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collezionista

Collezionista Art Consultancy was founded in São Paulo in 2014. It advises private collectors, artists, and institutions, and creates content for courses with the commitment of cultivating local culture in a global context.






Mission

Collezionista's mission is to value global citizenship through the study and collection of contemporary art, and research on innovative topics, enabling collectors, artists, and institutions to be constantly present in the modern world.

 

Vision

Collezionista's vision is for a population engaged in collective action towards the realization of its leadership potential on the international stage. It advocates cultural decolonization, insofar as it aims at art freed from its usual environments, while it is guided by the recognition of local identities and global responsibility. To this end, it relies on interdisciplinarity and the meeting of humanities with exact sciences.



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Values

#Excellence #Interdisciplinarity #Syntony #Creativity #Reference #Plurality

 

About the founder / Education

___ completed a first-class degree in art history and history at the Open University in London ____ additional training in the history of the art market at the Sotheby’s Institute____ was a member of the President’s Club of the Sandler Institute for four years _____ and currently pursues an Executive Master and MBA degree in Cultural Leadership at the Royal Academy of Arts and Maastricht University ______

 

About the founder / Bio

Here you will find everything that you need to know about João Correia in fifteen images.

1977 I was born in a family intensively involved with the arts. My father offered prints to my mom when she was pregnant with me. Wasn’t that romantic? 1981 Therefore, it was natural and logical that I would do engravings or print engravings from others while still incredibly young. Precocious... 1990 What interested me the most, however, was the market. In Brazil, there were more talented people than dealers, and this situation encouraged me. Here is a painting that I reluctantly sold in 1990 (I would have liked to have kept it in my collection). 1995 I was a troublemaker (in fact, maybe I still am—that has not changed). So, I asked some artists to make me provocative clothes about the scandal involving Bill Clinton. Some teachers noticed the ambiguity between a flame and a vagina. 1998 Acting in the art market in São Paulo was not enough for my ambition. I moved to Paris, but my father and the artist Wesley Duke Lee persuaded me that London was where I should be. 2011 Thinking about life, I noticed that I’ve always had personal logos. Companies invest millions in logos. Why individuals, who face much deeper existential and identity issues, don’t have one? 1999 I met great artists such as Jesús Soto, Armando Morales, Carlos Cruz-Diez, David LaChapelle, Henry Cartier-Bresson, and Takashi Murakami and confirmed: they do not think about the world as other people do. I learned a lot. 2000 I moved to London without savings, contacts, or visas. But I had faith. In 2002, I invented a fundraising card game with images of paintings for sale. This game allowed me to raise funds to take my projects forward. 2003 At the end of the year, I became the director of Tambo Gallery, on Regent Street, a gallery with the mission of lending more visibility to modern Latin American art. We launched it with an exhibition of the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. 2005 The gallery had a short life as the building was sold, and I was curious to discover a different segment of the art market: high-value private sales. I worked in negotiations of paintings by Frida Kahlo (in the picture), Magritte, and Picasso. This activity continues whenever a great masterpiece comes up. 2020 Culture is a field of activity with the potential of improving the quality of universal human condition. However, the tools to navigate this field are precise. Some of Collezionista’s projects are designed to be this navigation tool and equip you to act more sensitively in a world that urgently needs help. In 2014, Melanie Gerlis, then columnist of The Art Newspaper (currently the art market columnist for the Financial Times), published a book about art investment. I was pleased to contribute as one of the sources. In 2013, there was a summit for private museum owners in London. It was a great experience to be in a room with forty of the most influential collectors of our time discussing the future of global culture and best collecting practices. In 2019, the Royal Academy of Arts in London decided to celebrate its 250th anniversary launching, in partnership with Maastricht University, a new MA for cultural leaders. I could not resist and joined it. Graduation is due to happen in late 2020. 2015 Above is a 1970 work by Julio Le Parc, which I acquired for a client for an excellent price. I love helping art collectors get better art for their money.













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Desenvolvido por Fábio Lopes