a w5c3xw. a portion of the artist arts unveiled next to d. w. single a she's got is just a thought they will grade. he will be able to go hot. they start is one of the world's most consummate contemporary artists. one who gets to the heart of the very nature of painting. he has a remarkable ability to reinvent himself time and again over the decade he's been a photo realist and an abstract artist whose work fetch his record son's abstract

of bait and conduct 9 or 9 say she was sold to an art collector in 2015 for over $46000000.00 in risk of food, i always have the feeling that everything is botched. but on the other hand, yes, 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 like non fungible tokens? art 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, not soon on godaddy early this spring. a special room in the exhibition is devoted to the 2014 buick and out cycle vistas 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 mixed with nissan. of course, he has a long background in painting and imagery, so he is very aware of what a picture can express is also looking come. mm. citrus is of course i address issue that moved me. but political painter sounds

a bit. nicholas a soon pursue legacy from frank o. 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 as it's tomorrow. my main interest is to paint the eye from my position so i don't know that's difficult. the here is the freedom to do what i was gonna. who was a feel. krista is considered

a true gentleman, always a little reserved. his art should speak for itself. he feels at $91.00, his works re record price is on the art market itself and fish but said, but i feel he's a special case because he grew up on the national socialism was educated under socialism and then became successful on the capitalism with 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 a stereotypical question is also part of it. what were you thinking about? you can't think of anything because painting is a different full my thinking was get honda, they still was born in dresden. in 1932 the germans city was reduced to rubble 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 residence university of fine arts, but was rejected an intriguing footnote in the career of this internationally renowned artist a year later he applied again this time he was accepted. ready in dresden, we meet 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 as copier. that's why it's in token, after the 2nd documentary gratian to experimented with abstraction. but these works had to stay in the draw in communist east. germany 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 vista 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 like a mine shaft, it was an important community for him because of the live, the exchange cops. i it was a whole new world images, a media world, newspapers, magazines, calendar, palest,

let that he discovered it done through the and from which he created his own artistic world of it. which huffman, like many other artists in the 19 sixty's, krista 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 fact, i should get it. if i compare it with the newspaper, clipping, what he's done is turn a small printed image into a large picture chime. his painted image takes on a more photographic character just by the fact that it seems blurred, aimed out to focus on shop, to step bridge, to actually wanted to take photos with his painting. it was a time when people thought painting no, well, the played a role i speak, aka. painting has become superfluous. we have photography. we have thousands of millions of pictures. we don't eat painting a tool any more. and in this time,

rich to succeeded in asserting the importance of painting over photography to bop. now few other artists are as eager to experiment as gahan vista, his interest in arts potential is boundless. oh, for decades he has also worked with abstraction. these abstract works are the ones that sell an astronomical prices. anacortes and 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 past gen lighter has known for years.

good relationships are crucial in the art market. trust is a precious commodity. the work hundreds by annoyances father was privately owned for 40 years. gahan christa 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 and 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 its 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 10000000000, 500000 pounds,

and 10000000, 500011 1000000000. 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 someone prepared to hand over such a sum throughout his artistic career vista had strategically built his position in the market, established and was such as he already had a 3 galleries. and the 3 different gemini succeeds 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 in the school, was it soon yet 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'm gonna get out. 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 because they don't have enough time anymore to develop if they'll actually let themselves be influence too much by the slight dice doesn't fish, does work, has been photo realistic abstract. and he's even experimented with digital techniques to round his career. his work has taken unexpected turns. his art react to developments, and 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 sort of status. he has no other dispute. the fact that mister grew up in east germany under a very strict def political ideology, certainly played a role yet instead, here again, he was confronted with ideology. ari of terrorism was politically motivated, at least originally a politician. it came out of the student movement hamilton and wanted something, although it later evolved into pure political terrorism. i'm a to tap hopefully this into or even to, for fish and figured out onto these of this futility of both public and private ideologies. login this failure. if i all righty, you're lucky. this is confrontational with common hope off. no indeed. if

a which then also failed terribly lies at that for every wider than 2nd you've are creating the perpetrators who and the many victim it as a absolute offered. if you're not far the failure of ideology, i think, is what interested wish to you. leave lesson wilson is a side on from idiom he does is the scholars vista interest. yet had blister explores the wounds and scars of german history and his own family. to uncle hoodie and the ss 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, our cycle of works wish to rendered the 4 photographs with charcoal and oil paint on to 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 is found for those feet from ireland. the photos were taken by an inmate and smuggled out was huff. give me isabel, but they were very prairie edelmans are. doth yukon may count mon shaking his yet, but you can see something absolutely horrible was happening in the past soon when

he found these folks as he was a fascinated, fought and tried to capture them in paintings. not my lot to give them deeper morning, present and presence that done of august in thus the but he realized the painting can't achieve that crisis, can't achieve the shock and intensity of these are different photos in the books, nothing. and he started to abstractly paint over another undefined, the half finished image. he hasn't been abstract sort of a mime list as be a can now 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 lister 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 the process and cultural heritage foundation in berlin . that sucrose yard matuse the cycle has already been a topic of discussion world wide, causing quite a sensation. it was on a well chore. 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 a raised through carla 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 mala. ready for some 2 decades gearhart vista has been at the top of the international artist ranking cons to comp us. ready his position in 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 paint abstract painting $599.00, sold for over $46000000.00 as somebody scale. it's also a reality that at the moment, research later abstract pictures have a higher value than his early photo realistic looks. and this is strange and away because there are many nor the abstracts then 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. that's definitely the case. and that naturally appeals to many people, including some of those who are now collected, those he pay really high prices, the works of art that 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 tells can, krista 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 follow on to to who said, but it's also due to the fact that the strategies divide in some of his compositions are so unique and sought for vincent de isaac arctic sent on to belanger,

knock it off to vienna. christa's work has an extraordinary resonance. the be a canal cycle is set to get its own room in 2026 in the museum of the 20th century . currently being built at berlin's cool to reform there, the cycle will find its final home. this does isn't 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. oh, and if t's are a fad, but to others, that the future every days the 1st $5000.00 days apiece by the digital artist,

people wrote art history when it 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 ape yacht club became the status symbol for celebrities and 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 const, toddlers, durish and 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 voss. now. 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 is that an ah, for, and if these we 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 it says, 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 when to really capture the dynamics and the, the scale of all the digital possibilities. i think this medium is really the right one 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 hoss 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 in at t's 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. in 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 put or for a like in the form of a little house below where behind the so called web free point. oh, is a different kind of philosophy here. artist can upload the work for more than a little hearts or a like. 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 holland via 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 law, 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 when and the media inflate individual legs very strongly. so the art market itself and, and f t's in that's a very small percentage. he does that 5 percent sense at the some firms would tend, 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. 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. alex now often bought as an investment of whether you think that's good or not. finishing this, 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 gas hot arista. as for the rest of us, we can always stop by the museum. thank you very much. that said that the sedition of mont sundale see you again next time ah ah ah ah ah ah

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