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Day 3 ended with a magnificent dinner at the Bayler the art ladies all reunited. Caryl Englander, Domanique Levy, Patrizia Re Rebaudengo, Muriel Salem and Olivia
It was a privilege to see the super intense and obsessed drawings of Vija Celmins all in one place. Vija had fled with her family from Riga Latvia in 1944 to Germany and then emigrated in 1948 to USA. She was fascinated through her life with certain images one example being the moon. The show was curated by James Lingwood and the photograph shows the satisfaction and harmony of an art partnership
There were some lovely moments with the Beyeler collection show. ‘I was interested in how one would make a painting by not being a painter’ by Wade Guyton.
Time for Museum Visits at the Kust Museum we go to visit the Medardo Rosso show ‘Inventing Modern Sculpture’. Rosso coated his plaster sculptures in translucent wax giving the appearance of capturing a fleeting moment.
The curators Meike Eipeldauer and Elena Filipovic had associated Medardo Rossos work to other artists and used their work to show the breadth of sculptural practice using the principle of comparison, juxtaposing and curating contemporary and traditional such as with Eugènes Carrière’s work.
A stair wave from Ryan Stern, Olivia Zab, and Lizzie
We visited the incredible Schaulager where we saw the honed down work of Steve McQueen ‘Bass’ an exhibition of six colours with a dramatic landscape of sound - it was spectacular. The red reminded me of his incredible film ‘Shame’ where he reinterpreted the scream, so I managed to create my own creepy version.
One of my favourite colours the blue version
Olivia blending into the landscape
On the way to the Tate drinks we drop into the ‘Scream Machines Art Ghost Train’ by Rebecca Moss at the Tinguely museum it was a project of fun created by British artist Rebecca Moss which plays homage to a work created by Jean Tinguely in 1977.
Then it was Tate International Cocktail where Maria Balshaw gave a riveting speech about the incredible Tate and its exciting program ahead.
Meanwhile Lizzie had time to get herself scanned for the Jordan Wolfsan installation at the Beyler where she experienced an almost out of body experience with a stranger
On the top floor was an impressive installation by Anthea Hamilton - a rendition of ‘The squash’ originally performed in Tate Britain
Great to see the work of Nona Inescu at Calinca Tabacaru Gallery ‘The Common Sunflower’
We had a beautiful Goodbye Lunch in our favourite restaurant with Lauren Taschen me and Lizzie it was very special
Lizzie suggested a new Sauna game from Carsten Holler’s newly released Taschen ‘Book of Games’ showing 336 games – this one really looks lots of fun
One final trip back to the fair to visit the unvisited and definitely worth the visit
I spied two incredible works at Gallery Eva Presenhuber by Tschabalala Self
At James Cohen was a magic cabinet by Yinka Shonibare ‘Archive of Lost Memories II’
A little Gem by Anne Rothenstein ‘Red earring’ at Stephen Friedman Gallery.
We liked the work by Matvey Levenstein at Galleria Lorcan O Neil
Then a special moment at PPOW gallery with Wendy Olsoff and the incredible artist Hew Locke
