London Calling:
The
international art scene gets together at the third Frieze Art Fair
In 2003, it took a gigantic leap and claimed a place among the most important
international art fairs: a success story the Frieze Art Fair is now
carrying into its third year. The fair’s focus is on young art, and that’s
exactly what makes it such an interesting partner for Deutsche Bank, which
will remain committed to Frieze as a main sponsor for years to come. This
year, the bank is once again presenting its art activities with its own
stand in London.
Das Messezelt der Frieze Art Fair Foto © Frieze Art Fair
It’s considered to be Europe’s hippest art fair. In the white tent on the edge
of Regent’s Park, celebrities, models, and music stars provide the A-list
glamour while royalty meet media makers and financial players chat with
diplomats. But more than anything else, from October 20 to 24 the
Frieze Art Fair will be luring art enthusiasts, collectors, and the most
influential gallery dealers in contemporary positions worldwide to London
City. Deutsche Bank has some very good reasons for
sponsoring the event; it too has been making the support of current art a
high priority for some time. "What makes the fair so unusual is the high
quality of the participating galleries and the concentration on young
aspiring artists," as
Pierre de Weck, Global Head of Private
Wealth Management and member of the Executive Committee of Deutsche
Bank, has said. "And we’re very proud to be taking part in such an
exciting and dynamic event and to be able to further Deutsche Bank’s
worldwide commitment to new art and new ideas."
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Blick in die Frieze Art Fair Foto ©
Frieze Art Fair
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Elizabeth Peyton, Michael Clark,
2005, Courtesy Two Palms
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And the stands at the largest London fair for contemporary
art were highly coveted this time, as well: it’s no wonder, with 42,000
visitors and around £26 million sales last year. More than 450
international galleries applied; 160 are now presenting themselves in
London with the works of their most important artists. Many of the works
shown are fresh from the studio and enable the viewer to get a sense of
the current trends on the art scene. Frieze’s typical juxtaposition of
established global players on the art market – such as
Barbara Gladstone from New York,
White Cube, the London home of the
Young British Artists, or Thaddaeus Ropac
from Salzburg – with notable newcomers such as
Peres Projects from Los Angeles and
Iris Kadel from Karlsruhe certainly guarantees this.
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Hussein Chalayan, The Absent Presence,
2005,
Courtesy Galerist
James Welling, 031, 2004,
Courtesy
Donald Young Gallery
British art is also
prominent, of course, with provocative sculptures by
Sarah Lucas, portraits by
Elisabeth Peyton, or works by
Hussein Chalayan, who moves between the areas of art and fashion. From
Stockholm, Jockum
Nordström is showing his intimate works on paper, which are
reminiscent of children’s drawings, while photographic works by the artist
duo
Allora & Calzadilla, who live in Puerto Rico, encounter
installations by the South Korean
Do-Ho Suh and the probably most internationally successful Japanese woman
artist,
Yayoi Kusama, who has been covering canvases and entire rooms with
dots and net-like structures since the sixties.
Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, 2000, Installationsansicht,
Courtesy Studio Guenzani
At this year’s Frieze,
Deutsche Bank is presenting itself in great style: "Contemporary Moroccan"
is the catchword for the look of the spacious VIP lounge with primarily
monochrome works hung on dark walls, in which clients and guests can learn
about the largest
corporate collection worldwide. On the other hand, in the public area of
the tent at Regent’s Park, the
Deutsche Bank Art stand has been transformed into an installation by the
Berlin-based artist Ursula
Döbereiner.
Ursula Döbereiner, spaces into spaces, 2005,
spaces into spaces, 2005,
Study for the stand of Deutsche Bank Art
©Ursula Döbereiner, Courtesy Laura Mars Grp.
Visitors enter and become surrounded by a huge drawing as they inform
themselves about the bank’s art activities and the internet magazine
db artmag. For her work, Döbereiner has wallpapered the walls and counters
of the lounge with huge paper banners on which digitalized hand drawings
are superimposed with computer-generated images: film motifs, close-ups of
technical equipment, and slogans interlock to form a monumental collage.
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