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October 20, 2006
It's been a bit of a week since the last post. Went to the Zoo Art Fair last Friday [very poor] and Frieze on Saturday. That's a big fair... I heard 5 figure sums being bandied about without the bat of an eyelid and the place was heaving. I thought I'd test out the camera on my new K800i there which got some pretty good shots for a phone.Picture: Barnaby Furnas [detail]
Checkout my Flickr set to see what caught my eye this year because I can't be arsed to type it all again here. There are plenty of notes with the photos. Artists whose works I particularly liked include Julian Opie, Candice Breitz, Franziska Holstein, Brian Fahlstrom, Barnaby Furnas, Anselm Reyle, Callum Innes, Federico Herrero, Jason Martin, James Welling, Pia Fries, Jenny Saville, Liam Gillick, Peter Zimmerman and Yan Pei-Ming.
Monday night was Fulham v Charlton, Tuesday was Little Britain. Funnier than the football, but only just. That's not to say LB wasn't funny, but the football was so poor for about 60 minutes that it was funny! I must say that the stage set/visuals for LB was so good it almost distracted from the comedy. If you haven't seen it [yet] the set is a white backboard with a few doors, which the computer generated "sets" are projected onto, zooming in from scene to scene and filling in during longer costume changes and Tom Baker voice overs. The ad libs [how spontaneous they were is debatable] were good too!
Thursday we went to the Affordable Art Fair for the first time. AAF is held in a huge structure in Battersea Park and Thursday was a drinks reception. Sensibly they had tables of free wine [supplied by McWilliams] at each end so you could get a glass, walk an aisle, ditch your empty and pick up another. Had we got the offer of free tickets sooner, it would have been totally free, but I assumed none were going to be forthcoming this year so we bought some. It's a very well organised event, with transport to and from Sloane Square tube for nowt, a creche, cafe, bloody smart loo's [for what is in effect a big tent] and a packing service for your purchases. I didn't take any photo's as I'd never have been able to neck so much of the free wine and carry the piles of cards, brochures and leaflets we collected.
The best work, in my opinion, at AAF was by Tim Woolcock on The Russell Gallery stand. Beside The Wave had a few artists I liked too. Mostly Paul Wadsworth and Roy Goodman. Amanda Ralfe on the Rowley Contemporary Art stand continued what appears to be a bit of an abstract sea/landscape theme I've just noticed!
Vera Schumacher had the Expressionist paintings of Gernot Kissel who is also well represented by the Biscuit Factory, where we stopped for a quick chat and to admire Brian Pike's humourous little paintings. The Exhausted Bee was my favourite.
A slightly similar style to Tim Woolcock were the paintings by Mary Pym, who I spotted at The Wykeham Gallery and Marine House At Beer, who also had some nice pieces by Martin Proctor. I can't say I've searched every artist individually but very few seem to have their own websites. A couple who do are Rachel Gallagher, Dawn Reader and Kate Raggett. I particularly like Kate's minimal charcoal works. Especially Presence.
A few others I noted were William Austin on the New British Artists stand, Rob Newton at the Tallantyre Gallery, Ray Malone at Wahle Contemporary Art.
There were quite a few representations of Battersea Power Station on various stands. Clapham Art Gallery of course had Paul Catherall and StART Space had Colin Halliday. Which brings me to today... We're off to China Power Station this afternoon.
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