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of bait, fin funds at $0.99 was sold to an art collector in 2015 for over $46000000.00 in rescue food roughly, i always have the feeling that everything is botched is not on the other hand bank . guess it's better than others. that's usually how it goes with ah, what makes got christ as so extraordinary? why did he become one of the most expensive contemporary artists in the world and are established artists about to end up sideline by digital innovations? light, none fungible tokens out from veiled, follows the money on the international market.

get honda vista has just caused a small sensation in berlin by providing the german capital with a long term loan of 100 of his ard works. they went on display at the noise. that's when i got of the early this spring. a special room in the exhibition is devoted to the 2014 buick and now cycle raised his artistic examination based on photos of the darkest chapter in german history. the holocaust stuff. azusa approaches, his paintings in a very, very reflective and complex way. when nissan, of course has a long background in painting and imagery. so he is very aware of what a picture can express it. also looking come ah, so after city, just of course i address issues that moved me. but political painter sounds

a bit. nicholas. a soon like a different plan. oh, for decades gearhart vista has been one of the world's most important contemporary artists. his success is unparalleled. he's one of the greatest, the most expensive, the most famous artists of our time. we met him at one of his most recent public appearances in 2018 at an opening, where he took questions from journalists. expressing his creativity and words doesn't come easily to him. it's been often does. it's to mom, my main interest is to paint the high from my position so i don't know that's difficult. the here is the freedom to do what i was gonna. who was he feel?

krista is considered a true gentleman. always a little reserved, his art should speak for itself. he feels at 91. his works re record price is on the art market on his self and fish but say, but i feel he's a special case because he grew up on the national socialism. that was educated under socialism and then became successful under capitalism. he's a high so he does have a complex background. this is from the complex a chic did he admit things he knew from an early age that painting was what he wanted to do in my life. when talking about painting is not only very difficult, but perhaps even pointless. perhaps is stereotypical question is also part of it. what were you thinking about? you can't think of anything because painting is a different form, a thinking was get hot. they still was born in dresden in 1932 the german city was reduced to ronald during world war 2. in the years following

the war, germany was divided into east and west. president was in the heart of what was now communist east germany. in 1950 he applied to study at the residence university of fine arts, but was rejected and intriguing footnote in the career of this internationally renowned artist a year later he applied again this time he was accepted. ready ready and dresden, we made a long time friend of the artist deed my alga, is the director of the god of h to archive, and also wrote a biography of him. he explains why vista left communist east germany escaped. yeah, that's why i took him after the 2nd documentary gresh to experimented with abstraction. but these works had to stay in the draw in communist each gemini. he couldn't really show them all to and from this came the desire to continue this work in a different political situation without that being the decisive factor. so it

wasn't a political decision, but rather a decision for a different kind of oxalis, bye. and i child feel an endless const ah, mr. fled to the west in 1961. his later success is likely due to his unusual biography. few artists experienced both germany's. he made a conscious decision to go to duesseldorf. at the time it was a major hub of artists and collectors. he studied at the prestigious dusseldorf art academy meeting fellow artists, including sigma poca khan hard lu egg, and man said kutner. they created what was dubbed capitalist realism as a reaction to the socialist realism of the communist east. as far as, like a minecraft, it was an important community for him because of the live, the exchange cops. it was a whole new world images, a media world, newspapers, or magazines with helen to palest. let that he discovered it done through the and

from which he created his own artistic world of it shuffled. like many other artists in the 19 sixty's christian also processed western consumerism in his early work. he found inspiration and magazines fascinated by the interplay of reality and appearance. he painted photo realistic images, deliberately blurring them them as, as fact i schmidt it if i compare it with a newspaper, clipping, what he's done is turn a small printed image into a large pink child. his painted image takes on a more photographic character just by the fact that it seems blurred, aimed out to the focus on shop to mr. bridge to actually wanted to take photos with his painting. it was a time when people thought painting no let said a roll ice began, hunting has become superfluous. we have photography. we have thousands of millions

