Carl Freedman (born 1965) is the founder of Counter Gallery. He previously worked as a curator and writer, who worked with Damien Hirst to help pioneer the Britart phenomenon. He was a partner of Tracey Emin for three years. A curator of a cultural heritage institution (e. ... The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991) Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the leading artist of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... Young British Artists is the name given to a collective of United Kingdom. ... Front cover of Tracey Emins memoir, Strangeland, published in 2005. ...

Life and work

Freedman and Damien Hirst had been friends in Leeds before Hirst moved to London. Following Damien Hirst's seminal 1988 show Freeze, Freedman, with Billee Sellman, curated two influential "warehouse" shows in 1990, Modern Medicine and Gambler, in a Bermondsey former factory they designated Building One. To stage Modern Medicine they succeeded in raising £1,000 sponsorships from artworld figures including Charles Saatchi. Freedman has spoken about the self-fulfilling prophecy these sponsors helped to create. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991) Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the leading artist of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... For other uses, see Leeds (disambiguation). ... The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991) Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the leading artist of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... Freeze was the title of an art exhibition organised by Damien Hirst and other students from Goldsmiths College. ... Charles Saatchi Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943), is the founder of the global advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi, which was the worlds biggest before he and his brother Maurice were forced to leave, and formed M&C Saatchi. ...

Saatchi arrived at Gambler in a green Bentley and, according to Freedman, was immediately impressed by (and then bought) Hirst's first major "animal" installation, A Thousand Years, consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head.^[1] (The installation was later a notable feature of the Sensation exhibition.) At this early stage, Freedman was financing the production of Hirst's vitrines, and has commented that not many people attended these early shows, including Freeze. Sensation was a notorious exhibition of Young British Artists which took place in 1997 (18 September-28 December) at the Royal Academy of Art in London and later toured to Berlin and New York. ...

In 1994 he toured the US with Emin, driving in a Cadillac from San Francisco to New York, making stops en route where she gave readings from her autobiographical book Exploration of the Soul to finance the trip. En route they "belly surfed" in San Diego and watched bears in Big Sur.

The couple also spent time by the sea in Whitstable together, using the beachut, which she uprooted and turned into art in 1999 with the title The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here, and which was destroyed (along with her "tent") in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire. Whitstable is a town in Kent, England with a population of 30,000. ... Momart is a British company specialising in the storage, transportation, and installation of works of art. ...

In 1995 he curated the show Minky Manky at the South London Gallery. At the time Emin was relatively unknown. Freedman, concerned that he would be accused of nepotism, challenged Emin to make a great work. The result was Emin's famous "tent" Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, which was first exhibited in the show. Freedman's interview with her appears in the catalogue. Other featured artists were Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw, Gilbert & George, Critical Décor and Stephen Pippin. Freedman said one of the show's themes was: The South London Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Peckham, south London. ... Sarah Lucas (born 1962 in London, England) is an artist who came to prominence as one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) in the 1990s. ... Snowman, 1996, Museum of Modern Art. ... The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991) Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the leading artist of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... Mat Collishaw (born 1966) is a wanker. ... Gilbert Proesch (born in Italy September 11, 1943) and George Passmore (born in England January 8, 1942), better known as Gilbert & George, are artists. ...

the artist as a subject, and (to) explore the relationship between the art on the wall and its creator, to make the whole thing more humanistic. And in there somewhere there is the beginnings of a thesis on the relationship and similarities between madness and modernism, for example, defiance of authority, nihilism, examples of extreme relativism, strange transformations of the self, irrationality, and things like that.^[2]

Minky Manky also went to the Arnolfini gallery, Bristol. The Arnolfini from Peros Bridge. ...

As interest in the YBA's reached a peak in 1996-7, Freedman was a regular writer for The Guardian. In 2000 he started the business Counter Editions with Matthew Slotover, publisher of Frieze magazine, (Slotover has since left) to sell prints online by artists such as Jake and Dinos Chapman, Emin and Rachel Whiteread. In 2003 he opened the Counter Gallery in Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, East London to sell original works. The launch was attended by Emin, Hume, Gavin Turk, Rachel Whiteread, Gillian Wearing and the Chapman brothers. The opening show had works by Simon Martin, an art lecturer and YBA contemporary.^[1] Since then the gallery has continued to grant solo shows to its artists, including Peter Peri, Gareth McConnell, Michael Fullerton, Armando Andrade Tudela, Fergal Stapleton and Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, holding around seven exhibitions a year. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... Frieze is an annual international contemporary art fair held in October in Londons Regents Park. ... Frieze is an annual international contemporary art fair held in October in Londons Regents Park. ... Counter Gallery is a contemporary art gallery situated in Shoreditch, East London, founded by Carl Freedman in 2003. ... Shoreditch Town Hall Shoreditch is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. ... Gavin Turk (born 1967) is a British artist. ... Rachel Whiteread CBE (born 1963) is a British artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts, and first woman to win the Turner Prize. ... Gillian Wearing (born 1963) is an English artist. ... Jake Chapman (born 1966) and Dinos Chapman (born 1962) are brothers and British artists who work almost exclusively in collaboration with each other. ... Simon Martin (born Cheshire, England 1965) is an artist living and working in London. ... Peter Peri (b. ... Gareth McConnell (b. ... Michael Fullerton (b. ... Armando Andrade Tudela (b. ... Fergal Stapleton (b. ... Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez (born 1974, Costa Rica) is an artist living and working in London. ...

See also

• Young British Artists

Young British Artists or YBAs is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most (though not all) of whom attended Goldsmiths College in London. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Market News:Counter", The Daily Telegraph, 17 March 2003 Retrieved April 2, 2006
2. ^ "Do You Want to Be in My Gang", Liz Ellis, February 2, 1997 Retrieved April 2, 2006

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External links

• Counter Gallery
• Counter Editions