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When a collection no longer reflects your taste and concerns as you evolve into a sophisticated collector, what should you do with it? Are you ruining your credibility if you clean it up and resell? Collectors Talk with Amna Naqvi, Alain Servais, Tom Tandio. Moderated by Selina Ting
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We speak to Richard Koh about his own collection, now on show at the Private Museum in Singapore, as well as collecting in Southeast Asia and how to grow the regional art ecosystem.
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It was a surreal experience visiting the art collection of William Lim, a renowned architect known for his innovative and aesthetical designs. In the interview, William shares with us his collecting experiences and his observations of the Hong Kong contemporary art scene and collecting culture.
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The Brussels-based French collector Frédéric de Goldschmidt takes on the slightest Parisian snobbism. It was his openness in spirit and his “freshness” in the art world that allowed us to pose some of the “annoying” questions that most collectors wanted to avoid in an interview. “I was quick enough to distinguish what I would appreciate and what I was less convinced of. So it didn’t take me too long to make a purchase. I try to buy art with my instinct without spending too much time on research.”
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Mr. Pierre Pradié started collecting contemporary art, principally paintings, in 1995. His first acquisition: a Marc Desgrandchamp. It was the need of a meditative object that impelled him to go back home with nothing but a Desgrandchamp painting which has “marvellously accomplished its mission”. In the interview, Pierre Pradié talks with us about his ideas of collecting and his becoming of a collector.
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En art, l’idée du temps est devenue abstraite, elle existe à la fois dans l’esprit et dans la flânerie. En tant que collectionneur – avocat, Monsieur Pierre Pradié, est-il pris dans ce paradoxe? M. Pradié répond… il y a un effet du temps sur le regard porté sur l’œuvre ; sur sa perception ; un effet du temps passé aboutit à institutionnaliser le regard.
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Herman Daled, homme à la recherche intellectuelle et à la sensibilité innée, il cherche la connaissance dans la vie et voit la beauté dans la vérité. Il lâche ses émotions et se laisse perplexe. Homme de modestie et d’exigence, il se donne un rôle du post-scriptum tout en vivant sa vie comme l’un des plus…
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Herman Daled, a man of intellectual pursuit and innate sensibility, he seeks knowledge in life and sees beauty in truth. He lets go of his emotions and he allows himself moments of perplex. A man of modesty and exigency, he gives himself a footnote role while living his life as one of the most ardent supporters of conceptual art. Here is our interview with Herman Daled, the collector of objects of knowledge and experience.
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Housed in a renovated war-time building at Oud Vliegveld in Ostend (Belgium) is one of the finest collections in the world dedicated to post-conceptualist European and American art. Started in 1998, Mark Vanmoerkerke, a private equity and real-estate investor, has accumulated and reselected an impressive collection of over 1,000 pieces in less than 15 years.…
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