THE WORK NOW PROPOSED BY FRED FOREST AND GALERIE STEPHANE MORTIER FOR NOVEMBER 2024: 1milion 500.001 usd stm@galerie-s-mortier.com RECORD!
INTO PUT AN END ONCE AND FOR ALL TO THE BANANA AND THE ART MARKET!
IN 2020: THIS WORK LA BANANE INVISIBLE WAS ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THREE COPIES. THE FIRST WAS SOLD TO ALAIN DOMINIQUE PERRIN FOR $10,000 usd AT GALERIE S. MORTIER. FRED FOREST IMMEDIATELY DONATED THIS SUM TO THE ASSOCIATION MAIN D'OEUVRE DE SAINT-OUEN. ALAIN DOMINIQUE PERRIN, HIGH-RANKING COLLECTOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE FONDATION CARTIER, ONCE AGAIN DEMONSTRATED HIS QUALITIES AS A TRUE PATRON OF THE ARTS.
Today it's @elonmusk who supports the artist in his record sale
A WORK-INFORMATION, TO BE IMAGINED BY EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US AS A WORK FOR SALE IN PARIS BY THE S-MORTIER GALLERY, AS AN EXPERIENCE IN SOCIOLOGICAL ART FOR AN EXPECTED AMOUNT OF $1,500,000 + $1 according to the terms of sale imposed by the artist, to get the edge on Sotheby's!
Information de BA Magazine à ce sujet : https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/la-sulfureuse-banane-scotchee-de-cattelan-bientot-vendue-aux-encheres/
?TITLE OF WORK: "Nature morte ou la banane invisible sur assiette en porcelaine blanche de Limoges" (Still life or the invisible banana on a white Limoges porcelain plate) The banana occupying the center of the plate has suddenly disappeared, with no scientific explanation to date.
As it happens, a work sold during Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019 has inflamed the debate and "chatter" about art, if the Washington Post's Philipp Kennicott is to be believed about the nature of this work, its mode of exhibition, its excessive price, and its over-mediatisation. Ten years earlier, in the aisles of the same Basel Miami art fair,Alain Robbe-Grillet premonitatively confided to Fred Forest that collectors here were already interested in three things:
ART, MONEY and EVENTS!
This was confirmed in December 2019 by the sale of the Italian artist's famous banana by Galerie Perrotin, which presented it in its stand:
Galerie Mortier, at a price of 1,500,000 + $1 according to the terms of sale imposed by the artist, to gain a competitive advantage over Sotheby's!
Since COVID 19, the global ethical crisis has been amplified, hitting the art market and its operators head-on today.
?A crisis in which artists have to regain power if they are less cowardly in the face of powers of all kinds, and if they manifest themselves as true “RESISTANTSâ€.
As Gilles Deleuze said so well to Claire Parenet in Alain Boutang’s Primer when speaking about artists “To create is to resistâ€. I will add that it is only in this way that you will perhaps succeed in changing society... and I will also add for my part that the natural and physical world is much too strong to have the pretension of changing it. in a sustainable way, but let us at least show solidarity to be able to face it.
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