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How Louis Vuitton Took Over Frieze LA

Louis Vuitton debuted its first partnership with Frieze LA by hosting an Objets Nomades exhibition over the weekend. In addition to presenting some of its most esteemed design objects, the French designer also hosted a series of talks and panels throughout the duration of the art festival.

 

The designer’s Objets Nomades offshoot of curated furniture and other decor launched in 2012, but this marks the first time the 48-piece collection was shown during Frieze. Designed by a group of international designers, the pieces are the perfect balance of functionality and innovation and possess a timeless and practical appeal that still honors the House’s distinct legacy — highlights include a foldable stool by British design firm Raw Edges and a pink plush Bomboca sofa by Brazilian design duo Fernando and Humberto Campana.

 

Take a look at some of the displays from the Louis Vuitton Objets Nomades experience at Frieze LA below.

 

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MatchesFashion 5 Carlos Place Takes Frieze

Over the weekend, MatchesFashion took over Frieze New York by hosting a series of panels and events with industry experts including Matthew Henson, Danny Bowien, Christopher Kane, Grace Wales Bonner, and more. The British luxury site also created its 5 Carlos Place retail concept, allowing guests to explore new collections by various up-and-coming and established designers during the 3-day art fair.
 
To kick off the festivities, British designer Wales Bonner hosted “Devotional Sound,” a performance event at St. Peter’s Church that featured an exclusive set by the one and only Solange. Some additional highlights include a panel moderated by fashion writer Alexander Fury with designer Christoper Kane and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn about the relationship between sex and fashion in 2019. Shanay Jhaveri, assistant curator of South Asian art at the Met, chatted with Wales Bonner and photographer Nick Sethi on the link between art and fashion.

 
If you weren’t able to make it to Randall’s Island over the weekend, dont’ worry — all the talks are available on MatchesFashion.com.

 

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5 Booths To Visit at Frieze New York

New York is taking a trip to the lesser known neighbor island, Randall’s Island, as part of the Frieze Art Fair this weekend. With nearly 200 booths exhibiting there, one is sure to get lost (the best kind) in all the art. We took the trip for you and narrowed down our five go-to spots at the extensive art exhibit.

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Victoria Miro‘s booth exhibits a plane of silver-mirrored spheres by Yayoi Kusama. Behind the installation, the gallery exhibits a canvas by Chris Ofili depicting female figures twirling towards the sky. The price point for both works is over half a million US dollars.

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For more affordable art, Steve Keene‘s paintings are on sale for $15 to $50. Influenced by indie rock bands of the ’90s and the idea of selling quick sketches, the artist turned the booth into a pop-up studio where he will produce hundreds of paintings for immediate sale.

ISLA FLOTANTE

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As part of Latin American art initiative at Frieze by El Museo del Barrio, the Buenos Aires gallery exhibits Mariela Scafati’s hybrids of paintings and sculptures. The installation utilizes old furniture, articles of clothing, and rope to reassemble body forms. Known for her activism in gender, identity, and sexual issues, here the artist presents her concern with color.

BOMPAS & PARR at Bombay Sapphire Lounge

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For when you’re all art-ed out, saunter a bit in a bathtub with a gin cocktail on hand for extra inspiration. The multi-sensory experimental studio claims at 17% of new ideas are born as a result of a bath session (even more than in coffee shops) and so their addition to Frieze really goes beyond the art by digging into where the inspiration came from.

JAUME PLENSA

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Frieze is also taking an initiative to bring art to the public for free with several sculptures on view at Rockefeller Center. Plensas‘s “Behind the Walls” sculpture features a woman face covering her eyes with her hands.

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Daniel Arsham x Rimowa Make Suitcase Art

Making its debut at Frieze New York, Rimowa resurrected a classic piece from its archive with the help of artist Daniel Arsham. Based on retro camera cases, the pair worked on a sculptural piece inspired by archaeology and natural material erosion — it’s meant to be a commentary on how quickly technology becomes obsolete. The Rimowa x Daniel Arsham Eroded Attache is encased in a metallic briefcase and comes with art handling gloves, a further means to preserve its status as a cultural artifact. The piece is currently being auctioned (along with a signed drawing of the artwork and a personal letter from Arsham) online at Sotheby’s ahead of a wide release on May 17th.

 

 

Simone Leigh Wins the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize

Simone Leigh Wins the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize

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Mark Langer (CEO of BOSS), HUGO BOSS PRIZE winner Simone Leigh, and Richard Armstrong (Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) at last night’s ceremony. Image by BOSS.

Last night, Brooklyn-based artist Simone Leigh was announced as the winner of this year’s coveted HUGO BOSS PRIZE. The award, which has been presented to a number of artists since its inception in 1996, is organized in partnership with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to recognize significant accomplishments in the world of contemporary art.

