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Whitechapel Auction

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A Bigger Splash Whitechapel auction at the London Art Fair

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17 Nov 2001

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London Art Fair

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We were asked by the Whitechapel Art Gallery London, to contribute an artwork to a charity auction, to raise funds for their public programme.

Each invited artist was supplied with water colour paper, paints and brushes.

We decided to make an artwork that would be very, very desirable to future owners and collectors. Therefore we meticulously copied reproductions, of two Gary Hume paintings from the catalogue of the extremely popular Whitechapel exhibition in 2000; his Angel, series.

The imagery is based on the artist's photographs of enormous concrete angels on the ceiling of the Catholic Cathedral in Brasilia. Following his usual practice, he enlarged and traced the imagery in order to generate the outlines that structure his sumptuous, sexy abstracted paintings of flat, gloss, and high-key colour. We reversed the process, sort of, by tracing photographic reproduction of the paintings and making watercolour equivalents.

The paintings are beautiful, they look like Gary Hume's, and most visitors thought they were Gary Hume's. They did extremely well for the Whitechapel at auction..........

One was bought by a collector and later given to the retiring director of the Whitechapel, Catherine Lampert as a gift; the other was hastily purchased by Gary Hume's gallerist, Jay Joplin of White Cube, to keep the painting out of the market-place.

artists who kindly donated work to A Bigger Splash include; Fiona Banner, David Batchelor, Sonia Boyce, Tony Bevan, Ian Davenport, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, Mark Francis, Anya Gallaccio, Cathy de Monchaux, Paul Morrison, Paul Noble, Chris Ofili, Julian Opie, Grayson Perry, Bob & Roberta Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Shafique Uddin, Jessica Voorsanger, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding, and Paul Winstanley.

Sotheby's announcement

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:16:33 +0100

Sotheby's announcement
October 2007

Sotheby's

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:29:32 +0100

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A year long collaboration with Sotheby's

End Date

19 Oct 2008

Start Date

11 Oct 2007

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Sotheby's London

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Our year long collaboration with Sotheby's was launched with a rare screening of John Schott and E.J. Vaughn's 1974 film America's Pop Collector: Robert C Scull - Contemporary Art at Auction, on the evening of 11th October 2007 at 8.15

The project will culminate with the resulting artwork offered at auction in October 2008

Whitechapel_auction Angel_brown

admin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:17:05 +0100

Angel, detail
Whitechapel auction
London Art Fair 2001

Whitechapel_auction Angel_detail

admin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:14:03 +0100

Angel, detail
Whitechapel auction
London Art Fair 2001

Whitechapel_auction Angel

admin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:10:26 +0100

Angel detail
Whitechapel auction
London Art Fair 2001

Whitechapel- auction

admin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:06:57 +0100

The Whitechapel Auction
London Art Fair 2001

Museum Futures

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:30:13 +0200

This is a draft transcript of the 2058 centenary interview with Ayan Lindquist, it will be printed in a heritage publication, the History Book as part of Museum Futures commissioned by Moderna Museet in Stockholm Sweden.

06/06/2'58

Interior: The common room, Moderna Museet v3.0
A beautiful lounge, comfortable seating, local lighting, graduated windows with breathtaking views of the sea.

The Executive of Moderna v3.0: Ayan Lindquist, an attractive young woman, a person of colour, is waiting to be interviewed in real-time from Guangzhou, in the Asian Multitude network.

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Bacon, sold

admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:32:19 +0100

Bacon sold and in transit
Sotheby's NY 2006

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admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:26:01 +0100

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