Frieze week is in full flow and yesterday’s fair rounded off with yet another exclusive afterparty, this time at House of Koko in partnership with Stone Island. Frieze director Eva Langret and Frieze Masters director Nathan Clements-Gillespie played party hosts as guests arrived. The pair were out to celebrate their hard work, and Langret told us she was very pleased with the fair’s success.
We did a loop through the labyrinthine members club and found artists Wolfgang Tillmans and Jeremy Deller chewing the metaphorical fat and eating some actual sweetcorn salad. Naturally we pulled up a chair. Despite the Frieze directors high-fiving, Deller told us he won’t be going to Frieze London, which he called “the other Frieze.” Ouch. “A lot of what’s there will disappear. At least at Masters you know you’re there with things that have made the grade,” he said.