Leigh has worked across various mediums, including sculpture, film, performance, and programming, to explore politics, feminism, folklore, and the marginalization of Black women. Over her career, her pieces have been shown at MoMA PS1, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Other nominees for this year’s award included Bouchra Khalili, Emeka Ogboh, Frances Stark, Teresa Margolles, and Wu Tsang.

The prize includes a $100,000 stipend, donated by the Guggenheim Foundation, along with a solo exhibition at the museum that will open in the spring. “The HUGO BOSS PRIZE is at the center of the Guggenheim’s commitment to contemporary art. We gratefully acknowledge our friends at HUGO BOSS for their visionary partnership in this endeavor, which has made significant contributions to the field of contemporary art and introduced emerging artists to a global audience,” said Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, at last night’s event. The voting jury members featured a wide number of industry veterans, including Nancy Spector, artistic director of the museum, and Dan Fox, writer and editor for Frieze magazine.

The ceremony was hosted at the Guggenheim Museum and included notable guests like Academy Award-nominee Naomi Watts, actor Alexander Skarsgård, designer Cynthia Rowley, and artist Chloe Wise. Guests were also treated to a performance by pianist and composer Alexis Ffrench. Check out some pictures from the event below.

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Artist Liu Bolin x Ruinart Champagne at Frieze

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Known as The Invisible Man, Chinese artist Liu Bolin is collaborating with France’s oldest champagne house Ruinart at this year’s Frieze New York. This moniker came about when his office was demolished and he created the almost perfectly seamless blending-in of himself into photo as a protest. He wanted to demonstrate the coexisting relationship between construction and humanity — a concept that also appealed to the champagne magnate. In his final eight pieces with Ruinart, Bolin elegantly illustrates the meticulous process of champagne-making by masking himself and the workers of the house into the landscape of the everyday champagne production. We sat down with the artist at Frieze to find out more about the collaboration.

Angelika Pokovba: How did you go about choosing Ruinart to collaborate with?

Liu Bolin: (per translator) For me it was important to know about the company. When I had communication exchanges with the team I felt their passion about their work, their company’s culture, and I focused on reflecting this aspect in the artwork.

AP: Did the idea to incorporate yourself into the “landscape” come naturally, or did you set out looking for backdrops to blend into?

LB: Before I came into it I didn’t actually have something in mind. It was not very clear. After I walked around the premises and I learned about the entire production process from the beginning to the end including production, storage, filtering, etc., I found it to be a beautiful process and I wanted to record this beauty.

(Each of the shots demonstrates a different part of the champagne making process. )

AP: Would you elaborate of how you actually made these pieces and how many people were involved?

LB: The first photo is at the winery and I invited Frederique, who is the production/technology expert. He is someone that would have a record of when the grapes were first collected and then the weather, the temperature, all of these things… He is someone who has the control from the first steps. So he is the first photo. That first photo is related to the source of production and I also included him in others so that he is involved in the entire process from the beginning until the end.

AP: What do you believe you accomplished with these pieces? 

LB: That touches on the core of my artwork. I think that all artists do these things and have a discovery of certain issues and questions. Through the collaboration with Ruinart, I feel that I have deepened my understanding of the winery culture and of European culture. From my collaboration and communication with these people who are very clearly passionate about wine and the heritage of this company, that has really touched me and made me more deeply appreciate the European craftsmanship– what kind of effort their are willing to go through to create such a brand and such a heritage. This is something that also helped me and gave me nutrients for my work.

As an artist I like to keep challenging myself in my work. Regrettably the public has acknowledged and liked the photos so far, but not the other things I have done. I think I will put more effort for my other forms of art to be liked as well.

Find Liu Bolin’s pieces at the Ruinart Champagne Lounge at Frieze until May 6th. 

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Photos: Courtesy of Ruinart.

 

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It’s Been a Long Week: La Piscine’s Peligrosa

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As true believers of the work hard, play hard mantra, we present you with It’s Been a Long Week, a weekly column aimed at awarding some liquid appreciation to you for just being yourself, dammit. Make a glass or two on us, you deserve it.

WHAT

La Piscine’s Peligrosa
Post-Frieze drinks go-to (and rest-of-the-year hotspot) in New York City, Hotel Americano recently opened its sexy rooftop restaurant and poolside bar, La Piscine. As our own personal sort of cheers, we’re saying welcome back to the neighborhood with a full glass pitcher of La Piscine’s Peligrosa, a refreshing resurrection from the sweltering sun with its own tease of heat.

