I love big fairs like the Frieze Art Fair in London. You don’t need to concentrate and to try understanding any piece of art, as you do when you walked a long way to see 5 objects in a remote art gallery, frustrated to not see the obvious beauty in them. No, in the Frieze Art Fair, you just need to give an average concentration spam of half a second per art work, until one is catching your attention. Anyone can find his art, his theme, his interpretation at the Frieze Art Fair. Artists are just useful to provide enough diversity so that every customer can feel happy about himself. It might sound bad, but actually the process is quite enriching. The randomness of stopping in front of one canvas instead of another makes you discover new artists you have never considered before. And you can learn more about their complicated life and theories later, in art magazines and super intellectual galleries who will teach you why you should like their work and why they are superior to average humans.
Here is the stuff that caught my attention this year.
“A Child’s Grove” by Neha Choksi, Project 88,2009
The way the trees reflect nature and people’s activity around them.
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“Your Fade to Light”, Random International, Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Ok, new media art seems out of fashion this year and this work is not even at the Frieze Art Fair, just in the Pavilion of Art and Design annexe event. But the piece is brilliantly executed and the way you see yourself in the ‘pixels’ when you move is very smart.
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This installation was also presented, from Conrad Shawcross.
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The canvases by Erwin Wurm were original and lead to interesting questions. (picture from Frieze 2008, but it’s more or less the same)
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See here plenty of beautiful and poetic paintings by Aya Takano.
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Congratulations to the curators of the greengrassi and Maureen Paley galleries. They managed to make me stop walking for a while with their sensitive selection of art works.
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