Meet 20 of the World's Most Innovative Art Collectors
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With so many new collectors populating the art world today, it no longer cuts it to simply know the up-and-coming artists and collect their work "deep." Increasingly, collectors are looking to set themselves apart either by collecting with a specific focus (see Peter Marino's Renaissance and baroque sculpture), by looking to a greater cause (see Leonardo DiCaprios taking his environmental activism to the auction block), or by turning yourself into a Renaissance woman of the arts (as per Maria Baibakova). And they're everywhere. Here are twenty of the world's most innovative collectors. [link]
With so many new collectors populating the art world today, it no longer cuts it to simply know the up-and-coming artists and collect their work "deep." Increasingly, collectors are looking to set themselves apart either by collecting with a specific focus (see Peter Marino's Renaissance and baroque sculpture), by looking to a greater cause (see Leonardo DiCaprios taking his environmental activism to the auction block), or by turning yourself into a Renaissance woman of the arts (as per Maria Baibakova). And they're everywhere. Here are twenty of the world's most innovative collectors. [link]
- Theo Danjuma - Nigerian collector has a thing for contemporary art
- Maria Baibakova - Contemporary artists such as Richard Prince, and Tracey Emin
- Peter Marino - Renaissance and baroque bronzes.
- Adrian Cheng - Chinese contemporary art
- Ingvild Goetz - Media art since the 1990s
- Robbie Antonio - Contemporary art and hopes to bring the Western idea of art collecting to the Philippines
- Victoria and David Beckham - Art by the YBAs around the theme of “love"
- Leonardo Dicaprio - Basquiat drawing, fossils and Golden-Era Hollywood movie posters
- David Walsh - Curios dedicated to death and sex including 151 sculptures of women's vulvas, racks of rotting cow carcasses, and the remains of a suicide bomber cast in chocolate
- Alan Lau - Art around the themes of text (like work by Xu Bing) and technology, such as works like Jon Rafman's Google Street View images
- Camilla Barella - Art that “does not cause a good and comfortable feeling, but on the contrary intrigues and disturbs me"
- Ralph DeLuca - Film posters: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane signed by Welles; the original 1931 Dracula poster, formerly owned by Nicholas Cage; and the original poster for Metropolis, which made headlines when DeLuca paid $1.2 million for it at auction
- Arthur de Ganay - Contemporary art, and mainly large-format photographs that grapple with landscape and architecture
- Luciano Benetton - Bringing some of that United Colors feel to the area of collecting from Aboriginal Australians to Inuit artists—and will include, by the end of 2015, over 10,000 artworks from over 80 countries
- Nicky and Robert Wilson - Jupiter Artland is a sculpture park set on 100 acres in Edinburgh.
- Ramin Salsali - 800 works by Middle Eastern artists
- Moises Cosio - Collecting for a handful of years, in 2010, he partly financed artist Pedro Reyes's Marxist puppet show and owns work by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes
- Pedro Barbosa - Young Brazilian artists including Jonathas de Andrade and Andre Komatsu to relatively new discoveries like Lebanese artist Rayyaane Tabet and more established names such as Tomas Saraceno, Olafur Eliasson, and Wolfgang Tillmans
- Christian Boros - Works by Olafur Eliasson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sarah Lucas, and Damien Hirst. Rather different from other collectors, Boros and his wife buy works in the year that they were created
- Monique and Max Burger - Euro-American, Indian to Asian art
- Joaquin Diez-Cascon - Emerging artists, Diez-Cascon once collected Spanish artists, but is now focusing on young artists all over the world who worked in the 1970s and 80s
