What art news and contributions did we deal with this week or did we notice it in particular? What were the most important topics? What may have heated up for the mind about? Here you can find out our very personal weekly review:
Art market & art trade: Collectors create their works of art out of the country
We have already reported Cultural Association Act Its introduction now shows an undesirable effect. In 2015, significantly more art was sold abroad. And much larger values are said to have been brought across the border.
After the approval of the Cultural Association of Culture Act by the Federal Council, German collectors, gallery owners, auction houses, museums around the art location Germany feared “Die Welt” in a contribution. "The law produces a new bureaucratic monster," criticized Robert Ketterer, owner and managing director of the Ketterer Art auction house in Munich.
In order to meet the requirements, hundreds, if not thousands of new civil servants, would have to be created in Germany. The regulation testifies to populism and overcome that believed.
Specifically, the amendment to the law stipulates, among other things, that pictures and paintings that are older than 75 years and have at least 300,000 euros are no longer allowed to leave Germany without export approval.
Art 2.0: With artificial intelligence into the future
The Berlin painter Roman Lipski has a new partner called "Air: Artificial Intelligence Roman" , reported the online edition of Arte. The machine was fed with the data from Lipski's pictures for months and now generates its own works of art with an algorithm. The artificial intelligence should not replace the painter, but should be his source of inspiration. Leonie Kathmann visited Roman Lipski and looked into the future of painting.
Photo editing: The Russian photo app Prisma transforms photos into works of art
This week, one app was particularly talking about the focus of photo editing: the Prisma . Futurezone reported on the hype about this innovative photo application for the cell phone .
The outstanding feature of Prisma is apparently-so it is promised to the users-that images can be transformed into works of art with a smartphone in no time without having to deal with processing filters and effects of apps such as Enlight, Photoshop or the onboard tools from Instagram. The almost 40 existing filters are based on the work of painters such as Roy Lichtenstein or Edvard Munch.
However, the makers get far -reaching rights in Privacy . The app took a closer look at the future zone.
Our project of the week: Ai Weiwei and his work of art from life vests
The Chinese and regime -critical artist Ai Weiwei again visualizes the refugee issue in his art. For example, beach goods of rescued refugees and a Chinese temple are the center of the exhibition "Translocation - Transformation" in Vienna.
From a distance, the 1005 used rescue vests that have left refugees on Greek beaches look like stylized water lilies. On a total of 201 floating rings, the strongly politically and socially committed artist has placed them in the park of the Vienna Castle Belvedere - in the form of a large "F". With this picture, which is supposed to express the despair of those affected, the Chinese concept artist advocates more humanity. "That tells so much About us ," he said at the opening of the exhibition "Translocation - Transformation" in Vienna.
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