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Alec Kronacker

Bloomberg New Contemporaries Opens on Wednesday, 23rd November.

Last year the work that had me swooning and coming over all faint was Alec Kronacker’s work. Love this one pictured and Not Ironing and I think my favourite is Man Pacing Apartment, all 2011. It feels like a nostalgia that’s not personal, like a wished for nostalgia. It makes me feel a little yearning for the new fresh feeling of the 1950s, sitcoms and telephones, clunky analogue and Ektachrome colour. Really want one of these paintings.

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George Condo

Mental States opened at the Hayward last night. Condo’s art is what I consider to be the Real Deal when it comes to fine art. A genius really. Craft and ideas that come together to create incredible effect.

On till 8th January, don’t miss it.

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Frieze Art Fair

Frieze opened last night. Grayson said to me ‘visiting Frieze feels a bit like slowing down on the motorway as you pass a car crash.’ Ha!
People who are too beautiful or too cool, or God help us, a combination of the two can be just as fascinating and chilling for us regular folk as a metallic and flesh bust up. For me then the opening night of Frieze is a fantastic spectacle of people and their obsession with the Image, both their own and what they might then claim for themselves.

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Franco Berardi

‘…social labour is the endless recombination of myriad fragments producing, elaborating, distributing, and decoding signs and informational units of all kind. Every semiotic segment produced by the information worker must meet and match innumerable other semiotic segments in order to form the combinatory frame of info-commodity, semiocapital.’

Are You Working Too Much?, Sternberg Press, 2011

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Desire

This season it’s Miu Miu. A girl sits very still and very quiet, her flesh breeds a sweet sweat that licks her dark candy curls. A snug pearl necklace pinches her pale throat increasing her heat. There’s little in her head but glittery fantasies, she knows what she wants and it’s pink, shiny and just a little bit putrid.