Talk:Iwan Wirth

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Some proposed changes & article restructure

I propose a wholesale change to this article, including a full restructure and stronger references for review. Added are new sections, dividing up Iwan Wirth's various activities, and extensive research has allowed me to find improved sources and leads. Please review and consider my suggestions.

Extended content

Iwan Wirth (b. May 1970, Switzerland) is the President and co-founder of Hauser & Wirth, an international gallery of contemporary art and modern masters. Hauser & Wirth has been cited by The Financial Times as 'a marketplace for ideas'.

Iwan Wirth is one of the most powerful players in contemporary art. Iwan and Manuela Wirth were jointly ranked as the number 1 most powerful and influential figures in the art world in ArtReview's 'Power 100' in 2015. The couple was ranked third in 2016 and seventh in 2017. Iwan Wirth was previously listed third in 2013 and 2014.

In 2014, Iwan Wirth was appointed as a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. He is a member of a number of committees including the Maria Lassnig Foundation, the Swiss Cultural Fund, the Frieze Masters selection committee, the Council of the Serpentine Gallery, and the South Asian Acquisitions Committee at Tate. Iwan Wirth was the 2007 Honoree at the Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art Benefit and in 2015, Iwan and Manuela Wirth were both awarded a Doctor of Letters (Hons) from Bath Spa University.

• Early life

Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland to an architect father and schoolteacher mother, Iwan Wirth staged his first art exhibition of copies of Giacometti and Henry Moore sculptures he made himself at age 7. He opened his first art gallery at age 16 in St. Gallen, and three years later set up as a private dealer in Zurich.

• Hauser & Wirth

Together with Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser (his wife and mother-in-law respectively), Iwan Wirth founded Hauser & Wirth in Switzerland in 1992. It is now a global enterprise, with spaces in Hong Kong, Zurich, Gstaad, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Somerset. The gallery represents over 75 artists, including Mark Bradford, Roni Horn, Paul McCarthy and Pipilotti Rist, and is responsible for artist estates and foundations including the Estate of Philip Guston, the Louise Bourgeois Studio, the Eva Hesse Estate, Allan Kaprow Estate, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the Estate of Jason Rhoades and the Dieter Roth Estate.

Hauser & Wirth encompasses Hauser & Wirth Publishers, which specializes in the publication of books on modern and contemporary art and has published over 100 titles since 1992. Hauser & Wirth Publishers's activity consists of monographs, artists' books, historic exhibition catalogues, collections of artists' writings and catalogues raisonnés. 'Hauser & Wirth 20 Years', a publication documenting the gallery's history, received an award for 'Most Outstandingly Produced Book' at the Spear's Book Awards 2013.

• Hospitality

Iwan and Manuela Wirth are the co-founders of a hospitality business incorporating Durslade Farmhouse, a guesthouse onsite at Hauser & Wirth Somerset that forms part of the original Grade II-listed farm buildings dating back to ca. 1760, and Roth Bar & Grill, a restaurant located at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. The Roth Bar & Grill includes a site-specific bar created by Björn and Oddur Roth, and serves local, seasonal food. The restaurant was listed in The Times' '25 Best Places for Brunch' in 2014. In 2016, the Wirths opened the restaurant Manuela at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles' arts complex in downtown Los Angeles. The Wirths are restoring The Fife Arms, a 46-room Victorian hotel located in Braemar, Scotland.

• Collection

Together with his wife and mother-in-law, Iwan Wirth has a private family collection of modern and contemporary art. The collection is based in Switzerland.

• Philanthropy

Iwan Wirth, along with wife and Co-President Manuela Wirth, is a major benefactor of museums and international art projects, and contributes to a range of charities supporting the arts, architecture, the environment, conservation, community and education. Iwan and Manuela Wirth are ongoing supporters of the Reykjavik Arts Festival. The Wirths support the Bruton Museum situated on Bruton High Street, as well as The Holburne Museum in Bath where they made a contribution towards the museum's contemporary programme with a gallery space named the Wirth Gallery.

