The art market might be feeling the pinch but, as VIPs queued down Regent’s Park to get into Frieze London on Wednesday morning, the talk of the tent was how the emerging art scene in the capital is back — and even better than in the early 1990s when the infamous YBAs belligerently burst onto the scene.
“London is happening right now, it really is a renaissance,” the art dealer Stuart Shave tells me as collectors begin to stream through the doors and into his solo booth of exquisitely thrown ceramic works by the Russian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Sanya Kantarovsky, macabrely decorated with human entrails and spindly skeletons.
