It’s been a year of steady progress his students, ‘Go East, young artist!’,
for the artworld’s most famous
90
he never did follow his own advice.
Japanese export. With his critical Perhaps it is a happy consequence
and commercial reputation firmly of simple endurance, yet Baldessari,
under his belt since curating his
89
who has had some 120 solo shows
2005 megashow Little Boy at and more than 300 group shows, is
the Japan Society in New York, in the midst of a serious commercial
Murakami has been busy expanding
Takashi Murakami John Baldessari
and critical upsurge: record-high
his art-and-commerce empire. With prices at auction; shows in LA, New
the tenth instalment of his GEISAI
Category: Artist Category: Artist
York, Zurich and Frankfurt this year;
art fair-cum-indoor market in Tokyo
Nationality: Japanese Nationality: American
a highly praised exhibition design
last September, Murakami showed
Last Year: 98 Last Year: New
for LA MOCA’s Magritte show;
that you can single-handedly and plans for a large retrospective
invent a young art scene just by and the US. Meanwhile, Murakami’s John Baldessari’s trajectory hews so at Tate Modern in 2009. The man is
creating the commercial context merchandising adventures continue closely to key developments in art a giant.
for it to emerge in. Since then, apace; Murakami and Mr recently over the past 40 years – the initial
Murakami’s company, KaiKai Kiki, collaborated with New York skater great explosion of Conceptualism,
has been hard at work promoting brand Supreme to produce a range and its ebb and flow ever since; the
Murakami’s stable of protégés of skate decks, and Murakami’s normalisation of eclectic art practices
– Chiho Aoshima, Aya Takano and big solo show at MOCA in LA and media; and the emergence of
Mr all have had solo shows in France has caused some controversy for a stand-alone LA art scene – that
including a fully functioning Louis one is tempted to lay thanks for
Vuitton shop, selling Murakami’s own much produced today at his (large)
Vuitton designs. Art and commerce feet. In a career that has moved
merging? Whatever next? A mini- easily, and occasionally decisively,
GEISAI is planned for Art Basel through painting and phototext
Miami Beach this December, and canvases, collages, video and film,
GEISAI #11 returns in 2008. performance and installation,
Baldessari has never stopped
teaching, a fact surely central both
to his practice and his influence. Yet
despite his 37 years (and counting)
at CalArts, and the thousands of
times he must have commanded
began its global assault on the art Some curators give the impression
fair circuit (Art Basel, FIAC), the they are everywhere at once, while
gallery has clocked up a number Adam Szymczyk simply is (although
of accolades, including being listed ‘curator’ might be a bit confining for
as one of the 75 most influential this rising artworld figure). Selected
postwar galleries in International in 2003, at the age of thirty-two,
Art Galleries, Post-War to Post- to direct the Kunsthalle Basel, the
Millennium published by Thames Polish-born Szymczyk is a product
& Hudson in 2005. In the last year (if not onetime embodiment) of the
the gallery was strongly represented Warsaw contemporary art scene,
at the Venice Biennale, with house where his work at the Foksal Gallery
artist Yang Fudong’s seven-part Foundation, co-founded with Joanna
film Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Mytkowska and Andrzej Przywara in
This year, Lorenz Helbling’s Forest (2003) taking centre stage 1997, and as a critic and curator of Not averse to pushing a curatorial
ShanghART Gallery, one of the first at Robert Storr’s Arsenale show. shows in venues around Warsaw and concept to its publicity-seeking limits
contemporary art spaces to open Helbling is also a regular overseas abroad, was instrumental in bringing (Uklanski’s 1998 The Nazis comes
in Shanghai (and, indeed, China) ambassador for the Art Basel fairs. international attention to Piotr to mind, as does Superflex’s 2005
and the first to show at Art Basel, Uklanski, Wilhelm Sasnal, Pawel Supershow at the Kunsthalle Basel,
celebrated its tenth anniversary. To Althamer and Monica Sosnowska. which paid members of the public to
coincide with the event, the gallery attend), Szymczyk has also quietly
published a glossy book filled with and seriously got on with the job,
images of works by the gallery’s writing essays, editing catalogues,
artists (many now players on the staging big, important shows, and
d Spielhofer (92)
international scene) and glowing all the while seemingly accepting
ildegar
praise from such heavyweights as
Hans Ulrich Obrist. Set up in 1996 by 91 92
every panel and jury invitation that
comes his way. The big excitement,
Swiss gallerist Helbling, ShanghART though (and looking ahead slightly
8), GION (89), H
is credited with establishing, next to to 2008) are his plans for the 5th
Beijing, a second contemporary art Berlin Biennial of Contemporary
ounkle (8
centre within China – no mean feat,
Lorenz Helbling Adam Szymczyk
Art. Can he (and co-curator Elena
arie R
given that the market for art within Category: Gallerist Category: Curator Filipovic) save the concept of the
China is still comparatively young. Nationality: Swiss Nationality: Polish biennial from itself?
photos: Ann-M Since 2000, when ShanghART Last Year: 82 Last Year: New
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