LONDON — Sometimes, when covering an art fair week you just have to accept the fact that a lot of the work is going to be publicity for the various galleries, booths and auctions that you're covering. But it is with no shame that I inform you of the Helly Nahmad London booth at Frieze Masters, which made a huge publicity grab this year by displaying its art in a stage set: the louche Paris apartment of a fictional character from 1968 called Corrado N., a k a "The Collector" (according to the booth's wall). Instead of, say, against a beige wall, here we have a Lucio Fontana above a fake desk, with a typewriter and an overflowing ash tray. In the living room there are Picassos and Mirós surrounded by Socialist posters, above the black and white television set, itself surrounded by piles of old issues of Paris Match. |
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