International Contemporary Art Bargains for the Fall SeasonBy ARTINFO
Published: October 8, 2008
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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