FRIEZE WEEK & FRIEZE ART FAIR

Reporting from the Art Fair and throughout Frieze Week highlighting dozens of art galleries including Thaddaeus Ropac, Stuart Shave, Kamel Mennour, Castelli New York.

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/ published in BALKON

/ Freeze, London

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NO TIME FOR HIBERNATION

Three major London galleries, Victoria Miro, Saatchi Gallery and Unit London were investigated on their latest exhibitions.

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/ published in BALKON

/ Victoria Miro, Saatchi Gallery, Unit, London

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THE NEARLY IDENTICAL STARS 

Sherman has long been known for her love of dressing up, inventing new characters, limitless forms that illuminate the nature of subjectivity and sexuality. 

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/ published in ARTLYST

/ Sprüth Magers Gallery, London

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THE FACE YOU DESERVE

Cindy Sherman, dressing up, inventing new characters in limitless forms and sexuality. 

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/ Sprüth Magers Gallery, London

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WITCHCRAFT AT THE BARBICAN 

Händel's Rinaldo, a flamboyant drama of love, witchcraft and lot of fearless furies, was staged with a hypnotic cast including the young Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński.

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/ Barbican Art Centre, London

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KALEIDOSCOPIC MATTER AND ENERGY 

The Gagosian gallery London presented a monumental and breathtaking installation of Katharina Grosse's bright, sprayed-on, acrylic, large-scale paintings.​

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/ Gagosian Gallery, London

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PORTRAYALS OF FEMALE IDENTITY

How do we get through confusion and clutter from paper-mâché animal heads to Tilda Swinton’s dead fish? 

Video installations by the celbrated American performance artists, Joan Jonas.

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/ Tate Modern, London

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COMPULSIVE OBSESSION

Eddie Peake is anything but a conventional artist, he is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint, a ferocious attention seeker, but also someone cramped with shyness and insecurity.

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/ published in ARTLYST

/ White Cube Bermondsey, London

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EMERGING ARTISTS FROM BUDAPEST

Revisiting contemporary art galleries in Budapest and prompting a rhetorical question: "Could Hungary still retake its place on the art-map of Europe?"

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/ published in ARTLYST

/ TOBE Gallery, Trafo, Trapez Gallery, Esernyos Gallery, Budapest

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EBBS AND FLOWS

A fine selection of the 180 international galleries and publishers presented at the 21th ParisPhoto with the Fair’s Guest of Honour, Karl Lagerfeld, also Patti Smith, Sophie Calle, David Lynch, Martin Parr and Catharine Clark from San Francisco.

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/ published in ARTLYST

/ ParisPhoto, Le Grand Palais, Paris

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BLACK FLAGS, BEARS AND REFLECTIONS 

Parallel with the 44th edition of FIAC at the Grand Palais, presenting a handful of art exhibitions throughout Paris.

William Forsythe at the Gagosian, MOMA at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

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/ published in ARTLYST

/ Gagosian, Le Bourget, Carpenters Workshop, Centre Pompidou, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musée Rodin, Paris International Art Fair, L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Studio des Acacias, Paris

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UNMISTAKABLE ART / UNCERTAIN TIMES

The 15th edition of FRIEZE London and FRIEZE Masters brought more than 160 international galleries together in Regent’s Park and the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House. 

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/ Freeze, London

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA

DIARY

The 20th edition of ParisPhoto was a drastically transformed perception of the medium in an age when we are saturated with an omnivorous barrage of distracting and singular imagery.

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/ published in ARTLYST

/ ParisPhoto, Le Grand Palais, Paris

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA

Interview with French-Cuban musical duo, LISA-KAINDE DIAZ and NAOMI ZAYAS DIAZ of IBEY.

"IBEYI means twins. Our recording shows a strong and spiritual connection to our Yoruba roots, as we named our themes and titles"

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/ published in UBIKWIST

/ photo © courtesy of Jean-Baptiste Mondino

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Interview with Hungarian abstract-expressionist artist KARL MESZLÉNYI.

“The essence of my work is the material, based on painstaking research and experiments. I love to be challenged. I am like a living laboratory, fuming with ideas, blasting with energy".

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/ published in UBIKWIST

/ photo © courtesy of Jonás Mátyássy

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA

Interview with Barbados-born contemporary dancer VALENCIA JAMES and co-dancer NELSON REGUERA from Havanna/Paris.

“I see myself as a perpetual student of performance and choreography".

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/ photo © courtesy of Attila Glazer

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Interview with French artist JEROME SOIMAUD.

"When 9 years ago I moved to Miami, Paris was still a fantastic place, multi-cultural, however eventually I was happy to leave because the Paris of my childhood no longer existed". 

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/ published in UBIKWIST

/ photo © courtesy of Jerome Soimaud

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Interview with Hungarian industrial designer GABOR MAGYARI.

During his university studies he creates Mag-Netic, the prototype of a flying car, and is subsiquently invited at age of 23 to join the design studio at Renaut Paris .

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/ published in BLAST

/ photo © courtesy of Studio Magyari

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA

Interview with artist ERIC VAN HOVE.

"Tentateur à 29 ans, il est un homme simple naturellement complexe, artiste, sculpteur, homéride, poète, écriveur, réservé, anachorète, pantagruéliste, amanuensis, philosophe, négateur, épicurien, réservé, menteur, séducteur et hédoniste". 

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/ published in BLAST

/ photo © courtesy of Eric van Hove

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA

Interview with Hungarian musician YONDERBOI.

"At age 21, he releases his first album Splendid Isolation and takes the music industry by surprise. Paris is celebrating his electro-Hungarian music".

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/ published in BLAST

/ photo © courtesy of Yonderboi

/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA