'Do Not Abandon Me', a collaboration between Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin

'Do Not Abandon Me', is a collaboration between Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin consisting of sixteen intimate works made over the past two years, presented at Hauser&Wirth in London. These drawings articulate physical drives and feelings, candidly confronting themes of identity, sexuality and the fear of loss and abandonment through joint expression. Truly scary...

Frieze Week - Wednesday : The Age of the Marvellous in London

One of the highlights of Frieze Week this year was the exhibition entitled the The Age of the Marvellous (14th ‐ 22nd October) at the church of Holy Trinity, Marylebone.

Inspired by the Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities, popular in the late Renaissance through the Baroque period (ca. 1550– ca. 1700), the show featured over 60 works of art, most of them especially produced for the exhibition, that displayed a new‐found tendency for contemporary artists to look beyond the limitations of aesthetic conventions, to a varied, more cross‐disciplinary approach that integrates areas of human knowledge that exist outside the boundaries of traditional art making.

George Clooney (who was earlier opening the London Film Festival) was rumoured to have come to the opening, but surely Tracey Emin, Jay Jopling or Charles Saatchi were seen that night.

Conceived and curated by All Visual Arts Director Joe La Placa, The Age of the Marvellous was the arts organization’s third major exhibition since it was launched in 2008.

I particularly enjoyed the atmosphere around this exhibition and the goth-inspired setting. A perfect show for the pre-Halloween period.

Amongst the most amazing artworks the Polly Morgan's coffin filled with baby-birds that one had the chance to see at the inaugural show of Haunch of Venison in London, the crucified Gorilla by Paul Fryer, "the Levitation of the Head of John the Baptist" by Martin Sexton (a small, life-like head of John the Baptist which seemed to levitate in a reliquary by an invisible force, without physical contact), Ben Tyers’ sculpture which draws attention to what is an otherwise largely unconscious process ‐ breathing.

The crypt will still be opened for another 6 months so run if you haven't seent it ! I loved it !

More information on: http://www.allvisualarts.org/

Tracey Emin chose scandalous art for the Royal Academy summer show in London

‘I’m not going to drive a red bus into the Royal Academy and hang everything inside it – I’m not out to be provocative on that kind of level’


Tracey Emin has unveiled last week a room full of scandalous and sexually connoted artworks at the Royal Academy, in London. Emin was admitted into the Royal Academy last year and this is the first time she has curated a room at the show. Among the works Tracey had chosen for the summer show a sculpture featuring dozens of pink penises by artduo Tim Noble and Sue Webster, a porcelain sculpture of human figures and genitalia by Rachel Kneebone or a picture of a zebra performing what looks like sex with a woman by Matt Collishaw, former Emin's boyfriend. Emin explains that she had chosen those works that made her feel "excited and feverish". Other piece include Sigalit Landau's video of a naked woman doing the hula hoop with barbed wire shown at the MoMA of NY in April and that I found absolutely fascinating.





To learn more: www.royalacademy.org.uk