ARTinvestment.RU tells about one of the most prestigious contemporary art fairs in the world

C 15 to 18 October in London's Regent's Park will be one of the most prestigious contemporary art fairs - Frieze Art Fair. It will bring together 164 galleries from 30 countries who will present the works of more than 1 000 artists. Among the participants - Moscow gallery "Regina" and XL.

Under Frieze will be plenty of interesting activities, including various lectures and conferences. His views on past, present and future of art will share such famous personalities as a California artist John Baldessari (John Baldessari), British artist, Turner Prize nominee Roger Hiorns (Roger Hiorns), Yongerius designer Hella (Hella Jongeruis), philosopher Silver Lotranzhe (Sylvère Lotringer) and film director Agnes Varda ( Agnès Varda).

Several artists specifically for the Frieze produced original projects. Ewan Ruth (Ruth Ewan) presents its "collection" of nearly 1 500 songs of protest, which will be day and night to play on one of the stands. Ryan Gander (Ryan Gander) will shoot people in the background of the works they like. Photos will be exhibited at the entrance to the fair. Monika Sosnowska (Monika Soshowska) found in the Frieze building a huge metal model of the Warsaw Palace of Culture - Seven Sisters, which is considered to be that kind "cultural meteorite, part of the same culture, forcibly introduced into another. A Saydzhako Stephanie (Stephanie Syjuco) invited to work at one of the stands of several artists who will make from inexpensive materials copies of works presented at the fair.

At Frieze will also be shown a film of the Danish collective Superflex, entitled "Financial Crisis". The filmmakers tried to imagine that the crisis - it is a psychosis which can be treated by hypnosis.

In addition, visitors to Frieze will be able to see the ballet, which composed the music for a famous artist Martin Creed (Martin Creed) - the same one that in 2001 introduced the nominees for the Turner Prize exhibition installation - an empty room in which blinking bulbs. Creed is a member of the rock band Owada, who regularly gives concerts.

Of course, one can not mention Sculpture Park Frieze, which will be exhibited works of authors such as Louise Bourgeois (Louise Bourgeois), Eva Rothschild (Eva Rotschild) and Paul McCarthy (Paul McCarthy). The sculpture of the latter, under the name "Henry Moore fail" will be "live" in the park for six months.

Those who came to London for Frieze, given a chance to see many interesting exhibitions. The gallery Tate Britain, for example, exhibited works of nominees for the Turner Prize . Ibid passes exhibition "Turner and the old masters» . At Tate Modern recently opened an exhibition Pop Life, where you can look at the creation of pop stars of Contemporary Art - Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons), Takashi Murakami (Takashi Murakami), «Young British Artists". In addition, there opened a retrospective of John Baldessari. And in the Turbine Hall of the museum awaits visitors installation of the Polish artist Miroslaw Balka (Miroslaw Balka). The Institute of Contemporary Art show films Rosalind Nashashibi (Rosalind Nashashibi) in the Serpentine Gallery - «auto" works of Gustav Metzger (Gustav Metzger). And in the fund Bluen Louise (Louise Blouin Foundation) on Oct. 16 will host an exhibition of the nominees and winners of Russia's Kandinsky Prize, which was made by well-known curator of Oleg Kulik .

Auction Houses, too, are watchful. Day on October 16 will be bidding works of modern art Sotheby's. Among the top lots - sculpture "Untitled" Anish Kapoor (Anish Kapoor) with the estimate: 600-800 thousand pounds and the painting "The fire flowers" Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jean-Michel Basquiat), estimated at 0,8-1,2 million . The same evening, held an auction Christie's, the main lot of which will be painting "house among the pine trees (are dealt rooms)" Brush, Peter Doig (Peter Doig, estimate 1,5-2 million). September 17 collectors of contemporary art will be able to bid Phillips de Pury, which will be presented Basquiat painting "Day of Pigs" (estimate 0,9-1,2 million), as well as an impressive collection of works by Martin Kippenberger (Martin Kippenberger). In addition, October 15, Phillips will hold an auction "Design". Collectors will be offered to creations of Isamu Noguchi (Isamu Noguchi), Maarten Baas (Maarten Baas), Marc Newson (Marc Newson) and others.

Material prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

Source: friezeartfair.com , artdaily.com , gtate.org.uk , ica.org.uk , serpentinegallery.org , sothebys.com , christies . com , phillipsdepury.com , artinvestment.ru