London Art Fair 2012
The 24th London Art Fair showcased a stellar line-up of over 100 galleries from the UK and beyond. The main fair displayed work from well known ‘greats’ such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney as well as leading figures and emerging talent within contemporary art.
These were complemented by the Art Projects section, focusing on new work from younger galleries such as The Residence Gallery, Hannah Berry Gallery, Whitechapel and The Serpentine.
Photo50, London Art Fair’s showcase for contemporary photography was fittingly named The New Alchemists and featured 12 artists who transform, subvert or deface their prints.
David Birkin
Tenderpixel showcases Patrick Tresset's face-sketching robotic sculpture. For Tresset, his cybernetic face-sketcher does not pretend to be human, it is only an 'obsessive drawing entity'.
Damien Hirsts's 'Souls' envelopes several of the artist's well-known concerns: life and death, brutality and the beauty of butterflies.
One of the more sinister works, a life-size Red Riding Hood in mock Ku Klux Klan cloak. Pertwee, Anderson & Gold showcases the kitsch to the creepy.
'Mister Smith', Nylon/Mixed media sculpture from Pertwee, Anderson & Gold
Images by Yvette Chiu
