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The parties around Frieze were in full flow and fabulous, no picture’s I’m afraid just memories and one great big hangover.
We were welcomed in the morning before the fair by Deutsche Bank where the lovely Mathilde ter Heijne had created a superb project apparently inspired from our show ‘An Archaeology’ at Zabludowicz Collection back in 2007.
Now, straight to the fair. Aneta Grzeszykowska at Raster is definitely a new artist to discover.
Valerie Snobeck works at Essex Street were quite fabulous.
New artist Anicka Yi at 47 Canal. There was definitely a kick to this work and it certainly carried some weight!
My favourite stand was Thomas Dane, the symmetry was magnificent. A hallway of cascading walls
I managed to purchase a wonderful hat painting by Alexandre da Cunha to add to the collection.
I also loved Modern Art’s wonderfully presented sculpture show, no painting, and managed to gain this fantastic water cooler by Yngve Holen for the collection as well.
Joe Bradley and Ugo Rondinone. Eva Presenhuber explained that it was Joe who had suggested this whimsical juxtaposition.
The boys were out in full force; Roy with Russell Tovey and Stephan Tanbin Sastrawidjaja
My favourite question of ‘Art or Not Art?’ arrived many times. First with the chair of Magali Reus at The Approach.
Then with a single earring by Amanda Ross-Ho also at The Approach.
Gallery Helga de Alvear was showing artist Jorge Galindo.
Then at Limoncello with my favourite artist Jack Strange and his rock. Is this a rock or is this not a rock?
Hauser & Wirth had a wonderfully curated stand including the work of Ron Mueck. Something that represented the real in the world at large but within an art fair, felt so unreal.
Pace Gallery was a nice surprise. Kevin Francis Gray is back!
My favourite work in the whole fair was this masterpiece by Keith Tyson!
The fair was full of amazing people and at every turn you could run into someone even more interesting than the art. Here’s artists N. Dash and Andrea Longacre-White, who was showing her fabulous scans in Frieze Frame. Great friends and totally coordinated.
Sadly there was very little performance this year, although Jennifer Rubell on Stephen Friedman’s stand made up for it, as artist Sandra Shashou demonstrated.
There was however, a great sense of humour throughout the fair or perhaps I should refer to it more as ‘Happy Art!’ One of my favourite Happy Art works was Urs Fischer’s perfectly fried egg at Sadie Coles.
David Shrigley’s over-sized back pack at Anton Kern! Perhaps this is to emphasise the hardship we have to face in an art fair?
Annette Kelm at Andrew Kreps never disappoints and this was by far my favourite photographic work at Frieze.
The next day I headed to the Sunday Art Fair with a quick drop in to see Kehinde Wiley. His paintings are just magnificent and I’ve also been a big fan of William Morris since childhood.
The Sunday Fair was spacious and easy to grasp allowing for everyone to gather and discuss the art works. There was no sense of the race you feel at Frieze and people could just relax and interact with the art. It was a wonderful concept and actually abc in Berlin had tried something similar but it was too big and chaotic.
Lizzie and I discovered a fabulous new artist called Avery K. Singer.
And at Studio Voltaire we immediately acquired an incredible painting by artist Ella Kruglyanskaya.
Rob Tufnell takes the prize for originality with artist Aaron Angell and his axolotls!
I’d say David Shrigley pretty much sums up Frieze Week!