of pictures. we don't eat painting a tool anymore. and in this time, rich to succeeded in asserting the importance of painting over photography. so perhaps no few other artists are as eager to experiment. as gahan vista, his interest in arts potential is boundless o, for decades, he has also worked with abstraction. these abstract works are the ones that sell an astronomical prices. and of course, i just gentlemen, we move on to the extraordinary character, the 192 fabi. the 1st work in rick is expensive color child series. and the alt is very 1st abstract painting. the pre auction price for this piece was estimated at $16.00 to $20000000.00. what makes a single piece of work by a contemporary artist so valuable the work belonged to a collector's family. one that art expert bastion lighter has known for years. good

relationships are crucial in the art market. trust is a precious commodity. the work hundreds found 9 such father was privately owned. for 40 years, gahan pushed a created the peace in 1966 influenced by pop art and industrial color sample cards . this seminal work was also the basis for a stained glass window in the cologne cathedral, designed by a vista unveiled in 2007 is one of the german artists most popular works. i 12 bastion lighter attended the much anticipated auction. the fish to expert believes it's high estimated value was justified trying to sense, i mean, this is a very radical painting. it's the 1st abstract work he painted, right. and when you consider what he would do later on in life, the 1st abstract work is quite a groundbreaking statement. yeah, i'm saga. i'm going to saw the bidding here at 10000000, 500000 pounds,

and 10000000, 500011 1000000. 12000000 prompts 12000000, 500000 pounds. 13000000 pounds. 14000000 pounds. thank you. 50000000. 200 pounds. at 15000000. 700000. thank you very much. on the sat for 7 minutes, the painting went to an anonymous buyer. all said and done, it cost more than $20000000.00 us dollars. why is some one prepared to hand over such a sum throughout his artistic career vista had strategically built his position in the market. the addition was such as he already had a 3 galleries and the 3 different german cities by 960 fool guns. and it really took off from their cup suddenly and 1960 safe. he had a galleria, an exhibition in a gallery in venice. and in another italian city to that, so he positioned himself well, very early on, was it sonia pushed a knew how to market himself and how to win over gallery owners and collectors. legendary gallery owner mary anne goodman was instrumental in establishing him in

the u. s. market she introduced alleged her to the most influential collectors is i can pick it up. he had his own ideas and he wasn't influenced by trends. and i think that's the big problem to day. that sometimes artists just because they don't have enough time anymore to develop is they'll actually let themselves be influence too much by the slight guys vista's work has been photo realistic abstract. and he's even experimented with digital techniques. throughout his career, his work has taken unexpected turns. his art react to developments in society. provokes debate. for example, with his series of paintings on the activities and debts of the r, a. f terrorists, the red army faction, a left wing extremist group, and germany killed. 34 people from the 1970s to the early 19 nineties revealing deep cracks in west germany list,

his focus was less interested in the victims than in the perpetrators and approach that drew criticism for the status is really not a lucas. be it the fact that mr grew up in east germany under a very strict def political ideology, certainly played a role yet instead, yet again, he was confronted with ideology. ari of terrorism was politically motivated, at least originally fully tish. it came out of the student movement homelessness and wanted something, although it later evolved into pure political terrorism. and i to talk for leaders in tahoe im to fish and figured out onto these of this futility of public and private on your cheese login. this failure, if i all righty, you're lucky. this is confrontational with common hope,

awful and dizzy for which then also is failed. terribly lies at that for every wider than 2nd device, routing that her per traces and the many victim it as a absolute offered if you not far the failure of ideology, i think is what interested wish to your leave. lesson wilson is a side on one e d. o he does is the scholars. vista in plus, yet had pushed her, explores the wounds and scars of german history and his own family. to uncle hoodie and the s s next to aunt marianna, a victim of the nazi euthanasia. policy, the artist questions if it is possible to paint the horror of the holocaust in 2014, he again came across old photos that moved him deeply. they are the only known pictures taken secretly by prisoners of a special corpse burning unit in the outfits birkenau concentration camp. the basis

