Spaghetti Handshakes, Topless Cellists, John Lennon and Me
The Scotsman › January 17, 2006
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ACURRY-STAINED apron? A small white plastic box with a mirror inside? A 35-year-old piece of decaying banana? Or original art works by George Maciunas, Yoko Ono and Dieter Roth? In the world of avant-garde art, one person's trash can be another person's treasure.
These items are just a few examples of those collected by Edinburgh-based art dealer Paul Robertson, who seeks them out all over the world. Having run his business, Heart Fine Art, on the internet for the six years, he has decided to showcase his unique collection of 20th-century art in a new city-centre gallery.See the full content of this document
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Spaghetti Handshakes, Topless Cellists, John Lennon and Me
"I really think it is a sin to have a collection sitting in boxes that nobody ever sees," says Robertson, a former scientist and Labour insider. "These works were made for display, for human communication. To be sitting wrapped up neatly for me to make a profit on them is wrong." Robertson is one of very few d...
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