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 london art fairs 2007
Art frenzy.  see peres projects image gallery  see mogadishni image gallery  see jeff bailey image gallery If you don’t like art and you live in the south-east, stay at home in October. This month, London goes officially art crazy. Alongside Frieze, every year a few more art galleries are added to the list. It’s a good chance to check out work from private galleries from around the world that you wouldn’t normally get a peek at. A glimpse of work from Javier Peres’ oh-so-cool Peres Projects at Frieze is a serious attraction. The gallery has some of the year’s hottest artists in its roster. This is the home of hot NYC names like Terence Koh, Dash Snow, Dan Colen, as well as some worthy in-your-face girls like Agathe Snow and Amie Dicke. Expect some wrestling with death, sex and heavyweight visceral subjects.  Ladies & Gentlemen by Matt Greene and May Day by Mark Shetabi (bth detail). The nearby Zoo Art Fair is often filled with more vibrant and interesting work than the über-art supermarket of Frieze. Copenhagen’s Mogadishni shows work with a psychedelic aesthetic, including paintings by Danish artists Benny Dröscher, as well as some seriously colourful Brit painters like Simon Keenleyside and Will Turner. Across town by the river, Year 07 is establishing itself as a worthy third party. Culver City’s outsider, Sixspace, is definitely worth a look, as is the Jeff Bailey Gallery from NYC. Search out fantasy-filled pieces by John Rappeleye and Julia Randall, whose lush, sexualised lip paintings walk the boundaries of disgusting and delightful. Bambarella by Rebecca Stevenson and A strong presence beneath the trees (1) by Benny Dröscher (detail). There’s also a hell of a lot of other things around the city worth checking out. The Fine Art Society is putting on a fascinating show (until 10 Nov) on major artists’ unfinished or unrealised artworks. It includes pieces that haven’t been created by Jake & Dinos Chapman, Gavin Turk and Keith Tyson. The whole fall-of-Rome, debauched side of art is made obvious with Decadence, Decay And The Demimonde, a show including work by Tracey Emin, Julie Verhoeven, Francesca Lowe and Heather & Ivan Morison which is kicking off with a private party worthy of the Borgias. After all, the excess of the art world is half its attraction.
Francesca Gavin
Frieze and Year 07 run until 14 October 07, Zoo Art Fair until 15 October 07.
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