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“Then it comes back – my trading mindset. Pricing something that looks like it is not feasible to price, but you find a price… I feel excited by this game. It challenges myself, and every time I tell someone, I start confusing everyone. This is the fun thing of the immateriality.” —Pedro Barbosa
We’ve always had a soft spot for people who collect conceptual art. It takes quite a bit of dedication and some pretty big leaps of faith. So what happens when a former currency and bond trader eschews the usual route of collecting trophy works to collect conceptual art and archival material? In the case of São Paulo-based Pedro Barbosa, it gets pretty intense, as his collecting consumes not just eccentric conceptual works, but deep archives as well, to make one of the most significant collections of conceptual art in South America. Here, Art Basel pays a visit and takes a look through Barbosa’s incredible collection, and Barbosa talks about the particular challenges of collecting conceptual art and archival material.
