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Christian Jankowski, The Finest Art on Water, 2011. Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze |
Okay so said yacht was in fact a specially commissioned artwork by German artist Christian Jankowski but there was still something a tad distasteful about the whole thing. At a time when 12 million people are at risk of starvation in East Africa, when here in the UK we are seeing a massive rise in poverty set to continue for at least the next two years, the surreal world of the super wealthy collector drifts along regardless. There is plenty of beautiful and fascinating work on show this year at Frieze, well worth checking out, but for true spectacle, just take a look at the sheer commercialism of it - remarkable, if slightly nauseating, to behold.