strangers on a train

bruno, i really do wish you would take up painting. it's such a soothing passtime!

sunday candy

jeff koons at gagosian in moscow, image from artobserved.com

The "MilkyWay"

Working your way around the galleries and directly to the auction house. The new way?

My mom found this article about Damien Hirst in Vanity Fair and was doing some research about his work this morning. She hadnt really heard of him before, but his work didnt impress her much, more impressed she was by his route. Hmmm, so lets auction something a get 200M for it :)

Here some articles:

Diamond Skull 

"Did I say that?" and other links

Painting...

... has happened mostly on my walls during the last days or even weeks, so apologies for beeing absent (at least from the net-) art scene for a while.
However, you artists with a fine sense for colour around us: I hope you find this one allright as it is now all around me in my new appartment.


Great to have another correspondent from Switzerland now ;-)

louise bourgeois at cheim & read

there's a louise bourgeois show at cheim & read in new york running concurrently with the retrospective at guggenheim. it includes a series of sculptures cast from discarded clothing and ink drawings dealing with pregnancy and motherhood. i thought the installation shot looked great.

previously unseen..

found this on artdaily.org. this is a portrait of francis bacon painted by lucian freud and it is to be auctioned at christie's in october. this is the only good thing about the obscenity of the art market, since other freuds have been selling for crazy prices, others we have never seen keep surfacing. i like this one a lot.

The Art Market?

Hello to my conspiracy group. 

I will have to apologize, there will sadly be no trip to St.Moritz for SAM. My brother has left for Denmark and I am here to watch the dogs on my own. 

But I ran into these two articles so please do enjoy: 

Dealers and Public Galleries

Investment or "Like it"?

En route...en Basel

My second art day this week. I went to Basel to see Fernand Leger at Fondation Beyeler. It was alright, nothing to scream for. Somewhat monotone and although he was of no inspiration to me he had been to Rosenquist, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein as well as Rauschenberg. But Beyeler is always worth visiting and to my great despair I got to witness gigantic Anselm Kiefer works being installed. Despair because I most likely will miss the exhibit. 

After Beyeler I drove on to Schaulager, where I saw Monica Sosnowska and Andrea Zittel. Too "gegenward" (present) for me. Although both had their impressive ideas. Sosnowska had some pieces that made you think about space and size relations. One piece that was quite neat was a corridor you walked down, then the corridor turned left and suddenly you stood in front of a wall, only, the wall was the floor continued and when you looked up the corridor kept going but upward, as if a giant had taken it and bent it 45 degrees. 

And Andrea Zittel was trying to answer the question of what it would be like if we didnt rely on scientific time. What would our day look like without any relation or feeling of set, standardized time. 

So that was my day. 

PS. A small, possibly very unnecessary, side note: I realized whilst looking up Fernand Leger og google to find images that Harve Leger images come up almost as frequent. And his so called IN dress actually creates a similar, albeit much slimmer, body shape with breasts and hips greatly emphasized.   

Richard Serra

Speaking of Richard Serra drawings, I just saw that there's a show of 60 of them at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria. The show is called Drawings| Work comes out of work and it's on until September, 14. In case one of you Europeans wants to do a little art trip to Austria :P Here's what he says about drawing:

“I like to draw. It is an activity I rely on, a dependency of sorts. Drawing gives me an immediate return for my effort and the result is commensurate with my involvement. It is an activity that requires solitude, it is the most concentrated space in which I work.”

The Gold Weaver of Luzern

I have started my week of art. On the first of September. And I am going to count this visit as an experience with art as well because this was not just an encounter with a room full of lovely art pieces but also an encounter with a real piece of art itself. Today I was invited by some very dear friends to go see Lucie Heskett-Brem, the Gold Weaver, in her atelier in Meggen, Switzerland. She is a well known jewelry maker here in Luzern and the daughter of Sculptor Rolf Brem. Her mother too was a jewelry designer and today I got to meet her in her studio. Engulfed with her tiny pieces of silver and gold prepared in odd shapes to make necklaces, rings, earrings and bracelets. She was eager to talk, to explain, to share her passion and my friend and I happily stood in as models. Forgive me if I sound like a grandma, but it was an utter delight for the delicate pieces felt like second skins, they just attached themselves and followed every curve of your neck, collarbones, wrists, wherever they were hung. 

i am now all about stray cats, ugly dogs, and turkish coffee..wanted to share.