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Works without quality don’t last

When excanges fall off, the medium segment of the market suffers more, while high quality works always find a buyer. Besides, recognizing this quality isn’t easy; very important elements are documents, origin and exhibition curriculum of the artist and of the work.
The market usually rewards works that mark the starting moment of the artist’s research, it expresses the taste of the most and never follows the critics.
Guido Galimberti, chief executive and founder of our company of art advisory Opera, says “only an enlightened élite can recognize the artists’ value at their first appearance. The market follows the taste of the mass; the collective culture needs more time, about 30 years. Quality stands in a wellestablished aesthetic that describes works as beautiful, easy and encouraging, as in the case of Francis Bacon, whose top price ‘Triptych’ (1976), sold for 86.281.000 dollars last may in New York by Sotheby’s, shows how his works of the Seventies and Eighties are valued, while his first experiments of the Sixties have a higher cultural weight.”
But how can a well-educated and brilliant collector recognize innovation, beauty and originality out of the shared aesthetic rules? The artists themselves, who collect art, can often tell it.

Gentleman

2009 Back to the future

After a golden period, but a period of excesses too, the world of art lives a moment of settlement.
Gentleman has asked the opinion and the advices of gallerists and experts and Guido Galimberti, chief executive and founder of Opera Art Advisory, is one of them.
The financial crisis has had ripercussions even on the art market stopping the speculations and the unjustified rises of the last years, but causing renowned victims at the auctions of last months in London and New York too.
Maybe the moment of lightening one’s artist-bill has arrived. With reference to this Guido Galimberti says: “Of course, second-rate works should be quickly sold off, even when they are signed by great masters. It is different for great quality evidences. In 2008, Opera has bought
paintings and sculptures for about 10 millions euros and nobody wants to sell not even to undersell. Next year we are going on with the policy of acquirements, betting especially on the Italian afterwar art. A few names? Fausto Melotti, Lucio Fontana, Gastone Novelli, Enrico Castellani, Agostino Bonalumi, Mimmo Rotella; but even the most undervalued Aldo Mondino, Emilio Isgrò, Getulio Alviani. Opera has an interest in the new generation too; as a matter of fact, we are following with attention Marco Perego, Velasco Vitali and Andrea Francolino.”

Libero Mercato

Possible growth, but just with big pieces

In this period of economic crisis, nourished even by psychological factors, the market pays a particular attention to all kind of signals.

There was such a great expectation for Milan’s auctions of modern and contemporary. After all art hold out, at least with respect to the others sectors.

In the article there is a short participation about Capogrossi by dr. Guido Galimberti who says: “In his research Capogrossi has brought farward even more valued masters. Moreover he is an author appreciated by the international market. This is why I think he has a fair margin of growth and he brings in more than his top of 300 thousand euros. With a specification: his important works will clearly grow because they are rather rare on the market. Instead, a lower revaluation is intended for his other works, the serial ones”.

Corriere della Sera

Winehouse killed… in a sculpture. Marco Perego’s work will be shown from friday at Half Gallery in New York

Amy Winehouse shot to death. Next to her, her murderer, the American writer William Burroughs. The fans of the queen of the soul shouldn’t be scared: it’s art. The scene described is represented in a sculpture and it is the result of the fantasy of an Italian artist: Marco Perego.

Libero Mercato

Vanessa Beecroft, is it just marketing?

Artissima opens today in Torino; it is one of the most important Italian art fairs for contemporary art, whose attention towards  new proposals and emergent or trained young artists is known.

Vanessa Beecroft is one of the most famous under 40 artists who exposes at the fair.
But although she is a celebrity, her works don’t increase their value. Some people say her success is the result of clever marketing operations, others state that her art has nothing else to say.

Besides, a young promise could be Laura Owens.

La Repubblica

1970 – 2008 Christo & Co. leave a mark once again. At Pac the heroes of Nouveau Réalisme

Thirty-eight years ago they astonished the city with their art provocations. Now they recall them with new works.

The  exhibition dedicated to the Nouveau Réalisme takes place in Milan until 1st February 2009.
The show, divided into monographic blocks, exhibits 150 works dating after the Seventies by artists such as Arman, César, Tinguely, Spoerri, Hains, Rotella, Villeglé, Christo, Jeanne Claude, Dufrene e Deschamps.