for the beacon ow cycle of works la vista rendered the 4 photographs with charcoal and oil paint on the 4 canvases, then gradually painted over them abstractly. working from july to september, 2014. with each layer, the painted template disappeared a little more until it was finally no longer visible. the paint covers, and yet the horror remains palpable, indelible beneath. ah ha, that's fun for those. the fly them. the photos were taken by an inmate and smuggled out yourself good reason, but they were very blurry. edelmans are doth, you can't make how much check if his yet, but you can see something absolutely horrible was happening in passing when he

found these photos, as he was a fascinated foot and tried to capture them in paintings. not my lot to give them deeper morning, present and presence that done, abigail in thus he but he realized that painting can't achieve that alcohol license, can't achieve the shock and intensity of these different photos in the books, nothing. and he started to abstractly paint over. there and find the half finished image. yes, it's been abstract sort of a mine. this does be a canal cycle, is one of his most seminal works. he reproduced the 4 paintings and several different forms, including an aluminum print for the high stock building in berlin. he sees the paintings as a way to engage in a conversation about what art can contribute to the culture of remembrance.

now, at over 90 years, old blister has given up large format painting and gifted the pieces to berlin on permanent loan. a legacy deliberately left not to his native city of dresden or his adopted home of cologne. but of the prussian cultural heritage foundation in berlin . he's at sucrose yard match. the cycle has already been a topic of discussion world wide, causing quite a sensation. it was on a world tour, you could see it in japan, america, many places. it makes a strong statement that these images are intolerable. they can't be shown artistically, at least not directly. they need to be erased through cala and abstraction. it's like a mirror, an invitation to the observer to reflect and to come to terms with the subject matter. so it's a very in testing concept,

a sort of commemorative space that makes you ask yourself, what can a painting convey and where are its limits as a medium from oliver. ready for some 2 decades get hot, vista has been at the top of the international artist ranking cons to compose his position and the art market consolidates his artistic value since the 1980s his works have been sold at staggering prices, especially the so called squeegee paintings. where he uses flexible perspex to distribute pain abstract painting, $599.00, sold for over $46000000.00. as somebody scale. it's also a reality that at the moment, which does later abstract pictures have a higher value than his early photo realistic looks. and this is strange and away, because there are many more of the abstracts than of the artists only works. but here it's current tastes which of course, play a big role back. in particular, it's the work from 986 onwards, which are of course, very,

very recognizable and have a very high aesthetic impact to feel that's definitely the case. and that naturally appeals to many people, including some of those who are now collecting those, he pay really high prices. the works of arts back are of course, often people who do not necessarily have the background, who are perhaps not so incredibly well versed in art history. nicholas because she falcon christa had plenty of time to develop as an artist. the pre digital age was far less fast paced than the 21st century. he had to give up the large format, squeegee paintings due to dwindling strength. but he still paints small formats to this day. i'm tired and the cost of the significance is the panoramic spectrum of his paintings, including the elements of chance and technicality with him. in so far it won't take you sir, but it's also due to the fact that the strategies divide in some of his compositions are so unique and sorts of other things. and the isaac artic sent on to belong in

aka doctor. we had glitched. his work has an extraordinary resonance. the buchanan cycle is said to get its own room in 2026 in the museum of the 20th century. currently, being built at berlin's go to a form there, the cycle will find its final home. chris does is the only work fetching sky high prices. the aunt market is dominated by big money and some of the aren't going under the hammer at the major auction houses doesn't even have a tangible form to some known fungible tokens all. and if tease are fed but to others, that the future every days the 1st $5000.00 days apiece by the digital artist people wrote art history

