Maurizio Cattelan, (21 September 1960, Padova, Italy) with his work Him,
(2001) sold by Christie's for $ 17,189,000 has proved that a contemporary artist can sell the at price of the
great masters of the past century. His idea presents Hitler kneeling and praying as a seven-year-old
boy and is strangely called sculpture. I told you that for something to be art, it should be in a gallery. Otherwise it is like anything else,
sometimes clever and essential for life, and sometimes a simple whim. But
when it yearns money it is a project. Christie’s do not play games.
With this price Maurizio Cattelan beat out the dominant in sales volume
Jeff Koons, who in turn between summer 2015 and 2016, with the sale of
116 works turned more than 58.5 million dollars at auction, which is more than
the annual turnover of contemporary art in France.
Jeff Koons,
the most expensive living artist in the world! Since the beginning of contemporary art market statistics 10 years
ago, only Jeff Koons was able to beat American street art legend Jean-Michel
Basquiat in the annual rankings of contemporary art. With one exception (the
sale of a painting by Peter Doig in 2009), the annual contemporary art statistics (for artists born
after 1945) are held by Koons or Basquiat, year after year. A sculpture by
Koons even beats the best selling Basquiat.
The rest in the
top ten of sales are - fourth in the ranking is the work Untitled
(LA) (1991) of Felix GONZALEZ-TORRES costs $ 7,669,000,
followed by several sales again by Jeff Koons, eighth is Richard PRINCE, priced at $
2,741,000, for Anyone Can Find Me,
(1989-1990) and finally tenth Robert GOBER, with $ 2,285,000 for Untitled, all sold at
Christie's New York.
The painter beyond doubt among these artists is AI Weiwei, with two million five
hundred and seventeen thousand dollars and it is right in the ninth place according to the achieved price - but it certainly is achieved with Christie’s. (AI Weiwei
$ 2517000 Map of China (2009) 2016-05-11 Christie's New York).
And I with my Artestate, I am hanging at
one million dollars for the sixth month without a client if I got
higher than Christie’s. This is the situation, I did not
finish my project. And you can easily see the
necessity of that by looking at Trump‘s villa. Pool,
park ... but no art except here and there for decoration. If we do not mention the small theater hall,
that is
not Artestate home, and in this case
is clearly not up to money the need of art to be part of the home. I know
that sounds presumptuous. There is no luxury without
no culture. Culture forms
values which they want to accumulate in safe vaults. But let’s not forget
that in the house of Hemingway’s
father the toilet was set in the yard.
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