2012, a situation that very few of the Sadie Coles has been an important
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artists who crop up on lists like this presence in London even before
one would be prepared to admit, opening Sadie Coles HQ off Regent
but Gober’s willingness to work at Street in 1997, working for six years
his own pace has always been one of before that for Anthony d’Offay.
the keys to his success. And on the The gallery has a discreet presence,
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evidence of his last show, whatever but Coles is known for her instinct
he produces in five years’ time will for finding artists – Sarah Lucas,
Robert Gober
most likely prove to have been John Currin, Jim Lambie, Wilhelm
Sadie Coles
Category: Artist worth the wait. Sasnal, Elizabeth Peyton and many Category: Gallerist
Nationality: American others – as well as maintaining strong Nationality: British
Last Year: 36 relationships with them. She even Last Year: 35
part-owns a house in the country
Over a busy summer that saw with Lucas. The gallery draws on gallery’s first major expansion, with
critics offer mixed responses to the good international connections, the opening of a new space in South
big events (Documenta, Münster Coles having made powerful Audley Street. The venue opens
and the Venice Biennale), Robert alliances with other galleries, such at the end of this year’s Frieze Art
Gober’s large-scale three-decade as Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New Fair with an exhibition by Rudolf
retrospective at the Schaulager in York. And after a decade at Heddon Stingel, and to celebrate the event,
Basel was alone in receiving almost Street, Coles has announced the Coles is putting on a host of other
universal critical acclaim. As part of shows: Christiana Soulou opens at
the show (and the unique conditions Heddon Street, with Urs Fischer
of the Schaulager, which mounts and Matthew Barney presenting
only one or two exhibitions a year), special exhibitions at two temporary
the fifty-three-year-old American locations.
remade five large-scale installations,
which sat alongside numerous
other drawings, prints, photographs
and sculptures, all of which were
testament to his ongoing fight
against normalcy and conformity. In
a recent interview published in this
magazine, Gober revealed that he
has no plans to exhibit again until
Last February one of Victoria elaborated in his extraordinary artist’s
Miro’s top artists broke a record project for ArtReview’s first Annual,
on the auction market – Scottish- an unflinching hundred-page
born painter Peter Doig’s White diary-cum-manifesto of the artist’s
Canoe (1991) sold at Sotheby’s for purpose. Not everyone can handle
£5.7 million, making him the most Hirschhorn’s forthright approach; the
expensive living European painter Chinese authorities clamped down
at auction. Although the sale was on the exhibition of Hirschhorn’s
not in any way brokered by Miro works at Crousel’s booth at the
herself, Doig’s soaring reputation recent ShContemporary art fair in
can be added to Miro’s list of Shanghai, and Hirschhorn continues
44)
other successes – Miro represents his Swiss exhibiting boycott over
ondon (
Turner Prize-winners Chris Ofili what he sees as the rise of the far
y
, L
and Grayson Perry – while Thomas right in politics there. Hirschhorn’s
Demand’s installation Yellowcake at year will, according to the gallery, If 2006 was the year that Thomas uncompromising stance looks set
riedman Galler the Fondazione Prada was one of the be all about the artists. The most Hirschhorn truly caught the artworld’s to make him a focal figure for the
hits of this year’s Venice Biennale. comprehensive exhibition to date of imagination, 2007 has been a foreseeable future – look for his solo
Now that the gallery has settled into the work of Doig will open at Tate year of energetic consolidation. show at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
its huge next-door extension, next Britain in February 2008, while new Pushing on with the grisly, war- in the spring.
artists joining Miro include American soaked imagery that defined last
sculptor Sarah Sze, Scandinavians year’s Superficial Engagement at
Elmgreen and Dragset and British New York’s Gladstone Gallery,
opez, courtesy the artist and Stephen F
omain L
43), R
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photographer and video artist Phil Hirschhorn’s furious reflections on
Collins. And after almost a decade, the world in the age of permanent
Yayoi Kusama returns for the first of terror have effortlessly shifted
two exhibitions. from biennial and Kunsthalle to 44
y A. Bal (
commercial artworld, clocking up
three solo shows in six months with
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41), Thierr
Chantal Crousel, Stephen Friedman
ullan (
cM
Victoria Miro
and Arndt + Partner. His Arndt +
Thomas Hirschhorn
Category: Gallerist Partner show, Stand-Alone, turned Category: Artist
atrick M
Nationality: British on the question ‘Where Do I Stand? Nationality: Swiss
photo: P photos: Catherine Opie ( Last Year: 26 What Do I Want?’, a theme the artist Last Year: 42
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