Frieze Foundation: Frieze Projects East open as part of London 2012 Festival.

Frieze Foundation: Frieze Projects East open as part of London 2012 Festival.

David Burlak, 3rd November 2012

“bringing together leading artists from across the world”

Ruth Ewan, Liberty of Savoy, 2012 © Frieze Fair london

On the occasion of the Frieze Art Fair London 2012, it worth to talk about the Frieze Projects East that was Frieze Foundation’s first curated and produced programme in public spaces. Opened on 18th July 2012, Frieze Projects Eastwas a series of six new public art projects that form part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad.

The artists that took part in Frieze Projects East are: Can Altay, Sarnath Banerjee, Anthea Hamilton & Nicholas Byrne, Gary Webb and Klaus Weber, as well as Ruth Ewan, the recipient of the CREATE art award. The series has been programmed by Frieze Foundation curator Sarah McCrory.

Frieze Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in 2003 and had since produced 97 new works from 132 artists. It is responsible for the curated programme at Frieze Fair. Together with Frieze Projects, the Foundation oversees Frieze Talks, Frieze Music, Frieze Education and Frieze Film. In 2011 Frieze Foundation introduced the Emdash Award.

The Frieze Projects East have taken place in the six east London Host Boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic and

Gary Webb, Squeaky Clean, 2012, © Frieze Fair London

Paralympic Games: Barking & Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.

Frieze Projects East was commissioned by CREATE and The London 2012 Festival. The series received significant funding support from the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor and Arts Council England.

CREATE commissions and produces work by emerging local artists and established international figures, and brings east London’s young residents behind the scenes with a programme of workshops, skills development and job placements. CREATE 2012’s main sponsor is Deutsche Bank.

Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne, LOVE, 2012 © Frieze Fair London

Sarah McCrory has been the curator for Frieze Foundation since late 2009 and has been responsible for the Projects and Film at Frieze London for the past three years. She said of the new series: ‘For the first time Frieze Foundation is producing a number of projects outside Frieze Art Fair. Frieze Projects East is to take place in the Olympic host boroughs of east London, where Frieze is based and in which many of us live. The projects have relationships with the communities in which they are based but stay true to the artists’ vision and ambition.’

Ruth Mackenzie, Director of Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival, remarked: ‘We’re delighted to be a co-commissioner of Frieze Projects East, which is one of the highlights of the London 2012 Festival.’

Hadrian Garrard, CREATE Director, observed: ‘CREATE works to connect artists with the communities of east London in ambitious, surprising and meaningful ways. So we are delighted to be working with Frieze Foundation and bringing their internationally- renowned programme to east London for the first time.’

The London 2012 Festival was a 12-week nationwide celebration that running until 9 September bringing together leading

Can Altay, Distributed, 2012 © Frieze Fair London

artists from across the world with the best from the UK.

The CREATE 2012 summer programme has run until the end of August and featured new commissions and artistic collaborations in numerous venues across east London. The CREATE Art Award is the largest participatory art award in the UK and is sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Can Altay (b. 1975) is a Turkish artist based in Istanbul. Can Altay’s artwork, “Distributed”, were found distributed across key buildings in Waltham Forest. Over twenty large mirror-ball like sculptures were placed on doors. The works were intended to be touched, used and handled by the local communities that live and work in Waltham Forest. Accompanying the artwork, a series of discursive pamphlets will be published and distributed. Altay’s temporary residence at the William Morris Gallery during August will consist of workshops and talks discussing and recording reactions to the artwork.

Sarnath Banerjee (b. 1972) is an Indian artist based in New Delhi and Berlin. Sarnath Banerjee presented “Gallery of Losers, (Non-performers, almost-winners, underachievers, almost-made-its)”. His graphic illustrations will be presented across

Sarnath Banerjee, Gallery of Losers, 2012 © Frieze Fair London

posters, billboards, local newspapers and hoardings throughout the Olympic boroughs. Banerjee’s humorous graphic narratives reference and draw on the shared history of competitive sport, from the personal to the universal, and the local to the international. The stories depict his own failed forays into amateur sports, alongside better known partial successes in Olympic history. Banerjee’s work taps into a collective consciousness of sporting near misses – or, the people who almost made it – and aims to resonate with both local communities and visitors to the London 2012 games.

Anthea Hamilton (b. 1978) and Nicholas Byrne (b. 1979) are British artists based in London. Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne presented “Love”. They inhabited Poplar Baths with large brightly coloured suspended and free-standing inflatable sculptures. Referencing the famous LOVE sculpture by American artist Robert Indiana, Byrne and Hamilton’s installation also draws on the visual languages of art deco – inspired by the period in which the building was re-opened as a vibrant bathhouse, music hall and theatre. The inflatables incorporate influences from advertising, popular culture, psychedelia and an underlying cheeky sexuality. Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne’s collaboration extends the duo’s interest in the theatrical and sensory experience of art. The project allowed visitors to access the spectacular art deco interior of Poplar Baths which first opened in 1852. Rebuilt in the 1930s as a huge sport, health and leisure complex; the baths has been closed to the public since the early 1980s.

Gary Webb (b. 1973) is a British artist based in London. Gary Webb’s “Squeaky Clean”, the commission for Frieze Projects East has seen the construction of a permanent and interactive public sculpture that installed within the popular community Charlton Park, Greenwich. Built from steamed wood, polished aluminium and cast resin, the work combines brightly coloured and large-scale public sculpture with elements of modular playground equipment. Webb’s sculptural exploration into material and form and his E-number saccharine colour-palette is available for children to clamber on as a living artwork.

Klaus Weber (b. 1967) is a German artist based in Berlin. Klaus Weber presented “Sandfountain” in Newham. His

Klaus Weber, Sandfountain, 2012 © Frieze Fair London

commission was a distinctive take on a traditional way to artificially ornament a site. ‘Sandfountain’ took the form of a traditional three-tiered fountain but will be engineered to propel sand rather than water. The artist has made several previous fountain projects. Like them, ‘Sandfountain’ is part visual-pun, part spectacle, both confounding our material expectations and emphasising its own artifice.

Ruth Ewan (b. 1980) is a British artist based in London. Ruth Ewan has won the CREATE Art Award for “The Liberties of the Savoy”. Artist Ruth Ewan has been working with a group of creative mentors and more than 200 young people from across east London to create “The Liberties of the Savoy”, drawing inspiration from events that took place in 14th-century London. On 17 July, young people from across the six Olympic host boroughs travelled to The Savoy’s Lancaster Ballroom to create a unique event inspired by the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Throughout the planning and execution of the event, the young participants have been made responsible for every aspect of the project including the menu, music, performance, design and transport. They are temporarily granted Liberties of the Savoy for one afternoon. The event is exclusively for the participants while the process and final event will be documented on film and in print.

Frieze Art Fair London 2012: artist commissions projects and the Emdash Award.

