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Buzzing London

7 February 2014

It has been a buzzing London this week, a hive of activity and creativity.

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I finally make it to Hauser & Wirth and find the most perfect work of art by Hans Arp.
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Kean demonstrates for us the interactive nature of this Franz West sculpture.
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Next door was showing Zhang Enli’s impressive work.
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With another smaller version of Zhang’s internal paintings similar to the one in the ICA.
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A visit to the new Serpentine showed a space crammed with sensational art from corner to corner and including both the KKK and Holocaust!
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I left with mixed feelings, all my senses had been pulled in different directions. Like, hate, disgust and curiosity.
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Lovely Martin Creed kindly signed his book that accompanies his show at the Hayward.
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Meanwhile back at 176, Anna Vauhkonen was rehearsing for her big performance as part of the programme accompanying ‘A Sense of Things.’ Such a fantastic exhibition and result of the collaboration between The Cass and Goldsmiths College.
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Master Class was the biggest success with Lindsay Seers, Marcus Coates, Hannah Starkey and Ben Rivers taking a number of artists under their wing and advising on progressing their practice. All with the help of Doug Fishbone and Maitreyi Maheshwari, Senior Curator: Public Programme at the Collection.
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Highlight of the week was Matthew Darbyshire at Herald Street.
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Absolutely loved the cat and shaker chair. Super cool.
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We acquired this 3D scanned water cooler carved in stone.
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Chelsea school of Art were showing their interim MA work, with Nicholas Cheeseman’s looking really promising.
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Glenn Ligon has produced a whole new body of work at Thomas Dane. Here he is explaining in depth to Peter Fleissig.
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Yngve Holen’s work at Modern Art was as usual, there to challenge us.
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This week also included all the auctions with everything from Sigmar Polke and Cy Twombly to Lucien Smith.
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We also managed to go on a lovely and long awaited trip to Toby Ziegler’s studio with CAS where Caroline Douglas spent some time with Toby explaining his brand new body of work.
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Toby also spoke about his next humongous show at The Hepworth Wakefield.
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My lovely friend Ilana Fattal opened her romantic Valentine show.
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Talking of romance, Gary Webb is showing ‘my wife’ in the Bloomberg Space as part of a large installation there.
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The week has now left me very much looking forward to our openings on 26th February for Trisha Baga, Invites: Gabriele Beveridge and Infinite City, which was curated in collaboration with the Kadist Collection. Photo by Enrique Metinides, Mexico City, 1971, 2003.
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Trisha Baga, Hard Rock, 2012. This work will feature in the exhibition among a number of other works and installations.
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Gabriele Beveridge, Mostly That Your Face Is Like The Sky Behind The Holiday Inn, 2013.
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Then on the 27 February is the not to be missed, Art 14 where the Collection is collaborating with the Fair to present Art14 Performances.