There's quite the overload of art in Frieze week. So if you have time for Frieze and Frieze Masters, plus a dozen other things, where else should you go?
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Seni Awa Camara: Maternité Submergente, 1986 at Magnin-A, Paris |
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Thurs-Sun at Somerset House). I like Sunday and PAD as well, but this is the most distinctive of the quality alternatives to Frieze.
Clyfford Still at the Royal Academy: the Abstract
Expressionism show has lots of great art, of course, but I had some reservations
about every room – except Room 11, containing ten magisterial Stills.
Donna Huanca
at the Zabludowicz Collection. Where is action painting now? Here’s where… as
enacted in slow motion by ten performers during Frieze week (and two thereafter)
Jeff Koons
at Almine Rech (new additional space at Grosvenor Hill) and Newport Street
Gallery. Love him or loathe him, it’s hard to ignore this double.
David Salle: Lampwick’s Dilemma, 1989 |
Cindy Sherman & David Salle at Skarstedt, 8 Bennet St: this list is
proving too American (and I’m not even mentioning the Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman,
Richard Serra and Ed Rusha solo shows)
but this imaginative combination in Skarstedt’s new space was the best thing to
open last week.
Levi Van Veluw at Rosenfeld Porcini (opens Thurs eve): a whole space installation from probably the most interesting young Dutch artist in his first London solo.
Neo Rauch
at David Zwirner (opens Tues eve): can this really be Rauch’s first solo show
in London? Plus, in the project space, a collaboration between Marcel Dzama and
Raymond Pettibon.
Latifa Echakhch at kamel mennour – rising French Morrocan star
first up at the most intriguing new gallery arrival: the Paris gallery’s new
space is at 51 Brook Street (opens Tues eve).
William Kentridge at the Whitechapel Gallery: my list is rather central, but both the East (Edward Burtynsky and Thilo Heinzmann for example) and South (Amalia Ulman and Roman Ondack come to mind) also have plenty of interest. The obvious pick is the six large-scale installations of Kentridge’s ‘Thick Time’.
House of the
Nobleman (10 Park Crescent by appointment from
Monday): this art occupation of luxury living
spaces looks the best of the off-site specials
Suzanne Treister: HFT The Gardener/Outsider artworks/Acacia maidenii (Maiden's Acacia) (2014-15) |
23 Dering Street: one building
with three excellent shows: Suzanne Treister‘s remarkable fantasy of
drugs meets market trading meets outsider art (Annely Juda), a beautifully
cadenced Luca Nogueria show (Juda jointly with Anthony Reynolds) and a fresh
group show of young Americans at Ronchini.
Shezad Dawood at Timothy
Taylor: it’s worth booking to spend time in Dawood’s stunning virtual tableaux of Kalimpong
– you even get the chance to
reach nirvana
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