On this RU-vid Channel 'Music & Moving Image Production' some of Arjanne Laan's feature lenght documentary films are presented. Mama Calle, Velo Negro, Sons of the Sea, The Forgery.
As well as the latest podcast & animation series 'Music as Weapon'. An ongoing project on musicians who fight for their music and a life in freedom.
She starts with Patricio Wang, who composed the filmmusic in many of Laan's documentaries. Wang had to leave Chile for the repressive Pinochet regime in the ’70’s. He went into exil in Europe. Wang is worried again, about nowadays Chili.
She spoke with Spanish Rapper Valtonyc, who very recently had to go into exil from Spain to Belgium.
The story of being banned for your music is a neverending story. With these illustrated podcasts Laan wants to investigate why repressive regimes are so afraid of music.
This Podcastseries is also available on SoundCloud
"There's no honesty in the art trade". This sentence from 23 minutes into the documentary says it all! It doesn't matter any more if an art work is beautiful and/or well executed. Only the original signatures of well known artists matter for many buyers - even if the painting itself is third-rate. Even great artist have produced a certain amount of sh.t. The truth is that many buyers aren't truly interested in great art. They want to buy autographs of famous artists, and it doesn't really matter on what kind of art work the coveted autograph has been put by the artist. Even a few lines on a dirty paper napkin can be sold for an exorbitant price, if Picasso has drawn the lines and signed the napkin 😉 It’s not at all surprising that intelligent forgers exploit this crazy situation.
I must admit there is something very exciting about copying an important artist's work, I still grin with satisfaction looking at a tiny Cezanne that I incorporated into one of my own paintings. As an amateur painter I am not looking to impress anyone but myself! It is lovely when a painting sells though, I can buy more paint and canvas.
@@bubbaclark4355The biggest criminals are the auction houses that sell them and charge a sellers commission and buyers commission which is when all is said and done around 30% on Artwork.
I have an endless admiration for forgers and an endless disdain for experts. Auction houses are complicit in passing 'forgeries' you only have to read the disclaimers in their catalogues to see it. People who know nothing about art yet 'invest' in art deserve to be swindled. I don't agree when the police said that forgers were failed artists because you have to sell through a gallery and it's a huge swindle with galleries only wanting high profile artists even if their work is sub standard.
Well said. I feel the anguish as an artist burdened with the actual ability to draw ! Checkout on RU-vid , "The Art Damien Hirst Stole". Its all you need to know really. Hwyl from Wales
TheFiown, I couldn't agree more with you! The international art market has degenerated into a circus of vanities, and it's not about beautiful works of art anymore but about making money, money, money, money. Even the most imperfect few throw-away squiggly lines on a napkin from an artist like Picasso can be sold for a huge amount of money, while other wonderful art works from less well known artists are ignored. And many so-called experts are vain and pompous, and very often no one is interested in exposing forgeries because it could ruin the reputation of experts and the investment of the buyers. This creates fertive soils for clever forgers, and very often I have to admire their intelligence, craftmanship and inventiveness - and many of them are gifted artists in their own right! There are many cases where exposed forgers are admired, and they are able to make a living with their own art works.
If you read the Van Meegeren affair where is tells of his selling Vermeers to a museum 'authenticated' by the greatest expert of the time, bought for millions back in the day. When it came out that the Vermeers were 'forgeries' the expert denied that they were as otherwise his expertise was gone. They were not sold as Vermeers but said to be Vermeers by the experts. When you see those paintings today you wonder how they could have been authenticated as such but the expert saw a way to become great. They even wanted to burn them as worthless!! Van Meegeren was finally not convicted but died soon after. Eric Hebborn, another 'forger' sold drawings that later appeared in famous Auction catalogues with high end provenance mysteriously! He was murdered in the streets of Rome and his killer never caught or even looked for. He was a threat to too many experts and galleries as he wrote two books on his 'forgeries' full of disdain for the experts. I have perhaps a 100 or more books on forgers, fakes, art theft etc, it's a passion of mine and great reading. For me a 'fake painting' doesn't exist, art is art.@@sabineb.5616
