Budget en verzamelen 2

Feit: in mei ga ik het restant van mijn budget opmaken.

Ik ben u bezig om te preciseren welke kansen ik wil grijpen.

1. Carla van de Puttelaar Eigenlijk heb ik al besloten om een foto van haar te kopen, maar zolang ik hem nog niet heb gekocht zijn alle mogelijkheden open.
2. Liselotte Schuppers. Maandag heb ik haar thuis bezocht en twee foto's geselcteerd uit serie Anoniem. (Superman en Gladiator) Ze heeft me een goed aanbod gedaan.
3. Nicky Onderwater: Ik heb haar gemeeld voor een prijsopgave. De prijzen zijn stevig maar niet onredelijk, ze ad korting voor afdrukken die ze al gemaakt voor een tentonstelling. Het is moelijk kiezen uit haar werk.
4.Boukje Janssen: zij heeft een groepstentoonstelling "...Expectations" tijdens ArtAnsterdam met onbekend werk.
5. Enige andere kunstenaar op ArtAmsterdam die ik mogelijk tegenkom
6. Janneke Sprenkels: zij zal aanwezig zijn tijdens de Art & design sale in het Tac. Zij weet het niet, maar ze heeft een troef, één van haar werken staat op mijn want list.
7. Marleen v/d Heuvel and Liselotte de Groot zullen ook op de Art & design sale in het TAC zijn Maar geen troeven hier.
8. Andere kunstaars op de Art & design sale.
9. Merel van Beukering zal niet aanwezig zijn in het Tac maar ik heb contact met haar over een paar werken.
10. Afgelopen vrijdag heb ik nog meer mogelijkheden gevonden die ik domderdag nog niet kende. Om verwarring te vermijden laat ik deze even zitten.

Ik zal nog heel wat moeten trechteren.. .

Om de puzzel iets interessanter te maken :
elke kunstenaar heb ik het porijsberiek geven van het werk dat ik goed vind. Alle prijzen zijn in euro's. De rangorde is niet geheel random. Met een beetke kennis kan je de code kraken en decijfers met de letters verbinden.

a 2250 tot 4950 (ik wil er één)
b 850 tot 1500 (Ik wil er twee)
c 550 tot 975 (Ik wil er twee)
d schatting 300 tot 4000 (ik wil er minimaal één)
e schatting 200 tot 100000 (ik wil er minimaal één)
f 55 tot 425 (ik wil er minimaal één
g 100 to 200 (schatting)(ik wil er minimaal één
h onbekend normaal onder 100 (ik wil er minimaal één
i schatting 750 (Ik wil er twee)
j 85 tot 495 (Ik wil er twee)

Totaal is dit ongeveer 16000 euro. (Ik heb de vrijheid genomen om onwaarschijnlijk aankopen te verwijderen om een realistische som te verkrijgen.)

Van dat bedrag kan ik de betaling voor ongeveer 6000 euro uitstellen naar later jaren.(Ik weet dat er iets te regelen valt met galerieën) Dus dan houd ik 10000 euro over voor dit jaar. Mijn resterend budget is ongeveer 3000 euro.

Ik zal dus nog heel wat moeten trechteren.. .

Hoe ga ik kiezen: ten eerste ga ik naar ArtAmsterdan het Tac en de tentoonstelling Expectations. Dan zal ik beslissen.

Ik heb de neiging om meer high end en duurder werk te kopen (bijv. #1,2,4) Maar dat gaat wel ten kostte van vele goedkopere werken.
Niemand weet wat het wordt.

Ik beëindig dit bericht met de eerste foto die ik van Marije Arends kocht in 2005. In het vorige bericht liet ik de drie werken zien die ik als laatste van haar kocht.

budget and collecting

Collecting is choosing. Every budget is limited, so is mine. May is the month I usually spend the most money on art. This has two main reasons. The second is ArtAmsterdam, that is the biggest art fair in the Netherlands. It's mainly Dutch but it has a sturdy international component. Quality is high, some art is within my budget. The last two times I bought art and I never intended too when I went.

The first reason is the art and design sale in the Tac in Eindhoven. That's the place I started to buy art in such quantities I started collecting. Since the first time year it's kept I go and buy. This year won't be different.
Janneke Sprenkels will be there and probably Marleen v/d Heuvel or Matthijs v/d Kerkhof. Merel van Beukering and Liselotte de Groot (both on my watch list) might be there as well.
Tac is short for Temporary Art Centre. It's situated in an old Philips building. (For the Football fans: the Philips stadium, home base for PSV,is right across the street. Philips was founded in Eindhoven.) Tac is meant for creating art. There are dozens of ateliers in the building and a small dozen of multi purpose spaces. Exhibitions parties, workshops and the Art and design sale are held here. Many artists from my buy or watch list will be there so I will leave Eindhoven with a trunk full of art and ann empty wallet.

