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We immediately discovered and loved Victoria Adams’ MA show at the Royal Academy.
Rebecca Ackroyd, who I had recently seen at Kinman Gallery, had a great presentation with wonderful ‘Skirt’ works.
The Slade shows were strong with U. Kanad Chakrabarti’s intense installation ‘Derivative Work’ really standing out.
Then back to the HQ for some more time in our ’20 Years’ exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection. Can’t get enough of Rachael Whiteread’s mattresses with the glow of the lovely Tracey Emin’s ‘I Love You’ in the foreground.
Eloise Hauser blew up a storm with her performance ‘Er and Other Conductors’ for The Vinyl Factory Space’s annual gala and then she donated her amazing luminous glass screens to their auction.
After a few days home we were off to Zurich before hitting the Basel fair. We managed to take in so many wonderful art works before the fair had even begun. An amazing old Ed Ruscha from the 70s in the basement of Hauser & Wirth. A voluminous basement I never knew existed.
Peter Kilchmann had a brilliant Monica Bonvicini show, it was full on and very powerful.
Upstairs at Eva Presenhuber Gallery they had created an incredible Ugo Rondinone showing of his deeply textured painted brick walls, interrupted intermittently with his gleaming reflective windows.
Doug Aitken was downstairs showing an array of free-standing and wall based sculptures, and these interesting and very comfortable sofas. Perfect after a long day of walking around.
We dropped in to see the LUMAS collection and were delighted to catch many of our favourites in ‘A Blind Man In His Garden,’ an exhibition curated by Kris Dittel and Emma Panza. Dina Danish’s ‘Susie’s Shoe Shine Shop’ was lovely.
We then had another lovely surprise when we discovered that Collectors Cathy and Paolo Vedovi had acquired the most incredible work made by Sam Falls during his residency with us in Sarvisalo, Finland. They were so very happy and excited.
