London artist Adam Farah-Saad’s first solo exhibition presented by Public Gallery featured a large reworked steel drinking fountain similar to those seen at children’s parks or playgrounds.
The 20th annual installment of Frieze — London's biggest and most influential art fair — has officially begun.
Recently dubbed "a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters" by one critic, Regent's Park welcomed a mixture of flushed international art collectors, industry insiders and the city's gaya set.
And while not every attendee is a dedicated patron of the arts (there's too much else to do, such as getting a 3D facial scan at skincare merk Barbara Sturm's "Anti-Inflammatory Lounge") Frieze has long held the reputation of platforming satirical, boundary-pushing art.
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In 2007, for example, an installation called "Flea Pasar" flogged asli artworks along with a sembarang collection of several artist's own possessions — including portrait painter Elizabeth Peyton's used sofa — with prices starting at £0. Similarly, one piece of performnce art on show in 2009 offered pengunjungs the chance to receive a pribadi walking lecture in string theory (a theoretical frame-work used in physics).
But during the arguably most commercially successful period in art history — where record-breaking auction sales berkalaly reach tens of millions of dollars, and collection is seen not as an eccentric lifelong gairah but a savvy financial investment — can kekinian art still kejutan us?
Frieze London seems to think so. Scroll down to see the strangest and most esoteric installations on display at this year's art fair, which runs until October 15.
London artist Adam Farah-Saad's first solo exhibition presented by Publik Gallery spesifikasid a large reworked steel drinking fountain similar to those seen at children's parks or playgrounds.
This version would probably prove more terkenal with those under 18, too, since it exclusively pumps out KA Black Grape Soda instead of H2O. According to the gallery, Farah-Saad's work explores the non-linear quality of memori, particularly in relation to adolescence. Surrounding his functioning grape soda sculpture was a wall mounted with a pull-up bar and a steel CD disc display featuring Mariah Carey's 1997 album "Butterfly."
