Fairy Tale Ending
WHILE OTHERS angled for last-jiffy flights from Berlin, my Art Basel heated-up consisted of a full night’s snore chased with champagne and a visit to Droog at the Monday afternoon advance showing of Design Miami/Basel. It would have been close to stick around and enjoy the smartly dressed callers, but staying put wasn’t on the agenda. A substitute alternatively, I set off for the opening of Liste, a less well-heeled at any rate, if only because everyone knows stilettos are no match for the iron-fret stairwells of the labyrinthine Werkraum Warteck, the longtime venue for the “teenaged art fair” that is now celebrating its fifteenth year.
Burgweg lane was packed with beer and bratwurst in the honest and familiar art-kegger format. Out on the veranda, Amsterdam’s ZINGERpresents offered an archive of works exploring masculinity, while upstairs A. L. Steiner and A. K. Burns’s video at Taxter + Spengemann was raising more eyebrows (among other things) than Christian Marclay ’s guitar porn at Art Unbounded. “I don’t mind the fisting so much,” one viewer claimed, squirming back into the hallway. “It’s merely that when they start sewing each other’s faces . . . ”
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