program, including: ARANAPOVED Galeria, Cross Gallery, Harlan-Levy Projects, Karin Sutter, Art Lexing Gallery, Muriel Guepin Gallery, NOMAD Gallery, and STANDING PINE-cube.

All Visual Arts is proud to present Polly Morgan's largest installation to date: Endless Plains. Inspired by a recent visit to the Serengeti, this new exhibition is a vibrant parable that confronts the viewer with the uncompromising cycle of life; the predator, the parasite, and the prey. Endless Plains interprets this vast expanse of land, at once barren and teeming with life, in perverted and unusual ways. The result is an unflinching portrait of the savagery of nature, where the sacrifice of one life for dozens more is a vital and constant exchange.

Participating artists Kari Altmann, Merce Cunningham, Harm van den Dorpel, Michael Guidetti, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, Sean Raspet, Emanuel Rossetti, Hito Steyerl, Artie Vierkant Curated by Ceci Moss and Tim Steer The object that exists in motion spans different points, relations, and existences but always remains the same thing. Like the digital file, the bootlegged copy, the icon, or Capital, it reproduces, travels, and accelerates, constantly negotiating the different supports that enable its movement. As it occupies these different spaces and forms it is always reconstituting itself.

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ART HK Opens with Strong SalesLanguage EnglishEmailPrintSaveTweetPin ItPhoto Gallery: ART HK 2012by Madeleine O'Dea, ARTINFO ChinaPublished: May 16, 2012HONG KONG —  ART HK opened strongly Wednesday night with solid sales and a general consensus that the fair had taken a significant step up in quality this year. At previous editions there had been a justifiable suspicion that some international galleries were underestimating the sophistication of the local market and although even this year a few still wondered whether exhibitors were bringing their best game to Hong Kong just weeks out from Art Basel, the high quality of works on offer was evident everywhere.
The normally overblown description “museum quality” could even be fairly applied to some of the galleries’ presentations – particularly notable in this category was Aquavella with Joan Mitchell and Tornabuoni with Georgio Morandi. Meanwhile Michael Werner featured a superb selection of key works by German artists from the early 1920s through to the end of last century. Curated by Dr Dimitri Ozerkov, the director of the Contemporary Art Department at the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the booth contained gems by artists such as Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Georg Baselitz, who has been exhibiting with Werner since his first show in 1963.
As is common with ART HK sales proceeded generally at a leisurely pace, with modest opening success at the majority of galleries, a lot of conversation, and confidence of more to come. At Cheim & Reid, partner Adam Sheffer remarked that ART HK has its own relaxed rhythm. “It’s not like Art Basel where there is an explosion of sales in the first twenty minutes,”  he said. A couple of hours into the vernissage the gallery had sold a Louise Bourgeois drawing for $100,000 and a collage by Donald Baechler for $50,000.
Hauser & Wirth and White Cube provided two outstanding exceptions to the leisurely rule. The former made a range of important sales over the night, including Zhang Enli’s canvas “The Curved Wires,” 2012, for $165,000 to a Beijing based collector and Bharti Ker’s mixed media “The Dragon, the Tiger and the Phoenix,” 2012, for $300,000 to a collector from Hong Kong. Meanwhile White Cube sold works from across their stable of gallery artists from Antony Gormley and Rachel Kneebone to Damien Hirst. The gallery was also basking in the glow of the successful opening of their Anselm Kiefer show at their Hong Kong space this week. Six canvases had already been sold at prices ranging from $600,000 to just under $1 million.
Notable sales at ART HK were also chalked up at de Sarthe Gallery with two oils by modern master Chu Teh Chun, including a superb work from 1969 for $3 million; Sprüth Magers with a Sterling Ruby canvas at $155,000 to an Australian collector and a George Condo — “Toy Head,” 2012, —  at $150,000 to an Asian collector; and at Galerie Krinzinger with a Angela De la Cruz oil for 43,000 euros and a Hans Op de Beeck sculpture “Butterflies,” 2012, for 30,000 euros.
Meanwhile glamor was delivered to the event courtesy of Galerie Gmurzynska, who was showing work by Wifredo Lam, side by side with a typically well selected showing of modern masters from Joan Miro to Fernando Botero in a booth designed specifically for them by Zaha Hadid, who attracted a gaggle of admirers eager to catch a moment with Asia's current favorite "starchitect."
ART HK continues at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre through Sunday May 20. Click on our slideshow for a selection of works on show this year.