That's the easy part. There are however artists who are high on my watch list, but I'm sure I won't meet on ArtAmsterdam or in the Tac. So I'm helping faith a little bit. I e-mailed Liselotte Schuppers for a price query on the photography and I will go tomorrow to an exhibition from Liesje Reijskens in Amsterdam. Next to this I received lists from gallery Aeroplastics for Amanda Besl and Shadi Ghadirian.

The problem gets obvious far too many artists and works and not enough budget. To make things worse I've already decided to buy one large work from Carla van de Puttelaar. My biggest buy ever considering size (205 x 78 cm) and price (twice the amount from my second largest buy.) Although I will pay this in 36 months it still creates a gap in my budget.

I alomst forgot the works from Boukje Janssen which came back from New York but are stuck now at customs.

So this month it's decision time.

The least likely to buy this year is the work from Amanda Besl.
She makes paintings on small panels depicting adolescent girls.
To compensate here her picture "a beautiful moustache"



Artist's Statement of Amanda Besl:

In my recent work I try to evoke an open-ended fiction while speaking of the documentary quality of photography, the language of fashion photography, the viscosity of oil paint, and the transient nature of memory. My paintings emerge from a cultural feminine perspective, exploring the complexities of an aesthetic that fetishizes youth. The images are a string of metaphors that build series of events. The paintings are small in size in order to allow a more intimate viewing experience and to recall their history as photographic images. They pop from the wall off beveled edges to create a staccato rhythm of frozen suggestive moments. My pieces are cinematic in nature. I link seemingly unrelated sensory images which inform each other as narrative moments. The subject matter balances on the fine line between the mundane and the obscure. To view these paintings is to partake in a visual eavesdropping on the secretive world that engulfs today's girl.

I focus upon metaphors of the transient nature of adolescence. Horses act as a suggestive counterpart in paintings which are mostly devoid of human males. The fetishistic quality of these pocket-sized worlds emphasizes the idea of obsessive crushes. I am interested in heroic transformations of ordinary events which exist both as dark psychological secrets and as adult fairy tales supplanting their predecessors. These paintings are not nostalgic, except as personal nostalgia. They are not apologetic or hedonistic and have any number of possible endings or possibly no ending—just a pause, a breath.

Collecting

Most of my art I bought on intuition. But I was soon aware that buying art from the same artists added value to my collection. (Although I wasn't aware I was collecting) That's why I sometimes bought works, which I would never have bought if they were single. The body of works of an artist sometimes demands to buy it too. This work is from Janneke Sprenkels from whom I own a lot of works. I wouldn't have bought it If wasn't part of the body of works. But now I own and sometimes display it. I've started to appreciate it more and more. Have a look for yourself and you could perhaps compare it with "feeling blue"

Catalogue (wip 1)

The more and longer I'm collecting the more and more I'm wondering what or who am I collecting.

I thought I was collecting artists. However I seem to be collecting a plethora of different works and styles. I really thought I was trying to collect in depth. But that doesn't seem to be true.

Trying to grasp the meaning out of those works I'm starting to catalogue them. First step is to get to know all the names of the artists I've collected so far.
Today I had found 36 people I collected work from. I was really amazed by the huge amount I thought it to be 20 to 25 but there seem to be more than 40.

There are at least 4 more which I haven't identified yet.
I will continue to search and gradually I will start cataloguing the works themselves.
How many works of art I own I don't know but my estimate is 93.

Most artists I have only one work from. Janneke Sprenkels is a huge exception. I own more than 10 works from her.
Below you see "Feeling Blue"

My first art collection

Once upon a time I collected stickers together with my sister. Later on I collected footballpictures, sugarbags, chess clippings and finally books.

Now I'm collecting art. More than ten years ago I bought my first painting. That was in a second hand book shop offcourse. I actually han't been to any gallery or art fair. I wasn't really aware those existed. The painting was a nude with incredible long legs lying on a beet red couch with a dark blue wall behind it. I had become an art buyer.
Two years ago I had several dozens of art works and more art than walls. I had become an art collector. Realising this I had to make the next step. What art am I really collecting?

In this Blog I'm searching the answer to this question. I don't know the answer yet. But I'm going to find out.

(The picture is from Janneke Sprenkels. It's called Sunday Afternoon. I own a copy of it. )