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London is blooming in January, mild beautiful days and so much to look at!
Condo tendrils were reaching out all over the city. Sadie Coles was hosting Château Shatto and JTT – sculpture by Elaine Cameron-Weir
At last I went to visit Max Hetzler’s new gallery, in the same building we had our ZAP pop up shop. André Butzer’s early paintings were on display
The nicest surprise was Nicolas Deshayes’ ‘Swans’ at Modern Art, wonderful sculptures made from glazed earthenware, fabricated using a slip-casting process in Veneto, Italy
A play on positive and negative space with vessels turned inside out
On the top floor was Charlotte Posenenske’s Condo show in association with Gallery Mehdi Chouakri. For Charlotte her art is seen as a social action which should be shared with the public. The work comprises of galvanized metal ducting dating back to 1967
At Maureen Paley Cindy and I got very excited over the illuminated work of Juliette Blightman, ‘This One’s For You’
Then it was the opening of our show, ‘In the Shadow of Forward Motion’, curated by students from MA curation courses at Central St Martins, Chelsea College of Art and Birkbeck. Some wonderful works were on show, all pre 2001, by Mat Collishaw, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Ori Gersht, Heidi Bucher, Barbara Hammer, David Wojnarowicz and Larry Clark
Then we had Master Class which is now in its 7th year. I managed to see many of the wonderful classes. Doug Fishbone gave a wonderful performance which demanded a full house of 200 audience members!
Another night, Alexandre da Cunha discussed his outstanding practice
Janice Kerbel gave a wonderful speech about synchronised swimmers
Amie Siegel was a treat for me listening to her talk about provenance
I loved the moment at Tracey Emin’s White Cube show ‘A Fortnight of Tears’, a raving success. Her sculptures were monumental
The paintings were dreamy and full of expression
It was a homage to Tracey, one long table spread throughout the gallery with a hundred seated for dinner
Jay was once again the proud father and Tracey was very satisfied. I was thrilled to see her happy
Then it was off to LA for the American Friends of the Israel Museum trip. I vistied many homes and fascinating collections which concluded with a wonderful dinner led by the President, my lovely friend, Jill Bernstein