Frieze Art Fair London 2012: artist commissions projects and the Emdash Award.

David Burlak, 3rd November 2012.

“a unique programme of artists’ commissions”

Cécile B. Evans, This Is Your Audio Guide, 2012, Ph. Polly Braden, Courtesy of Polly Braden/ Frieze

Frieze Art Fair London 2012 has seen a number of artist’ commissioned projects carried out for Frieze Foundation and supported by Emdash Foundation. The winner of the Emdash Award was Cécile B. Evans. Frieze Projects is a unique programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze Art Fair. Frieze Projects is curated by Sarah McCrory and supported by the Emdash Foundation with additional support from Maharam.

The Emdash Award for emerging artists living outside the UK is a major initiative in collaboration with Gasworks and supported by the Emdash Foundation.

The artists commissioned to create five site-specific works for Frieze Art Fair London 2012 were: Thomas Bayrle, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, DIS magazine, Grizedale Arts / Yangjiang Group and Joanna Rajkowska.

The Frieze Projects programme includes an examination of the use-value of art by Grizedale Arts and Yangjiang Group in the form

Asli Çavusoglu, Murder in Three Acts, 2012, Ph. Polly Braden, Courtesy of Polly Braden/ Frieze

of a structure that acts as a forum for a number of artists who produce food, chaotic dining events, performances, and talks. The work was titled: “Colosseum of the Consumed” (2012). It had different variations and a dinner for red- headed – persons was subtitled “Ginger Dinner with Margot Henderson”.

In contrast, Joanna Rajkowska’s work invited contemplation and reflection by transforming an area of Regent’s Park into a field of smoking incense, which was titled: ‘Forcing a Miracle’ (2012).

Aslı Çavuşoğlu’s recreation of a crime drama scene found unlikely parallels between the production of murder mysteries and decisions made whilst making art. A reproduction of a crime scene, his work was titled “Murder in three acts” (2012).

DIS Magazine, Red, Yellow and Blue, 2012, Ph. Polly Braden, Courtesy of Polly Braden/ Frieze

DIS magazine’s unique approach to the production of imagery was a response to the fair and the title was “Red, Yellow and Blue” (2012) and it is a picture by Eric Wesley (Bortolami Gallery, F11) presenting JW Anderson suit, Delfina Delettrez necklace and bag, Jean Paul Gaultier dress, Kenzo shoes.

A design by Thomas Bayrle was dramatically woven into the fabric of the fair, such as it was difficult to be distinguished by some people. The title was: ‘Sloping Loafers / Smooth’ (2012)

The winner of the Emdash Award 2012 is the Belgian/American artist Cécile B. Evans, who is based in Berlin. Evans’ winning proposal takes the form of an audio guide to Frieze London accompanied by a holographic ‘host’. The audio guide featured a panel of notable non-art experts. The tile was: “This Is Your Audio Guide” (2012).

Curated by Sarah McCrory, Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze London.

Grizedale Arts & Yangjiang Group, Colosseum of the Consumed – Ginger Dinner with Margot Henderson, 2012, Ph. Polly Braden, Courtesy of Polly Braden/ Frieze

Sarah McCrory has been the curator for Frieze Foundation since late 2009 and has been responsible for the Projects and Film at Frieze London for the past three years. In 2009 McCrory, with Curator Daniel Baumann was a Frame advisor and has previously worked in not-for-profit and commercial galleries. McCrory is known for her support and work with emerging, young and underrepresented artists.

Emdash Foundation was founded by Andrea Dibelius in 2010, and supporting Frieze Projects for the second year, the Emdash Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to promoting new ideas across disciplines from artistic and cultural projects to scientific research. The em dash indicates a pause to reflect and to review – before a clear statement often taking a new direction, follows. Just like the em dash, the Emdash Foundation facilitates new ideas, new impulses and new thoughts. Emdash Foundation’s activities are motivated by philanthropy, a love for the arts and a commitment to supporting new ideas and emerging talent. The Emdash Foundation will aim to support artists on a long-term basis.

Joanna Rajkowska, Forcing a Miracle, 2012, Ph. Polly Braden, Courtesy of Polly Braden/ Frieze

Frieze Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in 2003. Frieze Foundation is responsible for the curated programme at Frieze Fair. Together with Frieze Projects, the Foundation oversees Frieze Talks, Frieze Music, Frieze Education and Frieze Film. Last year the Foundation will introduced the Emdash Award which is annually presented to an international emerging artist. Since 2003 Frieze Foundation has produced 97 new works from 132 artists.

Frieze Art London was another successful event packed with visitors. Frieze London confirmed to be the leading

Thomas Bayrle, Sloping Loafers / Smooth, 2012, Ph. Polly Braden, Courtesy of Polly Braden/ Frieze

international contemporary art fair. Frieze London is a carefully selected presentation of 175 of the most forward thinking contemporary galleries and presented new work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists. This year the fair was once again housed in a bespoke temporary structure, in Regent’s Park, designed by architects Carmody Groarke.

Frieze London is directed by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, who founded it in 2003.

From 11th until 14th October 2012 at Regent’s Park, London.

Frieze Art Fair London 2012 supported the Outset Art Fund for Tate.

Frieze Art Fair London 2012 supported the Outset Contemporary Fund for Tate.

David Franchi,  2nd November 2012

“a charitable foundation focused on supporting new art”

Nicholas Hlobo, Balindile, 2012 © ph. by Linda Nylind, courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze

Frieze Art Fair London 2012 has supported the Outset Frieze Fair for Tate Collection. The Frieze Foundation, instead, has presented a consistent programme of Talks, Artists’ commissions, Film and Music projects.

With Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover as Directors – also founders – Frieze Art Fair London 2012 was arranged with the Main Gallery, Focus and Frame sections, the newly inaugurated Frieze Masters and the Sculpture Park.

This is the tenth year of the unique partnership between Outset, Frieze and Tate. Based on the generosity of Outset Fund, a charitable foundation focused on supporting new art, the fund enables Tate to buy important works at the fair for the national collection.

Directed by Candida Gertler and Yana Peel, the Outset Contemporary Art Fund is a philanthropic organisation dedicated to helping new art by bringing private funding from their patrons, partners and trustees to public museums and art projects.

With a fund that has totalled over £1million over the duration of the partnership, 90 works by 60 significant international artists have been collected since 2003.

The Fund is organized and financed by Outset Contemporary Art Fund and supported by Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts. The donors to Outset have a particular interest in enabling Tate’s acquisition of emerging and international art.

Each year Tate invites two international curators to work as part of the selection panel for the Fund. The 2012 Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund guest selectors were: guest selectors Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and Franklin Sirmans, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA. They were joined by Tate curators Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art; Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art; Tanya Barson, Curator, International Art and Clarrie Wallis, Curator, Contemporary British Art.