when an unexpectedly sold for $69000000.00 us dollars at christie's auction house. another highlight of the crypto art craze was the board ab yacht club buyers of n f t monkeys also got access to exclusive events. in no time, the board 8 yacht club became the status symbol for celebrities in 2021. at the height of the hype, one of the pieces was traded for more than $2000000.00 us dollars. in 2022 similar works of art even made it into museums. the constant hazardous in switzerland hosted a comprehensive show covering the emerging crypto art scene. one person who knows his way around this new world of nf t's is german digital artist manuel hall sna. he expanded the exit in to include

a virtual reality of his own creation. let's start with the basics. what exactly is an empty though, or how to start in? ah, for enough to have to understand the blocking. and that's a lot of computers in that store. the same kind of information. and because there are so many and you can't just go there and change some information because the others will notice. and by that you don't need some person to check all of that. that's happening automatically. and. and now instead of only are such a string money transaction, so who owns what? you can also at an end of t, which means that der so called wallet that you own is registered on the block chain and attests. you own this. so called token. why is this so revolutionary? because everything can be certified with it,

it's the digitized form of an asset. this wasn't possible before digital art and files could be copied. the term in f t comes from the world of crypto currencies, and that's where many new art collectors come from. they trade in crypto currency and have become wealthy and digital spaces for the art market. this technology is a revolution. prices formerly secret are now posted publicly on websites as well as who bought what and went to really capture the dynamics and der, the scale of all the digital possibilities. i think this medium is really the right one. um and being able to interact with collectors in this way is something new and something very powerful and helpful for digital artist. of course, artists like manuel horse now are suddenly earning money with their digital art. he's now a prime mover on the german crypto art market. and has created his own museum for his n f t collection. virtually, of course, his works can be seen in international exhibitions. trading and empties has been

a global phenomenon for around 3 years. despite the extreme price fluctuations of crypto currencies. they are seen as a revolutionary opportunity to change the global art market. global participation is the, in the past only well established institutions were in control. market outsiders couldn't break in the experience of latin american artists shows how this is changing. our next stop is columbia. and moonlighting, john is the pinch days. well, there are millions of people who create to cultural products who want to sell their work, their cultural property, but who simply upload it to network, such as instagram program would offer alike in the form of a little house below where behind the so called web free point oh is a different kind of philosophy here. office can upload the work for more than it from hans or unlike here they might get a dollar, you know, to $10000.00 or even

a $1000000.00. so this allows artists to manage themselves without a gallery, as an intermediary, especially in countries like colombia, this is a real opportunity since crypto currencies are recognized by the state bank as an official means of payment. during the pandemic, many artists in the country began posting and marketing their works and virtual spaces. however, the height may have run its course. many crypto currencies have crashed, which has also affected the n f t trade, but not brought it to a standstill. back to germany, here, some berlin gallery owners are showing a cautious openness to the n f t market. berlin gallery, nagel. docs la has opened the crypto kiosk, crypto artists are exhibited here, but it's not their main focus, and they advise collectors to be conscious it's the sat finish. he left, it said they did the gamble, equilla it,

speculation one and the media inflate individual legs very strongly. so the art market itself and, and f please, in that for very small percentage heat is that 5 percent chance at the some firms would send ah instability in crypto currency markets has dampened the frenzy and damaged confidence in the new market. but there is still potential in venturing into the metaphors and, but the big bucks are still made with time tested masters at the established institutions and future. there are now many new players in the market. the market is relatively stable outs now often bought as an investment of whether you think that's good or not. i wonder if it's an issue, but i the very young artist, boards, old people return to positions that have proved that was in the market to artists who have already passed the historical tests, so to speak, an artist like you fish, doc, investing in art can be a profitable undertaking for those who can drum up the millions for works by the

likes of gahan vista. as for the rest of us, we can always stop by the museum. thank you very much. that's it for this edition of mont sundale. see you again next time ah ah, ah ah ah ah

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