Allan Warburg, Collector, Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Ingar Dragset, Artist will discuss the importance of outdoor space art and sculpture as an artistic medium.
The talk will be moderated by Louisa Buck, British art critic and contemporary art correspondent for The Art Newspaper.
Allan Warburg is co-Founder and co-CEO of Bestseller Fashion Group China. It is an independent fashion retailer established in 1996 operating more than 7,500 stores in over 500 cities throughout China. Allan and his wife, Mei Warburg are owners of The Donum Estate, Sonoma, California, the award-winning Pinot Noir producer featuring a monumental sculpture collection. The Warburg’s have owned Donum since 2011.
Clare Lilley is Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, in 2014 named the UK Art Fund Museum of the Year. Her curated and published work with artists includes Ai Weiwei, Fiona Banner, Lucio Fontana, Damien Hirst, Amar Kanwar, KAWS, Kimsooja, Alfredo Jaar, Shirin Neshat, Giuseppe Penone, Sean Scully, Yinka Shonibare CBE, David Smith, James Turrell and Bill Viola. Since 2012 Clare has selected Frieze Sculpture in London’s Regent’s Park. She has written for numerous publishers and journals and contributes to conferences, panel discussions and art prizes worldwide. Clare sits on the Advisory Committee of the Government Art Collection, London, and on the boards of Site Gallery, Sheffield and Art UK, London. Clare has contributed an essay to the Donum Collection publication.
Elmgreen & Dragset have redefined the way in which art is presented and experienced. Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance and architecture, in their sculptures and installations the artists reconfigure the familiar with characteristic wit and subversive humour. From the transformation of New York City's Bohen Foundation into a 13th Street Subway Station in 2004, to the siting of a Prada boutique in a Texan desert in 2005, and the insertion of institutional spaces within the architecture of a public gallery, as in the Serpentine Gallery's critically acclaimed The Welfare Show in 2006, their work raises issues around social models and social spaces, and prompts a re-thinking of the status quo. In the autumn of 2019 (14 September 2019-5 January 2020), the Nasher Sculpture Center will present Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures, an exhibition that will mark the Scandinavian duo's first major museum presentation in the US.