unaffordable art fair
After a visit to the Art London summer fair, nothing has been added to my bedroom wall, however, HY managed to get two catalogues by pretending to be a potential buyer. I dare say that most of the works are too awful to give a second look. However, once in a while you do spot something special. There are two artists I am interested in: Veronica Bailey and Patrick Hughes; both have chosen books as their subject matter. HY likes Bailey's photographs especially when the viewer cannot tell it's really the fore-edge of a book in the picture, I prefer lines showing the curvy pages that do tell me it's a photograph of a book. The titles of the tomes are also indicated. Hughes' piece can be seen at the BL near the cloak room. Today I still like to walk slowly pass the artwork and see how the shelves magically move before my eyes. If there's a good reason for me not to hang their works on my wall (financial reasons aside) is that Hughes doesn't seem to paint the blocks himself--he has a team of painters at his studio doing the job and the other paintings seem to lack delicacy. As for Bailey, photographs are easily mass produced. We ended up fighting over the two catalogues--I keep one, HY keeps the other. Note: When HY says something is 'ours' it means it is 'his'. It's an only child term.