SIRKUS at FRIEZE!!! 20 October 2008

Last week the annual Frieze Art Fair hit Regent’s park, London with its usual array pr art, parties and some strange Asda stlye lighting which was NOT flattering.

I saw some interesting stuff and some even greater Plastic Surgery work on the faces of the various Hedge Fund Wives.

I loved the Cabinet Art Gallery’s stand. It was an enclosed space filled with projections and collages, that only the sharpest art hunters could find. It was like an alternative Santa’s Grotto, had Santa been a post-modern, ultra hip conceptualist.

However, the mot fabulous thing was the Sirkus Bar. Sirkus is a bohemian artist run bar in Rekjyavic, Iceland. It’s a bit like The George and Dragon in Shoreditch with lots of mad Icelandic folk art paintings on the walls.

It was flown over, brick by brick especially for frieze and had live performances, gabba bands and random wrestling matches to films of people simulating sex.

I had a great time getting twatted on Calpol style shots. It was brilliant. A total slap in the face in the bore of the credit crisis and almost the antithesis of the corporate sponsors of the fair!