Everything you need to know about Frieze Art Fair 2018 Top and flops from the London's biggest art fair
Another erratic Frieze week has ended in London, leaving the art world going back to its real life with lots to digest after broken record sales, i.e. Jenny Saville, and artist provocations, cc Banksy. During its XVI edition, Frieze London 2018 offered a lot of new material to catch up on for the art industry and its enthusiastic public.
Frieze is The art fair for Londoners, around which auctions, special openings, performances and – of course – parties satellite around London. Every year, Regent’s Park hosts its venues and thousands of people who come from all over the world to join in. With Frieze Masters, which exhibits ouvres up to the XXI century, Frieze Sculptures, with 25 outdoor works, and Frieze Art Fair, which exhibits today’s most significant artists, everyone’s taste is catered for and FOMO trigged. In case you couldn’t make it, here we will give you a brief summary of what happened during this edition.
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Besides a few other galleries that favoured installations and sculptures, the majority of the works exhibited were paintings. Although provocative and, in some cases, absolutely outstanding – cc. Cinga Samson at the blank gallery – their presence was constant and charged the environment of a comforting predictability.
A predictability that was broken by Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, winner of the Frieze Artist Prize 2018. His practice engages with queer culture creating both a metaphorical and physical space to celebrate, embrace and discuss it through out his brilliant performances. Alex’s choreographic intervention was the quid that gave a wider breath to this year’s Frieze edition, captivating the public into this extremely important topic.
