Harpers Bazaar UK April2020

Angelina

Volk

Helen Cammock

Antony Gormley

Farshid

Moussavi

Iwona Blazwick

Francis Alÿs

Giorgio Guidotti and

Jacqueline Euwe

Eva

Langret

Cheyenne Westphal and

Rebecca Tooby-Desmond

Catherine Petitgas

Renee Odjidja

Grace Wales

Bonner

PHOTOGRAPHS: OLIVER HOLMS, GETTY IMAGES

Art-world A-listers gathered in east London for

a sparkling dinner celebrating creative talent

A spirit of collaborative creativity presided over the Whitechapel

Gallery’s annual Art Icon gala dinner, this year honouring Francis

Alÿs. Held in partnership with Swarovski, the event saw guests

including the fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, Frieze

London’s new artistic director Eva Langret and the Turner Prize

winner Helen Cammock sip champagne amid avant-garde

arrangements of acid-hued orchids, before heading through to

the exhibition space for dinner. Over a feast of burratina with black

olives, roast guinea fowl and mandarin orange pâte de fruit, the

gallery’s director Iwona Blazwick warmly thanked her peers for

being a part of ‘our extraordinary community of art enthusiasts’.

Indeed, the strength of support for the east-London institution

was demonstrated by the calibre of the donated auction lots,

including tea with Tracey Emin in her Margate studio and dinner

at t he nea rby restaura nt Bistrot heque w it h Bla z w ick a nd A ntony

Gormley, who whipped out his pocket-size notepad to sketch his

fellow diners the moment his plate was empty. CB

PL AY ING TO

THE GA LLERY

Edited by CHARLOTTE BROOK