I think I am getting a little too jaded about this ‘Frieze Frenzy’. So many people looking as so much work and yet, nothing feels particularly new or enjoyable (especially not the queuing, even with prepaid tickets). Thank God David Shrigley is keeping the troops entertained by tattooing visitors in return for a donation to Medecins sans frontiere. His ‘I’m dead’ taxidermy dog, still fills me with glee and somehow is still refreshing amongst all the well known artist’s repeated assaults on the senses
Frieze Project artist Simon Fujiwara’s Frozen City, also brings some humour. With his fake archaeological dig of a Roman city supposedly uncovered under Regent’s Park, he describes a multicultural and overindulged society where the art market might have been the most public space, ahhh the irony...
(Fugiwara being interviewed)
Of course there are still the top artwork from some of my favourite artists: Anish Kapoor, David Nash, Gerhard Richter, Tony Cragg , Mark Francis, Jonas Burgert
Maybe I am just taken by their work because it is so beautifully exhibited and highly crafted and maybe I am just an old romantic enjoying form, space, colour and textures but all these pieces don't fail to touch me.
In all this sensory noise (visual and auditory), I still manage to find exciting artists such as Bernd Ribbeck and his highly colourful small scale geometric paintings, Nano Funo and her graceful nature inspired paintings, Lee Bull and his brush work on leather, Sandra Cinto's powerful wave, Ricky Swallow's bronze casts of gun shots on cardboard and the most fun, Donald Moffett's 'astro turff' paint on wood:
However, even they fail to keep me happy and in the end, I just stopped all this 'noise' by just people watching: Art students armed with notebook, Italian drag queen with big buffon hair, Pink lady (a must see, she is there every year I think!), more students, more notebooks, Matthew Collinge and his wife Emma Briggs enjoying being incognito away from their studio work, students/notebooks, young beauty Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) eating sushi next to me, Brian Sewell and his tweet twin set and Roisin ‘the Irish thief’ Byrne from Goldsmiths.
I got out pretty quick in need of space and fresh air and to enjoy the outside sculptures. I was not disappointed by Gavin Turk's sleek giant size Guinea Foul and Goose Eggs as well as Daniel Silver 'The smoking Silver father figures' bronze statues with big shot entry wounds.
To round up this year's Freize I took a walk through Sanchayan Gosh - DOOSRA 'The Other Maze' image of which concludes this entry very nicely...
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