More pictures about the Frieze Art Fair in London.
 photo by Török Viktória 

Playing with Iphones and Blackberries. Frieze Art Fair in London.
photo by Török Viktória

Bold and colourful. Frieze Art Fair in London.
photo by Török Viktória

And the Book Shop of course. Love, love, love. Frieze Art Fair in London.
photo by Török Viktória

Roundtable talk about public and private collections this afternoon at the Art Market Budapest.
From right to left: Barnabás Bencsik, Director of the Ludwig Múzeum, Gábor Pados, Owner of th the
 acb Gallery, Annamária Molnár, Owner of the Molnár Ani Gallery. Péter György aesthete and
Gábor Martos, Editor in Chief of the MúzeumCafé.

 

The Museum of Everything took over the Selfridges this autumn in London.
photo by Török Viktória

You could reach the Ultralounge exhibition space from the street and also from
inside. From the street was more misterious I guess as from inside I had to deal with
the shopping crowd as well. London, Selfridges, The Museum of Everyhting,
photo by Török Viktória

All the windows were dedicated to the exhibition, too. Artworks everywhere.
The pop up space in the Wonder Room became the Shop of Everything where
one could purchase limited edition prints and books. The show ended today...
London, Selfridges, The Museum of Everything, photo by Török Viktória

Grayson Perry: Map of Truth and Beliefs (wool and cotton tapestry) at the Victoria
Miro booth. Frieze Art Fair, London, photo by Török Viktória



Michael Landy's Credit Card Destorying Machine was exhibited last year at
the Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison to celebrate the grand opening.
It made real show at Frieze this year. London, photo by Török Viktória

As is says if you don't need your card, or don't want to spend more you can give
it to the young lady and the machine will destroy it. Actually last year at Vuitton
we had a couple and the husband before buying anything destroyed the card with it.
He said he did not want to spend money in the store. Wise decision - however I am not
sure about the lady. London, Frieze Art Fair, photo by Török Viktória

The machine also makes a little drawing that is signed by the artist. This time
they gave them away to the brave ones who let their cards to be destoyed.
Last year at Vuitton all customers was given one - some even framed it.
Mine is still rolled up somehwere in the apartment.
London, Frieze Art Fair, photo by Török Viktória

Before heading to the Frieze I went to Hoxton to see the Locked Room Scenario by
Ryan Gander. Artangel always makes interesting projects and invites you to hidden places
 in London. This time the show was questioning who are real artists and what is art.
Viewers also had to play a little Sherlock Holmes to put the information together.
photo by Török Viktória

As I read about the show I sort of knew what to expect but still there were
surprises all around the place. So this guy sat on the top of the staircase and
did not want to move. I had to squeeze myself in to enter the door behind him.
The door was locked all I could do is to have a look through the window.

Then I entered the exhibition space: the exhibition seems closed but they still had
 the texts on the walls, and in the room on the left there were boxes with postcards
of the works.

On the other end there were the press releases of the show that was organised
by the Kimberling Gallery - they even made a website of the gallery however
in does not work properly...

There were a couple of dark corridors. It was a little scarry as not all the doors
opened at the other end. Sometimes I had to use my Blackberry to get some
extra light.

Another locked room. Behing the door an Iphone was on the floor with a couple
of magazines and it started to ring. The caller was Spencer Anthony...

In the morning I had a weird text message on my phone: It's in the pocket of
Aston's yellow Macintosh, Spencer A. Well, we found the Macintosh behind
this door...

Next to the building there was a lot of rubbish - they already started to clear the
space after the show...

Some of the rubbish had the address on, and the blue fake fur actually belongs
to one of the sculptures....

Graffiti message on the wall to one of the artists from the show...

Frieze Art Fair, London, 2011, photo by Török Viktória

It was my FRIEZE day with lovely weather in London.

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Oh, what a happy day. Boarding pass printed, ticket for the FRIEZE printed. Luggage is almost done. What else do I need? Heading to London in a day!

