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I feel as though things have been rather slow
this month but it has also been a great one.
My Geordie girls welcomed me back to London with a Puppies Puppies OBE cake.
We then kicked off the year with two openings at Zabludowicz Collection. Jemma Egan has taken a look at mass production and in particular Domino’s and the ‘Dominoid.’
Then Use/User/Used explores the effect of a 24/7 working culture and the physical intensity of constant activity. This was a chance for MA student curators from Goldsmiths University, Chelsea College of Art and Sir John Cass College of Art to work with a Collection and join forces to produce a group show. They have created a great show with live performance and dance commissions. One very worn out coat by Tobias Madison flaps in the foreground suspended in front of the Kristine Roepstorff.
My favourite Josh Kline, what did he do to the poor Fed Ex Man!
Gary Webb’s ‘Heart and Soul’ looked stunning.
Then my last mention is the wonderful Yngve Holen, a piece of meat on the aisle of an aeroplane. A cry of protest telling us all who we really are. I cannot wait to see his show in June at the Kunsthalle Basel.
A cosy doggy came to visit us. He was most upset when he discovered the Lucy Tomlins meat cuts were actually marble.
We also launched our fourth edition of Daata Editions. Many of the works were fun and humorous. Chloe Wise had gathered all the conversations around her during Miami Basel and produced ‘the hotel gave us wine.'
Happy birthday lovely Eloise Hawser!
Bravo to the wonderful Jenni Lomax, the Florian Roithmayr show at Camden Arts Centre was stunning. Florian has such a great feel for materials.
There are some lovely shows on in London. CONDO was a big hit, an art fair of sorts but in the domains of galleries. Carlos/Ishikawa had a great dress up show with a ready-to-wear ED costume by Ed Fornieles.
I also found time to visit one or two shows in Paris. Art while shopping was a big luxury for me. Ai Weiwei had created mystical, magical creatures flying around the Bonmarché store.
On the outskirts of Paris, Sterling Ruby had opened his Gagosian show. Huge black canon-like sculptures and crazy squashy fabric candles. All very surreal. This is ‘Rat Dopamine.’
Then Omar Kholeif, with the help of the Whitechapel Gallery team put together ‘Electronic Superhighway’, a major exhibition with over 100 works. So many of the wonderful artists came to the opening, Douglas Coupland, Jeremy Bailey, Alex Ruthner, Celia Hempton, Evan Roth, Addie Wagenknecht and many more.
Loved this work by Addie Wagenknecht.
Very proud that our Albert Oehlen ‘Deathoknocko’ made the cut.
As did Jon Rafman’s ‘Monet Economy Class’ and ‘Kurt Schwitters Bar’.
Finally, hanging out in front of the Constant Dullaart was our hero Omar Kholeif who is helping to put digital art into the art history books as much as we are trying to. He had started with a list of 200 artists and had to whittle it down to 70.
