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I had
time to go and see Madonna in action at the Faena and she totally surpassed
herself.
Not only is she a great mom but it feels she has really evolved or continued her continual evolution. I wasn’t ever completely au fait with her past gestural movements designed to show sexual liberation and so really loved seeing a new version, dressed as a harlequin with just some glimpses of raunchy underwear. The performance did at times make me think of a genteel version of Grayson Perry but I think that’s just me!
Then NADA, which was great fun and again full of surprises but my energy was diminishing somewhat. We acquired this lovely Josh Tonsfeldt from Simon Preston Gallery, playing with lenticular printing.
At some point we ended up in Joel Mesler’s suite, where he was showing off his works and I spotted this lovely homage to Jonas Wood.
My favourite work at NADA - a Terence Koh at Moran Bondaroff with a little figure created from the ashes of newspapers post the Trump election and a load of Wonder Bread representing the States of America. Wonder Bread is a rather unhealthy bread, soaked in preservatives and goodness knows what else to preserve the bread for life.
I had a lovely visit to the Rubells. Mendes Woods had helped co-curate the whole of the ground floor and they were showing some new and fabulous works including this ‘Between philosophy and crime’ by Paulo Nimer Pjota.
There was so much to see, great work by Mathis Altmann.
Another very sad creature, ‘No Sex, No City’ by Stewart Uoo.
