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June is always the most exciting month, the sun shines and there is nothing more beautiful than being in London.
In our invites programme Bea Bonafini is proudly resting after an intense installation with Paul Lukcraft and Liam Zab on her sumptuous carpet ‘Dovetails Nest’. It is an inlayed carpet referencing the 15th century marble floor in the Sienna Duomo depicting a battle complete with horses and soldiers.
The ZAP Shop on Dover Street continues to raise money for arts institutions and young artists in the U.K. Sadly we don’t have enough customers yet to make it pay for itself but no visitor leaves empty handed - there is always some gem to carry away for all occasions. Please do come show your support!
Next door on Dover Street, our new neighbour Paul Coulon has just opened showing some exemplary early Christopher Wool paintings. Another reason to visit ZAP and snap up your future great! Like Christopher some of the ZAP artists will start small and become masters!
Meanwhile in NY: The Zab team, including Tif, are taking care of British artist Dale Lewis, in his temporary Times Square Studio. He was starting to create a rich and uplifting tapestry of life in Times Square on his canvases.
Back in London there are lunches and many welcomes for Maria Balshaw, the new director of Tate - here's Yana, Yasmine, Maria and I. Maria is a visionary and we look forward to seeing where she takes Tate in the future.
Grayson Perry was celebrating his intriguing and visually colourful Serpentine exhibition - touching on many themes including populism, masculinity and the current cultural landscape.
It is a special moment for my lil’ sis’ Yana.
I received my two glorious Zaha Hadid vases from the De Pury Serpentine Shop which happily - and out of respect - hold pride of place in my home. But as usual I did not have enough time to scrutinize and absorb all the wonderful innuendo, obvious and subliminal messages. I look forward to spending more time with them. I will never forget those Bette Davis eyes!
I had the luck to visit some of the Graduation Shows and the next generation is looking promising – here are Jocelyn McGregor’s eerie legs at the Slade
and Yarli Allison's show-stopping installation.
Next we went to Paris and the opening of Keith Tyson's exhibition at Vallois. I was so proud to see so many blossoms in one place. It was a little overcrowded for such a hot day in Paris but the flowers were full of different narratives and emotions.
Each of the thousands of flowers he painted was incredibly individual.
We had enough time whilst there to visit our latest acquisition by Alex Israel at Almine Rech. His exhibition "Summer 2" was related to a forthcoming film he's making called "SPF 18" and Hollywood tentpole movies. His figures - according to writer Eric Toncey - represent Millennials who like but never dislike anything and are what Bret Easton Ellis calls 'Generation Wuss’
Back at HQ “You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred’ enters its final weeks - it's been a big hit and people have been entranced by its strong message on photography. Each time I walked back into the show I see and learn something new. The audiences were intrigued and sometimes even interacting! It's an exhibition looking at the boundaries between past and present in photography.
Our amazing public programme which runs along side our exhibitions continued with Stuart Whipps giving an incredibly strong and monolithic performance working with heavy stones. All were reflected with images of other stones, narrating each other, it was quite beautiful.
