Following my interest in this years Frieze exhibition, looks like a sculptute to catch the eye!
The annual sculpture park erected in Regent's Park is always a highlight of the annual Frieze Art Fair, London's biggest contemporary art fair, and when it opens on Thursday it promises to make more noise than ever.
Two huge, bright yellow musical instruments, entitled French Horns: Unwound and Entwined, 2005, are among the most unusual exhibits because they mark a collaboration between leading artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The two have unravelled, and then twisted together, the oversize stainless instruments which yesterday appeared in their temporary home, the park's English Gardens.
Visitors will also come face to face with three life-size bronze statues by Christian Jankowski of street performers dressed as Che Guevara, Salvador Dali's 'anthropomorphic cabinet' woman
Two huge, bright yellow musical instruments, entitled French Horns: Unwound and Entwined, 2005, are among the most unusual exhibits because they mark a collaboration between leading artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The two have unravelled, and then twisted together, the oversize stainless instruments which yesterday appeared in their temporary home, the park's English Gardens.
Visitors will also come face to face with 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'. Kadar Attia has topped broken concrete columns with rusted metals fragments to create works that resemble decaying house foundations and distorted concrete trees. The work was inspired by houses the artist has seen in his native Algeria.
In all the park will showcase nine sculptures by young artists and established names such as Bjoern Dahlem and Brigitte Kowanz. The majority have been made specifically for the fair, and all but one is from 2007.
This year's fair will crown an unprecedented boom in the contemporary art market in Britain. Figures released last week by specialist art insurer Hiscox show that in the past year the value of contemporary art has risen by 55 per cent. One of Damien Hirst's trademark medicine cabinets sold at auction for £9.65m, breaking the European record for work by a living artist, while a Banksy painting, Space Girl and Bird, went for £288,000.
· The Sculpture Park is free and open until 14 October.
Source: The Observer
In all the park will showcase nine sculptures by young artists and established names such as Bjoern Dahlem and Brigitte Kowanz. The majority have been made specifically for the fair, and all but one is from 2007.
This year's fair will crown an unprecedented boom in the contemporary art market in Britain. Figures released last week by specialist art insurer Hiscox show that in the past year the value of contemporary art has risen by 55 per cent. One of Damien Hirst's trademark medicine cabinets sold at auction for £9.65m, breaking the European record for work by a living artist, while a Banksy painting, Space Girl and Bird, went for £288,000.
· The Sculpture Park is free and open until 14 October.
Source: The Observer
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