Matthew Slotover
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Matthew Slotover OBE (born 1968) is an English publisher and entrepreneur. He is co-publisher of Frieze and co-director of Frieze Art Fair with his business partner Amanda Sharp.
Life and career
Slotover attended St Paul's School, London and then went on to Oxford University.[citation needed] He first became interested in contemporary art after visiting the YBA art exhibition Modern Medicine, in 1990.[1]
Slotover's father, Robert Slotover manages classical musicians including the composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle; his mother Jill Slotover is a children's book editor. Matthew's maternal grandfather, Richard Kravitz was an American magazine publisher who introduced Esquire and DC Comics to the UK.[2]
Slotover launched Frieze in June 1991 with Tom Gidley as co-editor. The pilot issue featured the first ever magazine interview with Damien Hirst,[citation needed] with a detail of a Hirst butterfly painting on the cover. Amanda Sharp joined Frieze in July 1991. In 1999, he founded Counter Editions, a low-cost, high-volume edition company, with Carl Freedman and Neville Wakefield.[citation needed]
Slotover is chair of the South London Gallery board of trustees.[citation needed] In 2000, he was a judge on the Turner Prize.[citation needed] And in 1993, he curated a section of the Aperto at the Venice Biennale, which included Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw and Rirkrit Tiravanija.[citation needed]
Through Frieze, Slotover has published the books: What the Butler Saw - The Selected Writings of Stuart Morgan; All Tomorrow's Parties - Photographs of Andy Warhol’s Factory, by Billy Name; and Designed by Peter Saville, a retrospective of Saville's graphic design.
In 2009, Slotover received an honorary degree from University of the Arts London.[3][4]
In 2010, Slotover debated whether "art fairs are about money" with Louisa Buck, Matthew Collings, and Jasper Joffe for the motion and against the motion Norman Rosenthal, Richard Wentworth, Matthew Slotover.[5] Joffe claims that his criticisms of Frieze Art Fair led to his work being banned from the fair in 2010. Frieze replied that Resonance FM had hung a number of works, including Joffe's, against their agreement with the fair, and that to ensure a high quality level, artworks in the fair are included only via the galleries in the fair who are selected by the selection committee.[6]
In May 2011, Slotover and Sharp announced the launch of two new art fairs - Frieze New York, and Frieze Masters.[7][8]
In 2010, Slotover and Sharp were placed jointly at number 41 in the ArtReview "Power 100", a list of influential people in fine arts.[9]
Slotover and Sharp were both appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to the visual arts.[10]
References
- ^ Aida Edemariam (3 October 2009). "All the fun of the fair". The Guardian.
- ^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+FAIR+GAME%3B+In+two+weeks,+the+key+players+in+the+contemporary+art...-a0137282339
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Debate: Art Fairs Are About Money Not Art". Archived from the original on 4 January 2013.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Diary: Joffe's jokey picture falls flat with Frieze". The Independent. 12 October 2010.
- ^ "From Frieze to triptych". Financial Times.
- ^ Jonathan Jones (20 May 2011). "New Masters fair should end the classic art Frieze-out". The Guardian.
- ^ Site name. "Power 100 / Art Review".
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ "No. 60009". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2011. p. 12.
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