The following works have been acquired as gifts to the Tate Collection thanks to The Outset /Frieze London Fund to benefit the Tate Collection:

• Hideko Fukushima (1927-1997) Ko 8, 1963, Oil on canvas, 96.5 × 96.5 cm, from Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo;
• Nicholas Hlobo (born 1975) Balindile I, 2012, Inner rubber tube, ribbons, canvas, hosepipe, steel, 160 × 50 cm (dimensions variable), from Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg;
• Caragh Thuring (born 1972) Arthur Kennedy, 2012, Oil and graphite on linen, 121.9 × 182.9 cm, from Thomas Dane Gallery, London;
• Jack Whitten (born 1939) Epsilon Group II, 1977, Oil on canvas, 161.3 × 161.3 cm, from Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp.

Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “In its tenth year, Frieze continues to be a fair in which we can all make discoveries of emerging and re-emerging artists. This year, the purchases range from rediscoveries such as Fukushima and Whitten, to an artist showing in the first gallery from Africa to be present at the Fair and a younger British painter. We are delighted to be celebrating the10th anniversary of the Fund and we are grateful to Outset for their continuing and very valuable support.”

The Sistine Chapel 500 year’s anniversary and the Raphael Cartoons in London.

The Sistine Chapel 500 year’s anniversary and the Raphael Cartoons in London.

Gregory Hilde Brand, 1st November 2012

“Raphael Cartoons are on show at the V&A Museum in London”

Sistine Chapel, The creation of Adam, particular, Michelangelo Buonarroti, courtesy Wikipedia

Wandering around Italy in these days, you can be overwhelmed by the news about the celebration for the 500 years of the inauguration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo.The very famous ceiling frescos, in fact, were unveiled the 31st October 1512. These images are in between the most famous in the world. Everyone has seen, at least once in his life, the image of the two fingers getting closer, a particular taken from “The creation of Adam”.

Italy is inundated with news of the Sistine Chapel celebration, also a way to enhance the low appreciation the Vatican faces in these days.

However, it is undoubtable the Sistine Chapel is a marvellous patrimony of the world, one of the primary functions of which is as a venue for the election of each successive pope in the Conclave of the College of Cardinals.

The 31st October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI presided at the celebration of Vespers in the Sistine Chapel, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the inauguration of the ceiling painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512.

Pope Julius II, who entrusted the decoration of the vault (1,100 square metres) to the sculptor of the Pieta, celebrated the completion of the work with the solemn rite of Vespers on All Saints’ Day, 31st October 1512.

The story of the Sistine Chapel starts in the XV Century. The return of the pontiffs in Rome, after the period in Avignon (France), marked a reconstruction time for the capital city of the Christianity, ruined and devastated by the civil wars.

Pope Sixtus VI worked on renovating Rome and culminated in the restoration of the Palatine Chapel of the Apostolic Palaces – aka the Vatican Palaces, residence of the Pope in Rome- that took its name of Sistine Chapel (Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum) from the pope’s name.

The architectonic project of the chapel was made by Baccio Pontelli. It has been built under the supervision of Giovannino de’ Dolci, between the 1477 and 1481, and consecrated in 1483.

The Sistine Chapel is a rectangular brick building, exteriorly unadorned. The internal measurements are 40.9 metres (134 ft) long by 13.4 metres (44 ft) wide—the dimensions of the Temple of Solomon, as given in the Old Testament. The vaulted ceiling rises to 20.7 metres (68 ft).

The interior presents a screen, or transenna, in marble by Mino da Fiesole, Andrea Bregno, and Giovanni Dalmata, who also provided the

Michelangelo Buonaroti, The last judgement, complete view, Vatican Gallery, Sistine Chapel, courtesy Wikipedia

cantoria, or projecting choir gallery.

The internal walls are divided into three main tiers. The lower is decorated with frescoed wall hangings in silver and gold. The central tier of the walls has two cycles of paintings, which complement each other.

The decoration was started by Perugino, and Piermatteo D’Amelia decorated the ceiling. In the meantime Lorenzo de’ Medici, ruler of Florence, as a part of the reconciliation project between him and his enemies of the Pazzi Conspiracy (1478), offered his help for the decoration of the chapel, including sending to Rome artists who left Florence on 27th October 1480.

The group of Florentine was composed by Sandro Botticelli, Cosimo Rosselli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and their assistants Pinturicchio, Piero di Cosimo e Bartolomeo della Gatta. They joined Perugino, who was perhaps the superintendent of the whole decoration. They started to work in the Sistine Chapel in the spring of 1481. Later on, Luca Signorelli replaced Perugino.

In 1504, for soil problems the Sistine Chapel was damaged, and once restored the ceiling needed to be redecorated. Pope Julius II wanted to commission Michelangelo Buonarroti, who signed the contract in 1508.

The decoration was terminated the 31st October 2012. Michelangelo was helped by Bramante for the scaffolding. The frescoes were subject to fungus attack but an assistant of Michelangelo, Jacopo l’Indaco, created a special mix that remained in the Italian builder’s tradition.

Furthermore, Pope Clement VII commissioned to Michelangelo the decoration of the wall above the altar with The Last Judgement, 1537–1541. There was a strong dispute between Michelangelo and Cardinal Carafa, who accused the artist of immorality and obscenity because he painted naked people.

Therefore, after Michelangelo’s death Daniele da Volterra was hired to cover the genitals in Last Judgment with vestments and loincloths. This earned him the nickname “Il Braghettone” (“the breeches maker”). In 1994 restoration, they have been partially removed but only on 38 minor figures and causing many protests.

And here is the connection with the UK – and this website. In 1515, Raphael was commissioned by Pope Leo X to design a series of ten tapestries to hang around the lower tier of the walls. The full-size preparatory cartoons for seven of the ten tapestries, known as the Raphael Cartoons, are on show at the V&A Museum in London. The fate of the other three cartoons is unknown.

Due to their large size, Raphael tapestries were woven in four years in the shop of Pieter van Aelst (Brussels). Their first delivery was in 1517, and seven were displayed in the Chapel for Christmas in 1519. Raphael’s tapestries were looted during the Sack of Rome in 1527 and were either burnt for their precious metal content or were scattered around Europe. In the late 20th century, a set was reassembled and displayed again in the Sistine Chapel in 1983, and used during occasional important ceremonies.

The seven Raphael Cartoons were bought from a Genoese collection in 1623 by Sir Francis Drake on behalf Charles I of England. He only paid £300 for them, probably they were considered as working designs rather than works of art. Charles I, in fact, made further tapestries from them at Mortlake but he was well aware of their artistic significance. They had been cut into long vertical strips a yard wide, as was required for use on low-warp tapestry looms, and were only permanently rejoined in the 1690s at Hampton Court. In Charles’ time they were stored in wooden boxes in the Banqueting House, Whitehall. They were one of the few items in the Royal Collection withheld from sale by Oliver Cromwell after Charles’ execution.

