Frieze Art Fair 2009
Frieze was for me a very strange experience, having never been to an art fair of this scale a did not realise how the show would be set up, that is with less thought put into how the art viewed and more into how it can be sold. Frieze is set up in a nearly purely financial sense, when walking around you can not help but feel that the galleries have different priority's.
That said, the was an incredibly broad range of on the whole, high quality work, ranging from painting to sculpture, interestingly there was almost no video work, obviously not quite as sell-able as physical objects.
On the whole the show was a worthwhile event to visit, it's good to see how the is a very real market for fine art and seeing the amount of galleries and work getting interest on the other hand it was also slightly disheartening to see that the majority of the work being bought was being bought buy rich people to show off being rich, saying that though, i wouldn't complain if it was my art being bought.
Frieze was for me a very strange experience, having never been to an art fair of this scale a did not realise how the show would be set up, that is with less thought put into how the art viewed and more into how it can be sold. Frieze is set up in a nearly purely financial sense, when walking around you can not help but feel that the galleries have different priority's.
That said, the was an incredibly broad range of on the whole, high quality work, ranging from painting to sculpture, interestingly there was almost no video work, obviously not quite as sell-able as physical objects.
On the whole the show was a worthwhile event to visit, it's good to see how the is a very real market for fine art and seeing the amount of galleries and work getting interest on the other hand it was also slightly disheartening to see that the majority of the work being bought was being bought buy rich people to show off being rich, saying that though, i wouldn't complain if it was my art being bought.
question:
ReplyDeletewhat do you do if someone who is disgustingly rich, but also similarly horrible wants to buy your artwork?
horrible people like art, look at Hitler.
ReplyDeletebut maybe you shouldn't give people like Hitler everything they want...