FRIEZE-AN ART EXHIBITION

October, 2017

05.10.2017: at 12 A.M. hundreds of people were then seen coming out of Regent’s Park underground, walking across a stand of free Harper’s Bazaar’ issues, and continuing straight. Their direction: the Frieze fair.
Once a wise man wrote that “London can be seen better on Sundays than on weekdays.” The man was George Moore (1852-1933), and the same would tell you today, October 2017, anyone who went to the FRIEZE fair on its last day.
The art exhibition takes place annually in New York and central London, at Regent’s park. This year’s edition of the fair occurred between the 5th-8th of October, with a preview available from the 4th of October. First displayed in 2002, Frieze dawned from the British homonym magazine founded in 1991 by Matthew Slotover, Amanda Sharp, and the artist Tom Gidley. In addition to the general exhibit, the curators of the show introduced, in 2012, Frieze Masters, where every year artist from all over the world celebrate the history of art and its influence on the contemporary art.
For this year’s Frieze’s 15th anniversary, more than 160 galleries gathered artists from all over the world to show their masterpieces. Most of the artist and the galleries featured in the fair were from eastern countries, with an incredible amount of them coming from Beijing, Hong Kong and Seoul (such as the Simon Lee Gallery, the Gagosian Gallery, and the White Cube). Moreover, the fair presented a great affluence of artists coming from western cities such as New York, London, Paris, Milan, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Athens, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Again, even a few artists from Rio de Janeiro, Leipzig (there was, for instance, the Galerie Eigen+Art), Seoul and Palo Alto came to show their art to the Londoners.
With this impressive diversity of cultures and the enormous popularity of the event all over the world, it is of course of a high relevance that the vast majority of artists chose to present works that took inspiration from international politics and social issues. Highly provocative and exciting was, for instance, the stand set up by Air de Paris, a French gallery that only featured the works of Dorthy Iannone, and that entitled his exhibition “Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics.”
With pieces that the gallery itself describes as “vibrant,” the visual artist Dorothy Iannone (1933, Massachusetts), along with worldwide-famous artists the likes of Andrea Bowers, Wade Guyton, and Jenny Holzer, gives a strike to the contemporary age. The artists throw their thoughts to the public in a way that isn’t less effective than the voice of Nastio Mosquito, as, looking straight to his audience in a dark room, he shouted:

“YOU’VE GOT POWER, BUT MOTHERFUCKER LISTEN TO ME: NOT OVER ME.”