Dead Darlings Rotterdam
4, 5 & 6 February @ Foundation B.a.d. & De Zwarte Ruyter
About Dead Darlings:
Dead Darlings is an anonymous and subversive auction series that started in Amsterdam in 2005. This is the first edition that will take place in Rotterdam and is a collaboration between Dead Darlings and De Zwarte Ruyter.
By tradition, all the lots will be introduced by title only. The contributing artists will be listed on our website, but will not be revealed in connection to the work until the sale is final.
By keeping the auctioned work anonymous we want to take pressure off the names, and give the works the opportunity to stand on their own.
Dead Darlings are works that have lost their relevance to the final work of an artist, but have remained relevant to him or her, because of their meaning during the course of their making. They are the innocent victims of the artistic process, and we want to give them a chance to be liberated from that context and appreciated for the qualities they display as singular autonomous entities.
Rules & guidelines:
· Entrance is free
· Bidding is open to all
· Payments in cash only
The theme for this fifth edition is ‘Masterpiece’, with each auction we attempt to come up with a theme that explores a different aspect of why a darling may have been killed. In the case of the masterpiece the focus is on works that have a latent quality, but one that never made sense within the context they were created.
Most artists strive to make a perfect artwork, something that they think is the best artwork they have ever made or that ever has been made by any dead or living artist, an artwork they want to let the whole world know about, something that says it all, a milestone in their career, a-once-in-a-lifetime creation; ‘Masterpiece’!
These are the works that we have put out a call for... A theme that finally gives the artists a chance to exhume some of those works that lay in waiting, tucked away in the attic...