The Frieze Art Festival 2008
Photographs by Emel Ernalbant, commentary by Hande Oynar
Frieze Art Fair is organized in Regent’s Park of London by Frieze Foundation since 2003 to introduce new and challenging works into the international contemporary art scene. This year it featured more than 150 galleries worldwide and hosted talks, education programs and performances by commissioned artists.
wowPod, the latest interactive media sculpture from Russian duo Aristarkh Chernyshev and Alexei Shulgin of XL Gallery wowed a lot of viewers.
Wim Delvoye’s stuffed tattooed pig Linda at Ardnt & Partner Gallery of Berlin. Another shot at dead animals? We think this has been done ad nauseam.
YBA duo Chapman Brothers must have loved the theme of atrocity so much that they built a second set of miniature Nazis going about massacring people after the first one called Hell was burned in a warehouse fire. They named this version Fucking Hell.
Didem Ozbek of PiST, an artist’s initiative from Istanbul, created a reconstruction of her neighborhood tea shop in the gallery’s booth, where the viewers were served hot tea in small glasses a la turca. Ozbek explains the motive behind this work: “The man at the tea shop serves as a gatekeeper and a disseminator of information in our neighborhood, and I wanted to create that kind of information circulation within the fairgrounds by giving people a chance to stop by and chat while drinking tea.”
Leaning Fork with Meatball and Spaghetti III by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen stood right at Waddington Galleries.
The Japanese appropriation artist Yasumasa Morimura’s video A Requiem: Laugh at the Dictator at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
Despite the scarcity of political art, And That’s How I Feel told the fairgoers exactly how Tracey Emin feels about American foreign policy.
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