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Alec Soth, Martin Parr, and Other Magnum Photographers Road-Trip to Rochester to Document the Rust Belt CityLanguage EnglishEmailPrintSaveTweetPin ItPhoto Gallery: Slideshow: See Magnum's Rochester "Postcards"by Kyle ChaykaPublished: May 16, 2012What do you get when you throw 10 of the world’s best photographers into a single city for a weeklong binge of documenting? This isn’t one of Ryan McGinley’s summer camp sessions, that’s for sure. The historic Magnum photography collective jumped into the 21st century with an Internet-enabled road trip as part of its “Postcards From America” project. From April 15 through 29, a crew of Magnum members, including Alec Soth, Martin Parr, and Alessandra Sanguinetti, landed in the aging Rust Belt city of Rochester, N.Y., and hit the ground running. While pursuing their muses across the landscape of upstate New York, the team posted their photos as they took them to an active blog. The site continues to feature new shots from the trip as they are edited by the photographers, who have returned home.
The Rochester project originated from an earlier Magnum road trip undertaken last year that stretched from San Antonio to Oakland, Calif. The adventure was meant to bring Magnum into the greater cultural consciousness through avenues other than gallery exhibitions and editorial publications. “Rather than waiting to be commissioned, we just made a decision to do something and hit the road,” Soth told the New Yorker. “We are trying as an agency to experiment with new ways of working together and engaging with our audience.” Why Rochester? Aside from its position as a symbol of American industrial decline, the city is also home to the Kodak film company, which filed for bankruptcy in February of this year, leaving more than 50,000 employees out of work.    
The real-time, improvisational experimentation is the most refreshing part of “Postcards From America.” Through the constantly updated blog (there have been three new posts today alone), it’s possible to catch a glimpse behind the working processes of the world’s most important documentary photographers. In the two-week period, the team moved toward the goal of producing 1,000 final images — 100 per photographer, a far cry from the years-long, intensively edited projects that the artists are accustomed to. The photographs published on the blog are messy, imperfect, and unpolished, but have a gritty immediacy that is too rarely found in long-term documentary photography series.
Photographer Jim Goldberg spent time at a nursing home and shot some touching portraits of Wilbur, a 94-year-old former Kodak worker. Parr brought his signature snide sense of humor to photos of Rochester bars, baseball games, and gas stations. Bruce Gilden contributed deadpan black-and-white portraits of locals, brightly lit and unyielding. Donovan Wylie scaled roofs to document Rochester’s urban architecture of blocky office buildings, parking garages, and empty lots. What emerges is an intimate portrait of a single city that is also a microcosm of America, a place of depth and diversity where anything can be found if you look hard enough. 
Click on the slide show for a selection of photographs from “Postcards From America” 
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Language EnglishEmailPrintSaveTweetPin ItBy WUSA Washington, DCChuck Brown, the 75-year-old father of D.C. Go-go music, died on Wednesday, Tom Goldfogle, Brown's manager confirmed.
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Language EnglishEmailPrintSaveTweetPin ItBy DCistEarlier this afternoon, somewhere "in the middle of Ohio," groundbreaking indie director John Waters was found hitchhiking on the side of a road.
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Tom Sachs Sends Kids, Kids at Heart, and Kanye West to the Stars at the Opening of "Space Program: Mars"Language EnglishEmailPrintSaveTweetPin Itby Nate FreemanPublished: May 16, 2012The most striking thing about the opening reception forTom Sachs’s “Space Program: Mars”– apart from the fact that he filled the gigantic Park Avenue Armory with faithful recreations of NASA interstellar travel machines – was the presence of so many little kids. Tykes bounced around at every glance, some wearing plastic space helmets, some in what could be called moon pants, some just dressed like kids and awed by the promise of space.
The duo of a youngster and Tom Sachs is a natural fit. You got a sense that when they looked into the guts of the Mars lander, they thought they were actually going to Mars. And the whole feel was one of glistening naivete. The proliferation of labels (permanent marker on construction tape) made the opening feel like the set of an as-yet-unmade Wes Anderson film about a journey into outer space. To the adults, who know better, these labels are marks of artifice that reference the sham, but invite us to believe like children anyway.
“Since the manned space program ended last September, it’s been left it up to us to hold the mantle high for future generations of American astronauts,” Sachs told ARTINFO as a few little girls in space helmets stood around, tapping their feet antsily.
“But it’s not really about space,” said his fiancée, Sarah Hoover. “It’s about studying all sorts of elements of humanity.”
“No, Sarah’s right, it’s not really about space,” Sachs said. “It’s about life on Earth, it’s about man’s achievements...”
“Tommy just wanted to have a lunar lander, and he can’t have it, so he had to make it,” chimed in a man who gave his name as Andrew. Sachs introduced him as the public relations manager. “Tommy’s work is about really wanting to own stuff.”
Sachs walked off, leaving us with his assistant and the wide-eyed little girls in space helmets. 
“It’s Deleuze and Guattari, it’s simulacra, it’s the fuckin’ cave,” Andrew went on. “Tommy’s a beer-drinking guy, a wild and tough guy, and he’s not gonna comp to that.”
