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International Contemporary Art Bargains for the Fall Season

By ARTINFO

Published: October 8, 2008
A series of contemporary art bargains are marking this fall season, Artforum reports. Typically lucrative artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno have made a collaborative film, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006), which is now being sold for $13.47 by the German soccer fan magazine 11 Freunde. The film features French soccer player Zinedine Zidane playing for 93 minutes in a Real Madrid match against FC Villareal back in 2005; it is one of 11 soccer films in a boxed set.

The cities of Vienna and Graz, Austria, will be hosting art bargains of their own with “art supermarkets” showcasing contemporary art at fixed prices ranging from $60 to $400. The first of the two will begin in Graz in the old city arcade in the Herengasse on October 29 and last for ten weeks, with over two thousand works by fifty international artists. Peter Doujak organized the event, having already been in charge of Vienna’s art supermarket last year. The market in Vienna will follow Graz’s, running from November 12 until January 19, 2009. In addition, Vienna’s Künstlerhaus will present its ARTmART from November 18–23, in which young Viennese artists create works on site that can be purchased for around $100.

Damien Hirst’s work will also be on sale for low prices — for him, at least: Paris Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier is mounting an exhibition and sale of Hirst art priced from a mere $2,700 to $54,000 from October 4 to November 15. The works in the show, which are so significantly marked down from his usual draws at auction, are the artist’s entire oeuvre of engravings. The 50-odd prints and series of prints dating back to 1992 are being sold by an anonymous “German arts lover,” who has reportedly followed Hirst’s career from its beginning.

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