William III commissioned Sir Christopher Wren and William Talman to design the “Cartoon Gallery” at Hampton Court Palace in 1699, especially to contain them. In 1763, when George III moved them to the newly bought Buckingham House (now Buckingham Palace) there were protests in Parliament by John Wilkes and others, as they would no longer be accessible to the public (Hampton Court had long been open to visitors). In 1804 they were returned to Hampton Court, and in 1865 Queen Victoria decided that the cartoons should be exhibited on loan at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, where they are still to be seen in a specially designed gallery.

The celebration of 500 years of Sistine Chapel marks that a piece of history is available to people, as every year 6 million of tourists visits the place.

A solid programme of Talks at Frieze Art Fair London 2012.

A solid programme of Talks at Frieze Art Fair London 2012.

David Franchi, 31st October 2012

“daily programme of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions”

John Waters in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, Frieze London Talks, 2012, ph. Polly Braden, courtesy Polly Braden / Frieze

Frieze Art Fair London 2012 has presented a consistent programme of Talks, that went alongside with Artists’ commissions, Film and Music projects, all supported by Frieze Foundation, together with Outset Frieze Fair for Tate Collection.

Frieze Art Fair London 2012 was arranged with the Main Gallery, Focus and Frame sections and the newly inaugurated Frieze Masters. Furthermore, as a part of Frieze Fair, the Sculpture Park was organised.

Brian O’Doherty, Tino Sehgal, Sturtevant, Lynne Tillman, Marina Warner and John Waters are all part of the line-up of international artists, filmmakers, curators and cultural commentators who has taken part in Frieze Talks 2012.

Frieze Talks is a daily programme of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions featuring leading art-world figures, philosophers, and critical theorists that take place in the auditorium at Frieze London. It is presented by Frieze Foundation and programmed by the editors of Frieze Magazine: Dan Fox, Jörg Heiser and Jennifer Higgie.

The diverse Frieze Talks 2012 programme included Sturtevant in conversation with John Waters on the subject of ‘stupidity’; Tino Sehgal talked about his relationship to conceptualism, choreography and the art object with Jörg Heiser; and Kasper König, co-founder of Sculpture Projects Munster and director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne since 2000, discussed with Jochen Volz, newly appointed as Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, London and a contributing editor to Frieze, his five decades of curating.

Frieze Talks 2012 also included three panel discussions focusing on current debates in contemporary art and theory. Led by writers Isobel Harbison, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie and Brian Dillon, topics included: ‘Deeply Superficial’, an analysis of the aesthetic and economic phenomenon of the stock image as source material for art; ‘Being Difficult’, looking at how refusal can define responsibility within the context of the Middle East; and ‘Attention! Criticism and its Distractions’, which considered what kinds of concentration, are at work in art criticism today. Panel participants included: Lauren Cornell, Orit Gat, Hassan Khan, Vasıf Kortun, Oliver Laric, Alex Provan and Marina Warner, Martin Westwood and Akram Zaatari.

Keynote lectures were given by artist, critic and novelist Brian O’Doherty, who discussed the evolution of his ideas and the role of creativity and research in this work, and critic and novelist Lynne Tillman, who has spoken about the under-examined relationship between imagination and criticism.

Jennifer Higgie said of the programme: ‘We are thrilled to host the extraordinary artists, curators, writers and filmmakers taking part in Frieze

John Waters in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, Frieze London Talks, 2012, ph. Polly Braden, courtesy Polly Braden / Frieze

Talks this year. We look forward to welcoming you to the auditorium to take part in what promises to be a lively and fascinating four days of debate and discussion.’

Access to Frieze Talks 2012 was included in the Frieze London admission ticket.

Frieze Magazine is published eight times a year and is acclaimed for its insightful criticism, original articles and stylish design. Frieze is one of the world’s leading publications on contemporary art and culture and has been established for over 20 years.

Frieze Art Fair London was founded in 2003 by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp.

Frieze Foundation is the organisation that produces the curated programmes in and around Frieze London: Artist Commissions, Education, Frieze Projects, Frieze Talks and Frieze Film. It is supported by the Emdash Foundation and the Arts Council England. Frieze Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in 2003. Since its creation it has produced 97 new works from 132 artists.

From 11th to 14th October 2012, at Regent’s Park, London.

Film and Music of the Frieze Art Fair London 2012.

Film and Music of the Frieze Art Fair London 2012.

David Franchi, 29th October 2012

“presented a curated programme”

Frieze Art Fair 2012 London, external image, Ph. Linda Nylind Courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze

Frieze Art Fair London 2012 has presented a curated programme of Talks, Artists’ commissions, Film and Music projects, supported by Frieze Foundation, together with Outset Frieze Fair for Tate Collection. Frieze Art Fair London 2012 was organised on the main gallery section, Focus and Frame sections and the newly inaugurated Frieze Masters. Furthermore, as a part of Frieze Fair, the Sculpture Park was organised.

Frieze Music was established to develop the crossover between contemporary art and music. Frieze Music was originally created by Dan Fox, Senior Editor of Frieze Magazine, and Steve Mackey, producer and musician. Frieze Music’s varied programme has featured bands, avant-garde classical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and pop series, such as that co-ordinated by Franz Ferdinand in 2004. Frieze Music has taken place during the week of the fair and attracted a wide audience.

Frieze Film is a programme of artist films screened to coincide with Frieze London. Curated by Sarah McCrory, this year’s commissions included five new films. The whole programme at Frieze Art Fair London 2012 was curated by Sarah McCrory, who did it also in 2011 and 2010.

The artists commissioned to make new work for Frieze Film are: Bertrand Dezoteux, Patricia Esquivias, Jimmy Merris, John Smith and Wu Tsang & Nana Oforiatta-Ayim.

This year’s commissioned artists presented a range of film-based practice that deals with ideas including those of history and memory, be it personal or collective. The way narrative is conveyed and constructed around individuals, buildings or objects and place is a theme that runs through the programme via imagined journeys, fictitious events and romantic relationships.

Commenting on Frieze Film this year, Sarah McCrory said: “The five newly commissioned artists have varied practices and backgrounds, and are both emerging and established artists. There are some connections between the humour in John Smith and Jimmy Merris’ work, and an investigation into place takes two wildly different directions in the work of Patricia Esquivias and Bertrand Dezoteux. Wu Tsang is presenting a new film in collaboration with writer and historian Nana Oforiatta-Ayim – a first time collaboration uniting their interests in otherness and the marginal.”

Frieze Film is commissioned and produced by Frieze Foundation. The tenth edition of Frieze London is sponsored for the ninth consecutive year by Deutsche Bank.

