![]() Another gargantuan canvas of particular interest could be found at Peres Projects, where dealer Javier Peres was jazzed about a colossal painting by Mark Flood from a new series taking the tiny online logos of major corporations and then using an industrial billboard printer to blow them up into barely recognizable fields of colored pixels. Gallery (sold for $70,000), the poison-yellow Sterling Ruby abstraction at Hauser & Wirth (sold for $550,000, and joined by an equally jumbo Mark Bradford in the same price range), and the paintings by overnight star Oscar Murillo at David Zwirner Gallery. This was certainly the case with the Water Lilies-sized canvas by Ida Ekblad at Herald St. ![]() Wang and Liu will both gain greater visibility stateside when they are included in the Rubell Collection's group show of Chinese artists during Art Basel Miami Beach.Ībstract paintings, indeed, were big at Frieze this year-and the paintings themselves were often huge. Sculptures by Zhan Wang and works by Liu Wei also heralded new talents from the underexposed Chinese art scene, which few Western collectors are familiar with beyond the '90s cynical realists and megastars like Ai Weiwei and Cai Guo-Qiang. His digitally remixed photo-painting, incorporating bits and pieces of previous works that the artist had destroyed, was one of the most idiosyncratic and illuminating pieces at the fair. One of them, the Shanghai wunderkind Xu Zhen, is already on his way to stardom in the West thanks to his selection as the Armory Show's 2014 commissioned artist, the highlight of the New York fair's upcoming Chinese focus section curated by Phil Tinari. Sam Gillian, an overlooked African-American artist from Washington, D.C., who was the standout discovery at David Kordansky 's booth, where one of his gorgeous 1970s stained abstractions-made years before David Hammons began making his famed stained pieces-was on display.Īnother breath of fresh air could be found blowing in from China at the booth of Beijing's Long March Space, which was showing edgy work by young Chinese artists. The artist, who hasn't been represented in New York for 15 years, has just signed with the gallery, as has his former student Jayson Musson (also showing at Salon 94). Slightly shortened by five drums due to Frieze's low tent this year, the piece still captured the attention of the Tate, which swiftly acquired it for the museum's collection using the majority of its annual £150,000 Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund. ![]() A professor at UPenn's School of Design, the 60-year-old black sculptor had a tall 2003 sculpture of stacked drums at Salon 94's booth-titled Muffled Drums (from Darkwater)-that commemorated a silent Civil Rights march. The dealers, it would appear, were tired of business as usual as well.įor instance, one artist whose name is sure to start coming up more often is Terry Adkins. ![]() Distinguished by both its hip zest for novelty and aristocratic emphasis on taste and connoisseurship, the curated fair was replete this year with mind-expanding presentations that focused on surprising work from famous artists, electrifying pieces by forgotten trailblazers, and transfusions of cutting-edge art from other pockets of the world. Do you feel numbed by having come across the same artworks by the same artists in galleries, art fairs, and auctions year after year, with the only variation to be found in the continually rising prices? In other words, are you suffering from contemporary art ennui? Frieze London will cure what ails you. ![]()
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