I don't know why I took so many photos, as Frieze is so vast and random that it is visually overwhelming. My system of snapping the notices beside work didn't really work, as my camera phone is a bit limited, and so the information and artist names are sadly lacking. However, I did particularly like a few things.
Paul Chan
Matt Braun?
Jim Lambie
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Aris Moore
Jonas Wood
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Draped glass pieces in deep colours were beautiful and stunning - arresting time and motion.
Draped glass pieces in deep colours were beautiful and stunning - arresting time and motion.
Bedwyr Williams. Curator Cadaver Cake
This was hilarious and enjoyable, whilst also repulsive. Membesr of the audience could ask for bits of the body to be cut out, which they then ate.
This was hilarious and enjoyable, whilst also repulsive. Membesr of the audience could ask for bits of the body to be cut out, which they then ate.
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Magli Reus
Magli Reus
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There was something about the well placed elements of this floor sculpture which I really liked. Perfect positioning of ordinary stuff making it meaningful.
There was something about the well placed elements of this floor sculpture which I really liked. Perfect positioning of ordinary stuff making it meaningful.
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Always a good idea for houses.
Always a good idea for houses.
Solid draped curtains.
Thiago Rocha Pitta
Heha Joksi. A matress balanced on vases of flowers. Ephemeral, changing, delicate.
Rachel Whitread
Juergen Teller.This photo is large. It is hilarious and uncomfortable. the man in bed is dead or dying, and the balloons are just so wrong!
there was a video showing artists wearing suits like these - sort of very low tech scifi.
Amidst the market place which is frieze, an idea. Balloons in a ladder.
Gorgeous and elegant. this trail of metal or aluminium. I have something a little like this at home.
Classic light-water experimental piece.
Sugar cubes with tiny holes and lights. A delicious set up.
Interesting again to go to this with a group of OCA students. All split up practically immediately, however met someone doing the drawing module - I think it takes alot of drive to embark on such a thing remotely - especially beginning, sketchbooks, etc. Also had a good talk with one of the MA tutors, Michelle Whiting:
We were discussing the layout of stands and who was most effective. Haven't got a name or picture, but there was a stand, I think from Mexico, who featured one artist, and had several pieces on the wall to take home, large pieces for business spaces, and larger floor pieces you could see in a gallery. It gave the stand a coherence some of the others did not have, and really appealed to all types of collector. Good lesson in display.
Overall, there seemed to be less confrontational art at Frieze this year, and more pieces you could actually imagine living with. There was noticeably less video.
I don't really know why I ever go to Frieze. It's hideous and exhausting, and not a considered place to see what is happening in art, or even in the art market. Fun in a way, but I have never been drawn to crowds.
1st November 2012
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