Ingolv Helland's Shadow Box
This week we saw the Norwegian Ingolv Helland open his exhibit at the Waterhouse and Dodd gallery on Cork Street. Talking with the chap himself, we got a good impression of what he was trying to achieve without getting to distracted by his rich handlebar mustache and six foot something hight .
The paintings on display were created around Ingolv's Shadow box instillation, which allows the viewer to adjust a bank of knobs that change the colors within the Shadow Box creating an array of different moods and tones. I got a chance to play around on his mixing deck for a good twenty minutes and was totally immersed within the light sculpture.
The paintings that were on display were luminous in there appearance and create a space that falls in on its self and leaves the viewer lost within the dimensions of the painting. What I saw as doorways that kept on leading your eyes around corners and further and further into a light scape.
Ingolv Helland was born in 1974, he has developed an international reputation after exhibiting at the BP portrait Award and winning one of 60 places out of 1870 entries, earning himself a place on the cover of the catalogue and exhibition's poster with his portrait.
Having worked as a Bond Analyst after graduating at Amherst College and studying drawing at the Art Students League of New York in the evenings as well as practicing his art on the kitchen table of fellow artist and mentor Michael Aviono we are glad to see that his passion for the arts were firmly in check and didn't waver.
You can go and check out his exhibition at the Waterhouse & Dodd gallery at 26 Cork street until the 18th May. A Print will set you back About £600 and a Painting is up of £5000.
Also on at the Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery is an exhibition by George Folmer called "Phi" highlighting the extensive use of the Greek symbol in his work from the 1930 onwards. The exhibition offers a retrospective of paintings , sculpture and 'roto-peintures' from 1928-1968
Auctions
When trading Art at auctions we always think of the four main houses that dominate the public domain and media; Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonham's and Philip's. For all you wannabe Art dealers or collectors it is not always possible to secure the funds or have the knowhow of what will sell well privately or could be passed onto a gallery. To start collecting it might be best to start with the smaller Auctions and even look for art in other places, be it on the largest auction house in the world ebay or car boot sales at nine in the morning on a saturday. (??)
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| This piece was bought for £60 at a small Auction House outside of the M25 and Sold for £300 as part of a group of paintings at a Larger Auction House in London. Nice! |
Your best bet would be at a smaller auction house that has fine art sales along side general sales of furniture antiques and other militia that is also very interesting to look at and collect. The Key element of any of those paths is simply doing your research and being patient because it may take a while for you to find something worth spending £300 pounds on as a first time buyer and then finding someone who will sell it for you at a good priced reserve. This may involve going to previews and really look at the pieces you would potentially buy and find out as much as you can about the artist using the best tool in the world the Internet as well as looking over auction records which is your safest bet as to attaining how well the artist does and what prices similar pieces sell for, where they sell better and when this happened, because these are all factors that could effect the possibility of making a profit or simply buying a fake that wont ever go back to auction again.
If you are intending to start a collection and want to curate a group of paintings you also have to think about what type of art you want to go for and how your pieces compliment each other and think about wether it would be best to simply buy and trade one or two pieces at a time a keep the very special ones until you have a number worth presenting to a gallery or one of the Big Four.
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| JonOne Piece sold at auction that could potentially go for much more if put into the right sale. |
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| Woman and Horse going up for sale in Sweden at an estimate of EUR2000-EUR3000 may fetch up to USD20,000 as compared with other works sold in Hong Kong this year. |
Again, you need to look at what it is that you as a person want to achieve with the investment, be it collecting pieces that you really like and hold onto for a while before selling on, or approaching the whole game as a business and buying what would sell well and has the potential to get you as much money as possible over a short period of time. If done properly there in no reason why you could not start making money to invest in even bigger, more expensive painting, prints or sculptures and installations until you can leave your day job and start to travel around the world and turn a good profit.
Bought for £360 and only sold for £320 . Not so Nice.
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