HOW

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz. Citadelle Gin
  • 0.5 oz. Simple syrup
  • 1 oz. Lime juice
  • 0.5 oz. Cucumber juice
  • 1 Slice of jalapeño
  • 1 Slice of cucumber

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THEN

Muddle jalapeño and cucumber and then add remaining ingredients. Shake vigorously and double strain over ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with a cucumber slice.

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Last Visionaire x Gap ART Collection Premieres at Frieze London

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In honor of Gap‘s 45th anniversary, the company, a brand that has made its name for making fashion accessible to all, has partnered for a final time with avant-garde art and fashion magazine Visionaire, a cult-favorite publication whose praise correlates directly to its ultra-limited issue release, on a capsule collection of sweatshirts and T-shirts. The fourth of the pair’s year-long exercise in design, the collection, which premiered today at Frieze London, falls upon Visionaire‘s keen knowledge of the visual landscape and includes work from a roster of emerging and respected artists—Anna Blessman & Peter Saville, Cai-Guo Qiang, Diana Vreeland, Greg Foley, Sharon Ellis, Steven Klein, and more—printed onto Gap’s cloth canvases. Unveiled today at a special lounge built exclusively for the art fair, the Visionaire x Gap ART collection will be available in a limited run of 500 pieces.

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Fairest of Them All

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Spring in New York seems to be the shortest season. It comes in a few gentle gusts of wind that glide through the city streets for a month or so before the summer settles in at a steady 95 until late September. Those gusts signal the arrival of cherry blossoms blooming at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the annual Comme des Garcons sample sale, and the uptown girls getting their base tans in Central Park (Strawberry Fields, in case you were wondering). It’s an easy, breezy couple of weeks when almost everyone in the city comes out of winter hiding to get allergy attacks together. And before the summer shares in Montauk and Southampton start on Memorial Day, New Yorkers in the know go full-out art-fan for Frieze Art Fair weekend.

The fair makes a sprawling home for itself on Randall’s Island Park and draws both local and international art galleries, buyers, advisors, and consultants, in addition to crowds of art fans. And while competing fairs have popped up around the city, Frieze is still the one that makes the most noise by commissioning and programming performances, lectures, site-specific projects, and sound sessions within the fair. Checking it out in its entirety is a mini-commitment that begins and ends with a trip by ferry or shuttle across the East River, and strolling from booth to booth under the massive white tent that serves as Frieze’s pop-up could be considered a crash course in the world art-market. With each booth butted up next to one another, you’ll find yourself bouncing from a Berlin gallery to a Barcelona gallery to a Bogota gallery in mere minutes (or hours, if you like to linger in front of artwork). It’s a layout that allows for an immediate understanding of current trends and directions within the contemporary art scene and features galleries that specialize in both emerging and established artists. And while there might be some rivalry amongst the galleries, the stronger sense you get from visiting the fair is that of community.

Having started originally in London, Frieze fast earned a reputation as one of the more relevant fairs that happen throughout the year. As Jake Miller from London’s The Approach Gallery puts it, “Frieze is incredibly important in London. There was no art fair in London. That was something that was desperately needed.” Now Frieze New York, in its second year, is on track to do the same stateside. It features new galleries as well as those that have developed a relationship with the fair in the past, and its appeal is broadening with each iteration, for good reason. Katrina Weber Ashour of Dubai’s The Third Line Gallery, which has done the fair in both London and New York, states it the most succinctly, “The collectors who come are very interested, they ask engaging questions, they are people who are curious about engaging with these artists’ works. We just found that the atmosphere in general is the right setting. It feels like a good mix of people who are looking for work that is intelligent and has substance behind it.” Even New York’s hometown heavyweights make the trek from Chelsea and the Lower East Side to set up shop at the fair. “Frieze is the only art fair that we do in New York,” states Miriam Katzeff, Director of Team (Gallery, Inc.), “It’s like having a third exhibition space.” And Ramsay Kolber of New York’s Harris Lieberman Gallery agrees, “It’s nice to connect our current space with the fair, and its also nice to show with people we wouldn’t get to show with normally in such a beautiful space.”

In total, over 180 galleries make a mark at Frieze New York. And in case the attendees found themselves a little art-fatigued on their way through it all, Frieze’s program this year included a few distractions in the form of local food vendors, a performative tribute to FOOD (the legendary artist-run restaurant conceived of by Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden in 1971), and an afternoon speakeasy hidden somewhere under the white tent by installation artist Liz Glynn. Fair attendees had no idea where the speakeasy was situated, but many of them were secretly handed keys throughout the weekend and invited to take a prohibition-ish break. Any further breaks that were needed by the crowds could found in the surrounding park, in the sun, in the company of sculptures brought in for the weekend. Our suggestion is to make a mental note now, adding Frieze to next spring’s shortlist. It’s worth the trip.