Brave New World: Meet the New Generation of Art Collectors Share
Young, ambitious, educated and wealthy, a new generation of art collectors is taking the art world by storm.
Snapping up more works than ever before, a new and sharp-eyed generation of buyers is taking risks on emerging names and investing heavily in blue-chip artists. Beyond potential financial gains, these ambitious, educated and wealthy young people are also drawn to the prospect of joining the exclusive club that is the art world.
“The growth has just been phenomenal,” says Charlotte Raybaud, head of evening sale, 20th-century and contemporary art at Phillips Hong Kong, of the number of young art aficionados entering the market. “It’s also undeniable that art has become a very valuable alternative investment. While you should always collect [based on] your passion, it’s hard to not pay attention to the big prices that are being achieved at auction and in galleries.”
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Pope.L s first solo show in London in more than a decade on view at Modern Art
Pope.L, Notations, Holes and Humour, Modern Art Bury Street, exhibition view, 15 July - 28 August 2021. Courtesy: the artist, Modern Art, London and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA. Photo: Tom Carter.
LONDON
.-Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of work by Pope.L entitled Notations, Holes and Humour. This is Pope.Ls first exhibition with Modern Art, and his first solo show in London in more than a decade.
Pope.Ls exhibition with Modern Art centres on his ongoing project, Skin Set, a constantly growing and shifting group of text-inflected works across many media that consider the construction of language, identity and stereotype as notation, hole and frequently absurdity and humour. The show, installed on both floors of the gallery, contains video, silkscreen, assemblage, floor pieces and paintings made between 2015 and 2021. On view are several medicine cabinets originally shown at t