http://blog.independent-collectors.com An Experiment by Tommi Brem for Independent Collectors Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:58:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or: Gotta pop down to the photo lab, pick up an exhibition. David Horvitz wants to make “something that is personal to the viewer”. In this case, the something is called “For a Brief Time Only at a Location Near You” (--> Link) and the something is part of my small ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/11/26/here-is-this-show-that-is-local-to-you/ Or: What the hell, I'll answer anyway. Today I was given the book „Collecting contemporary art“, edited by Andrea Bellini and published by HAPAX and distributed by jrp/ringier (ISBN: 978-03764-015-9). It is a collection of interviews with collectors of contemporary art from around the world. Naturally, I have not been interviewed. That's ok. ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/11/21/if-you-ask-me/ Or: The promised pictures. Being completely relaxed at artforum Berlin (no intention or money to buy), I took the time taking some pictures which I'm usually not very fond of. But I figured with so much art out there I will never own but like nevertheless, I should start getting over ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/11/19/recap-from-artforum-berlin/ Or: Five months is not enough. At the gallery dinner hosted by Barbara Thumm (link) at art forum Berlin (just after the opening of the exhibition of a huge work by Fernando Bryce (link)), Barbara came over and said to me: „I have been thinking about you a lot since yesterday ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/11/02/youre-not-a-collector/ Or: The dinner that requires a speech. I have been collecting contemporary art now for almost five months. Which seems to be reason enough to ask me to hold a dinner speech about it at the first Independent Collectors dinner. Fearing that some of the guests will tap into the blog, ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/10/30/heavy-slides/ Or: This is about half an image. Let’s wrap it up already, shall we? Frieze has been over for me for a week now and I still haven’t gotten round to do this. So here it comes. London is hectic. As soon as I left the airplane and entered Heathrow, I could ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/10/23/1-image-1000-words/ Or: Crisis, what crisis? Upon entering frieze in London (link) yesterday, the first artwork I really looked at was "Avoid Safety" by Jonathan Monk (see below). A good message for the art fair with the financial world all in turmoil. (Actually a good message to everybody, apart from rock climbers, maybe.) ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/10/16/avoid-safety/ Or: Once you start it, you can't stop it. I know it's a local thing but since the exhibition "Flutung" by Luka Fineisen at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (link) has been recommended to me heavily by a fellow collector over at Independent Collectors and since my colleague here tells me that both ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/10/10/art-is-sticky/ Or: Art & Customs & Moving House. I know, I promised a nice blog post about my wife nearly getting arrested at customs. Well, she went to collect an item that was marked "gift" on the collecting sheet. How was she to know it would be an artwork I bought in ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/10/06/why-my-wife-still-likes-me/ Or: Stasis caused by over-stimulation. True, I’m not writing very often these days. But I have not stopped collecting art. No way, quite on the contrary. I’m still waiting for two packages from the USA containing the two works by Kozik I bought last week. In two weeks I will move into ... http://blog.independent-collectors.com/2008/09/19/uhm-im-stuck/