Frieze Again
Posted on October 21, 2007
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Spent a week thinking over the artwork I saw at Frieze and speaking with a few people about it. My enduring impression is the art work - and I saw most of it - didn’t surprise me. I don’t mean it didn’t shock me, but that would be true too. I mean surprise can come in a variety of guises. It can be pleasant and unpleasant or it can be warming or repellent. It can creep up on you even.
The impression I left London with was, well that’s what the big money is collecting, so much conservative art. There’s a place for everything in the art world and there were great artists there but the whole, the show, breathed conservatism.
Two days back I walked into one of Ireland’s best restaurrants, the Fish Fishy in Kinsale. One of Nathaniel Stern’s prints is on the wall. It is Siren’s Dillisk. it is extraordinarily beautiful, it invites the eye. It surprises by the sheer power of a natural object seen like never before.
Back in the Gallery Scott Kildall’s work is attracting a lot of attention because it is out of this world. And soon Claire Keating will be in there. Wait and see Claire’s work! I wonder how we can draw more attention to artists like this. There is an Irish art fair of course but globally - there’s room for an art fair that focuses on artists who use technology to great effect.
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