Bertrand Dezoteux

Bertrand Dezoteux’s film The History of France in 3D is a CGI animation project that presents a non-chronological history of France. The narrative structure of the film follows a journey on the French rail network in a train peopled with significant characters from French history, among them Roland Barthes, Jules Michelet and Juliette Foucault, the chief conductor of the train. Christopher Columbus and Saint Francis of Assisi will also get on board in Le Mans. Rather than being specifically about France, Dezoteux’s film suggests that France exists both as a tangible territory and as a virtual entity. Dezoteux describes The History of France in 3D as a journey ‘in a synthetic world that is “made of France”, just as a table is “made of wood”.’

Bertrand Dezoteux (b.1982) is a French artist based in Bayonne. Recent solo shows and projects include ‘Txerri’, le Carré, Bayonne (2012); ‘Le Corso’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2010) and ‘Roubaix 3000’, Espace Croisé, Roubaix (2007). Group shows include: ‘Low Mountains’, Dar Bellarj Foundation, Marrakech (2012); ‘Dynasty’, Palais de Tokyo et Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2010) and ‘Reset’, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris (2010). Forthcoming shows will be at FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux (2012) and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2012).

Patricia Esquivias

Patricia Esquivias presented a video that revolves around a specific apartment block in Madrid that dates from the late 1950s and has decorative tiles on its façade and balconies, featuring a different pattern for each apartment. In this new work, Esquivias will try to read the building like a book; to sit in privacy and work out what happened in this specific building. She imagines situations which she hopes actually took place, weaving them into the images of the building – but usually the reality that she finds does not match her fantasies.

Patricia Esquivias (b.1979) is a Venezuelan artist based in Madrid. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011); ‘Todo lo que no es ración, es agio’, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and ‘Reads like the Paper, 2005-2009’, Midway Center for Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (both 2009). Group exhibitions include: ‘Stories in Between’, Stiftelsen 314, Bergen; ‘LifeStories’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, (both 2011); ‘Les Faux Amis’, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (2010); and ‘Younger than Jesus’, New Museum, New York (2009).

Jimmy Merris

Jimmy Merris will make a new video work by using a bamboo stick with a camera sellotaped to its end – an improvised steadicam. The work will be shot in and around his studio in south London and will be the first time the artist has filmed outside the studio for an extended period, but will still encompass his typical ad-hoc production methods; ‘the camera will then move back inside, perhaps through an open window, to record a series of domestic interiors, a new set of portraits, and joyful encounters with friends, neighbours, animals, and familiar objects which are just kicking around the yard here in South London’.

Jimmy Merris (b.1983) is a British artist based in London. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Deep Joy on Home Soil’, Studio Voltaire, London (2012), ‘Economics 101’ (with Terry Dennett), SPACE, London and ‘Finding Your Feet In The Times Of The Worried Man’ Seventeen Gallery, London (both 2011).

John Smith

John Smith’s film, Three Things begins with three objects shown to him by his father shortly before he died. Two of these were well-used objects that had become so steeped in history that their original forms and functions were almost completely obscured. A third object seemed to be instantly recognisable, but it turned out to be something else entirely. Taking these ambiguous artefacts as its starting point, Three Things will create a dialogue between abstraction and literal meaning, exploring the contradictions of memory and history to hint at the perceived character of a dead father and his relationship with his son.

John Smith (b.1952) is a British artist based in London. Recent solo shows and projects include ‘Horizon’, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2012); ‘Bildstörung’, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2012); ‘Worst Case Scenario’, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen (2012) and ‘unusual Red cardigan, PEER, London (2011). Group shows include: ‘Image Counter Image’, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); ‘Locus Solus: Impressions of Raymond Roussel’, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2011) and Serralves Museum, Porto (2012); ‘Descriptive Acts’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2012) and ‘Has the Film Already Started’, Tate Britain, London (2011). Forthcoming shows include Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (2012) and Espai, Barcelona (2012).

Wu Tsang & Nana Oforiatta-Ayim

Wu Tsang & Nana Oforiatta-Ayim will present a short film that explores narratives of inclusion and otherness in a world in which relativity has liberated our sense of difference, de-centered the margins, and where, paradoxically, inequality and racism are more prevalent than ever. The film is set in a hybrid landscape made up of St Louis, Senegal and Los Angeles, USA and inspired by films including Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows and Rainer Fassbinder’s Ali: Angst Essen Seele Auf. The main characters include a Senegalese royal and a British working-class interloper. Their love, illicit in the eyes of the world, at first triumphs, then falters, the pressures of the outside world internalised, leaving us to question whether the equaliser of love and connection can win out against the constructions of difference and self. A Frieze Film & UKS Co-Production.

Wu Tsang (b.1982) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include ‘The Whitney Biennial 2012’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; ‘The Ungovernables: The 2012 New Museum Triennial’, New Museum, New York (both 2012) and ‘Performa 11’, New York (2011). His recent feature film, Wildness, world premiered at MoMA’s ‘Documentary Fortnight’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012). Tsang is a 2012 Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellow and has received support from the Good Works Foundation, Frameline, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the IFP Documentary Lab, Art Matters, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Nana Oforiatta-Ayim is a writer, filmmaker and cultural historian, currently based in Senegal. Her work has been presented in ‘The Ungovernables: The 2012 New Museum Triennial’ New Museum, New York (2012); the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin; Vela Gallery, London; The Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, and will be shown at the Kunstmuseene Bergen, Norway later this year.

From 11th until 14th October 2012 at Regent’s Park, London.

Frieze Foundation propped up the art programme of the London Fair 2012.

Frieze Foundation propped up the art programme of the London Fair 2012.

David Franchi, 25th October 2012

“has presented a curated programme”

Frieze Art Fair London 2012, external view, Ph. Linda Nylind, courtesy of Linda Nylind/ Frieze

Frieze London 2012 confirmed to be the leading international contemporary art fair. Frieze Art Fair London 2012 has presented a well thought-out agenda, supported by the Frieze Foundation, as usual.

Frieze Art Fair London 2012 has presented a curated programme of talks, artists’ commissions, film and music projects, together with Outset Frieze Fair for Tate Collection. Frieze Art Fair London 2012 was on three sections: the main gallery section, Focus and Frame. In addition, this year the Frieze Masters was inaugurated. Furthermore, as a part of Frieze Fair, the Sculpture Park was organised.

Frieze Foundation is a strategic element of Frieze Art fair. Frieze Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in 2003, the same year as the fair.

Frieze Foundation is responsible for the curated programme at Frieze Art Fair, comprising artist commissions, talks, films, music and education. Since 2003 Frieze Foundation has produced 97 new works from 132 artists.

The foundation oversees: Frieze Talks, a programme of panel discussions and lectures printed annually during the four days of the fair; Frieze Projects, a curated programme of site specific projects by artists in and around the fair. Last year the Foundation has introduced the Emdash Award which is annually presented to an international emerging artist. The Frieze Foundation also administers Frieze Music, Frieze Education and Frieze Film.

