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Aesthetic Aspirations
Josh Baer
08/02/2004
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Tim Nye in front of Leonardo Drew’s Number 32N, 2003. |
Recently, Nye created a performance and
exhibition space called Foundation 2021. Here he collects and displays work by
emerging artists, affording him the pleasure of both acquiring and supporting
artists outside the traditional, commercial gallery system. “Foundation 2021 is
like an independent record label versus the major label,” Nye contends. “It’s
personal. It can react now to what I want to do quickly, be a spontaneous
salon.”
Aesthetic R&D
Although fine art devotees such as David and Danielle
Ganek say that, for them, collecting is a 52-week-a-year activity, even they
cannot accomplish their goals alone. Most serious collectors employ the art
world’s version of a research and development department, in the form of art
advisors. The Ganeks work with Sandy Heller, a New York-based private advisor,
who continues to develop the future of their collection and ferrets out the best
examples from sources around the globe. Marlies Hessel boasts all the contacts a
collector of her status could, yet she still engages New York’s Allan
Schwartzman, one of the most sought-after independent art advisors, to fine-tune
the remaining portions of her collection.
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