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We had a few hundred Frieze VIPs paying us a visit, Matthew Darbyshire very kindly conducted a talk for all the guests.
Even the Chinese from the Haikou in the Hainan Province in Southern China visited us and with the help of our new Chinese work placement from the Minsheng Museum in Shanghai we were all speaking the same language.
Pierre from Marlborough Fine Art with his son Max who is setting up a younger gallery in New York’s Chelsea with a very interesting refreshing program.
Frieze Masters was my first stop and I admit I was a little perplexed as most the artists were dead and buried. There was this void of stillness and peace around me. Giacometti Solo Booth how cool is that!
I started at last to like and engage in the works of Lynda Benglis who is still alive.
The evening was full of surprises. Deep down seven floors underground was The Cripples - Toby Ziegler’s show stopper installation. The light boxes versioned Piero della Francesca’s fresco, the horses hooves interplayed with the strange and wondrous sculptures (all based on Bruegel the Elder’s 1568 painting ‘The Cripples’) to create a very strange and claustrophobic atmosphere.
Toby and his friends laughing behind Wim Delvoye back. Wim did not seem to mind - all that pig farming in Beijing seems to have hardened him.
Piotr Uklański at Carlson, Massimo’s son Roberto’s new space in Mayfair. He is a great artist and I wish he was in our collection.
Pippy Holdsworth in Heddon St was showing Francesca di Mattteo. A proud Lizzie and Jeanne Greenberg with Francesca. The work was fabulous.
