“A person must shake someone’s hand three times while gazing intently into their eyes. That’s the key to memorizing their name with certainty. It is in this way that I’ve remembered the names of 5,000 people who have been to the Horse Hospital,” Jim Hollands told me. Hollands is an experimental filmmaker, musician and curator. In his childhood, he suffered through tough social situations and…
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We work like old people, yet we behave like children more than ever before. We surround ourselves with mobile miracles, and therefore we have no idea what we are dealing with. We try to live in safety, and yet we do not know what it means to be safe. Many of us have lost time, but acquired “things.” We love “things” and their names sound nice to us. We love them, but they do not love us. We are…
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Artworld
Feinkost Gallery, Berlin, November 25, 2007 to January 10, 2008
Ad Reinhardt, Alan Phelan, Balthasar Burkhard, Ben Gavin, Charles Gute, Christian Jankowski, IRWIN, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Matthieu Laurette, Pablo Helguera, Rainer Ganahl, REP Group, SOSka Group, et al.
“This has been our best and most successful auction ever!” This statement has become a generic catchphrase for…
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Since the time that art became a field, a system, and enterprise,
I keep asking myself, is there a way out of it all?
Although the exhibition a Berlin’s Feinkost gallery sported the seemingly scholarly title, "Art World," it was neither an educational exhibit of great masters nor any basis for their inspiration. Today, the sound of the expression itself, "art world," brings to mind the sound of…
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You were the director of Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles for a number of years and yourself a collector of art, surrealist photography if I am not mistaken. In your work as a dealer, how much of your own interests with aesthetics and developments in contemporary art overlapped with what you were selling?
I was the director of Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles for ten years; I left two years ago…
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