Between Wimbledon and the FIFA World Cup, there’s been plenty of distractions from London’s unusually Mediterranean weather of late. But for those who are able to pry their eyes away from the summer’s double sporting bonanza, Frieze Sculpture’s annual outing in Regent’s Park is set to command its own record-breaking audience after the outdoor display attracted more than five million visitors last year.
For the exhibition’s second summer edition, John Baldessari, Barry Flanagan, Elmgreen & Dragset, Tracey Emin, Dan Graham, Sean Scully, Conrad Shawcross, Monika Sosnowska, and Richard Woods are among the 25 artists taking over the 19th-century Markham Nesfield-designed English Gardens. Works in Frieze Sculpture are selected and placed by Clare Lilley, director of programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, following an open call for proposals submitted by international galleries.
No. 814, 2018, by Rana Begum, with The Third Line Jhaveri Contemporary Kate Macgarry, Courtesy of Frieze
There are 15 new works in this year’s outdoor sculpture trail, from a decidedly stoic Corten steel stack by Sean Scully, to a shamanistic figure in bronze by Bharti Kher and James Capper’s prelude to his project at the Venice Biennale next year. The animal world seems to have been playing on artists’ minds recently – there’s Tracey Emin’s ‘lyrical flock’ and a coloured leaf-like form by Simon Periton; John Baldessari, too, has waddled into the park with a curious penguin.
Elsewhere, Richard Woods has pitched up in Regent’s Park with a ‘holiday home’ bedecked in his signature vibrant colours, and Conrad Shawcross debuts a new, monumental Optic Labryinth. Other highlights include Dan Graham’s glass pavilion; Larry Achiampong’s Afrofuturistic flags; and a 14-metre-high needle woman tower by Kimsooja
Holiday Home (Regent’s Park), 2018, by Richard Woods, with Alan Cristea Gallery, Courtesy of Frieze
Shadow Stack, 2018, by Sean Scully, with BlainSouthern, Courtesy of Frieze
A Moment Without You, 2017, by Tracey Emin, White Cube, Courtesy of Frieze
Rebar 12, 2017, by Monika Sosnowska, with Hauser & Wirth,Courtesy of Frieze
Parallax, 2018, by Tyburn Gallery, with Michele Mathison, Courtesy of Frieze
Large Nijinski on Anvil Point, 2001, by Barry Flanagan, with Waddington Custot, Courtesy of Frieze
Penguin, 2018, by John Baldessari, with Marian Goodman Gallery, Courtesy of Frieze
Dancing Clog Girls I-III (foreground), 2015, by Laura Ford, with New Art Centre; and A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, 2014, by Kimsooja, with Axel Vervoordt Gallery,Courtesy of Frieze
TREADPAD B – PAIR 2 WALKING SHIP 40 TON STANDARD DISPLACEMENT 4 LEG (DIA 1000), 2018; and TREADPAD B – PAIR 1 WALKING SHIP 150 TON STANDARD DISPLACEMENT 4 LEG (DIA 1800), 2018, both by James Capper, with Hannah Barry Gallery, Courtesy of Frieze
Everything is Lost, 2018, by Tim Etchells, with VITRINE, Courtesy of Frieze
Untitled (122 x 244 View), 2018, by Virgina Overton, with White Cube,Courtesy of Frieze
INFORMATION
Frieze Sculpture 2018 runs from 4 July – 7 October at Regent’s Park, London. For more information, visit the Frieze website
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