22nd June ‘news from the shed’
Looking at the Saatchi site and came across this article about Brian Griffiths (quote “I don’t understand most art either.” ) sounds really interesting and is a must to go and see.
BRIAN GRIFFITHS TO MAKE 70-METRE ART INSTALLATION IN LONDON
Platform for Art’s flagship art site at Gloucester Road station will this year feature ‘Life is a Laugh’, a monumental installation by renowned artist Brian Griffiths. A mock stage set including a 7.5 metre panda’s head, half a caravan, a lamp post rescued from the M42, scaffolding towers and ramps, bicycles, buckets and tyres are only some of the items creating a scene that will inspire passengers standing on platforms or travelling on passing trains. The work will be unveiled in July and remain there for almost a year. Installed on the disused platform in a major logistical feat that will be achieved at night over two months, ‘Life is a Laugh’ will be the largest artwork in a public site that Brian Griffiths has ever created.
This gives us all hope…
Damien Hirst became the auction world’s most expensive living artist last night as his 2002 pill cabinet, ‘Lullaby Spring’, sold for £8.6 million (before commission) at Sotheby’s contemporary sale. Francis Bacon’s 1978 ‘Self Portrait’ fetched £19.3 million (before commission). Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale realised an astonishing £72,427,600 ($144,427,600) – the company’s highest total for a sale of Contemporary Art in
Meanwhile at Christie’s, Lucian Freud’s 1992 portrait of his friend Bruce Bernard this week broke the record for a living European artist after selling for £7.8m at Christie’s. At the same sale Francis Bacon’s ‘Two Men Working in a Field’ sold for just over £5 million, and Andy Warhol’s ‘Three Marilyns’ fetched £5.6 million. Christie’s sales for the week totalled £237 million, including commissions, compared with a pre-commission estimate of between £172.2 million pounds and £241.7 million.
…. I wouldn’t mind some of that!!!!
