Press Release
Frieze Sculpture Park
Frieze Sculpture Park
Frieze Art Fair today announces the list of works to be installed in the Sculpture Park at Frieze, which will be presented in the wonderful setting of the English Gardens, located a short walk to the east of the entrance to the fair.
The park will showcase 9 sculptures by artists working with participating Frieze Art Fair galleries. This year’s park includes a strong representation of artists from across Europe, including both younger artists and established names such as Bjoern Dahlem and Brigitte Kowanz.
The majority of the works in the park have been made for the Fair and all the work, with one exception, is from 2007. They include three life-size bronze statues by Christian Jankowski of street performers dressed as Che Guevara, Salvador Dali’s ‘anthropomorphic cabinet’ woman and a Roman legionnaire who calls himself ‘Caesar’. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen will present French Horns, Unwound and Entwined, 2005, two oversize stainless steel musical instruments painted bright yellow. Kader Attia has topped broken concrete columns with rusted metal fragments to create works that resemble decaying house foundations and distorted concrete trees. The work was inspired by houses the artist has seen in Algeria, his homeland, and comment on both the broken dreams of immigrants returning home and the architecture of the Parisian suburb (the Banlieues) where Attia grew up.
David Thorp, curator of Sculpture Park 2007 at Frieze Art Fair, commented “The Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair is a unique opportunity for the public to experience some of the very latest in contemporary art in a beautiful setting”.
Access to the Sculpture Park is free.
Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair:
Kader Attia, (Born and lives in France)
Untitled, 2007
Christian Nagel
Marc Bijl, (Born in Holland, lives Holland and Germany)
Triumph (proposed for the memorial to the Iraq war), 2007
The Breeder
Bjoern Dahlem, (Born and lives in Germany)
M-Stars, 2007
Guido W Baudach
Dias (Born Brazil, lives in Brazil and Switerland) & Riedweg (Born Switzerland, lives in Brazil and Switerland)
Promenade, 2007
Galeria Filomena Soares
Christian Jankowski, (Born in Germany, lives in USA)
Living Sculptures, Caesar / El Che / Dali Woman, 2007
Lisson Gallery
Brigitte Kowanz, (Born and lives in Austria)
Light Columns, 2007
Krobath Wimmer
Claes Oldenburg (Born Sweden, lives in USA) / Coosje van Bruggen (Born Holland, lives in USA)
French Horns, Unwound and Entwined, 2005
Waddington Galleries
José Pedro Croft, (Born and lives in Portugal)
Untitled, 2007
Galeria Filomena Soares
Gary Webb, (Born and lives in UK)
UK Sandwiches, 2007
The Approach
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