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Sam Keller,
Brett Gorvy &
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz,
Amy Cappellazzo
Annette Schönholzer &
Category: Auction house
Nationality: British/American
Marc Spiegler
Last Year: 12
Category: Art fair
Nationality: Swiss/American Just recounting the numbers is
Last Year: 5 enough: year-to-date, Christie’s
Post-War and Contemporary Art
run the Fondation Beyeler in Basel sales in New York have brought
after December’s instalment of the in roughly $500 million. Add the
US extravaganza. Stepping into totals from the early-year London
his shoes will be a three-person sales – after all, Brett Gorvy and
team consisting of Cay Sophie Amy Cappellazzo are Christie’s
Rabinowitz (previously senior editor International Co-Heads of Post-
of Swiss art magazine Parkett), War and Contemporary Art – and
Annette Schönholzer (show director the figure edges close to $925m.
of Art Basel Miami Beach since its However, these numbers are already
This year has been something of a inauguration in 2002) and Marc incorrect. By now, London’s October consumer sensibilities have shifted
farewell tour for Art Basel Director Spiegler (a freelance art journalist). sales are behind us, New York’s to make buying at auction more
Sam Keller. Having run what has Rabinowitz will become Artistic November sales are on the horizon. comfortable. But when asked about
become easily the most important Director, Schönholzer will be in So how far past $1 billion must we Christie’s own foray into primary
fair in the art calendar since 2000 charge of organisation and finances, learn to count? sales, with its purchase of Haunch of
(and worked for Art Basel since and Spiegler will be responsible These figures reflect the Venison, the pair explains that this
1994) and overseen the development for strategy and development. general economic expansion as simply means that Christie’s can and
of its party-fuelled sister act at All of which sees Art Basel facing well as the increased buying activity will serve as “one stop shopping for
Miami Beach, Keller moves on to something of a transitional moment. in London. The pair also note that all of our collectors”.
Jeff Koons’s auction turnover was in the case of the 24-foot floral Since opening his first gallery in Wirth has staged a series of bold,
$16,908,063 in 2006, proving that puppy that has become the icon of 1986 at the age of sixteen, Iwan attention-grabbing projects on a
his work has lost none of its appeal the Guggenheim Bilbao, and it will Wirth’s business collaborations have giant scale at his temporary venue,
since his 1980s glory years. This be again when his Train (2003–) gets mushroomed to include Hauser & Coppermill in London’s East End,
year he has had a(nother) sell-out installed outside LACMA (slated to Wirth in London and Zurich (with from Christoph Büchel’s massive
exhibition, with new paintings from happen sometime during the course his wife Manuela and stepmother installation Simply Botiful, to Martin
the Hulk Elvis series going on show of 2009). It consists of a 161-foot Ursula Hauser), Zwirner & Wirth, Creed’s giant film projection of a
at Gagosian’s Britannia Street branch industrial crane supporting a 70- with David Zwirner in New York, couple having sex, which was, at the
in London, where celebrity disciples foot working replica of a Baldwin and most recently, Hauser & Wirth very least, memorable.
such as Damien Hirst (one behind steam locomotive and is already Colnaghi with the leading old master Forthcoming projects include a
the master in the 2006 auction being touted as LA’s equivalent of dealer Colnaghi, again in London. major Paul McCarthy retrospective
turnover charts) were queuing up the Eiffel Tower. Wirth’s power lies in the fact that in Ghent, and a Louise Bourgeois
to praise their hero. Koons, however, he represents some of the biggest exhibition at Tate Modern in
is quite sanguine about his financial names in contemporary art. Indeed October, coinciding with a show at
success: ‘it’s hard for things to the last 12 months have seen his Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi.
survive in this world’, he says, ‘usually stable go from strength to strength.
elix Clay (14) if there’s monetary value associated Isa Genzken represented Germany
with it, its chances of survival are at the Venice Biennale, while Jason
greater’. Yet with Koons, size, at Rhoades was a memorable inclusion
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