Eighth Frieze Art Fair opens in London

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Eighth Frieze Art Fair opens in London

14/10/201002: 25

LONDON, October 14 - RIA Novosti, Elena Pakhomov. A record number of galleries from around the world - 173 - will open on Thursday the stands for the audience at London's Regent's Park in the eighth Contemporary Art Fair Frieze Art Fair; Russia has traditionally represented Regina Gallery and XL.

If last year's Frieze was marked, if not the oppression of the financial crisis, this year's fair director Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover together have about a return to financial stability. Hence the number of applications from galleries to take part.

"So many have never had. And the list of galleries surprisingly strong," - said Sharpe and Slotover.

Total at the fair represented 29 countries and more than a thousand artists. To the residents of Fair White Cube, Gagosian Gallery, Lisson Gallery, David Zwirner, Paul Kasmin, and dozens more permanent participants in this year will add five newcomers - New York Bortolami and Elizabeth Dee, London Pilar Corrias, brussels Xavier Hufkens and Michael Lett in Auckland .

Frieze, of course, the event is commercial, aimed at finding buyers, but the number of programs to the public year on year increase. Expanding the program Frieze Talks - a discussion of artistic trends with artists, art experts, directors and curators. At several London venues will be a musical project Frieze Music, cinema and part of the fair this year includes a selection of film curator Sarah McCrory and specially taken under fair experimental works by four artists. Under the film program in the fair this year built a separate tent.

In addition, the third consecutive year, Fair continues its cooperation with the Royal College of Art (Royal College of Art) to create a children's educational program, which these days will take place not only in the pavilion, but in British schools.

Frieze and does not depart from its tradition of modern art and occupy the space of a classical English garden in Regent's Park - a park of sculptures, as always, quite discordant with the landscape, will take its place.

Annually at Frieze will be awarded one of the most prestigious awards in the field of contemporary art Cartier, the winner of which, as always, is known in advance. Ten thousand pounds to the creation of new work, a thousand pounds and commission the right to three months free to exhibit their work in a London gallery and the center of Gasworks get this time working in Mexico City and Berlin, the British-Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara (Simon Fujiwara).

The project is the winner of Cartier this year took an unprecedented large space at the fair. Fujiwara is a big component installation, broken throughout Frieze, Frozen - psevdoarheologicheskie excavations under the pavilion area of some ancient city, the former Centre for the Arts.

Russian galleries to Frieze

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Russian participation in the Frieze already include not just traditional but stable - Gallery XL arrives in London for the seventh time, "Regina" in the third. More from Russia is never anyone there.

However, according to art galleries, the stability is only apparent.

"Yes, we're coming for the umpteenth time, but it means nothing. Rotation can occur at any moment" - the director of XL Elena Selina.

XL, focusing on multimedia and installations, not to bring the Frieze or political contemporary Russian art, no clearly defined national artists. This year's booth picture presented Aristarchus Chernyshev and its art-project "Electroboutique" video of Anna Ermolaeva.

"Every time we tried something new to bring here." This time we brought Igor Mukhin, Alex Buldakova, which never brought to the Frieze ", - has told RIA Novosti Celina.

According to her, the annual success of the galleries at the fair is closely linked to interest in the arts, with whom she works - in Russian art, "understood in the international context that Western buyers was not necessary."

"Regina", which this year opened a branch in London, follows the same line. Gallery brought to the Frieze Jonathan Meese, Mary Serebrikovu, installation of a young German woman Yorinde Foyt (Jorinde Voigt), and others.

"The artists we work with, it already European names, bringing them to the fair, we do not need to prove that they are good artists," - told the London-based director of Regina Ann Makkessi.

This, first of all, talking about artists such as Sergei Bratkov, Simon Faibisovich Paul Pepperstein and so on. And if you stand in the gallery this year before a Ukrainian Stas Volyazlovskiy with psychedelic leaf "choreographer" of Boris Moiseev, surrounded by a vast number of cultural references - from the Torah and the elements of Russian folklore to rhinestones and lace - not necessarily that bought it will certainly Russian buyer .

"There is a kind of visual culture. This differs from the Russian foreign buyer - he was ready to buy something that it is not clear. Okay, I then translated this part of the text, I learned later, who is Boris Moiseev. But it (the buyer ) involves the way it looks, it's interesting, "- said the owner of Regina Vladimir Ovcharenko.

"It is different and the London crowd at the fair. It is more focused on the art of spectacle, a bit of a challenge, with some tension," - he explained.

Both Russian picture resulting from participation in the fair are traditionally satisfied. According to Selina, the closing day of the show before the official opening of the gallery had already sold two works.

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