INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONS
Despite C-19 auctions houses continued to conduct live auctions albeit without an audience. Making use of the opportunity to develop their technology, many more auctions are now held on online.
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Courtesy and ©Janet Rady (photo) and Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy 2020. All rights reserved.
SOTHEBY'S INSTIUTE OF ART
Most of the preparation for the new course, The Future of the Artworld, at Sotheby's Institute of Art, conceived and lead by Renée Pfister, are completed.
The course comprises eight sessions, each class being 1hrs 30mins, two days a week, starting 17 November 2020. All lectures will be streamed live via Zoom and will enable students to follow along with each lesson in real time. To avoid online fatigue, Renée has invited two high-profile experts for each class, to contribute their views to her seminars, offering different perspectives and to encourage a lively discourse.
Courtesy and ©Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy and Sotheby's Institute of Art, London 2020. All rights reserved.
SOLARIS NEXUM - A WORK IN PROGRESS
Recently, Alexandra Carr’s commission Solaris Nexum moved to the production stage. The polycarbonate is being cut, the metalwork hanging system is being made and the bead columns are about to be assembled. She and her technicians have been busy developing bespoke construction frames, jigs and hanging systems to carefully hold the wire and panels in place so the correct angles and positioning of the panels can be achieved. It's all underway but there are going to be a lot of busy days and long nights in the studio to get Solaris Nexum shipped to Dublin ahead of Brexit. Ms Carr lives in an area which is currently under a local partial lockdown but she is still able to work in her studio. She hopes that she can move into her new house so she can finish making the piece there, to safeguard the production in case of a full lockdown and being shut out of her studio.
Courtesy and ©Alexandra Carr, Architectural Metalworkers Ltd, CConsult, Bay Plastics Ltd, Colin Rennie, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Grangegorman Development Agency, Ormiston Wire Ltd Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy, London, and the Technological University, Dublin, 2020. All rights reserved.
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COOL VIBES - DOMINIC BEATTIE
Many artists in the Western canon have developed skills in several different media, combining draughtsmanship and painting, drawing and furniture making, and so on. Dominic Beattie is an artist who is known and admired equally for his ornate vibrant coloured pictorial and spatial representations.
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Courtesy and ©Dominic Beattie, Ben Sound Moose https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/moose and Renée Pfister (text), with the assistance of Galina Matveeva, 2020. All rights reserved.
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FEMMES FATALES - PIP DICKENS
In her paintings, Pip Dickens employs innovative methods to create unusual surfaces, layers and textures. Depth and surface contrasts are particularly important, and her work draws on many sources. This includes natural phenomena to the darker elements of phantasmagoria, from opacity to transparency, from rhythms within music to pattern structures in nature, from cinematic devices to literary sources. Concerned with visual perception Dickens examines and challenges theories and methodologies of light and movement within the second dimension. Concepts of illusion and double meaning are recurring themes. The notion that we may receive two contrasting visual or intellectual responses to a single stimulant.
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Courtesy and ©Pip Dickens and Renée Pfister (text) 2020. All rights reserved.
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Courtesy and ©Pip Dickens, Ben Sound Epic (music) https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/epic Renée Pfister, with the assistance of Galina Matveeva, 2020.
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Solaris Nexum, 2020, rolled steel tube for the construction of the hanging system. Courtesy of artist
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