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Businessman, collector, gallerist,
artist – Kim Chang-il is something
The Russian Connection
of a Renaissance man, maybe
even a mini-artworld all of his own
(as if to acknowledge this, the last
When Russians started buying in the art market five or six London show of his own works was
years ago, they concentrated on nineteenth-century painting titled CI Kim – Myself). The fifty-
by the likes of Aivazowski or Shishin, showing little interest eight-year-old Korean, chairman
in contemporary art – indeed the biggest buyers of Russian of a transport company, a chain
contemporary art were outside the country. But there has been of 14 restaurants and the Arario
a sea change in the last two years. Russians have suddenly department store, also owns the
started buying Western contemporary art, and are paying Arario Gallery in Cheonan, South
big prices, alongside the huge prices they are shelling out Chungcheong Province, which,
for impressionist and modern art (the $95.2 million Picasso, since it opened in 2002, has been lure artists to the Arario fold, there
Garçon à la Pipe, is thought to have gone to a Russian). dedicated to supporting the careers is no doubting the seriousness of
Many Russian collectors are extremely private and operate of the country’s emerging artists. In his enterprise. He is also a devoted
through agents – we still don’t have a clear idea of who bought 2005 Kim opened a sister gallery in collector of Western art, and among
the Picasso. What the country lacked was the institutional Beijing, which has a similar mission the several thousand works he owns is
infrastructure for contemporary art, as private collecting came with respect to Chinese art. While Damien Hirst’s Hymn (1996), bought
to an end after 1917. But now a few collectors are opening their rival gallerists may complain about in 2004 for $2 million, and Charity
own private museums, and even the august Hermitage is Kim flexing his financial muscles to (2003) – the 22-foot-high, six-ton
launching a campaign to increase its holdings of modern and bronze based on a Spastics Society
contemporary art. collection box. The collection, often
set up as a rival to Charles Saatchi’s
Igor Markin BritArt holdings, also includes works
Collector, plastics magnate. Opened Russia’s museum of by Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum,
contemporary art, Art4ru, in May 2007. The inaugural exhibition, 87 Marc Quinn, Antony Gormley and
which he curated himself, shows about 100 works from his others. When he’s not shopping at
collection. White Cube, Kim (who didn’t train
as an artist) makes his own works,
Vladimir Semenikhin
Kim Chang-il
describing his artistic persona, CI
Collector, real estate magnate. Opened Russia’s first private Category: Collector Kim, as ‘a dragonfly with dreams of
gallery to display his collection of modern and contemporary art Nationality: Korean chirruping like a cicada’. We couldn’t
this year. Last Year: New have put it better ourselves.
Alex Lachmann
Cologne-based dealer. Big Russian clientele, he paid £2.584 The effect is rather like what might
million for Warhol’s Dollar Sign in 2006, the highest price ever paid happen if a hoard of tramps took over
for a work in this series – and considerably higher than its estimate Hollywood. Beyond his art practice,
of £600,000. Reportedly bought the painting for an unnamed McCarthy’s influence continues
Russian collector.
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to be felt at UCLA, where he is
educating ever more generations of
Janna Bullock artists in the McCarthy way. During
Russian-American real estate magnate, based in New York. the last 12 months his massive, 40-
Collects international contemporary, while Russian contemporary
Paul McCarthy
year retrospective Head Shop/Shop
is a secondary interest. Category: Artist Head has continued its European
Nationality: American tour, touching down in ARoS, Aarhus
Stella Kay Last Year: 74 Museum of Modern Art, Denmark,
Wife of a Moscow oligarch, Kay closed her gallery at the end and the SMAK in Ghent, Belgium.
of January 2007, saying she wanted to focus on her charitable In last year’s Power 100 we reported Meanwhile his giant bronze Santa
art foundation. The Stella Art Foundation has enjoyed a close that LA-based artist Paul McCarthy with Butt Plug (2002/2007) outside
relationship with the Guggenheim Museum since it was founded in seemed to have more disciples than this year’s Art Basel proved both to
2004, primarily sponsoring exhibitions, including one on installation Jesus and Arnold Schwarzenegger. be an iconic symbol of contemporary
artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov in 2004. Kay said that her aim is ‘to And this year, while Jesus’s continue art and the perfect place to sit down
integrate Russian contemporary art into the international context’, to decline, McCarthy retains a (on the plinth, not the plug) for
and will organise more shows abroad. healthy following. ‘Paul McCarthy a cigarette.
is dirty, rotten, sexually hung-up and
AES+F likes ketchup [generally smeared all
Funny how suddenly an artist (or, as in this case, a collective of over his naked body]’ is one of the
d Spielhofer (92)
artists) is all over the place. They’ve been around for a while but more famous characterisations of
are really making it internationally now. the sixty-two-year-old, and perhaps
ildegar
that illustrates where the Son of
God went wrong. McCarthy has
maintained what one critic has
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described as a ‘Blitzkrieg’ approach
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