Sale: 561 / Contemporary Day Sale, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 413


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Refik Anadol
Pacific Ocean B, 2022.
Video performance. AI based video in color. 384...
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000

 
$ 77,000 - 99,000

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Pacific Ocean B. 2022.
Video performance. AI based video in color. 3840 x 2160 pixels, sixteen-minute loop.
Includes a flash drive, a laser-engraved aluminum box and a mini PC.
From an edition of 5 copies, aside from 2 Artist's Proofs. Suitable for playback on a screen or via a projector. Dimensions are variable, playback in portrait format cm ( in).


• AI-generated, digital “data painting” by the acclaimed shooting star Refik Anadol.
• In the series "Pacific Ocean", AI transfers data from wind forecasts for the Pacific Ocean into an aesthetic video experience.
• In 2022, the Turkish-American artist enjoyed great public success with the technically comparable installation "Unsupervised - Machine Hallucinations" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Serpentine Gallery showed a major solo exhibition of the artist's work in early 2024
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Accompanied by a certificate issued by the Refik Anadol Studio and signed by the artist, Los Angeles, dated August 20, 2022.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the artist).

"Working with AI means that we are working with past data that we are experiencing now, but which has potential for the future. I call this state 'remembering the future.'"
Refik Anadol in an interview with Alex Estorick, 2023, online: www.rightclicksave.com/article/the-interview-refik-anadol-moma

Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 18.15 h +/- 20 min.

Ever since Refik Anadol's successful exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2022/23, the Istanbul-born, Turkish-American media artist has been celebrated as the new shooting star of the art world. For his so-called " Data Paintings", he feeds an artificial intelligence with different types of data, which then generates abstract, highly aesthetic video creations. For his work "Unsupervised - Machine Hallucinations" exhibited at MoMA, and the reason why he became world-famous overnight, he used the museum's more than 200 years of art and visual history as a starting point. The work was accompanied by the question: “What would a machine dream about after seeing the collection of The Museum of Modern Art?”. The work is now part of the museum's renowned collection.

For the "Pacific Ocean" series, Refik Anadol draws on data from wind forecasts of the Pacific Ocean and has his AI process them. The result is a 16-minute video loop in which fluid color formations in all imaginable shades of blue and turquoise move across the screen and evoke associations with wave movements or water vortices. Refik Anadol fascinates his audience not only with the extremely media-suitable aesthetics of his AI-based artworks, but also with his innovative use of future-oriented technologies. In an artistic way, he gives us an idea of how artificial intelligence is able to influence our perception of a wide range of topics and what capabilities are conceivable for the future in the creative field in addition to their previous areas of application in search engines or chatbots. [AR]



413
Refik Anadol
Pacific Ocean B, 2022.
Video performance. AI based video in color. 384...
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000

 
$ 77,000 - 99,000

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Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Refik Anadol "Pacific Ocean B"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.

Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.

Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium. As an exception, the reduced VAT of 7 % is added for printed books.

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Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.

The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.