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Frieze is back: some highlights from the London Art Week
13/10/2021

Frieze is back: some highlights from the London Art Week


by Elisabetta Roncati

After the 2020 stop, Frieze London finally returns to Regent’s Park from the 13th to the 17th of October.

More than 160 galleries from 35 countries are waiting for welcoming contemporary art passionates under the mythical tent in Regent’s Park. A not to be missed appointment for understanding how will the art sector going in one of the leading worldwide cultural capital after the Brexit. One of the news that immediately catch the eye is the addition of two sections: “Editions” and “Unworlding”.
Let’s have a look at the first one that offers the opportunity to buy artworks by leading international artists at affordable prices. “Editions” will present works and multiples by today’s most renowned contemporary artists such as Paula Rego (Cristea Roberts Gallery), Yinka Shonibare (Cristea Roberts Gallery), Georg Baselitz (Knust Kunz Gallery Editions), Sam Durant and Haegue Yang (STPI), Julie Mehretu and Fiona Tan (Borch Editions) and many more.
Instead “Unworlding”, curated by Cédric Fauq (Chief Curator, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux), will feature international artists whose practices centre around the idea of undoing the world as we know it. Artists including Nora Turato, Ndayé Kougaou and Fanny Gicquel will explore ideas of apocalypse and regeneration, undoing and reconstruction.
In addition Frieze’s first permanent gallery will open at n. 9 Cork Street. The new space will host three exhibitions, a series of talks, tours and special events.
For the passionates of more historical art there will be Frieze Masters which will host a lot of Italian leading art galleries like Tornabuoni Art, Galleria Massimo Minini, Robilant+Voena, Giò Marconi, ML Fine Art- Matteo Lampertico, Galleria Tommaso Calabro and many others.





However the two leading art fairs, with more than sixty thousand visitors in the last six years, are not the only valuable art appointments in the City.
Somerset House will host the ninth edition of 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, an event dedicated exclusively to contemporary African art. There will be displayed over 150 emerging and established artists, working across a wide range of media and styles.





Instead the Old Truman Brewery will be the stage of The Other Art Fair, the UK's leading artist-led fair: there will be over 100 emerging artists and thousands of artworks to suit every budget and style.
The last but not the least Start Art Fair will return to the Saatchi Gallery, presenting both emerging and established artists and galleries, with a section dedicated to curating.

Let’s also have a look at three art exhibitions around the city in some of the major cultural institutions.

At the Estorick Collection, 39A Canonbury Square, you will visit “Estorick Collection Uncut” until the 19th of December. The collection was formed in the immediate post-war period and its 120 works have rarely been displayed together. It’s one of the world’s finest collections of early 20th-century Italian art outside of Italy, with a focus on Futurism and metaphysical art, including artworks by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi and Gino Severini.





For the first time in its history the National Gallery devoted an exhibition to Nicolas Poussin, the 17th-century master of French Baroque and Neoclassicism for which it has the second greatest holdings after the Louvre. “Poussin and the Dance”, until the 2nd of January 2022, will focus on Poussin’s slim but significant tranche of paintings depicting dance and bacchanals. These include paintings the museum holds already, such as “The Adoration of the Golden Calf” (1633-34), alongside loans such as “A Dance to the Music of Time” (around 1634-36) from the Wallace Collection.
Instead the Thameside Industrial Estate in Factory Road E16 2HB will host The Factory Project, one of the largest curated events taking place during London's Frieze week. Conceived by the curators Eric Thorp and Nicholas Stavri, The Factory Project has invited ten London-based curatorial partners to stage their own exhibitions. Each show has had complete curatorial independence and will display the work of 110 primarily UK-based emerging artists.

Definitely the London Art Week is an appointment not to be missed.




Born in Genoa, Milanese by adoption, Elisabetta Roncati decided to combine her university education in economics and management with her passion for culture with a goal: bringing people closer to the art market in a clear, easily understandable and professional way. Interested in all forms of artistic and cultural expressions, contemporary and otherwise, she has two great passions: textile art and African art. As an art consultant, she firmly believes that culture has the power to transcend the boundaries of individual nations, creating a global community of art lovers. In 2018 he founded the registered trademark Art Nomade Milan that she uses to speak about art and culture on the main social media platforms.

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