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Wed 22 Apr, 2009 12:32 pm
The new groove of Latin American art around the world.
The Times are changing for Latin American art around the world.
Two recent auctions of Latin American art held by the prestigious houses of Sotheby's and Christies have proven right a tendency line that's been rising from the shadows during the last decade. The repositioning of Latin America as a strong cultural scene in the world's scenario has revalued the subcontinent in all its richness and diversity, highlighting its break thru tendencies and innovative lines of thought as much as it’s philosophical approaches to the modern world.
Sotheby's established a world auction record this last month when one of Frida Kahlo's paintings sold for nearly 6 million dollars. However this brilliant sale wasn't the only record breaker of the month, for the famous auction house reached the sum of 18,658,800 dollars, the highest most total ever obtained in a Latin American works' auction. Several Latin artists such as the Mexican Francisco Zuniga, the Cuban Tomas Sanchez and the Argentine Luis Tomasello, also marked the evolution of a more coveted and appreciated market.
These new winds blowing under the wings of Latin American modern artists are taking them to the centre scene, and placing their works before the eyes of world wide collectors that prestige the Latin art as one of the 20th century most brilliant developments. And contemporary with this newly achieved world location we assist to the birth of the 21st century vanguard. The new avant-garde artists of today develop in a whole different world of technology, technique and reality approach/appreciation.
Parallel to the evolution of new art trends -such as those found in the recently finished ART BA exhibit of Buenos Aires, Argentina[1]- a new generation of art collectors is growing with personal and unique group features responding to this modern contemporary era of aesthetic and arts.
The market actors are changing. More accurately, the actors who work upon this specific market of collectibles and art are expanding and broadening their field of interests.
Meaning?
That the traditional art collections are still ranking top, while a new set of trends, aesthetics, vanguards and art
conception is also gaining terrene as appreciated art artefacts.
We might call upon the initiators, the Arensberg couple, for they can be seen on as the initial break thru collectors and patrons who chose to collect industrialized artwork, the ready-made kind of art that has so much of these modern times, its aesthetic, its advertising-like side aesthetic, the concept idea of an art lab that adds a mutation to what seemed immutable in terms of socially accepted art. It's a true statement that art would have never transitioned these experimental paths if it weren't for the fact that each new art statement in the creative side is always accompanied by the receptiveness of an equally vanguard public that grows to appreciate in depth the ideas and creations of the new generations. It's the ABC of communication, which requisite for communicating something is that there's a sender and a receptor. Communicating the sense of an era exploring the edges of the accepted and further is plausible thanks to the givers and the receivers.
Artists and collectors alike are crossed by the challenge of a new era that is yet to be known and understood. This emerging art resulting of the contemporary culture contradictions and fascinating unsure statements defies us to rely on our senses, open-mind-ness and the fact that we know nothing about what is provoking such rich and interesting reactions within ourselves.
Our Art dealer project has grown and developed under these conceptions, we've began to explore a world of culture and art that was broadly unknown, expanding the traditional conception of art to areas broadly ignored by the traditional art scene such as toys, antiques, vintage items, vehicles. We work under the influence of modernity valuing our past while projecting towards the future.
Bob Frassinetti, travelling the south of south America,....