[red] presents the [red] auction with theaster gates and sir david adjaye two of the world’s art and architecture stars, theaster gates and sir david adjaye, have collaborated with musician and activist bono to curate the third (red) auction to support the fight against aids. artists donating works to the auction include jeff koons, ai weiwei, wangechi mutu, sir jony ive and marc newson, christo, sean scully, marilyn minter, frank gehry, guillermo kuitca, and teresita fernández, among others. in addition, gates and adjaye have created unique pieces for sale.
centered on the theme of light and the color red, this collection of contemporary art and design will be auctioned by sotheby’s on december 5, 2018, and will include global bidding available live online and by phone. the auction is preceded by a public exhibition presented by gagosian at the famed moore building in the miami design district that opens on december 1, world aids day.
this event follows two previous (red) auctions conducted by sotheby’s that together raised $68 million. the first, organized by bono and damien hirst in february 2008, featured works donated by hirst, banksy, anish kapoor, marc quinn, georg baselitz, and howard hodgkin, among others, and established seventeen new auction records. the second, curated by jony ive and marc newson in 2013, offered important twentieth and twenty-first-century design, and attracted matching funds from the bill and melinda gates foundation.
to date (red) has generated more than $500 million for the global fund to support lifesaving hiv/aids programs in africa. proceeds from this year’s auction will continue to support community-based programs in africa through the global fund to fight aids, while also aiding the rebuild foundation, chicago, an organization championed by gates.
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[ cynthia reeves ] announces the permanent installation of Jonathan Prince’s Vestigial Block at the new Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The monumentally sized sculpture is one of three currently on display as part of the museum’s Sculpture Garden, surrounding the Zaha Hadid designed museum in East Lansing. The Sculpture Garden also features works by Roxy Paine and Steve Miller.
The bequeath represents a six figure gift from the donors Julie and Edward J. Minskoff, whose acclaimed collection of 20th and 21st century art includes works by Jeff Koons, Jackson Pollack, Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning.
Vestigial Block, another work exploring the cube, was first exhibited at the Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue as part of Prince’s Torn Steel exhibition. The series’ principal theme explores “interrupted” iconographic forms through oxidized and stainless steel surfaces. Additionally, Prince’s newest work, [ G2V ] is on view at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside of the United Nations in New York City, and two earlier works can be seen at the Christie’s Sculpture Garden at 535 Madison Avenue. The artist has a mini-retrospective of his black granite sculptures and functional art, on view at ABC Stone in Brooklyn. [ jonathan prince ]
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Even though last week our focus was on Milan, there are, in fact, other things happening in Italy. In Venice Urs Fischer’s new exhibition “Madame Fisscher” opened at Palazzo Grassi. This show, like his others, is all about objects. Here’s what he had to say about that:
“Everybody likes objects; everybody likes different objects. It comes down to what objects you want to put in your art. [Jeff] Koons and [Claes] Oldenburg both seem to have their agendas with their objects. So do I, I guess. I like them all: high, low, used, new, whichever works. I don’t know if the Lamp/Bear has anything more to do with Koons or Oldenburg than all three of us and everyone else have to do with [Marcel] Duchamp’s liberation of the real thing. Before him, it seems objects appeared in, or maybe as, still-lives. Duchamp’s the guy, the legend, who liberated objects from being second-class citizens. Even if his greatness lies in our imagination and how he built himself to make us imagine his work as we imagine it. His objects are often not very satisfying to spend time with outside of the fictions he created for them.”
[ madame fisscher: 15 april > 15 july ]
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New York Times Style says, “…two impish little vessels by the ceramic artist Kathy Butterly stand out in “Contemporary Clay,” a back-room show at TriBeCa’s RH Gallery that also includes an inchoate porcelain Buddha by Shinique Smith that is glazed in 14-karat gold…Young’s two, huge and gleaming white Moon Jars in the gallery’s windows take a traditional practice to its ultimate limit.” [ previous announcement ]
June 29 – August 20, 2011
Opening Reception: June 28 | 6-8pm
RH gallery: 137 Duane Street New York | Tuesday – Saturday | 11am-7pm
untitled with lee ufan 2009 white porcelain plate series
12 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches.
RH Gallery is pleased to present Pure Clay: Young Sook Park and Lee Ufan and Contemporary Clay, a group exhibition of sculptures in clay with Kathy Butterly, Nicole Cherubini, Julia Chiang, Naoki Koide, Jeff Koons, Klara Kristalova, Erin McCutcheon, John O’Reilly, Joyce Robins, Arlene Shechet, Shinique Smith, Paul Swenbeck and Ai Wei Wei.
Young Sook Park was born in 1947 in Kyungju, South Korea. Her versatility and precision reflect long-lost artistic traditions from the Chosun Dynasty infused with a contemporary sensibility. Park’s work is represented in prestigious collections around the world including the British Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Her Royal Highness, the Queen of England.
Lee Ufan’s upcoming retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Lee Ufan: Making Infinity, recognizes Lee as “a historical figure and contemporary master.” Lee came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the leaders of the avant-garde Mono-ha group (Object School). Lee’s struggle for a purification of objects is perhaps what attracted him to the work of Young Sook Park and led to an ongoing collaboration.
Young Sook Park and Lee Ufan first met in 1979 at Park’s gallery in Insadong, Seoul. United by a shared aesthetic rooted in the belief that there is great complexity in simplicity, their initial collaboration produced a minimalist cobalt blue brushstroke that was applied to a series of dinnerware including plates, bowls, tea pots, tea cups and platters. Their collaboration led to terracotta reliefs and large painted plates among other objects. Pure Clay will show these collaborative works for the first time in New York alongside a selection of Young Sook Park and Lee Ufan’s work.
In an adjacent exhibition room, RH Gallery presents Contemporary Clay, a group exhibition presenting a selection of recent sculpture by a diverse group of contemporary artists. Clay seems to inherently contain a certain presence that is both fragile and powerful.
Arlene Shechet references the historical form of the Moon Jar, conceived during in Korea during the Chosun Dynasty. Kathy Butterly’s abstract sculptures cull sources from Asian, Victorian, modern and contemporary cultural relics. Nicole Cherubini’s boxes simultaneously reference Rauschenberg’s cardboard pieces and Gluts while also recalling Eva Hesse’s organic forms. Folktales and fairy tales enter into Klara Kristalova and Paul Swenbeck’s mythical creatures. Contemporary Clay is a world unto its own filled with rich histories, playful interludes and visceral forms.
June 29 – August 20, 2011
Opening Reception: June 28 | 6-8pm
RH gallery: 137 Duane Street New York | Tuesday – Saturday | 11am-7pm
koons is going after two businesses that his lawyers say have violated his intellectual property rights by producing and selling bookends that resemble his famous “balloon dog” sculpture,
the defendants say theirs are not a copy. what do you think ?
fyi “balloon dog” bookends, sells in a san francisco gallery for $30 each. koon’s smaller dogs on sale
on ebay for $7,250 to $12,500.
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