Art critic and filmmaker Ben Lewis spent 2008 following the booming contemporary art market, from its peak in May until its collapse in October.
The last five years have witnessed an unprecedented craze for contemporary art, in which works of art by Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, and Mark Rothko sold for record-breaking prices of thirty million pounds upwards. It all climaxed in September 2008, when Damien Hirst sold 111m pounds’ worth of his art at an unprecedented auction at Sotheby’s, and Lewis was there to see it all.
‘cycle’ by sopheap pich, 2005
rattan, steel wire
image courtesy 10 chancery lane gallery
‘my main materials are rattan, bamboo, and metal wire – the stuff that is common and cheap in cambodia. my tools are simple: razorblades, knives, axes, pliers, a blowtorch. the manual labor allows me the time to contemplate on the forms and my relationship to it. this relationship between the viewer and the form is what matters most to me, and each pieces are open to interpretations by the viewer.’ sopheap pich was selected for the best of discovery section at shanghai art fair in 2008. more information see Designboom’s BlogContinue reading ‘Bamboo Scuplture by Cambodian Sopheap Pich’
“A fantastic, surreal black-and-white Music Video animation for Moby by the infamous David Lynch – who is director for Mulholland Drive, part German Expressionism, part reckless 6-year-old on the run with a black crayon.”
William Hailiang Chen, London UK. Photographer/Architectural Researcher
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