Frieze Art Fair, Review
With over 175 of the world’s art galleries exhibiting under one roof, Frieze art fair is notoriously exhausting. Somehow this year it wasn’t, which is quite a telling point for the success of the fair.
With over 175 of the world’s art galleries exhibiting under one roof, Frieze art fair is notoriously exhausting. Somehow this year it wasn’t, which is quite a telling point for the success of the fair.
An installation based exhibition, the Moniker Art Fair runs in Shoreditch’s Village Underground from 11 October. Each artist takes up a designated space to showcase and advertise their work.
Man with a Ball, is opening tomorrow at the Gagosian Gallery. Running until 10 November, this major sculpture exhibition was prepared by Franz West up until his untimely death earlier this summer.
New Sensations is due to open on 9 October. Showcasing the leading graduate talents, New Sensations, developed by the Saatchi Gallery, is aimed at shining a light on the best emerging artists.
Yung Ho Chang, a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture, presents his first retrospective at UCCA, Beijing. The exhibition includes over six installations, 40 models and 270 drawings.
Occupying the top floor of Ikon Gallery is a retrospective collection of the graphic designs pioneered by Tony Arefin. Today, he is celebrated as a transgressor of the graphic design world.
Eric Bainbridge opens his first solo show in over 10 years on 28 September at Camden Arts Centre. The sculptor brings together a series of new sculptural works made from steel amongst other materials.
Landing on Earth, a new exhibition by Milan based American artist and maker, Kris Ruhs, inhabits The Wapping Project during the London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair with three new works.
Let There Be Light at Gazeli Art House, London, brings together a group of works from international artists and design collectives which use the medium of light as their primary means of expression.
Let There Be Light focuses exclusively on artists who use light as a medium to create sculpture and installations, ranging from natural light through stained glass windows to the use of neon tubing.
Samantha Donnelly is known for her experimental assemblage and collage works, which combine awkward and beautiful, overtly feminised materials and images into telling combinations.
This year’s 13th Venice Architecture Biennale provided the backdrop to the British Pavilion’s Venice Takeaway exhibition. Crane.tv interviewed 10 architecture teams from 10 countries.
Artist Kiki Smith exhibits her first UK solo show since 2006 at Timothy Taylor Gallery this October and will feature sculpture, bronze wall reliefs, stained glass, porcelain figures and tapestry.
David Roberts’ private collection of contemporary work is about to go on display at The Hepworth Gallery. To Hope, To Tremble, To Live will be exhibited from 27 October until 3 February.
Homecoming, an exhibition from London based artist Boo Ritson, will be opening on 10 October at the City Arts Center, Eleanor Kirkpatrick Gallery, Oklahoma City and will run until 21 December.
Liverpool Biennial 2012, The Unexpected Guest, is opens tomorrow, 15 September and will run until 25 November. Curated by Sally Tallant, it is the largest contemporary festival in the UK.
Berlinde De Bruyckere is well known for her corporeal sculptures painstakingly created in resin and painted wax and rendered uncanny in their skin-like mimicry. At Hauser & Wirth, London.
Frieze Masters presents a unique perspective on the relationship between old. Frieze Masters speakers: Cecily Brown & Nicholas Penny, Glenn Brown & Bice Curiger, Luc Tuymans & Dominique de Font-Réaulx.
As part of the France – South Africa Seasons, Nirox Foundation in association with Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris will be hosting French artist Alain Clément throughout September.
