- Title: Frieze art fair celebrates diversity of global talent in 2022
- Date: 12th October 2022
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (OCTOBER 12, 2022) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF FRIEZE MASTERS, NATHAN CLEMENTS-GILLESPIE, SAYING: (ON WHY MITCHELL'S WORK IS SO SIGNIFICANT AT THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF FRIEZE MASTERS) "This is the first time we have been working with a very young contemporary artist, but it is an extension of what we have been doing for the last 10 years, which is looking at the art of the past through the eye of the present."
- Embargoed: 26th October 2022 17:52
- Keywords: Abbas Zahedi Emma Talbot Frieze London Frieze Masters Frieze art fair Mary Corse Tyler Mitchell art exhibition
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
- Country: UK
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Europe
- Reuters ID: LVA002155411102022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Frieze Masters celebrated its 10th anniversary at this year's Frieze art fair in London on Wednesday (October 12) by showcasing its first ever contemporary commission next to old masters.
New York-based artist and photographer - and the first Black photographer to shoot an American Vogue cover in 2018 - Tyler Mitchell has created a series of photographical works inspired by historical paintings from the 1600s to 1900s, with the idea of "seeing Black figures content with and be in relationship to landscape and space", the artist told the annual art fair in a recent interview.
"What Tyler is doing here is looking at classical themes and imagery from historical art and re-imaging them in his own voice and vision and looking specifically at young black bodies and that is what we see in the beautiful works he has created," Nathan Clements-Gillespie, Director of Frieze Masters told Reuters.
Mitchell's work shares Masters exhibition space alongside paintings from Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger and other masters, as we has archaeological treasures.
Frieze Masters also plays host to an European debut for American Mary Corse's "The Cold Room," an immersive installation based on an iteration conceived in 1968 that incorporates glass microspheres to reflect light and refrigeration panels to chill the room's atmosphere.
Visitors to Frieze London exhibition, with its focus on contemporary works and living artists, are first welcomed by Emma Talbot's 28-metre-long painted silk 'hanging garden' called "21st Century Herbal."
Winner of the MaxMara Prize, Talbot's artwork was inspired by medieval manuscripts and the healing properties of plants.
"It tells you the history of plants, it tells you how they have been used in the past, how they can be used today, and it is really a way to think about our relationship with nature, but also to think about the kind of magical gifts that are held within nature and that can be unlocked if we know how to look properly," said Eva Langret, Director of Frieze London.
London-based artist Abbas Zahedi won the Frieze Artist Award this year and has created an new interactive installation based around sound that will "host a series of open mic sessions" during the fair.
"Abbas is really interested in sound and how sound creates space and how sound creates communities," said Langret.
"He has devised this structure which is part public area, part waiting area, part bus stop, part DIY (Do-It-Yourself) bandstand."
From giant seasonal pumpkins by London's Anthea Hamilton, to Buddhist and Hindu influences in Indra's Net curated by Guggenheim Abu Dhabi's Sandhini Poddar, to Frieze Sculpture's outside works such as Shaikha Al Mazrou's "Red Stack" and Robert Indiana's "Imperial Love", the annual art fair is showing art from over 160 galleries from 42 countries around the world and runs until October 16 at London's Regent's Park.
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