Thursday, 13 October 2011

(my) FirstFriezeartFair

I AM EXHAUSTED...
1.00pm collected ticket at box office
1.20pm entered in fair hall
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moving with the crowd wave
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6.30pm exited by my last breath.

From the 10th stand, I realized that one can never really appreciate art on an art fair...
This is the first time I visit Freize...
(last year, I have 2 VIP tickets given by two artists from my hometown Nanjing but I didn't know how influential Frieze is so I just let this chance went...)
I'm not that impressed to be sincere. But compared to the ShContemporary(shanghai) art fair that I've visited this summer, I discovered it is more crowded and more compact,and of course,more international.
In ShCon, we can rarely notice a foreign artist's work, as in Frieze, only a handful Chinese works.
There are two Chinese galleries: Vitamin and Long march. The former has a stand here for 6 years and the later one 4 years.  After them seems there is none new-joined Chinese gallery. I've interviewed the execution director David Tung, he answered me how he think about this, I'll post them in the next blog, I'm really tired today... so many infos I have to force my brain to memorize...I need sleeping but I guess:

Nothing Disappears Only Our Amnesia Arises


when I arrived with full of love and hope, those two poor birds are already been removed, only those two poor cages and I remained.