NASHVILLE |DATE: DECEMBER 7, 2000
FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/LATHUM NELSON
BOWIE RELAUNCHES
BOWIEART.COM,
EXPOSING YOUNG ARTISTS ONLINE
David Bowie is up to his magical net tricks again with the re-launch of Bowieart.com. Launched in 1997 by Bowie and his dealer friend Kate Chertavian, the site was among the first art sites online.
After three years of financial and critical success, Bowie and Chertavian decided to work their charm on young blood. Bemoaning the lack of fresh talent online, Bowieart became excited about the possibility of exhibiting the best young artists in Britain alongside their successful colleagues.
What will sure to become considered a revolutionary and confrontational move in art world circles, Bowieart takes absolutely no commission from any sales made through its site. The usual practice among galleries is to deduct as much as 50% from the artist's purse on any sale of an artwork.
Bowieart's embrace of young blood is a fine example of Bowie's commitment to the arts. Currently 400 new works are on view, including the 2000 graduating students of the Royal College of Art and the artists run initiative, Assembly (ex RC and Goldsmith students). Bowieart is also thrilled to be introducing the New York Academy of Arts to the site in the very near future, with four more colleges both British and American to be announced before the end of the year. With all this talent in a non-commercial space, Bowieart allows the net's art enthusiasts direct access (both on and off line) to the talents of young artists. It will also include your new David Bowie print that is downloadable free from the site and prints by a selection of the graduate artists.
The re-launch of Bowieart is not surprising to those who know Bowie the arts enthusiast. Whether as an artist, collector, writer or patron, his involvement with Modern Painters, 21 Publishing and the ICA are just a few illustrations to of his dedication to furthering the cause of talent in the UK.
Once again Bowie produces a winner. Bowieart successfully cuts out the middleman, giving direct access to fresh talent. A refreshing reminder of how the net can be used to provide information and exposure to talented artists at the most important time in their careers.
Watch Bowieart in the coming months as more international Arts Institutions exhibit their students online. Bowieart.com is destined to become THE online resource site for fresh young artists, opinions and reviews.
DAVID BOWIE
SELECTED ART BIOGRAPHY 1994-2000
2000
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Sincerely Yours, Group show including Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Wood and Rachel Whiteread, 16 January-March 19
1999
Koln, Museum Ludwig, I Love New York – Crossover of Contemporary Arts, (Collaboration with Laurie Anderson). Artists included Aitkin, Long, Mori, Oursler and Stockholder, November 6, 1998-February 1, 1999
1998
London, Chisenhale Gallery, Roots; Sound and Art Installations, curated by Thurston Moore. Artists included Gavin Turk, Jon Tye, October 19-November 1.
Basle, Daniel Blaise Thorens Gallery, Group Show, October
1997
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, ICA 50th Anniversary Auction. Group auction including Appel, Bowie, Chapman, Chadwick, Christo, Hirst, Paolozzi, Riley, Smith, Turk, Viola, Wallinger, Whiteread, June 23
London, Royal College of Art, Milestones, January 21-February 16 (touring)
1996
London, Jibby Beane, Through the Looking Glass, December
Florence, Statione Leopolda, Biennale di Firenze, New Persona/New Universe, Artists included Chapmans, Mapplethorpe, Oursler, Rokeby, Sherman, Kiki Smith, Van Lamsweerde, September 21-December 15
Basle, Daniel Blaise Thorens Gallery, David Bowie, 25 May-7 July London, ICA, Incarcerated with Artaud and Genet, Installation, May 31-June 2
1995
Montreux, Montreux Jazz Festival, David Bowie – Paintings, Prints and Sculpture, July 7-22
Bristol, Arnolfini Gallery, Minky Manky, (collaboration with Damien July 17-30
London, Gallery in Cork Street, David Bowie – New Afro Pagan and Work, 1975-1995, April 18-29
1994
London, Berkeley Square Gallery, Minotaur Myths & Legends, November 17-December 3
COMMISSIONS
2000
London, National Portrait Gallery, Faces of the Century, (photographic selectors included Viviene Westwood, David Puttman, Trevor Phillips, John Sainsbury) October 22, 1999-January 30, 2000
1995
Montreux Jazz Festival Poster. Previous commissioned artists include David Hockney, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle and Keith Haring
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Florida, Jacksonville, Museum of Modern Art
Manchester, Whitworth Museum
London, Saatchi Collection
London, Virgin Music
Germany, Big Star Jeans Company
LITERATURE
V Magazine Premiere Issue, D. Bowie – Encounter with Michael Ray Charles. September 1999
Modern Painters, D. Bowie – Interview with Julian Schnabel – Painting the Veils of Time. Winter 1998
Interview Magazine, D. Bowie – Interview with Roy Lichtenstein, December 1997
Modern Painters, D. Bowie – Its Art Jim but as We Know It (Interview with Tracy Emin), Autumn 1997
Raygun: Out of Control, D. Bowie – The Closing Down: Interviews with Tony Oursler, Yoko Ono and Roy Lichtenstein, England, 1997 Booth Gibbons Editions.
Interview Magazine, D. Bowie – Jibby Beane the Art Machine, December 1996
Dazed and Confused, D. Bowie – Fashion: Turn to the Left Bowie in conversation with Alexander Mc Queen, December 1996
Telegraph, D. Bowie – Fashion Victims, Florence Biennale, 5 October 1996
Modern Painters, D. Bowie – Stop Press: Death Row Damien Delights, Summer 1996
The Independent, Death, passion and contradiction, by Bowie and Hirst, 15 June 1996
Evening Standard, D. Bowie – Bowie on Kossoff, 31 May 1996
Modern Painters, D. Bowie – Basquiat's Wave, Spring 1996
Q Magazine, D. Bowie – The Beautiful, It Won't Rap, She Won't Dance, Very Tricky Piece, October 1995
Modern Painters, D. Bowie – The Cleanest Work of All (Johannesburg Biennale), Summer 1995
Q Magazine, D. Bowie – The Diary of Nathan Adler (Text and Illustrations by D. Bowie), Winter 1994
Modern Painters, D. Bowie – Balthus the last legendary Painter, Autumn 1994
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