Frieze is London’s biggest art fair. Welcoming autumn with a bang from 5th-8th October 2017, the big money tent in Regent’s Park is a maze of the world’s most prestigious exhibitors, parading its cultural fruits for the city’s rich and most curious. Walking in, queues of BMWs skirt the show; buyers, viewers and to-be-seeners collect their varying tiers of tickets to the fair. And so it begins. Frieze Week is the cornerstone of London’s art calendar, attracting 160 international flagship and upcoming galleries from Berlin to Buenos Aries. Albeit slightly terrifying, you can’t deny the energy th...
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What better way to spend a cold, early March weekend than to be enclosed in the spacious halls of Westminster University surrounded by truly magical art? The event was the Kinetica Art Fair, returning for the fifth time to London’s Marylebone, promising each time to leave its spectators in awe and disbelieve. As you enter through the doors, you are greeted with lights, 3D screens and cleverly crafted moving objects. The fair, at its principle core, encourages interaction; maybe you would like to swing in the sand with your companion to form interesting circular shapes in the ground, or per...
Read more →A new exhibition has opened in Fitzrovia, turning The Piper Gallery into a sculptural landscape reminiscent of an ancient city. The new show is artist PAUL DE MONCHAUX’s first commercial exhibit, and is a retrospective of his work from 1986 to 2013. Fixing Memory, the title of the show, stems from the artist’s desire to ‘leave a trace’ and to create something permanent that will withstand the flux of time. De Monchaux is a much celebrated artist, who considers himself a ‘figurative sculptor’, one who responds to things rather than concepts or ideas. Born in Montreal and educated in both Ne...
Read more →DAVID BREUER-WEIL has installed a serious of 70 colossal sized paintings and sculptures at the re-opened Vaults, the tunnels that lurk beneath Waterloo station in SE1. The stare-worthy exhibition presents various didactic pieces conveying certain sentiments such as aspiration and belonging. Having worked in large scale since 1997, Breuer-Weil's new exhibition, Project 4, revels in vibrantly diverse and unruly mix of colours that fuse the themes of place, time and cause that have dominated his work since. In particular, the show is concerned about the human condition and the artist's role as ...
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