Iwan and Manuela Wirth have partially funded the ongoing restoration of St. Margaret's Church in Braemar, and contribute towards the River Dee Trust and the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF). In 2017, the Wirths funded the Pearls in Peril (PIP) project to preserve the natural habitat and indigenous species of the River Dee. They donated a 2-acre plot of land to the local council in Somerset as part of a community garden project, the Durslade Walled Garden. They are both supporters of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Somerset Wildlife Trust, Human Rights Watch and NSPCC, and have an ongoing commitment to Christoph Schlingensief's Operndorf project in Burkina Faso, through an annual donation allocated to education programmes, food and the building and running of a school.

References

Advard2 (talk) 15:19, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Reply 10-SEP-2018

 Edit request declined 

1. Portions of this request are insufficiently paraphrased from the source material, per WP:CLOSEPARAPHRASE. All additions of text need to be placed in an editor's own words, using an editor's own phrasing. Kindly re-write the sections which are not paraphrased correctly, taking care to place each instance in your own words using your own phrasing. Anything directly copied from sources ought to be placed in quotations.
2. Several of the references cited are not appropriate for use in Wikipedia and should be replaced with other secondary sources. These references include museum catalogs, art festival brochures, and links to organizations which have received donations from the Wirth's.
3. Many of the references are placed in a singular citation style, but many others are not. The citation style used by an article needs to be of one system, consistently used throughout the article. Please ensure that this is so when adding references to the edit request.

Kindly open a new request at your earliest convenience once the article is re-written along these suggestions.
Regards,  spintendo  18:00, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Sample comparison of non-paraphrased text

Text as it appears in the proposed Edit Request	Text as it appears in the Source Material
Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland to an architect father and schoolteacher mother, Iwan Wirth staged his first art exhibition of copies of Giacometti and Henry Moore sculptures he made himself at age 7. He opened his first art gallery at age 16 in St. Gallen, and three years later set up as a private dealer in Zurich.	Born in eastern Switzerland to an architect father and schoolteacher mother, Wirth got the art bug at 7, when he staged his first show — copies of Giacometti and Henry Moore sculptures he made himself... Wirth opened a commercial gallery in their village at 16 and set up as a private dealer in Zurich in 1990.
Iwan Wirth is the President and co-founder of Hauser & Wirth, an international gallery of contemporary art and modern masters.	Iwan and Manuela Wirth are Presidents and co-Founders of Hauser & Wirth, a leading international gallery of contemporary art and modern masters.

References

Thanks, Spintendo, particularly for picking up on the close-paraphrasing. Actually, there are some rather more serious problems with this request: Advard2 has 13 edits to this project, and none of them is a paid editing or conflict-of-interest editor disclosure. The proposed text is promotional both in tone and in intent, and Wikipedia does not tolerate promotion of any kind.

Advard2, once you have made appropriate disclosure, I suggest that instead of trying an 18k edit request you limit yourself to one of, say, one-twentieth of that size, which addresses (with suitable sources) major errors or omissions of fact from the page – if there are any, that is. Proposing that we replace encyclopaedic content with ill-written adspeak (" ... a hospitality business incorporating Durslade Farmhouse, a guesthouse onsite at Hauser & Wirth Somerset ...", anyone?) is really, really unlikely to lead to any useful result. This topic (Wirth, the gallery, the artists associated with it etc) has a long and tedious history of inappropriate interference from COI editors. What would most help those pages to evolve in the normal Wikipedian way would be if that interference were to stop, once and for all. Any hope of that? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:54, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Clean-up

Again, a mess, as is the person's business page. I was going to recommend a merge, but saw the ArtReview listing, so thought I might be being harsh. In any case, I added what I thought were the most obvious SPAs to the connected contributor template here. This space was so filled with fluff that I think I need a break from it to see if it helped here. One thing, I removed an NYT quote that I thought was only used for promotionalism, but think that might have been too harsh again. Would be interested to see what others think. Isingness (talk) 03:06, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for this, Isingness – this is on my to-do list. I've rewritten it once, I'll do so again – but probably not today. I'm pretty sure he's notable independently of the gallery, even though that's all he does. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 06:17, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Ah, I now see that you've already done that. Nice work! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 06:19, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

I hope it is not all for naught, I thought the gallery page was bad, and then I saw this one... Thank you though! Isingness (talk) 06:24, 12 October 2018 (UTC)