Frieze Foundation received funding from a number of sources including grant bodies such as the European Union’s Culture 2000 programme and Arts Council, England. Specific areas also receive sponsorship, for example Cartier sponsored Frieze Projects from 2005–2010 and the Emdash Foundation are now supporters.

Frieze Education is part of Frieze Foundation. At Frieze London, Frieze Education has previously worked with the Serpentine Gallery in 2003 and 2004 as well as Camden Art Centre in 2005, 2006 and 2007. The programme has been developed to introduce children and young people to contemporary art in an exciting and fun way.

Sarah McCrory has been the curator for Frieze Foundation since late 2009 and has been responsible for the Projects and Film at Frieze London for the past three years. In 2009 McCrory, with Curator Daniel Baumann was a Frame advisor and has previously worked in not-for-profit and commercial galleries. McCrory is known for her support and work with emerging, young and underrepresented artists.

Exhibitors this year were coming from 35 countries. Much visited, Frieze Art Fair has seen public with an interest in the art world, as well as the general public. Frieze London is a carefully selected presentation of 175 of the most forward thinking contemporary galleries and will present new work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists. This year the fair is once again housed in a bespoke temporary structure, in Regent’s Park, designed by architects Carmody Groarke.

Frieze Art Fair London was founded in 2003 by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp.

From 11th to 14th October 2012, at Regent’s Park, London.

PAD Pavilion of Art and Design London 2012 had excellent sales figures.

PAD Pavilion of Art and Design London 2012 had excellent sales figures.

David Franchi, 23rd October 2012

“consistently attracts passionate collectors”

Bae Se Hwa, Steam 12, 2010, © PAD Pavilion of Art and Design

PAD Pavilion of Art and Design London 2012 has seen successful sales figures. A key point for the good deals reported is the diverse mix of Modern Art, Tribal Art, Photography and Design. There was a record number of visitors, many of who returned multiple times throughout the week. Besides, there was a number of secondary sales from clients who have seen the fair, then go to the gallery to look at more pieces.

With the newly Moët Hennessy- PAD London Prize also it has presented were the awards for the Best Piece of Contemporary Design and the one for Decorative Arts, as well as for the Best Stand.

Fair president Patrick Perrin said, ‘I am thrilled by the quality of exhibitors we have had this year. The fair consistently attracts passionate collectors who buy exclusively for pleasure. This is the spirit of PAD that we have nurtured for years.’

Another cornerstone of the PAD Pavilion of Art and Design is the elegant and relaxed setting in the leafy Berkley Square, which goes together with the high quality of the exhibitors. With the added attraction of exhibitors from Asia and a growing roster of blue-chip American dealers, many galleries reported meeting new clients and collectors from day one.

The contingent of new USA galleries had strong feedback on the Modern Art front, with many sales and new contacts made. Andy Warhol’s Flowers (1964) sold for $2.5 million at Skarstedt Gallery, which recently opened a new space in Mayfair, while a painting from the artist’s Black & White series (1986) went for $350,000 at Van de Weghe Fine Art. Joan Miró’s Personnages (1977) sold for €200,000 at Spanish newcomer Mayoral Galeria d’Art. Luxembourg & Dayan (London/New York) sold the majority of their stand, featuring a one-man show of Panda Paintings (2012) by Rob Pruitt, which went for $120,000 each.

Design has been consistently strong throughout the fair, with 20th Century Parisian furniture dealers such as Galerie du Passage and Galerie Downtown selling out the majority of their stands. Blairman & Sons Ltd (London), dealers of turn-of-the-century furniture, had a silver tray by Christofle & Cie acquired on opening night by the Carnegie Museum in the United States.

Tribal Art also sold especially well at the fair this year. Entwistle (London/Paris) sold the masterpiece of their stand, a Dan Female Figure from Liberia, for an undisclosed sum, amongst other artefacts. A spokesperson for the gallery said, ‘We’ve had a good week and it’s been better at PAD than Frieze Masters!’

Peter Beard, 47 Inch Rhino, 1963, © PAD Pavilion of Art and Design London

Photography sold very well at the stand of Michael Hoppen Gallery (London), with works by William Klein and Bill Brandt going to a very ‘important foundation collection’ for £50,000. The stand practically sold out of Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama’s Tights (2011), from an edition of 15 at £10,400 each.

Collectors have snapped up artist-made jewellery at PAD this year, particularly at the private view evenings. Louisa Guinness, who sold a 1945 necklace by Alexander Calder for $60,000, stated ‘Sales have gone very well – I have neither sat down nor drawn breath! It’s fantastic actually.’

The Collectors Preview and VIP Opening hosted guests such as Michael Bloomberg, Sir Norman Rosenthal, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Ronald and Lady Cohen, Princess Michael of Kent, Amber Le Bon, Bodil Blain, Edward Tang, Patrick Cox, Lady Helen and Tim Taylor, Saffron Aldridge, Brooke de Ocampo, Danielle Issa Helayel, Jeremy Healy, Emma Woollard, Sol Campbell, Anish Kapoor, Kay Saatchi, Marc Quinn, Eva Herzigova, Bruno Wang & Yasmin Ghandehari, Rolf Sachs, Suzy Menkes, and Robin Birley. Other notable visitors to the fair throughout the week included Stella Tennant, Martha Stewart, Phoebe Philo, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Rufus Sewell, Princess Chantal of Hanover and Ron Arad.

From 10th until 14th October 2012, in Berkeley Square, Mayfair.

The Awards of Pavilion of Art and Design London 2012: the new PAD Prize.

The Awards of Pavilion of Art and Design London 2012: the new PAD Prize.

David Franchi, 23rd October 2012

“an opportunity for designers to connect to the market and to the dealers”

Will Shannon, “Harvest City Landscape – Lunar Work”, 2012, © PAD Pavilion of Art and Design

London PAD Pavilion of Art and Design 2012 was a fascinating event. Doing is part in promoting new talents through the new PAD Prize, the PAD 2012 has seen also the traditional Best Stand Award, Best Contemporary Design Piece Award and the Best 20th Century Decorative Art Piece Award.

This year edition of PAD Pavilion of Art and Design has seen the creation of the PAD Prize, granted by Moët Hennessy, which was won by Will Shannon for its “Harvest City Landscape” (2012).

The PAD Prize is open to UK-based designers from all nationalities under 35 years of age, who shows an exceptional creative talent, innovative use of materials, and the ability to reflect the artistic intent of design.

Will Shannon “Harvest City Landscape” winning piece has been displayed at PAD in the fair’s foyer. “Harvest City Landscape” is a creative structure of which its masterpiece, the table “Luna Work” (2012), is made from old newspapers and recycled concrete. On the table there is a miniature silver model of “The Kiln House” (2010) another work by Shannon that mirrors a sort of fictional city, while hovering above is “NW8 pendant lamp” (2012), made from London clay. This work it is an homage to London’s dying industrial landscapes.

