Name: Introducingart
Web Site: http://www.introducingart.com
Bio: We are a London-based curating duo who graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art. We are currently running an online periodical, INTRODUCING, with a focus on launching upcoming contemporary art talents. What excites us most is how other creative industries including fashion, architecture, film and design play a role in the future of contemporary art.
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Last week was the Christmas of the art world. ‘No one does it like the Frieze’, Frieze turned London into the hub of international glam industry, the battleground for the movers and shakers and the fairground for the art-for-pleasure goers. Sprueth Magers Berlin London produced one of the best stands in the fair, featuring John Baldessari’s Beethoven’s Trumpet (image on the left), in the meantime staging a solo (image on the right) at their Mayfair gallery site. Baldessari is one of the greatest living artists who’s had a long, prolific, progressive and highly respectable career. This is a comment we are confident that most artists/art workers /collectors would agree with. It is shocking how little known John Baldessari is outside of the art world. With Tate Modern hosting a major retrospective of Baldessari (unfortunately alongside Pop Life), several parallel shows at Paris, London, Berlin and being the cover of Frieze magazine…. you will be hearing the name John Baldessari A LOT in the following months. We can’t think of anyone else more deserving.
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Helen photographed with her work and Grayson Perry
New artist, Helen Benigson, shows new work at Liberty of London.
The commercial side of the art world quiets down in the summer, but as reliable as the comeback of frappuccino every summer, you can count on at least one blockbuster show in a public gallery/museum. This year in London, we’ve got FIVE. The crown goes to ‘Popeye Series’ – Jeff Koons at Serpentine Gallery – if you go on the weekend like any other hard working members of the society, consider a line and a packed gallery part of the deal. ‘Walking in My Mind’ is another show that wins the heart of Londoners, featuring major installations from the very quirky Yayoi Kusama, the very popular Yoshitomo Nara, the very intelligent Thomas Hirschhorn, and my personal favourite, Mark Manders (and many more). Elizabeth Peyton, a name no one can escape this summer. She paved her way to a big solo in Whitechapel Gallery (coinciding the gallery’s reopening) from an early summer show in Sadie Coles, countless articles in magazines, and a window residency in Banana Republic on Regent Street. The best publicity award has to go to her. Eva Rothschild’s Duveen commission at Tate Britain receives mixed review but definitely generates talking point in the art scene. The last but never the least, east London’s permanent fixture, the adorable Gilbert and George, presented ‘Jack Shit’ in both of the White Cubes. They are back, this time bolder, glossier and DIGITAL!
images clockwise from the lobster: Jeff Koons, Eva Rothschild, Gilbert and George, Elizabeth Peyton, Mark Manders in ‘Walking in My Mind’
In 2007, Anya Hindmarch made hundreds of fashionistas queued outside Sainsbury’s at 5am to get their hands on the much anticipated, a-fiver-each eco shopping bag – ‘I’m not a plastic bag’. For 2009 Valentine’s Day, YSL presented a generously sized, uber glossy catalogue featuring Claudia Schiffer housed in a simple black tote with white YSL logo emblazoned on it (all for free!). The art world is catching up on the tote trend, in a much low key and discreet way. It is not news that major art museums all have their branded bags, but now even commercial galleries and auction houses have branded totes. They never advertise it, so it is a bit of an ‘insider’s item’. You need to at least know that they exist. Most of the commercial gallery bags you can purchase at the gallery upon request, but the auction house bag you get given (along with the catalogue) when you’re invited to attend the auction or the reception. Artist has branded bags too. White Cube recently released a Gilbert and George ‘Jack Freak’ bag coinciding with the show of the same name at White Cube Gallery London (10 July-22 August 2009). We find ourselves replacing our designer bags with ‘art totes’. As curators, Gilbert and George is just a notch more special than Prada.
Art totes from left: Hauser & Wirth (gallery); Saatchi Gallery; Gilbert+George ‘Jack Freak’ front (White Cube gallery); Modern Art (gallery); Gilbert+George ‘Jack Freak’ back; Saturday at Phillips (Phillips de Pury auction house)
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