Photosynthesis: Art, Technnology and Culture Journal » Top International Contemporary Art Fair: Frieze Art Fair, London, 15-18 October 2009

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4 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries, representing 30 countries, will present new work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists at Frieze Art Fair.

An addition this year, a new section within the fair dedicated to solo artist presentations, Frame will show 29 young galleries from around the world that have been in existence for less than six years. The galleries’ selection has been advised by curators Daniel Baumann and
Sarah McCrory.

Taking place in Regent’s Park in a large temporary structure of approximately 21,000 square metres, Frieze Art Fair 2009 is designed for the second year running by architects Caruso St John.

Frieze Projects presents art that regards the particular circumstances of Frieze Art Fair as an opportunity to create work that could not exist elsewhere. This year’s seven projects create aesthetic opportunity out of the uncertainty that has become the hallmark of our troubled times; whether taking the form of grand architectural obstruction or finding new ways of protesting, authenticating or motivating our relationship to the objects we make, look at and buy, according to the fair organizers. The Frieze Projects' artists for 2009 are: Mike Bouchet, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Ruth Ewan, Ryan Gander, Per-Oskar Leu, Monika Sosnowska, and Stephanie Syjuco.

UK-based collaborators Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth will create a seamless projection of stage-managed and live events filmed at the fair, transforming the exposition into a mise-en-scene featuring visitors, gallerists and art fair workers. There will be a broadcast performance of A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World, started in 2003, the artist’s collection of around 1,500 politically motivated or idealistic songs; Ryan Gander will set up an (almost) instant photo studio to make portraits of visitors to the fair looking at an artwork of their choice.

Jannis Varelas
Dark Sun
2008
Mixed media on paper
163x117cm, Private collection, Milan
Courtesy The Breeder

Monika Sosnowska will present a major structural intervention in which a large, heavy object crashes into the roof of the fair. Taking the form of a scale model of the infamous Palace of Culture in Warsaw – a ‘gift’ to the Polish people from the USSR – Sosnowska’s project is a kind of cultural meteorite, the imposition of one cultural edifice onto another; Stephanie Syjuco will set up a parasitic workshop in which a small group of artists will make bootleg copies of other works exhibited in the fair. The artists will use basic and inexpensive materials and will work in a gallery stand at the fair in full view of visitors. The copies will be displayed in an adjacent gallery stand.

Frieze Film
Frieze Film 2009 presents a newly commissioned project in four parts by Danish artist activists Superflex, The Financial Crisis (Session I–IV). Taking as their inspiration a passage in Lars Von Trier's film Epidemic, Superflex's new films will approach the economic crisis as a psychosis to be treated therapeutically.

Frieze Film will be shown in Channel 4's innovative '3 Minute Wonder' slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 12 October to Thursday 15 October, at 7.55pm and onsite and Frieze Art Fair.

Frieze Music 2009 will be a performance conceived and choreographed by Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed. Co-commissioned by Frieze Music and Sadler's Wells, Work No. 1020 will be performed at Sadler's Wells during Frieze Art Fair 2009 from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 October. To book tickets visit http://sadlerswells.com

Sculpture Park
This year’s Sculpture Park, sponsored by Heath Lambert, presents work by a broad spectrum of artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Paul McCarthy and Eva Rothschild.

The Stand Prize
The first Frieze Art Fair Stand Prize, sponsored by Champagne Pommery, will be judged by Peter Eleey (Curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis), Susanne Gaensheimer Director of the Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt/Main) and Margot Heller (Director of the South London Gallery, London). A prize of 10,000 GBP will go to the most innovative gallery stand at the fair. The prize will be awarded on the afternoon of Wednesday 14 October.

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