Are you ready to grab the plane or the train to get to Frieze? Here’s our selection of events not to be missed in London during the “Frieze Week”…
What’s to see in London during the Frieze Week? Frieze of course… but not only: firstly because your credit card at some point will surely ask for time out. But mostly because you are there to discover new artists and they are all there, in London, at the same time as you. But unfortunately for your legs, they are not all in the same spot.
Give credit where credit is due: Frieze Art Fair (15-18 October) presents you with a 4-day program guaranteed to keep you from sleep. Make sure you visit the ‘Focus’ section which is comprised of “the most exciting emerging galleries” (according to the press release) and don’t miss the series of lectures, conversations and panel debates ‘Frieze Talks’ : “A forum to discuss some of the most pertinent issues in contemporary art and culture today.”
If your budget (or your taste) has you turning towards multiples, head for the satellite fair Multiplied 2014, hosted by Christie’s South Kensington (85 Old Brompton Road, 17-20 October.) You’ll find both new and established galleries, publishers, artists’ collectives and not-for-profits from across the global art scene, as well as works by recent graduates from London’s leading Arts Universities. Also on the bill: demonstrations of “Live Printing” (from Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printing to 3D printing) and a whole program of related talks.
On east London’s Brick Lane, the Old Truman Brewery hosts two other fairs: The Other Art Fair (16-19 October) which exhibits “undiscovered artists” selected by a very prestigious panel (made up of Anita Zabludowicz, Founding Director of the Zabludowicz Collection; Omar Kholeif, Curator at Whitechapel Gallery; Sophie O’Brien, Senior Curator at the Serpentine Gallery; and illustrious taxidermy artist Polly Morgan) and the Moniker Art Fair, specializing in contemporary art with its roots embedded in urban culture. If you are seriously considering remainting seatedmore than 10 minutes, then don’t miss the conference, Saturday at 14h, on “Buying and Selling Art Online.”
And if your legs are pleading with you to keep still until help arrives, grab a cab to the Old Selfridges Hotel (1 Orchard Street, London W1H 6HQ) and attend the series of talks entitled “Do you follow? Art in Circulation” (15, 16 and 17 October,) presented by ICA in collaboration with Rhizome, which examines the ways in which internet circulation has affected art practice and art’s function.
One man’s trash (is another man’s treasure): It’s under this title that Nigerian collector Theo Danjuma is unveiling – for the first time – part of his collection of contemporary art, in a Georgian house located at 33 Fitzroy Square. Visitors will discover a selection of international contemporary artists (of which the Africans Nicholas Hlobo, Julie Mehretu, Moshekwa Langa and Emeka Ogbohde) and several works made up of found materials – hence the name of the exhibit.
Danh Voh, Alphabet (J), 2011. Photo courtesy of the Danjuma Collection © the artist.
Finally, you should know that everyone will talk about the inaugural exhibition of the Marian Goodman Gallery (5-8 Lower John Street) which will feature more than 40 works by German artist Gerhard Richter. And if after all that your sense of humor has not totally abandoned you, drop by the Victoria Miro gallery (16 Wharf Road) where you can admire the latest series by American artist Eric Fischl, ‘Art Fair Paintings’: large canvasses representing… the art fair crowds or, in the words of the artist, “people in various relationships to each other or to the art, usually ignoring it, sometimes looking at their phones”.
Art Fair: Booth #4 The Price (oil on linen, 2013), Eric Fischl
