The Nomad Salon

01/12/2022

Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Romania)

I went to visit Ghenie's exhibition here in London at a commercial gallery in Mayfair. I've been a big fan of his work, so it was nice to see a large selection of his latest work in person.

Ghenie paints dark, disturbing canvases that weave together personal and collective memories related to the traumas of European history. In 2015, he represented Romania at the Venice Biennale and has enjoyed exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Tate Liverpool, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. At auction (secondary market), his work routinely commands seven-figure prices.

Auction Record: HK$81,060,000 ($10,326,444) for an oil on canvas painting titled "Pie Fight Interior 12" which sold at a Christie's auction earlier this year in Hong Kong.

Market Signals: Averages over the last 36 months
Medium: Painting
Yearly lots sold: 9
Sell-through rate: 85%
Sale price: $3M
Price over estimate: ↑ 9%

01/12/2022

Huguette Caland (1931-2019, Lebanese)

Caland was a Lebanese painter, sculptor and fashion designer known for her erotic abstract paintings and body landscapes.

Auction Record: £250,000 for an oil on canvas painting titled "Bribes de Corps" which sold in 2019 at a Christie's auction.

Market Signals :Averages over the last 36 months
Medium: Painting
Yearly lots sold: 3
Sell-through rate: 100%
Sale price: $97k
Price over estimate: ↑ 7%

29/11/2022

AI generated art 💗

"Gaudism - from Gaudi, is a project exploring aspects of Catalan Modernism at different scales and translating it into a contemporary minimalist expression of natural forms, focusing on the curves, the dynamism, the beyond fairytale aspect or fantastic feel that this movement generates."

29/11/2022

Barbara Kruger (b. 1945, USA)

“I try to make work that joins the seductions of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.” - Kruger

Highest Auction Record: $1,562,500

Market Signals: Averages over the last 36 months
Medium: Photography
Yearly lots sold: 4
Sell-through rate: 100%
Sale price: $491k
Price over estimate: ↑ 95%

26/11/2022

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22/11/2022

Studio Visit:

It’s always a pleasure of mine to be able to visit artist’s studios and get to know more about their practice.

Adriana is a multidisciplinary artist from Venezuela who is based here in London. You’ll be able to learn more about her in an interview I did with her and will publish soon. Stay tuned!

21/11/2022

is an artist that I’ve been following for awhile now and every time I see one of his paintings is always very satisfying. His color palette is one of my favorites 💗

19/11/2022

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Christina Quarles (b. 1985, USA) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice works to dismantle and question assumptions and ingrained beliefs surrounding identity and the human figure.

Quarles earned her MFA from Yale in 2016 and completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture the same year. Since then, she has exhibited at the Hammer Museum, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Hayward Gallery, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among other institutions. At auction, Quarles’s work has achieved between four and six figures.

MARKET SIGNALS
Averages over the last 36 months

Medium: Painting
Yearly lots sold: 4
Sell-through rate: 100%
Sale price: $988k
Price over estimate: ↑ 127%

21/10/2022

"I never stopped loving you"
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20/10/2022

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19/10/2022

1-54 African Art Fair London 2022 hosted 50 international exhibitors across 21 countries, with 16 galleries being from Africa. Over 130 artists were exhibited at this year’s fair. Here are my top 10 favorites!

London's 1-54 African Art Fair exhibited over 130 artists this year and I have chosen my top 10 artists. Find out who they are!

19/10/2022

Charlene Komuntale
(b.1991, Uganda)

One of my favorite artists at ✨

"I would like for my audience, especially black women, to see themselves in my work as I do and that there is beauty and strength in femininity. This also explains why I use a surrealism style of covering the subject's face with a box. I don't want the viewer to get lost in facial features or who she looked like but to see the truth in the message and themselves. The concept in each painting is to break post-truth, patriarchal narrates shaped by culture, religion and politics. The unapologetic message on the open box is an announcement of the state of mind of the black woman."