After a two year hiatus, Frieze Los Angeles 2022 has returned in sun-drenched splendour. And it's not just the art world that's ecstatic, fashion folks also returned to the City of Angels with a host of events and pop-ups celebrating the luxury, jewellery and art worlds coming together. Here we round up our highlights.
Frieze Los Angeles fashion moments: Prada
Prada returns to Los Angeles with the seventh iteration of Prada Mode, a travelling private club which has popped up in Miami, Paris, London, Moscow, Shanghai and Hong Kong at events celebrating Art Basel and Haute Couture. At Fairfax Avenue's famed Sichuan Chinese restaurant and music venue Genghis Cohen, artist Martin Syms presents the interactive text and video installation ‘HelLA World', which alludes to the casual conversations with strangers, encouraging guests to contribute messages, gossip, status updates and musings. Monitors wrapping the space will project and make public exchanges that are communicated via phone, some spontaneous, some scripted.
Matchesfashion
In celebration of its longtime partnership with Frieze, Matchesfashion sojourned Stateside, touching down on the West Coast with an exciting schedule of events, hosted at the Howard Frank-designed mid-century Simon House, in the Trousdale Estates area of Beverly Hills. On their remarkable roster? Cocktails with Alexander Mcqueen, a New History Makers luncheon in collaboration with Roberts Projects Gallery and a Vibe Called Tech and a dinner in celebration of L’Objet and Haas Brothers 2.0 collection.
Alighieri
Alighieri's Rosh Mahtani first met Brazilian painter Samuel de Saboia during Paris Fashion Week, and for Frieze Los Angeles 2022, the two have paired up on ‘Armor of Light, Heart of Clay', an installation focused on paralleling diasporic experience, which features 33 one of a kind wax sculptures – symbolised as fragments of modern armour – displayed in a brushstroke heavy universe of de Saboia's making. The West Hollywood exhibition features a large-scale painting that nods to the London jewellery label's love of prehistoric history and archaeology. A depature from de Saboia's idiosyncratically colourful paintings, the installation also features salient black figures, symols of revelation, guiding viewers through the human experience.
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Frank Stephenson’s high-flying capsule design for HALO’s balloon-powered space flightsSpace start-up HALO promises zero-emission travel to the stratosphere in a futuristic viewing capsule shaped by Frank Stephenson Design
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Back to Black: all eyes on film-maker Sam Taylor-JohnsonBack to Black cinematographer Polly Morgan tells Wallpaper* how a shared love of French New Wave close-ups brought Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic to life
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Formafantasma’s new collection explores nostalgia and the queer identityFormafantasma present 'La Casa Dentro' at Fondazione ICA Milano (until 19 July 2024), where they draw inspiration from the domestic sphere and their own nostalgic perceptions of home
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Frieze LA 2024 guide: the art, gossip and buzzOur Frieze LA 2024 guide includes everything you need to know and see in and around the fair
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Andrea Bowers’ sculptural chandelier for Ruinart reflects a shared commitment to environmental conservationAndrea Bowers has partnered with Ruinart to create a work to be unveiled at Frieze LA, before it finds a permanent home at Maison Ruinart’s HQ in Reims
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MJ Harper’s performance piece at London’s Koko will close Frieze Week in styleArtist MJ Harper will premiere ‘Arias for a New World’ at Koko in London this Sunday, 15 October 2023
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The Modern Institute explores otherworldly narratives at Frieze London 2023The Modern Institute is showcasing the work of artists Rachel Eulena Williams, Jim Lambie and Andrew Sim and more
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Quayola x LG OLED bring digital Impressionism to Frieze LondonQuayola x LG OLED present Jardins d’Été, an immersive work that mixes Old Masters’ florals with super vivid 4K technology
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Frieze London 2023: what to see and doEverything you want to see at Frieze London 2023 and around the city in our frequently updated guide
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Frieze celebrates 20 years of putting art lovers in the pictureFrieze London director Eva Langret looks back on 20 years of the pioneering art fair
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Takashi Murakami and Ryan Murphy headline Wallpaper* November 2023In the Wallpaper* November 2023 Art Special, discover Takashi Murakami’s pandemic-inspired creatures, producer Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood HQ, 20 years of Frieze and more, on newsstands today
