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artist Hiroshi Sugimoto made a series
19
of photographs based on a Serra
piece installed at St. Louis’s Pulitzer
Pinault’s Entourage
Foundation, and Serra’s work keeps
the crowds and collectors lining up
chez Gagosian, even though at this
Alison M. Gingeras
point they might almost cost their
Pinault’s curator (who is married to the Polish artist Piotr Uklanski
weight in gold.
and divides her time between Warsaw, New York and Venice) was
Richard Serra
previously at the Guggenheim. She spends her time globetrotting
Category: Artist
to find art for her boss.
Nationality: American
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Emmanuel Perrotin
Savvy French dealer who has just opened a second gallery in Miami.
Just how big is it? With Serra, we’re Sells to Pinault; his trendy stable of artists includes Murakami,
still waiting to learn as his sculptures Sophie Calle, gelitin, Delvoye. Perrotin was the fall-boy when
and reputation continue to grow. Pinault, using an exhibitor’s pass given to him by Perrotin, got in
This past year has seen this master early to the 2005 Art Basel with Philippe Ségalot (see below). His
of the massive lionized by critics punishment was to be excluded in 2006, but he was back in 2007.
and public alike for his stunning
retrospective at the Museum
Philippe Ségalot
of Modern Art. To accommodate
Advisor/dealer, has a company in association with Lucien Pissarro
three of his recent works, the
and ex-Christie’s specialist Frank Giraud. Also a specialist of
museum emptied its second-floor
sneaking into Art Basel early – in 2006 allegedly donned a ‘Sam
galleries. They’ve never looked
Keller’ disguise to get in. Advises, buys for Pinault.
better – although they have rarely
looked good. The installation of
earlier work on the museum’s sixth
Monique Veaute
floor did him no favours, smoothing
New head of Palazzo Grassi, (follows Jean-Jacques Aillagon, who
out the rough edges of his
has been appointed president of the Chateau de Versailles). She
experimental and alternative 1960s
was born in Germany and educated in France, but for the last 23
and 70s work – pieces that were far
years has lived and worked in Rome. Was director of RomaEuropa
more subtle than his spectacular
festival.
Corten steel hulks. Serra’s influence
continues to grow: the Japanese
Elena Guena
Ex-Sotheby’s, now an advisor to Pinault.
As curator of the influential Frankfurt Caroline Bourgeois
alternative space Portikus and rector Chief curator of Le Plateau, experimental art space, and runs
of the Städelschule, Frankfurt’s TRAM a network of contemporary art spaces. Advises Pinault and
prestigious art academy, Daniel helped him build up his collection of videos.
Birnbaum has his ear to the ground.
The Swedish-born curator has
developed a reputation for spotting
great artists early – while director of
Stockholm residency programme
IASPIS, Birnbaum worked with
Olafur Eliasson to dye the water of
20)
the Stockholm archipelago green;
recent commissions include shows
by Michael Beutler, Seth Price,
olfgang Günzel (
Bonnie Camplin and Paola Pivi. which was widely acclaimed, and
The much-respected Birnbaum was one of the curators in Francesco
ago (19), W
ar also wields a heavy presence on the Bonami’s 2003 Venice Biennale. A
ax F
M
biennial scene: he co-curated the notoriously deep thinker, he writes
inaugural 2005 Moscow Biennial, often and is a contributing editor
s (18),
to Artforum, and in 2005 Birnbaum
wrote a book titled Chronology on
phenomenology – the subject of his
rieze (17), Sotheby’
20
doctoral thesis – and its relation to
artists such as Dominique Gonzalez-
Foerster, Tacita Dean and Philippe
Parreno.
CMA (15), courtesy F
LA
Daniel Birnbaum
useum Associates/
Category: Curator
Nationality: Swedish
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