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From left: Adel Abdessemed’s Ice Skates, 2010; Linder’s Forgetful Green, 2010; Ortega’s Ortega Building #3, 2009.
Oct 14: Frieze Art Fair
October 2010
This year’s Frieze art fair in London (October 14 to 17) will be the
biggest iteration of the art fair yet—173 galleries from 29 countries
will be represented. The action in the main arena will be all about
blue-chip galleries, but some of the most interesting surprises will
come from the fringe events. Last year Frieze directors Amanda Sharp and
Matthew Slotover introduced Frame, a venue for galleries less than six
years old. Look for Berlin’s Gentili Apri, where youthful duo AIDS-3D
(Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas) show otherworldly wares influenced by
cyber and outer space. Frieze Film commissioned works from four British
artists, including former postpunk fixture Linder and the emergent Jess
Flood-Paddock, whose three-minute film was shot largely on her camera
phone. At the Serpentine gallery in Kensington Gardens, anarchic-minded
New York artist Klara Lidén—best remembered for the destructive 2006
film Bodies of Society, where she takes a long metal rod to a
bicycle—opens her first major UK show. Also making her UK debut is
Paris-based sculptor and installation artist Tatiana Trouvé, at South
London Gallery. Meanwhile, at Whitechapel, Lebanese artist Walid Raad
investigates art within an Arab context, and the Tate Modern’s Turbine
Hall provides an artistic haven for China’s politically persecuted
troublemaker Ai Weiwei. East London galleries stay lit late on October
16 for East End Night—in case you missed out on crowd-pleasing
installation artists Damián Ortega (Barbican Art Gallery), Adel
Abdessemed (Parasol unit), and David Adamo (IBID Projects) during the
day.
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