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Collecting the Ephemeral: How to Collect Performance?

By Regina de Con Cossío

Performance is one of the most complex art expressions in all senses. It is about experience, time and space. But how to preserve those moments that run like a breathe? Is it enough having a photo, a video or simply a paper to archive those experiences that set a trace on the memory?

We know it: collecting art is not simply about randomly gathering a bunch of art pieces, it is about supporting art but also preserve our history and memory. So here are some reflections about the difficult work that implies collecting performance art.

January 27, 2021

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Art Advisory, Curator's Journal, Investing in Art, New Collector, Opinion, The Provocation Column

The ABC of the Art Collector

By Regina de Con Cossío

The very essence of collecting is about assembling an array of objects through an act of love. The collector’s passion activates his / her search and, at the end of the day, his / her possessions. Within the artworld, the repertoire typically comprises painting, sculpture, antiques, photography. In an non philosophical way, it refers to objects.

Language is alway important regarding art. Since ever, the art world have built its own slang in order to create an identity, but also to communicate with each other in the midst of the dynamics art involves. That is way I offer you, as an art collector you are, a useful portable dictonary to be able to get involved with some key concepts when collecting art.

January 24, 2021

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Jeff Koons vs Banksy

By Julio Horta

In the art environment, some paths are drawn from opposite approaches. Jeff Koons (Pennsylvania, 1955) and Banksy (Yate, Gloucestershire, 1974) are two referents of contemporary art, each with different and defined work processes: for the first one, art is a consequence of the market, closely linked with the forms of advertising and with the dynamics of consumption. For the second one, aesthetic expression aims to criticize the political and institutional forms of society.

May 14, 2020

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Art Advisory, Collections, Investing in Art

Tips to value your art collection. Second part

By Sybaris Collection

Read the first 5 points in the following link: https://www.sybariscollection.com/tips-to-value-your-art-collection-first-part/

Do you like to collect art, but you don’t know what to buy or how to determine the value of the works that interest you? The current art market is extensive, as you can see when looking at some auction houses and galleries such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhambs, Phillips de Pury, Dorotheum and Balcils.

March 11, 2020

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Art Advisory, Collections, Investing in Art

Tips to value your art collection. First part

By Sybaris Collection

Do you like to collect art, but you don’t know what to buy or how to determine the value of the works that interest you? The current art market is extensive, as you can see when looking at some auction houses and galleries such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhambs, Phillips de Pury, Dorotheum and Balcils.

March 2, 2020

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Investing in Art, Museum Highlight, News

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Mexican Firm AIDIA Will be Responsible for the Design of a New Museum in the United Arab Emirates

By Sybaris Collection

February 19, 2020

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Investing in Art

Collecting the Ephemeral: How to Collect Performance?

The ABC of the Art Collector

Jeff Koons vs Banksy

Tips to value your art collection. Second part

Tips to value your art collection. First part

INTERVIEW AIDIA STUDIO

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