I don’t consider the triangle gallery / critic
(curator) / Collector valid. Artists validation is done by the artists, museum
circuit, curators, critics, etc., and finally collectors, in that order and no
other.
The collecting is an obsession, it's a constant search
for a construction of a model of understanding the world through works of art.
It is a kind of new world, i.e., he reconstructs an understanding of history,
of their own position in the world through works of art that will bring to you.
The collector turns out to be the artists "compagnon de route", and are welcomed by the artists within
it, are respected and eventually become an integral part of the lives of
artists and art history.
The galleries have as fundamental concern historically
legitimized artists, who are their insurance while apart from that investment
are always cast into the fire, poor souls who do not know this, a number of new
artists who are burned time after time, without having thought about it before
and allowed to go on the siren song of the galleries in the hope of having an
opportunity to achieve fame, there is a logic of marketing of new products,
gallerists sitting at the door of the stairs of the Fine Arts Schools waiting
for them, make an exhibition and send them home again, waiting for the next.
The art fairs and biennials and the system itself are
prepared for it, for a very rapid rotation of names in order to feed a vicious
and voracious appetite for novelty by the art market, which is designed to
create added value, this is economy, has nothing to do with art.
