This fair is absolutely enormous.
I experienced enough art to last me lifetime.From Warhol to Mondrian from Picasso to Matisse it is all there with traditional fine art dealers alongside modern contemporary gallery’s.It was great to also see the Goodman and Brody Stevenson representing.
I believe art creates energy and by the end of the day walking through hall after hall of art one starts to feel rather emotionally drained and overwhelmed even slightly nauseous.They warned us that this may happen but we were like eager kids going to the funfair for the first time wanting to see everything and eat anything we could get our hands on.
The fair is rather quite a strange environment with all this amassing artwork crammed into such small spaces with the absurdly rich (dressed in there Armani suites,sneakers and dripping diamonds)coming from all over the world simply to spend extreme amounts of money on artwork that will most probably sit in a storeroom collection until one day they feel generous enough to lend it to a museum for a public showing.
This fair really confused me ,but I fulled my pockets with ,more inspiration then most get to see in a lifetime.
Towards the end of the day we thought we couldn’t finish as it was just so tiring,but we pushed through (as if we were walking through mud) to the end only to then find out that we had only seen the one half of the entire fair,we would need to come back another day.
HIGHLIGHTS:
I got to see my first Basquiat painting up close at the Claud Foundations showing of there private Jean Michelle Basquiat and Keith Haring collection.His work is an explosion of energy and to say that it effected me for life is an understatement.
Keith Haring
Egon Schiele
