Blondey doing a collaboration with Gilbert and George makes complete sense, unlike when Supreme did it.
Yes, because they are one of his dad’s clients.
Source: Books Gallery | HENI Publishing
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Add a couple of impossibles and seethru shoes and hey presto you’ve got Blondey!
(Hey, nobody asked for my opinion, so here it is)
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They’re not, those are books about Gilbert and George, by people who aren’t Gilbert and/or George. It’s not like they went to Blondey’s dad with a manuscript and asked if they could make a book together.
It looks like a set photo from a 70s British comedy farce set in a shop/department store (Are You Being Served, Open All Hours and Mitchell and Webb’s piss take sketch of similar shows ‘Get Me Hennimore!’), with Blondey as the boss and they are the bungling staff.
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So how do you publish a book of their art? Surely his dad’s publishing company would have had to go to Gilbert and George or their representatives and get their permission and pay to use their artwork. One of the books is a catalogue for a recent retrospective of theirs. This all looks pretty official to me.
The Heni Gallery website lists them under the artists they work with (alongside Francis Bacon, whose art has also appeared on Thames boards and Damian Hirst who has collaborated with Blondey): HENI Artists — HENI works with world-leading artists and estates
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I really don’t mind how he gets these relationships but I am kind of playing devils advocate here because you’re so determined to prove the nepotistic connections are tenuous when they clearly aren’t.
From this article: Lines redrawn: how artists and auction houses are shaking things up with new ways of working together
‘Phillips was the “exhibition partner” for the show, while the paintings (priced between $100,000 and $1.3m) were available through HENI Primary, a recent addition to the HENI group through which artists sell works directly to collectors. HENI’s founder, the lawyer Joe Hage, manages Hirst alongside other living artists, including Peter Doig and Gerhard Richter.’
There’s clearly a direct connection between Blondeys dad and the artists themselves that facilitates these connections.
There’s nothing wrong with having the ability to make those connections, but there’s also no point pretending they don’t exist
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Artists have agents, who negotiate things like this. Neither the artist or the agent are Blondey’s dad’s ‘client’.
I don’t think it matters who signs the contracts and negotiates the deals they’re in the same sphere
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Alright, ‘client’ might be the wrong word. But they worked with Blondey’s dad’s company to produce these books. One of the books contain interviews with Gilbert and George. There’s clearly a transactional relationship there.
I interviewed Tony Hawk once, and I’ve yet to be invited to his house for dinner.
I bet you’d get an invite to dinner if your interview produced hundreds of millions in sales.
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Blondey’s dad (who seems very intelligent and interesting to be fair) has an interview with arch-wanker Jordan Peterson where he explains his role in the art business. If you start at the timestamp below you will miss most of Jordan’s bullshit.
This is such a rabbit hole, keeps on giving!
Heni appointed Tory MP Oliver Dowden, deputy Prime Minister and described as the “younger, less adequate version of Michael Fabricant” to an advisory position on £5k a month. I wonder if he advised Blondey?
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/221114/dowden_oliver.htm
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I don’t think Anyone is actually lambasting him here for using these connections he clearly has use of Builda, but they are options for him to explore even if he has to do legwork to connect the dots.
If I had them, i’d be sure to at least think about taking advantage of some.
He has a privilege and he’s using that. Saying that’s a bad thing is kinda moot at this point. If I even have an issue with this (in general) is that I find, to my taste at least, some ‘Art’ (in the broader sense) is being promoted more on connections than talent. There is some tepid shit out there.
Take what you want from that and weave some hate for Blondey in there if you wish. I don’t hate him or anything he does, he’s clearly intelligent, a nice dude probably self aware, I just don’t see much merit in much of his output… again, personal taste.
His dad seems like a very impressive person, driven, intelligent etc… You can see how in the shadow of someone like that you would have to give it a go, with all those opportunities if you didn’t try and do something you’d look like a bit of a dickhead.
Oliver Dowden tho.
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Oliver was in my class as school , he was the the absolute stereotypical wet drip swot.
Wasn’t very sociable with many in his year . He looked like he was constantly being spooked. So much so he got compared to one of the double take brothers from the Harry Enfield show .
How he became sports and culture minister is beyond me as he was never in any of the teams except cricket ( which barely got any games) and the only other “team” sports he played was tennis.
At lunch or breaks he would get his handkerchief out and lay it on the seat he was going to sit at . It was quite a spectacle to watch .
Boarding sheldon from big bang theory .
And he became the wet lettuce deputy PM
And this guy sat in my class at school.
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That’s amazing haha.
If we we met IRL (or we can count our forum acquaintance as legit) there’s 4 degrees of separation between dowd and 10 foot
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