The winner of the PAD Pavilion of Art and Design 2012 is Will Shannon. Born in England, 1980, he lives and works in a small studio in London.

Best Stand Award, Galerie Maria Wettergren © PAD Pavilion of Art and Design

Describing his design process as “completely irrational”, Shannon says he’s a great believer in working intuitively. Will Shannon often uses discarded objects and materials.

The PAD Prize is an opportunity for designers to connect to the market and to the dealers interested in upcoming talents. PAD Pavilion of Art and Design London gives to selected designers a unique opportunity to display their work to a sophisticated, international audience, thereby encouraging new generations.

Each year other awards are given, with winners selected by a Jury composed of members chosen from among the exhibitors the PAD Pavilion of Art and Design.

This year the Best Stand Award has been won by Galerie Maria Wettergren (Paris).

Another prize the Best Contemporary Design Piece Award has been won by “Coffee Table ‘Liquid Glacial’” (2012) by Zaha Hadid a clear acrylic piece from David Gill Galleries (London). It is a bit confusing that a winner is also part of the Jury, isn’t it?

Best 20th Century Decorative Art Piece Award, Paravent Screen, Jean Prouvé from Galerie Jousse Entreprise, 1959, © PAD Pavilion of Art and Design

Last but not least, the Best 20th Century Decorative Art Piece Award this year has been won by “Paravent Screen” (1959) by Jean Prouvé from Galerie Jousse Entreprise (Paris) made of bent steel and aluminium.

PAD Pavilion of Art and Design London together with Moët Hennessy, Patron of the PAD Prize, are continuing to support the Design Fund to benefit the V&A, which donates a contemporary design piece to the permanent collection at the V&A.

For the Moët Hennessy- PAD London Prize, the selection procedure was the following: a shortlist of five designers is nominated on behalf of the Jury by an Expert Committee, composed of design curators Jane Withers (Independent Design Curator) and Claire Catterall (Director of Exhibitions & Learning, Somerset House), together with Nigel Coates (Architect, Designer & Emeritus Professor, Royal College of Art).

Each selected designer is invited to exhibit a piece representative of his work from the previous year. All five works are showcased at the fair in preparation for the Jury’s final selection.

The Moët Hennessy- PAD London Jury sits under the Honorary Presidency of renowned architect Zaha Hadid and the Presidency of Nigel

Best Contemporary Design Piece Award, Coffee Table ‘Liquid Glacial, 2012, Zaha Hadid from David Gill Galleries © PAD Pavilion of Art and Design

Coates. It is composed of luminaries from the worlds of design, art, fashion, business and communication, as follow: Janice Blackburn (Curator Contemporary Craft & Design Consultant to Sotheby’s, Freelance Writer); Michael Bruno (President, 1stdibs); David Collins (Interior Designer & Director, David Collins Studio); Jasper Conran (Fashion Designer & Chairman, The Conran Shop); Susan Crewe (Editor, House & Garden); Tom Dixon (Designer); Tania Fares (Collector); Celia Forner-Venturi (Collector and Designer); Thierry Gillier (President, Zadig & Voltaire); Allegra Hicks (Fashion & Textile Designer); Carlos Mota (International Style Editor, Architectural Digest); Christophe Navarre (President, Moët Hennessy); Alexia Niedzielski (Luxury Brands Consultant & Fashion Editor); Jan Olesen (Director, Mario Testino Company); Karla Otto (Fashion Public Relations); Yana Peel (Director, Design Fund to Benefit the V&A); Julia Peyton-Jones (Director, Serpentine Gallery); Elizabeth Saltzman (Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair); Francis Sultana (Interior Decorator); Julian Treger (Collector); Elizabeth von Guttman (Publisher & Editor, Industrie Magazine, Founder, Ever Manifesto); and Jean-Michel Wilmotte (Architect).

PAD Pavilion of Art and Design London 2012, at Berkeley Square, Mayfair.

From 10th October to 14th October 2012.

London left enthralled by PAD – Pavilion of Art and Design 2012.

London left enthralled by PAD – Pavilion of Art and Design 2012.

David Franchi – 22nd October 2012

“its interesting combination of different categories”

Robert Indiana, Love, 1966-69, © Pavilion of Art and Design

London PAD 2012 was a fascinating event. The PAD – Pavilion of Art and Design 2012, at its 6th edition has been organised again in its usual location on Berkeley Square, Mayfair.

PAD – Pavilion of Arts and Design 2012 has seen 60 leading galleries from Europe, the USA and Asia, including 18 new participants. Granted by Moët Hennessy, this year the new PAD Prize has been launched and it has been won by “Lunar Work” (2012) by Will Shannon.

PAD London is organised by the Société d’Organisation Culturelle (SOC) which was founded in 1996 by Patrick Perrin. In 1997 he created what has since become one of the most anticipated cultural events in France, the Pavillon des Arts et du Design Paris. Formerly known as DesignArt London, the PAD London fair was founded in 2007. Since 2009 the fair has taken a new turn, now focusing on modern art and design from 1860 to today.

The key point with PAD London is its interesting combination of different categories of art and design, such as contemporary design, historical 20th Century design, modern art, artist jewellery and tribal art.

TRIBAL ART. The presence of Tribal Art at the fair is reinforced by the extraordinary collection of Pre- Columbian art showcased at Galerie Mermoz (Paris), which presents a spectacular ceramic Mayan vase (550-850AD) as well as a ceremonial head of Hacha representing the god Xipe Totec (450-750 AD), both from Mexico.

ARTIST JEWELLERY. Focusing on decorative arts and jewellery by some of the world’s most talented metal workers, newcomer Caroline Van Hoek (Brussels) brings stunning vases by Belgian silversmith David Huycke. Conceptual artists Ilya & Emilia Kabakov have been commissioned by Elisabetta Cipriani (London) to create The Fly series of jewellery, all using Kabakov’s familiar motif. The necklace, bracelet, earrings and ring are all made out of gold, emeralds, diamonds and enamel.

CONTEMPORARY DESIGN. French designer Vincent Darré has created bold new furniture pieces inspired by 12 original tapestries by Alexander Calder, which were on display on the stand of Galerie du Passage (Paris). The tapestries are hand woven in maguey fibre. They were made in Guatemala to help the local population after 1970’s earthquake (Managua), two years prior to Calder’s death. Korean design specialists Gallery Seomi (Seoul) features furniture which combines both Korean aesthetic traditions and contemporary techniques, exemplified by designer Bae Sehwa’s elegantly curved walnut benches and desks. French designer André Dubreuil is renowned for his furniture and porcelain pieces using a combination of wood, metals and enamel. His new works created for Pearl Lam Design (Shanghai/Hong Kong) included a vibrant enamel cabinet handcrafted in his workshop in France and a luxurious enamel cloisonné table made in Elmwood. Dubreuil’s frequent visits to China have deeply influenced his work, taking inspiration from the elaborate traditions and techniques of Chinese craftsmanship.

