Their project, entitled Ciudad de Bolsillo — which roughly translates as “Pocket Cities” — will focus on the theme of nomadism. Colmer, who lives and works between Barcelona and Paris, produces work that explores how the modern city conditions human behaviour. Manuel Segade is the current director of Madrid’s Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M). Read more on Biennial Foundation.
The prolific Venezuelan collector-duo Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros have announced they will donate 102 works by 37 Latin American artists to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The gifted works, which come from the Cisneros’s impressive collection of geometric abstraction, add to the 40 existing pieces donated by the couple to MoMA over the past 16 years. The donation includes paintings, sculptures and works on paper made between the 1940s and 1990s by artists such as Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape. The donation also establishes a research institute dedicated to the study of art made in Latin America, which will be housed at MoMA’s West 53rd Street campus. Read more on ARTnews.
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, the Zurich gallery established in 1988, has announced it will close by the end of 2016, up until which point it will continue to run intermittently. When the gallery first opened, it was run out of an apartment, and underwent various permutations before it opened its current space at Limmatstrasse 270 in the former Löwenbräu brewery complex. Artists represented by the gallery include Philip Akkerman, Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, Paul Morrison, Ernesto Neto, Julian Opie and Walter Pfeiffer. More via Artforum.
Christie’s has announced that it will change the way it reports the net price paid for works where a third party guarantor receives a fee for providing a guarantee, then participates in the bidding and wins the lot (which will apply to a only handful of lots each year). From now on, when a third-party guarantor is the successful bidder for a lot, Christie’s will publish the price realized inclusive of buyer’s premium and net of any financing fee. These prices will be posted on Christie’s website in the results section for the relevant sale. More info on Art Market Monitor.
The online auction house partnership Auctionata Paddle 8 have announced that Alexander Zacke is stepping down from his position as Chief Marketplace Officer at the company. Both he and his fellow co-founder Susanne Zacke are transferring their managerial responsibilities to the new management team of Auctionata Paddle8. The new management team led by Chief Executive Officer Thomas Hesse and Chief Financial Officer Lucas Hülsmann has now taken over control of the company. Alexander and Susanne Zacke will remain associated with Auctionata Paddle8 in an advisory capacity. Art Market Monitor has further details.
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October 18 | Jordi Colomer to represent Spain at Venice Biennale 2017
The Catalonian artist Jordi Colomer, known primarily for his video series, has been selected alongside the curator Manuel Segade to represent Spain at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.
