The Times<\/a>, Condo\u2019s Escape from Humanity\u00a0(2021) was allegedly made available to the collector, named in the Times as Alexander Popov, sometime between 14 April and 31 December 2022. This period is after the UK\u2019s department for international trade imposed a ban on the export of luxury goods worth more than \u00a3250 to Russia, in response to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\nPopov, who runs a prominent art foundation with his wife, is not under UK sanctions and is not accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for\u00a0HM Revenue & Customs confirmed to The Art Newspaper that it had launched the investigation that led to the prosecution, believed to be the first under the law banning the supply of luxury goods to Russia. <\/p>\n
Hauser & Wirth \u201cstrongly contests\u201d the charge and \u201cintends to plead not guilty\u201d, a spokeswoman for the UK gallery says. She adds: \u201cOur UK gallery has been charged with one instance of making an item of artwork available to a non-sanctioned person connected with Russia.\u00a0We are fully committed to complying with all our legal obligations including sanctions.\u00a0As the case is ongoing, we are unable to comment further.\u201d <\/p>\n
The prosecution comes after it was announced last week that Condo had left Hauser & Wirth, returning to Skarstedt Gallery who represented him from 2004 to 2019. Condo also continues to be represented by Spr\u00fcth Magers, who have worked with the artist since the 1980s. <\/p>\n
The Hauser & Wirth spokeswoman says Condo\u2019s \u201cdecision [to leave] is not connected to the case\u201d. <\/p>\n
The London-based art shipping company Artay Rauchwerger Solomons (formerly Art Logistics Limited) is also accused of breaching the ban on the supply of luxury items between August and December 2022. The company was placed in voluntary liquidation last year. <\/p>\n
Anyone convicted of breaching the regulations can face up to six months in prison and an unlimited fine.\u00a0The case, which was first heard at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court yesterday, was adjourned for a pre-trial hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 16 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hauser & Wirth gallery is being prosecuted in the UK for\u00a0breaching Russian sanctions by allegedly making available a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[10346,6225,6485,6486,20514,1120,96,21666,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-266903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-market","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-commercial-galleries","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-hauser-wirth","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}