Bill Viola at Haunch of Venison, Damien Hirst and Francis Bacon at Gagosian and Rove Gallery
Last night met up with Kirsten and went to the Gagosian gallery in Kings Cross
They had Francis bacon and Damien Hirst – loads of celebs met Bez from Happy Mondays!!
Also Damien was there himself being photo’d a lot.
His work looks really dated already!! Very 90’s does that mean it’s good or bad??
Liked the flies ‘a thousand years”
In the other room were Francis Bacons Triptychs
they where Filmic. Visceral, intense, disturbing,.and worked well all together- didn’t take any photos of the art kept getting told off
No free drink unless you where important and no use of the loo’s apparently unless you where Bez’s girlfriend who came out rubbing her nose.
I ll probably go back to have another look it’s always really hard to have a proper look at a private view.
20th June- 4th August
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Then we went to the Rove gallery Between a rock and a hard place curated by Danny Moynihan- rocks and stones lots of contributors including David Hockney,Damien Hirst,Keith Tyson and many more
More famous people someone from sex in the city and some comedian - didn’t really have time to look at the work took a couple of photos
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20th June – 26th August
Then by cab to Haunch of Venison we’d picked up Calum and Holy by now –
We went to see Bill Viola and this was great not sure how/what he does but its not just slowing the video down its great the two heads going under water and the bubbles –it kinda seduces you I think the more you look the more you become surrounded protected from all the cynical crap( and this being the haunch of venison money/success that’s amazing) beautiful really worth seeing it’s at two venues so not sure how this works we went to the one in town.
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21st June -2nd September
Also met Russell Heron who’s a very nice guy with a great blog which he updates really quickly.
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