The Revolving Doors of Contemporary Art

Driven by the cut-throat market that continues to heedlessly change whichever way it fancies, Giorgio Guglielmino's eye for the arts decidedly provides us with a new compendium of creators to watch, this time classifying each into categories that lets us know whether or not they'll stand the test of time.As the art world is gradually consumed by a new generation of ambitious artists, art collectors, curators, and gallery owners, the relationship between a work of art's quality and its price has become difficult to argue. With the rise of social media and new cultural practices, art procurement events have started to become a mere series of soirees for socialites, and everything truly valuable winds up lost in translation. Equal parts art criticism and artist directory, this book supplies us with succinct descriptions and well-chosen samples of these artists' works as Giorgio Guglielmino answers these important questions:Who is going up?Who is going (inexplicably) down?Who stands quietly but firmly on the side of the road?andWho is here to stay?