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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The creative mind at work: a century of storyboarding at Fondazione PradaFondazione Prada’s 'Osservatorio, A Kind of Language: Storyboards and Other Renderings' features some of the most celebrated names in cinema working from the late 1920s up to 2024
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Don't miss these seven artists at Frieze Los AngelesFrieze LA returns for its sixth edition, running 20-23 February, showcasing over 100 galleries from more than 20 countries, as well as local staples featuring the city’s leading creatives
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Frieze Sculpture takes over Regent’s ParkTwenty-two international artists turn the English gardens into a dream-like landscape and remind us of our inextricable connection to the natural world
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Frieze London 2024: everything to see and doLondon Frieze Week runs until 13 October 2024; here are the must-sees inside and outside the fair
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Frieze New York 2024: what to see in and around the cityFrieze New York 2024 (until Sunday 5 May) sees the city’s ample spring season programming celebrated at The Shed
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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
