Lindsey Mendick, Thank You For Placing Up With Me (2023), Carl Freedman, £11,500-£13,500, offered
Lindsey Mendick’s set up of ceramic purses bursting open with octopi, snakes and—within the case of Thank You For Placing Up With Me—spiders are introduced on plinths designed by the artist and adorned with enlarged photographs of mould spores. The works are a immediate to look beneath the floor, on the messy actuality of life.
Misha Kahn, Caterpillar (2023), The Breeder, €28,000
Misha Kahn’s caterpillar, comprised of copper, silk embroidery and solid glass additionally features as a fairly stunning footstool—footwear off solely. Impressed by Kahn’s canine’s close-up view of natural world, the work is put in on a mirrored plinth, giving a glimpse of the bug’s sumptuously rendered underbelly.
Patrick Goddard, Invasion (2023), Seventeen, £25,000, offered to a personal American collector
One thousand snails fabricated from metal and hooked up to the wall with magnets are swarming over Seventeen gallery’s stand. The set up, by Patrick Goddard, satirises and literalises the racist linguistic tropes utilized by, amongst others, former prime minister David Cameron to explain migrants crossing the Mediterranean. As gallery founder David Hoyland places it: “It displays the anxieties and prejudices round immigration, queer liberation and the ‘different’”.
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Nonetheless Life with a Bouquet of Tulips, Rose, Clover and a Cyclamen (round 1609), Johnny Van Haeften, £3.25m
This Dutch still-life features a furry caterpillar, which supplies a vigorous counterpart to a limp sprig of forget-me-not. And may you see the damselfly, a logo of transformation, perched on one of many tulips above?
Jan Van Kessel the Elder, A Flower Nonetheless-Life with Butterflies, Bugs and Small Songbirds (1669), Koetser Gallery, £300,000
Van Kessel revels in an array of slugs and snails parading across the base of this vase. And there are additionally bugs and butterflies aplenty amid the rose petals and climbing the stems. Van Kessel’s work appealed to collectors of useless specimens (pinned on paper), who may gasp with pleasure at an image through which their creepy crawlies come alive.
Jacob van Hulsdonck, Nonetheless Life with a Herring, Cheese and different Comestibles (round 1615-20), Johnny Van Haeften, £950,000
One in every of Van Hulsdonk’s well-known “breakfast items” additionally options some much less edible delights. A big beetle crawls throughout the desk (behind the bread roll), whereas flies have settled on the freshly churned butter and a folded white serviette. The half-eaten and deserted feast is theirs for the taking!
