🍎🐍 Art As A Consequence #03
🌐 Big breakup in the art world, Carl Andre's passing, studies show that art has an effect on your brain, Tom Sachs' final frontier, crypto's massive adoption & Schiaparelli turned heads.
Welcome to the third edition of the ART AS A CONSEQUENCE weekly briefing. This week’s briefing includes a scandalous big breakup in the art world that makes us question whether it will affect the artist’s career. Also, Carl Andre's passing - find out why he was once called the “OJ of the art world”. New studies show that art has an effect on your brain, and finally after 11 months in the making Tom Sachs launches his final frontier of the Rocket Factory. On the crypto side it was a quiet week - except for a new report showcasing crypto's massive adoption. Are we just warming up? Lastly, Schiaparelli turned heads during this Paris Fashion Week and it’s because of technology. Read below to find out more!
Lol (lots of love),
Dimitria
✨🦋 from the beautiful art world
Larry Gagosian (78) and Anna Weyant (28), have ended their relationship. Although Weyant's auction prices have somewhat decreased from the seven figures they once reached (with her highest recorded sale at $1.62 million, as per the Artnet Price Database), her artworks continue to consistently fetch prices in the mid six figures. Two years prior to their connection, when Gagosian began collecting her work, Weyant's drawings were being sold for $400 on a picnic blanket through the Manhattan gallery 56 Henry.
Also, this Thursday, 25th of January GQ run a profile feature on Anna Weyant. Some interesting facts about her 100 private collectors including blue chip buyers Glenn Fuhrman as well as Wendi Murdoch, Venus Williams (who also sat of a portrait), Marc Jacobs, and recently Kris Jenner - as Anna Weyant noticed one of her paintings in a recent episode of The Kardashians.
Lastly, the writer carrie Battan states: “Her career should be taught in graduate programs as a case study about the complex network of financial and social levers that make up the contemporary art world.”I will not comment on Marina Abramovic’s $250 lotion and drops, limited run of 8,000 units (but, if you insist on the story you can read it on Vogue and artnet).
Cindy Sherman transformed herself in Marc Jacobs’s New Ad Campaign - photographed by Juergen Teller. The collaboration between Sherman, Jacobs, and Teller began in 2006, resulting in a series of campaign images later compiled into a book. Additionally, the "Anti-Fashion" exhibition at Deichtorhallen museum in Hamburg, Germany, delves into Sherman's intimate connections with the fashion world through her artworks. The exhibition will be on display until 3rd of March, 2024.
Carl Andre passed away at the age of 88 (24th of January, 2024). Once celebrated for his work, Equivalent VIII, a 1966 sculpture comprised of an arrangement of 120 plain fire-bricks, which was purchased by Tate in 1976. Unfortunately, Andre stayed in the public eyes due to his controversial marriage to Ana Mendieta and her sudden death. Mendieta fell from Andre’s 34th-floor apartment in lower Manhattan one night in September 1985 and Andre was dubbed "the OJ of the art world," a reference to OJ Simpson. His life later became surrounded by an audience unable to separate personal feelings towards an artist from the appreciation of his work—his art in the context of cultural and political dynamics.
BBC featured a video on cutting-edge headsets that show the impact of art on human brainwaves, stating:
“Art isn't a passive experience, it has an effect on your brain.”
Tom Sachs Rocket Factory (TSRF) will be launching their last componment of the NFT project this upcoming Monday, 29th of January. Tom Sachs also recently spoke to high snobiety about the project:
“In the beginning, we just made rockets, but then it slowly grew organically based on the work we’ve been doing here for many years (…) I’m not secretive about the future, it’s just uncertain. It will probably change, but I know it will always share the values of our other projects. That’s what keeps us honest. If we had some master plan, I probably wouldn’t care.” —Tom Sachs
📈🚀 Crypto News
A new report by crypto.com estimates more than 7% of the global population owns crypto. That’s 580 million people! With 51% of crypto owners holding Bitcoin and 21% holding Ether, the crypto adoption rate is on the rise.
✨🛍️ In the fashion universe
Schiaparelli turned heads during this Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2024 Haute Couture.
For Daniel Roseberry, Creative Director of Schiaparelli, the future isn't governed by development but forged by our connections to the past. Elsewhere, Elsa Schiaparelli’s love of space merged with Roseberry’s obsession with the Alien movie franchise. The millennial tech nostalgia hit with a baby perched on model Maggie Maurer‘s hip—only it wasn’t alive and made up entirely of defunct motherboards and other bits of electronic waste from a bygone era.
Schiaparelli Couture Spring 2024 as part of Paris Couture Fashion Week held at Petit Palais on January 22, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD via Getty Images). Courtesy of Schiaparelli. Reseberry acknowledged backstage that Schiaparelli gets a lot of attention online from people doing AI versions of his designs. That might have spurred him to create pieces that looked embroidered with a small landfill of outdated technology: a dress made of flip phones, motherboards, CDs, as well as an alien robot baby (cradled by a model in rather lovely white cargo pants and an undershirt).
Nicola Formichetti — who famously dressed Lady Gaga in a body-sized egg and in a dress made of meat — has joined digital fashion platform Syky as artistic director. The avant-garde creative director built a career on out-there approaches to fashion; now, he is bridging the traditional fashion industry with tech. Syky, which has raised at least $10.5 million with investors including Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six Capital.
“When it comes to the metaverse, it was very in fashion and [then] it fell out of fashion. But if you remove the noise and look under the hood, there’s no better time to build than a bear.” —Alice Delahunt, SYKY founder and CEO
COMING 🔜 ON NEXT WEEK’S BRIEFING
— 3RD OF FEBRUARY
Brigitte Chapman talks about the art legacy of her grandfather David Newman as well as the exhibition she curated “Sex sells so I got you some”.
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