Among the children, David Byrne walked around with T editor Sally Singer, Michael Stipe broke the no cellphones rule by texting on the bleachers, and Half Gallery owner Bill Powers administered indoctrination classes. Aspiring astronauts must pass a test before entering space, so Powers – who was wearing the really dope Tom Sachs for Nike sneakers – asked questions such as “Can you put the planets in order?” or “Are you a fork or a spoon?” Olivier Zahm is a spoon.
Right before we left, Kanye West arrived at the bar, wearing a black T-shirt and notably without his arm candy of late, Kim Kardashian. West has a thing about talking to the press, but when we approached him to have a chat he agreed that the opening was awesome. Then he made a gesture at our recorder.
“Let’s just have a conversation,” he said, staring up with a child’s grin at the space machines around us. “How was your day?”
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"Fashion Star" Finale Report: And We Have a Winner!Language EnglishEmailPrintSaveTweetPin Itby Ann BinlotPublished: May 16, 2012]]>*/ ]]>*/
The first season of NBC’s “Fashion Star” is finally at its end after 10 weeks of outrageous runway shows filled with scantily clad dancers, bright lights, and blazing fireworks — oh yeah, and clothes too. Three contestants — Kara Laricks, Ronnie Escalante, and Nzimiro Oputa— remained, and only one could be the fashion reality show’s winner. For the finale, each designer had to create a three-piece capsule collection for each of the three retailers: H&M, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Macy’s. With $6 million ($2 million from each retailer) in buys awaiting the winner, everybody put forth their best effort.
First up was the trend-driven, mass-market retailer H&M. Laricks went for a graphic circle print maxi dress, tan drop crotch cropped suit, orange shorts, and a white sleeveless collared blouse. Oputa, who primarily designs menswear, created a summery collection, stepping out of his comfort zone with a women’s ensemble — a shrunken version of his men’s aesthetic consisting of a vest, sleeveless shirt, and trousers — and two men’s shirts with tilted pockets and leather accents, and pants and shorts. Escalante, the quiet one of the bunch, made a jumpsuit, suit, and flirty cocktail dress.
All three of the designers pretty much nailed it. H&M buyer Nicole Christie told Laricks that the drop crotch was “bold, but a bit difficult for the H&M customer.” Oputa’s ladies outfit “blew my socks off,” she said. For Escalante, Christie said that his choice of black was a little off for the retailer, but that “we can definitely see you selling those garments at H&M.” Not bad, considering it took him five weeks to make his first sale.
Next, the finalists put out their collections for the high-end luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue. Oputa teased Laricks, calling her the “Saks Princess” because of her numerous sales to the retailer. Laricks put out a gorgeous gold evening dress with tail details, a trench coat, and slacks. Oputa traveled to the beach for his Saks collection, creating three men’s looks. Escalante went for elegance with a long short-sleeved floral dress, a short cocktail dress, and a women’s white suit.
“You are absolutely a leader, not a follower,” mentor John Varvatos told Laricks, after praising the trench and the evening dress.” Saks buyer Teron Schaefer went gaga for Oputa’s collection, telling him “it was the perfect wardrobe for a beach weekend.” Escalante got the harshest critique from Schaefer, who told him, ”I have a hard time believing it’s a capsule collection.”   
The designers’ collections for mid-market retailer Macy’s were showcased last. Laricks, who has struggled to reach the mass consumer, created a black sleeveless A-line dress, shorts, a sleeveless collared printed shirt, and a white suit. Oputa pegged the Macy’s customer with three looks that included a hooded men’s cardigan, a graphic polo, and on-trend men’s button-up shirts. Escalante again went for an inconsistent collection consisting of a double-lapel women’s suit, flowy floral evening dress, and three-quarters sleeve printed blocking dress.
“I absolutely think your line has a place in our stores on our contemporary floor,” Macy’s buyer Caprice Willard told Laricks. Oputa’s collection “nailed it,” according to Willard, who also questioned whether he could translate his designs into more structured looks. “Every single item was a perfect stand alone piece,” she told Escalante. “But could we make it work as a collection?”
The mentors and buyers deliberated over who should be the fashion star. They hailed the self-taught Oputa for his signature detailing in his slick menswear creations. They questioned whether Laricks had the ability to translate her mostly high-fashion aesthetic into more commercial looks. Varvatos called Escalante “the strongest” over the last four weeks. Willard said that Escalante was more “saleable,” but also said that she had “a lot of Ronnies on my floor.” If we tried to predict the winner from that footage, it would have been a toss-up.
So who received the monster $6 million purchase from Saks, Macy’s, and H&M? Laricks, the New York-based 38-year-old elementary school teacher turned designer. In our opinion, her designs overall were the most fashion forward out of the final three and we can’t wait to see if her name turns up in the future. As for the $6 million, it must have bought a lot of a high volume of quantity, because all of her garments are still available online. It has been a fun 10 weeks, “Fashion Star.” Until next season.
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