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Back in London I enjoyed lovely mild weather, meanwhile in Finland the snow created a beautiful backdrop for the little house by Richard Woods…
…the James Ireland sculpture
Over at Groucho my friend found me hanging in their bar! A portrait of me by Boo Ritson from 2007
There was excitement in the air with the BFAMI Gala. We gave a great party and the whole gang came to celebrate with us at home. Ron Arad, Glenn Scott Wright, Isaac Julien, Lev Evzovic, our Pilaff chef for the night Evgeny Svyatsky and his son Anton, part of AES+F
The artworks for sale were of top quality, I loved this AES+F work
The most popular work was a wonderful neon called ‘Wesselman Visage’ by Nicolas Saint Grégoire. On the right, a lovely work by Sandra Shashou called ‘Harlequin of Joy’ comprising of fragments of smashed bone china tea sets
We acquired for the collection Ron Arad’s ‘Where Are My Glasses?’ - very excited to find a lovely home for them
Also this gem of a Josephine Meckseper, ‘Untitled (Angel)’, 2010
Proud of my friend and artist Ilana Fattal and her lovely three sculptures called ‘Sweethearts’
The BFAMI dinner honored Isaac Julien with 450 guests at the Dorchester
Then it was a quick visit to Nottingham Contemporary where there was a great show ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance’. I saw, for the first time, some brilliant photographs of Judy Chicago
Tiffany and I were blown away by the Christian Dior ‘Designer of Dreams’ show at the V&A
Condo was great fun! Arcadia Missa hosted New York’s Company Gallery, Lizzie and I thought the work of Cajsa Von Zeipel was show stopping. The statuesque futurist portraits were exquisite. Here is Cajsa snuggling up to one
A detailed close up
We dropped into Pilar Corras to see Ken Okiishi’s installation ‘A Model Childhood’ which shows the entire contents of the artist childhood removed from the basement of his old home in Iowa. He comes from a traumatic past - his family were placed in a ‘relocation camp’ during WWII, a place for Japanese extraction
There were some special moments at Somerset House, Daniel Birnbaum and Mark Leckey were in conversation about Virtual Reality
At the gallery Edel Assanti there was the most amazing curated show ‘We are the people. Who are you?’ I felt like we were staring at future greats, including, Rachel Maclean’s ‘It's What’s Inside that Counts’
We were intrigued by the work of Funda Gül Özcan, ‘It Happened as Expected’, a feast for the eyes. The installation was full of all different images taken from the internet. It is about the Turkish president continually apologising to his ally who made him and then tried to break him
Finally proud to see ‘Animal Charms’ curated by Daata Editions showing at Aalto Studios in Finland. The show included artists Jacob Kudsk Steensen, Puck Verkade and Ollie Dook who is also presenting at Zabludowicz Collection
