Quick Links
Search
Categories
Disclaimer
|
October 15, 2008 19:44 by admin
Adel Abdessemed - 2008
|
LONDON.-
The sixth edition of the leading international contemporary art fair is
sponsored by Deutsche Bank and takes place in London from 16-19 October
2008.
151 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries,
representing 27 countries, will present new work by over 1,000 artists
at Frieze Art Fair. 2008 will see 11 galleries exhibiting at Frieze Art
Fair for the first time, including Juliètte Jongma from Amsterdam, Long
March Space, Beijing, Mary Mary, Glasgow and Vermelho, Sao Paulo.
Taking place in the beautiful setting of Regent’s Park in a large
temporary structure of over 200,000 square foot, Frieze Art Fair 2008
is designed by renowned architects Caruso St John.
Four galleries – Annet Gelink, Hauser & Wirth, Taka Ishii and
Timothy Taylor have all employed architects to design their stands.
Each year the fair’s organisers invite two spaces from developing
centres of art to the fair, in 2008 they are Appetite from Buenos Aires
and PiST from Istanbul.
Eleven artists have been commissioned to create site-specific work
for Frieze Art Fair 2008. This year’s Frieze Projects engage directly
with the ecology of the fair and its surroundings. Working closely with
Caruso St. John, Jeppe Hein has drawn together the artificial
construction of the fair with the natural surroundings of the park in
an installation of subtly animated trees outside the entrance to the
fair. Norma Jeane will present three transparent booths for visitors of
the fair to smoke in. Each smoker will be part of the performance which
is a comment on how the once social activity of smoking has been
transformed through regulation and legislation into something deeply
anti-social. Agnieszka Kurant will present a trio of trained parrots
that have been taught to use an alternative language. Cory Arcangel has
intervened in the fair’s gallery selection process, giving one gallery
unsuccessful in their application to this year’s fair the opportunity
nonetheless to exhibit. Tue Greenfort will excavate a chamber between
gallery stands presenting an installation that is both a space to relax
in and – literally – a distillation of the essence of the visitors to
the fair, with dehumidifiers imperceptibly extracting the moisture from
those who enter. Further projects from Pavel Büchler, Ceal Floyer,
Sharon Hayes, Bert Rodriguez, Allen Ruppersberg and Andreas Slominski
are presented throughout the fair. This year’s European Partners are
MUSAC from Spain who will provide the fair’s own mobile phone ringtone
and Kling and Bang from Iceland who will reconstruct Rejkavik’s famous
Sirkus bar, a favourite with artists and musicians, within the fair.
Icelandic beer will be served. Frieze Projects are curated by Neville
Wakefield and presented in association with Cartier.
Boris Groys, Carsten Höller, Yoko Ono, Raqs Media Collective and
Cosey Fanni Tutti are all part of the international line-up of artists,
philosophers, writers and cultural commentators taking part in the
richly diverse programme of Frieze Talks 2008 which is curated for the
first time by the Co-Editors of frieze Jennifer Higgie and Jörg Heiser
and Associate Editor, Dan Fox. This year’s panels, conversations and
keynote lectures will discuss, illustrate, perform and argue some of
the myriad issues prevailing in the world of art and visual culture
today.
Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto is the winner of the 2008 Cartier
Award. For the fair this year Prieto’s commission is a classic red
carpet, the sort associated with wealth and fame, which will trace a
route through the fair that anyone can follow until it leads out and up
to join the top of a very tall flagpole. The piece is partly a gestural
act that draws a line from the insider world of the art fair to the
outside. The Cartier Award is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s
leading art awards.
For Frieze Art Fair 2008, Frieze Film presents four films created
on YouTube. An experiment in film-making, each three minute film is
created out of elements from hundreds of contributions to an open
submission call for films inspired by the themes of Cormac McCarthy's
2006 novel "The Road". Each film draws on different strands - the
destructive apocalypse, the father son relationship, the bleak
landscape and the road itself. The soundtracks are provided by
underground bands such as Sunn O))) and A Silver Mt. Zion. Each movie
will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the admired 3 Minute Wonder slot from
Monday 13 – Thursday 16 October.
This year the Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair has almost doubled
in size, with sixteen sculptures on show in Regents’ Park’s English
Gardens. Artists presenting work at the 2008 Sculpture Park include
Americans Robert Melee and Michael Craig-Martin, Indian artist Subodh
Gupta, Ugo Rondinone from Switzerland, Norwegian artist Gardar Eide
Einarsson and British artist Harland Miller. Other highlights will
include work by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, Iranian artist Shirazeh
Houshiary and Ângela Ferreira, an artist who was born in Mozambique but
now lives and works in Portugal. For the first time sponsorship by the
Heath Lambert Group, incorporating Blackwall Green, has provided
bursaries enabling innovative and diverse proposals by some
participating galleries that may not otherwise have been realised.
Frieze Education, which takes place annually in the Deutsche Bank
Education Space within Frieze Art Fair, will work with ReachOutRCA (The
Royal College of Art’s Educational Outreach Team) for the first time in
2008 to realise its artist-led programme of events for children and
young people. Aimed at 5-12 year olds, the weekend workshops and an
activity guide inspired by the Frieze Projects programme are both free.
|
Be the first to rate this post - Currently 0/5 Stars.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Related posts
|