What the year 2015 left us... (Part I)
12:26 a.m.
28/12/15. A few days before the year ends, we can say that in 2015 we saw the intensification of a phenomenon pioneered by the Saatchi Gallery of London: the "museum-ination" of those art spaces, first conceived exclusively to sell artworks.
In Chelsea, New York, the Gagosian and Pace galleries were also part of the movement. This year they presented exhibitions by Jeff Koons and Robert Rauschenberg, worthy of the MoMA.
Something similar happened in Buenos Aires, at the Gallery Arte x Arte. There, the exhibition "La certeza del error" reflected on the failures of electronic gadgets during the artistic creation. The exhibition gathered national and international artists and its curatorial and aesthetic importance was such that it exceded the concept of a traditional gallery.
View of the installation "Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball Paintings," at the Gagosian Gallery in New York
Nov. 9-Dic.23, 2015.
Party Line (Arcadian Retreat), by Robert Rauschenberg (1996)
Pace Gallery, New York.
Leona y Francesca, by David Szauder (2012)
Photographic matte paper / Measures: 24 x 30 cm
Arte x Arte, Buenos Aires
The website Artsy.Net explored all the releases and posts about contemporary art (art fairs, museums, galleries) in 2015 to establish which were the most mentioned cities through the internet. The first place was for New York (which else?). The city is still top one because it houses the more galleries and art institutions in the world. Plus, its art market is the biggest: the most expensive artworks of 2015 were auctioned there. For these reasons and much more, it is currently chosen by thousands of artists as their place of residence.
It's surprising that the third city mostly mentioned is Miami. This artistic center of South US has become seat to many private collections, such as Rubell's and Fontanals-Cisneros'. But there's also the opening of PAMM, a museum born from the Pérez collection of Contemporary Art. However, what truly raised the cultural bar of the city was the arrival of Art Basel, the most attractive art fair in the world, which chose Miami to reach the Latin and American market.
European cities such as London, Paris and Berlin also made the list, as is the case of Hong Kong and Dubai. There's only one South American city mentioned enough to reach the 10th place in the top 15: Sao Paulo. Although 2015 was not a biennial year, it had many record art sales to be captured by the international art radar.
(To be continued...)
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