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Tiffany peering into one of Simon Denny’s cabinets. His show was for us by far the most outstanding project. Drawing its title from Nicky Hager’s 1996 book ‘Secret Power’, Denny’s project presented an account of the role and international standing of New Zealand’s intelligence work. By studying the graphics of the NSA and GCHQ documents released to the world by Edward Snowden, Denny found graphic designer David Darchicourt. He had done internal branding work for the whole of the secret service. In parallel to this, Denny took photographs of the ceilings of the library and transferred the incredible Marciana Library into the Marco Polo airport giving a sense of wonderment and confusion.
Loved this guy. He was meant to have robotic function that in some way served the NSA.
The Peter Doig show was lovely even though not quite fitting into Okwui’s overarching Biennale theme.
We were all proud of our Sarah Lucas, her Pavilion shone. Again, not sure where the work fitted in with Okwui’s curated show, but in this sense maybe it was a breath of fresh air with plenty of humour for a change.
In the street we bumped into the Propeller Group with James Cohen.
Their work was fascinating as they captured the moment when an M16 and AK47 bullets collided with each other.
Cao Fei’s work was interesting and meticulous in presentation.
The girls were out in full force. Great photo of myself, Lil Sis Yana Peel, the two Lizzies, Liz Murdoch and Liz Neilson.
We met some great people, including the owner of the Japanese project space White Rainbow, Yukiko Ito and her friend Mrs Chuizuko Yoshida and Argentinian collectors with Catherine Pettigas and Lil Sis.
My Boyz, Poju and Roy, were happy as they were in the company of one of their favourite artists Theaster Gates.
Gregor eating one of his favourite Venice breakfasts. Shhhhh don’t tell his wife!
OK not everyone had lost their sense of humour. I loved this work called ‘Paradise’ from 1979 by Tetsumi Kudo at Danh Vo’s curated show at the Pinault Foundation. Now, I’m in New York where it’s so nice to see the same issues addressed but with loads of humour and every medium under the sun. Working as an adviser on Daata Editions for David Gryn so excited, launch is only in two days. Watch this space, Frieze, DAATA and NADA!