Initially known for his jewellery creations, Hervé Van der Straeten (Paris) has since gained recognition for his furniture design. Creating only unique and limited edition pieces, Van der Straeten designs and produces everything in his bronze and cabinetmaking workshops just outside of Paris. With a focus in contemporary Scandinavian design, Galerie Maria Wettergren (Paris) showed SKY (2012), a new piece by Danish designer Astrid Krogh. With an inspiration by Ikat fabric, Krogh weaves incredible large-scale textiles using traditional techniques and thin fibre optic cables.  Working from the emerging and vibrant design community of Sao Paulo, Brazilian design duo Fernando & Humberto Campana create visually rich pieces repurposed from familiar everyday materials. The stainless steel Fitas Buffet (2012), shown at Carpenters Workshop Gallery (London/Paris), uses reclaimed ‘Fitas’ which are typically found as staples in shipping crates.

MODERN ART. For the first-time, four prominent American dealers, Castelli Gallery, L&M Arts, Skarstedt Gallery andPaul

Joan Miro’, Personnages et Oiseaux, 1963, © PAD- Pavilion of Art and Design

Kasmin Gallery, come together to present a striking panorama of Pop Art, with a particular focus on Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. An additional six new modern art galleries feature renowned works with an exceptional provenance and history. Mayoral Galeria d’Art (Barcelona) presents Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled–The Origin of Cotton (1987), never before shown in Europe and originally from a private collection in the USA. Two colourful abstract works by Swiss painter Gerard Schneider, both from 1968, feature at Galerie Diane de Polignac (Paris), also never seen on the market before. Galerie Thomas (Munich) exhibits Fernand Léger’s masterpiece Les deux femmes à l’oiseau (1942). Olyvia Fine Art (Seoul/ London) showcases paintings by Yayoi Kusama, Liu Ye, Yoshitomo Nara and Zeng Fanzhi, alongside Andy Warhol’s portraits of Chairman Mao from 1972. Returning gallery Luxembourg & Dayan (New York/ London) presents a one-man show of American artist Rob Pruitt’s newest Panda Paintings, in an evocative setting of artworks and artefacts from various periods of China’s history. Alexander Calder’s black untitled stabile mobile (1967) at Galerie Vedovi (Brussels/Paris) is a fantastic example of the artist’s revolutionary breakthrough in which abstraction and movement push toward a new form of expression. In the realm of photography, Michael Hoppen Gallery (London) exhibits an extremely rare collaboration of André Villers and Pablo Picasso from the time when they worked together in Cannes in the 1950s.

The centrepiece at Waddington Custot Galleries (London), this smaller version of Indiana’s red LOVE sculpture (1966-2000) doubles as a piece of classic design whilst still engaging critically on the subject of semiotics and encouraging public engagement with art. Presented by Dickinson (London /New York), Yayoi Kusama’s The West (1960) was completed shortly after her move to New York, and is an excellent example of the artist’s signature Infinity Net paintings. These paintings question the line between illusion and reality as their appearance shifts within the period of the viewer’s perception. The Japanese artist Tomoyoshi Murayama, who probably acquired this watercolour and Indian ink on paper by Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled (1918) around 1922, was a student in Berlin when he saw the artist’s work, on display at PAD- Pavilion of Art and Design at Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière (Geneva). Murayama took back several watercolours to Japan which he had purchased in Berlin and wrote a monograph on Kandinsky which was published in Tokyo in 1925.

Cubist Tree (1965) is a rare and wonderful example of Hockney’s early works on paper. During the first part of the sixties Hockney began to treat drawing as a self-contained practice through which he could explore a high degree of stylistic diversity. Cubist Tree is an important example from this period with a great exhibition history; it has been exhibited in Amsterdam, London, Paris, throughout the United States and Canada and will be displayed at Offer Waterman (London) at PAD. Egon Schiele’s watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, Portrait of Anton Peschka Jr. (1917), presented by Richard Nagy (London), is one of the few portraits of children where the artist had a personal investment. Henry Moore’s work on paper, Ideas for Sculpture (1940), at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York), is one of the finest of a series of elaborate studies the artist executed for sculpture ideas. The composition displays extraordinary vigour and richness of technique. Created by Pop Art artist Tom Wesselmann, Still Life with Goldfish and Nude (1999) is clearly inspired by Henri Matisse’s still lifes and nudes, the earlier artist being one of Wesselmann’s main influences. Shown by Galerie Pascal Lansberg (Paris), it is a typical example of the artist’s work, and the Liquitex on Bristol board piece is fresh to the market.

Jean Dubuffet, Réchaud -Four à Gaz V, 1 March 1966, © PAD Pavilion of Art and Design

HISTORICAL 20th CENTURY DESIGN. Scandinavian design of the 20th Century experts Dansk Møbelkunst (Copenhagen/Paris) presented a rare Hans J. Wegner Swivel Chair (1955). Wegner designed the iconic chair for the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers’ Guild exhibition, where it was awarded the Grand Prix. Møbelkunst also have had on show an especially rare white ceramic Surrea vase (circa 1940) by Swedish artist Wilhelm Kåge. Jean-David Botella (Paris) showed François-Xavier Lalanne & Kazuhide Takahama’s Ultramobile Screen (circa 1971) from the Collezione Simon. Also Botella displayed a very rare Ombelle Mirror (circa 1960) by Line Vautrin. The mirror has been in private hands for over 20 years and comes from the collection of a famous French furniture dealer. Also on display was a pair of Jean Després candlesticks (circa 1930). Only two versions of the candlesticks were ever made; one was shown by Botella at PAD and the other pair is in the collection of the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris. Jean Royère expert Galerie Jacques Lacoste (Paris) brought the artist’s brass and black marble Tour Eiffel Console (circa 1952) to PAD. The console has not been seen by the public for some time as it was acquired directly from the family of the first owner. Lacoste also presented Max Ingrand and Gilbert Poillerat’s Table (1950s), which was created for Ingrand’s home and has remained in his family ever since. A pair of Vases Arcade designed by Emile Reiber featured at Blairman & Sons Ltd (London). The patinated copper and silver vases were manufactured by Christofle et Cie in France at Sain-Denis, circa 1870, and come from a private Swiss collection. Modernity (Stockholm) showed a spectacular chest of drawers by Ture Ryberg, originally designed for the Paris world exhibition of 1925. The piece is a classic Art Deco design, featuring various wood inlays, Bakelite handles and a top made of Swedish Kolmårds marble. Galleria Rossella Colombari (Milan) presented two very important and rare handwritten letters by Italian post-war designer Gio Ponti from the 1970s. They are written to Louise Mendelsohn, the wife of German architect Erich Mendelsohn, when she was living in California after her husband’s death. Ponti handwrote the letters then drew in colour on top of his writing.

PAD- Pavilion of Art and Design London, at Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London.

From 10th October to 14th October