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Art Fair, London

London: Frieze Sculpture

In parallel to the much-anticipated Frieze London week ( 11-15 October 2023), which celebrates its 20th year anniversary this year, Frieze Sculpture returns to London Regent’s Park, until 29 October, 2023.

The free exhibition curated by Fatoş Üstek features features 21 leading international artists whose works will be situated throughout The Regent’s Park’s historic English Gardens.

The participating artists are: Ghada Amer, Leilah Babirye, Sanford Biggers, Jyll Bradley, Catharine Czudej, Ayşe Erkmen, Yuichi Hirako, Suhasini Kejriwal, Tony Matelli, Louise Nevelson, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Zak Ové, Li Li Ren, Hans Rosenström, Tomas Saraceno, Yinka Shonibare, Josh Smith, Amy Stephens, Holly Stevenson and Hank Willis Thomas.

Ghada Amer, presented by Goodman Gallery
My Body My Choice, 2022
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Material (SG) IV, 2023, Stephen Friedman Gallery
Hank Willis Thomas, presented by Goodman Gallery and Pace, All Power to All People, 2023
Tony Matelli, presented by Maruani Mercier, Sleepwalker, 2014
Zak Ové, presented by Gallery 1957, The Mothership Connection, 2021 

Li Li Ren, presented by Sherbet Green, To find a way home, 2023

Photos courtesy Linda Nylind/ Frieze

Books

Book release : Shepard Fairey ‘Weathered’

We are pleased to have contributed to the latest book featuring the unsanctioned art of Shepard Fairey ‘Weathered’ by BEYOND THE STREETS Publishing, with pictures of stickers and posters from the past 20 years, from LA, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Malaga, Grenoble and more.

Shepard Fairey
Weathered 2023
Softcover, 97 Pages
8.5 x 11 in (21.6 cm x 27.94 cm)
Published by BEYOND THE STREETS
1st Edition of 500

First seen at BEYOND THE STREETS London at Saatchi Gallery.  Weathered  is now available online for the first time. 

“Working on the street” means working in different environments and climates.  I know my street art will not last forever, so seeing my work weeks, months, and even years later, after the elements and other artists have degraded or embellished it, is always one of the best parts of the process. -Shepard Fairey.

Get your copy here

Glasgow

Banksy – Cut & Run exhibition in Glasgow

‘CUT & RUN’, which has been officially authorised by Banksy, will reveal for the first time the stencils used to create many of the artist’s most iconic works.

Pics Newsquest/ Colin Mearns

Spanning from 1988 to the present day, Banksy calls the exhibition, which includes authentic artefacts, ephemera and the artist’s actual toilet, ‘25 years card labour’.

“I’ve kept these stencils hidden away for years, mindful they could be used as evidence in a charge of criminal damage. But that moment seems to have passed, so now I’m exhibiting them in a gallery as works of art. I’m not sure which is the greater crime”, the artist told The Herald Scotland.

The new exhibition is being staged at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow city centre, the main gallery of contemporary art in Scotland’s largest city.

Opening this Sunday, it will run for three months and open all night at weekends. Tickets can be purchased on https://cutandrun.co.uk

Source: Herald Scotland

Update 28 August 2023

On the last day of the exhibition, which attracted more than 180 000 visitors throughout the 10 weeks, the dedicated website announced that the exhibition is planning to go on a tour, and is opened to venues suggestions. So please send your suggestions to venues@cutandrun.co.uk

Image source: Cut & Run website

Munich, Museum, Shows, streets

Shepard Fairey – New Clear Power in Munich

New Clear Power, Shepard Fairey’s first solo exhibition  in Germany addresses systems, forms, and notions of power in at the newly opened  AMuseum , dedicated to the street art movement. The Amuseum was initiated by the artistic group Positive Propaganda, led by Sebastian Pohl and Overrated Art Inc.

For this exhibition Shepard Fairey decided to use a wide range of mediums (from mixed-media paintings on canvas, stencils, collage, illustrations, and prints) and juxtaposes colours with images, patterns and text, and feature icons like Keith Haring, Greta Thunberg and Edward Snowden to convey clear messages and raise questions as well as voice concerns about various notions of power.

The concepts of power represented in the subject matter of New Clear Power include abuse of power, power concentrated under capitalism, renewable power, political power, the power of creativity, power over information, and the power of controlling narrative. A primary focus of the work is a critique of fossil fuel industries and their contribution to climate change and environmental decline.

In parallel to the exhibition Shepard Fairey and his team with the help of Positive Propaganda, painted a 115 meters wide mural along a stretch of Munich’s city highway, featuring images relating to the oil industry and the urgency of transitioning to renewable sources of power.

Photo: Positive Propaganda e.V.

Until 30 April 2023

AMUSEUM of Contemporary Art, Schellingstrasse 3, 80799 München

More info on www.a-museum.org  and positive-propaganda.org

Paris, Shows

KAWS: TIME OFF at Skarstedt Paris

American artist KAWS is currently exhibiting at Skarstedt Gallery in Paris. TIME OFF marks the culmination of a series of paintings started in 2020, at the height of the confinement, and features a new large scale bronze sculpture.


The works on view in TIME OFF are introspective and reflect on the transient nature of time. In each painting, KAWS’s signature Michelin’s man character CHUM appears before the viewer with complex configurations of bright bands of paint acting as an additional barrier between us and the figure, with the notion of time feeling constricting or isolating.

This series depict KAWS’s interpretation on personal confinement and the passing of time and the uncertainty of events.

As KAWS continues to delve into these themes, the paintings in this series become progressively more elaborate and, at times, chaotic, which draw the parallel on the events we are experiencing.

In some works the bars break free of their architecturally rendered confines and shoot out in all directions across the canvas, causing CHUM to duck down or become shrouded by them, respectively. Other paintings reflects the uncertainty of how to navigate the space we inhabit.

Despite the persistence of doubt in these works, KAWS leaves his viewers with a palpable optimism for the future with the use of bright and vivid colours.  Not all hope is lost. Despite confusing and uncertain times, the aim is to seek artistic beauty and make the most of what is around you.

KAWS - TIME OFF

Until 22 April 2023, Skarstedt Gallery, 2 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris