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Thursday, June 19, 2008

FABULOUS JEWELS FIND NEW HOME IN CYBERSPACE


An exhibition of sci-fi jewelry closed this week at the Villa De Bondt, the Art Deco paradise in the Belgian city of Ghent. Fans of the jewelry designer Bernard Francois were left begging for more, and so he announced a virtual museum then and there, available for anyone to access for free. This is not the first time that Bernard Francois has kicked against convention. Thirty years ago he set up his Neon Gallery, and treated visitors who came to view his jewelled creations like long-lost friends. And there were some astonishing creations for his new audience to view, where nanotechnology, cartoon strips and sci-fi collide head on with beauty and bling, and where plastic is just as important as precious metals. Now, in keeping with his sense of mischief and surprise, Bernard Francois has decided to exhibit his amazing Villa De Bondt collection not alongside other word-renowned jewellers but alongside ordinary members of the public.

His preferred global gallery is our CollectValue social network site, where he has found a new ally to champion his cause. Our Curator, Etienne Verbist says, “I took one look at his exhibition on our site and decided he must have his own online museum. Don’t get me wrong, I love people who use us to display their collections of say Barbie dolls and vintage motorbikes, but this man’s visionary jewelry looks like it was designed to be worn by future cyber-lady robots.”
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Friday, June 6, 2008

CRASH COURSE IN PLANE SAILING


An avid plane-spotter has been putting excellent images in the Aviation gallery of the CollectValue museum.
Nothing unusual about that, you may think. But alongside the embroidered flyers' patches and military choppers, his latest exhibition is a collection of plane crashes. Our spies tell us that the photographer is a banker based in Luxembourg, which may explain the expression on the face of the Boeing 747 as it poses for his camera. Read more ...

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

THIS IS NOT A BLOG


The only complete manuscripts of The Surrealist Manifesto have been sold at auction for the amazing value of five million dollars. This has enraged art historians and critics, but all you true surrealists will be delighted. The CollectValue Gazette certainly is. The Paris Museum of Letters and Manuscripts is now the proud owner of these papers from 1924, which represent the most influential documents in modern art. They are all signed by the founder of surrealism himself, Andre Breton.

Andre Breton completely rejected the whole idea of art having any lasting value at all, and he must be happily spinning in his grave at the absurdity of it all. His Surrealist Manifesto influenced the work of the most collectable artists of the 20th Century, including Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamps. Their artworks have all commanded huge sums of money for years, but now a printed manifesto by the Daddy Of Them All has achieved the same heady heights.
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