This Sunday we took a trip to the Frieze Art Fair. Frieze takes place every October in Regent's Park, and it's London's only contemporary art fair. Tickets cost £25, but I'd say the people-watching alone is worth at least £10, and then there's all the art, of course! This year, there were 170 galleries from all over the world. Here are a few snaps I stole from the Frieze website so you can get an idea of both the art and the fashionability of the curators. (When we get internet set up, Ian will post a picture of the dancing elephant-puppet 20-person interpretative dance. Seriously.)
Also on display was Simon Fujiwara's Frozen:
At Frieze Art Fair 2010 Fujiwara plans to present a new site-specific work, Frozen; an installation based on the fictive premise that an ancient lost city has been discovered beneath the site of the fair. Throughout the fair, visitors will encounter archaeological digs, displays of found artefacts and graphic panels describing a historic civilization that was once a hub of art and commerce.
Somewhat disappointingly, there were also a number of ridiculous vagina paintings, one of which was actually called "Black hole." Swiss Miss is, by no means, a prude. She is, however, very bored by images that reduce people, women or otherwise, to holes. Also, she would like to point out that porn magazines are way cheaper than £25. On the other hand, this artistic trend (if we can call it that), along with this New Yorker article, has reinforced her belief that her plan for a children's sex education book called Are you my vagina? is not as far-fetched as previously supposed.
Agreed! I cannot believe how some adolescents in my clinic refer to vaginas...I actually have to put their "descriptions" in my chart with quotations so people reading it later will know that I did not refer to it in certain terms...blah!
ReplyDeleteI am waiting for these descriptions...research for the children's book! Gotta be hip with the kids, yo.
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