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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. He first became interested in contemporary art after visiting the YBA art exhibition Modern Medicine, in 1990.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All the fun of the fair )〕 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.〔http://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+FAIR+GAME%3B+In+two+weeks,+the+key+players+in+the+contemporary+art...-a0137282339〕 Slotover launched Frieze in June 1991 with Tom Gidley as co-editor. The pilot issue featured the first ever magazine interview with Damien Hirst, 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. Slotover is chair of the South London Gallery board of trustees. In 2000, he was a judge on the Turner Prize. And in 1993, he curated a section of the Aperto at the Venice Biennale, which included Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw and Rirkrit Tiravanija. He has spoken at several international conferences and symposia in venues such as the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Neue Museum, Graz, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Modern, London. Through frieze, Slotover has also pursued other publishing projects, including 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 book of Saville's graphic design. In 2009, Slotover received an honorary degree from University of the Arts London.〔http://www.arts.ac.uk/newsevents/3066/frieze-frame/〕〔http://www.arts.ac.uk/news/52769.htm〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debate: Art Fairs Are About Money Not Art )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Diary: Joffe's jokey picture falls flat with Frieze )〕 In May 2011, Slotover and Sharp announced the launch of two new art fairs - Frieze New York, and Frieze Masters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=From Frieze to triptych )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Masters fair should end the classic art Frieze-out )〕 In 2010, Slotover and Sharp were placed jointly at number 41 in the ArtReview "Power 100", a list of influential people in fine arts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Power 100 / Art Review )〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew Slotover」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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