Class Art of 2009

My top ten exhibitions of 2009

1 Teresa Margolles at the Mexican Pavillion at the Venice Biennale.


2 Marina Abramovic Presents at Manchester International Festival.


3 The Dark Monarch at the Tate St Ives.


4 VORSPANNKINO at KW Berlin.


5. Mike Kelley at Galerie Hussenot.


6. Andro Wekua and Daido Moriyama at Unlimited at Art Basel.


7. The new curation of SPACE studios under Paul Pieroni. (Overexcited about the Destroy All Monsters show opening January...).


8. Tom Ellis' daylight fireworks and Jennifer Lewandowski's Triptych at the Boathouse at Port Eliot Festival.


9. Ryan McGinley 'Moonmilk' at Alison Jacques gallery and Seb Patane at Maureen Paley.


10. Julie Verhoeven at MU in Eindhoven - because I had so much fun.

Basic Basel

Just back from my first Art Basel (four countries in five days - venice, london, paris, basel.... ouch). Volta and Liste the other big fairs also rocked.

What i like: Andro Wekua. I loved Andro Wekua (above) before but even more so after I saw his intense, dark installation at Basel with mannequins, a disturbring film, a couple of lit chairs and an odd wall and window. I even bought a book Wait to Wait on his work.

There was also an amazing installation of Daido Moriyama photos with a very personal photocopied document by the artist about why he takes photos that was sheer poetry.

I bought some work from Toronto's Katharine Mulherin! 3 found postcard hot stamped with the words 'Los Angeles' made by the Canadian artist Sandy Plotnikoff (in the style of the piece below)


I also am keeping a very keen eye on Yarisal and Kublitz, Stephen G Rhodes, Jay Heikes, Paulo Nenflidio, Alterazioni Video and Eli Cortinas.

The trip was improved because of the presence of Kris Latocha, Maureen Paley, Oliver and Florian, Alex Logsdail, Jose and the team from Team, Tobias Wagner, Jesper at V1, Kat from Printed Matter, Alexis Zavialoff, James Fuentes and the Rhine.