Old memories...my old company. Will pop in to say hello!
The Louis Vuitton Maison, New Bond Street, London.
photo by Török Viktória

Writer, painter and a professional boxer - The Gyorgy Roman (1903 - 1981)
Exhibition opened this evening at the MKE (Magyar Kepzomuveszeti Egyetem -
Hungarian University of Fine Arts) Barcsay Hall. Photo by Török Viktória

These drawings were made after WWII. on trials in Hungary.
photo by Török Viktória

The young Gyorgy Roman, Photo by Török Viktória

He was also a professional boxer - at young age he was very skinny so he
decided to be a sportman and he did boxing until his death.
Photo by Török Viktória

My favourite painting at the exhibition: The Little Hussar (1948)
Photo by Török Viktória

.... and a beautiful drawing...

Old and new. His books are also exhibited. Photo by Török Viktória

Sketch books and his notebooks - inside stories and drawings of his dreams.
Photo by Török Viktória

His photographs...
... and a picture of him and his beloved daughter - the top picture on the right.
 Photo by Török Viktória

Inside of the MKE building. Beautiful. Photo by Török Viktória

Early afternoon this Tuesday in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Installation works by
Gyorgy Kovasznai in the Marble Hall and works by William Kentridge at the back in the
Renaissance Hall. Unique experiece. photo by Török Viktória

Lights off - on the way for the Kentridge talk. photo by Török Viktória

After the talk people started to fill up the Renaissance Room.
photo by Török Viktória

William Kentridge at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, photo by Török Viktória

Museum talk this afternoon, Mr Kentridge and Andras Szanto in conversation.
Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, photo by Török Viktória

These are the top five books in my collection. They are neither limited editions nor signed copies – but I still love them for a reason:

1.       Annie Leibovitz: At work

As I do this photography course right now this must be the number one on the list. And just opening the book I found a couple black and white pictures I took in London last Christmas– what a surprise! The book is full of great pictures and her stories about them. A lot of personal and technical information about the making of. Beautiful pictures of wars, celebrities, family members and the last picture of John Lennon.

2.       Hans Ulrich Obrist: Marina Abramovic – The Conversation Series

Marina is my old time favorite and I just love this book. I read it a few times before went to Manchester this year to see her theatre play The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic. I mean I read it a few times since I have the book. It was sort of easy to read these conversations but I had to stop time to time as I felt a little dizzy just event thinking of her performances and how she tested her physical and mental limits. She is truly amazing.

3.       ILLUMINATIONS

Illuminations is the catalogue of the 54^th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale. I selected the book as this was my very first visit to the Biennale. Flicking through the pages brings back all the great memories of the press days. The 10 hours bus drive to Venice, the heat, the excitement of the very first time of entering Giardini and the mosquito bites on my arms and feet.

4.       Crossing the Channel – Friendships an Connections in Paris and London 1946-1965; Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Alberto Giacometti

However I missed the show in the Gagosian in London I decided to buy the exhibition catalogue. The book is a little treasure itself as you look at it. The vintage looking cover, the binding is so unique – and the paper inside! I couldn’t resist.

5.       Tracey Emin: those who suffer love

Messy handwritten poems and a collection of her beautiful monoprints. Not even a proper book more like an exercise-book I guess. You can get it from the White Cube.

It was 2009 winter when I moved to Canary Wharf. I passed by this sculpture every day believing that it was a Christmas tree. Then spring came and summer and the tree was still there. So with my friends we started to call it the crazy roundabout as the tree was in the middle of a roundabout. The traffic lights were on and off all the time and man couldn’t decide which one to follow.

 Just recently I read an article about the best outdoor sculptures in the world  and my tree was on the top 10 list. This is how I learnt that the tree is actually and artwork by French artist Pierre Vivant. Eight meter tall containing 75 sets of lights stands between two plane trees in the middle of the Marsh Wall roundabout. As it says there were three trees standing in the middle of this roundabout but one became ill because of pollution and had to be removed. The sculpture was installed in 1988 and made the roundabout as one of the most popular one among British drivers.  

Pierre Vivant: Traffic Lights Tree, London, Canary Wharf
photo by Török Viktória

I took these pictures just before I left London this year in March. Sort of saying
goodbye to my favourite area, the Docklands and to my crazy roundabout.