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Today was a special day: not only did 33 miners appear from the earth in Chile but frieze opened...
This year had a different feel to it. There was a calm and relaxed feeling and the galleries were not swamped with art, so the whole art fair was much more comprehensible and relaxed.
We started our day with Deutsche Bank’s room where Johnny Waka and Norman Stone were hanging out, they both brightened up my day.
Johnny Waka
Tracey Emin arrived not in a good state. She fell down the stairs at home taking a cup of tea up the stairs and ended up with three cracked ribs in The Princess Grace or should we all call it the Princess Trace? She was very brave and had time to say hello to her friends and David Maupin and Rachel Lehmann and see her art on the wall and then headed back with Michael Djanogly as her driver. Back to the morphine drip in hospital.
Then I visited frieze Frame, which was so special. We bought works from the galleries - Ruth Ewan at Rob Tufnell, Oliver Laric from Seventeen and from New York’s finest James Fuentes we bought Jessica Dickinson. We also found an amazing outdoor sculpture from Herald St by Nicole Wermers which was the full size of our small Rock Dispensers edition. I managed to persuade my friend Cindy to buy a Mathew Darbyshire sculpture which I love and adore and I said if they did not like the work in two years I would happily buy back from her.
The most impressive booth was Peter Kilchmann’s designed by Fabian Marti. I liked very much his ‘primitive’ mask.
Also, there was the work shown by Michael Bauer.
The work by Carlos Amorales in Annet Gelink Gallery was also very impressive.
Hauser and Wirth never let me down yet another work by Christoph Büchel, which was incredibly indecent and far from conservative!
I dropped into Kate MacGarry’s booth which was also another exquisite booth designed by Francis Upritchard’s boyfriend Martino Gamper. Valeria Napoleone, Bettina and Kate were admiring a beautiful display of Francis’s work in front of a magnificent Luke Rudolph painting.
I bumped into Ryan Trecartin as usual I was in a flux about his work. His new posters were fun. I had a good chat in the evening with Hans Ulrich in the evening, he is an artist that just will not go away!!
Two beautiful nests by Bjorn Braun at Meyer Riegger, I really thought were quite beautiful. (Not Joking)
Then I spotted a wonderful work by Bernadette Corporation. When I finally left frieze, I was as satisfied as a Cheshire cat. We had acquired for the collection some lovely new fresh pieces and we had had a very interesting discussion with one of the galleries about a certain artist and we are all very excited!
