Frieze Art Fair, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS

Tobias Zielony,from Manatiba series, 2011 @ KOW, Berlin.
Gabriel Kuri, Complimentary Cornice and Intervals, 2009. Complimentary Goods and Marble.

Catherine Yass, Lighthouse (North), 2011. Duratrans transparency, lightbox.

@ Alison Jacques Gallery - My Fave Overall at Frieze2011

Open Phone Booth - A Project by Nilbar Gures HIGHLIGHT

- A film and work in progress, the artist shoot the village that is her Kurdish father hometown. Here in the mountains there is very limited infrastructure and no landline phones. Up untill a few years ago habitants were unable to make calls until recently when some have obtained mobiles. The artist films people climbing up the surrounding mountains of their village to get signal - and have their conversations in Kurdish. Shown as a triple screen projection with stills aswell.

Karla Black <3 <3 <3 (as seen prev.)

Nice framing

Micheal Landy's Credit card destroying machine.

- Viewer gives machine assistant a valid credit card, it gets shredded by the machine and in turn the machine generates a drawing for the viewer to take away. In return for destroying their credit card the participant recieves an original artwork signed by the artist.

-Nice Graphic design

Beaut sculpture, info above on the sticker, reminds of Steve Bishop for ways of finding new light and colour combinations.

Muntean/ Rosenblaum, @Gerog Kargl Gallerie Vienna. NemeSims.

- Art works displayed in a real life build of the sims virtual house set. Very well produced but would have preffered it without the other artworks inside.

Jonathas de Andrade, photos of sun in different positions
Adam Fuss, The space between garden and eve. 2011.

- Cool effect of silver print on white
Allesandro Balteo Yasbeck

- Like the effect of glass straight onto the photopaper.
Andrea Gursky, Cocoon II. @White Cube
Nan Goldin, Cookie series. @Matthew Marks Gall.
Andreas Gursky, Dubai World III, 2008.

- Interstign manipualtion.

Thomas Schutte, Bernugo Heads, 2011.

- Noted because nice example of fully produced tableau.

Dayanita Singh, Continuous Cities, 2011.

- Noted this because of really nice framing and good example of how to hang a series.

Tacita Dean, Reisenbett (floating), 2009. (print mounted on paper.)

-Photopaper and the background handpainted black matt paint. Has cool contrasting texture effect.

Tomoaki Suzuki, Joy, 2010. Limewood sculpture.

-I like the familiarity of the way she is dressed.

Darren Almond, Full Moon, 2008

- Like the time element of the photo. The ritual of taking the photo on a full moon and the knowledge of the long exposure to get the light makes it meditative and draws you into the environ.

Holly/Bridie/Hannah/Abbie/Bradie/Lucy/Toni/Alex/Beth/Polly and Ella. /16-18yrs/

First composition of Leeds rainbow heads. All hair colour DIY. Thinking about series and what is the best way to put them together.

Will compose all of the 23 girls I shot in Leeds last week and hopefully shoot more when I return in two weeks.

Lottie and Ella2 are teaching me about the relevance of series and sent me to order The Infinite Line , Briony Fer, and look at Olga Chernysheva.

Petra Cortright

Landscape 5-15-05

Petra Cortright is a cool internet artist. The best thing about her is how she responds to bad comments on her youtube videos:

• what was the point of these video seriously? lol

  Sk8tingLearner 2 years ago

• syuck my dick sk8r fag

  petracortright 2 years ago 8

  
  

  
  

  
  

  From : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaCCBE-K1g

Haruka Ono

British frozen food in a tabletop freezer, 2010. frozen food, water, thread, arranged in a freezer, 49 x 47 x 45cm

Sam Griffin

Make No Little Plans', 2010

27(w)x 60(h)x 30(d)cm

Aluminium composite, pebbles, aloe vera plant

Unique

Delta City', 2010

70(w) x 102(h) x 70(d) cm

Aluminium composite, pebbles, plant

Unique

Melanie Bonajo

from Modern Life of The Soul, 2007.

Extracts from Press release from Galerie Fons Welters

Melanie Bonajo & Kinga Kielczynska

In the forests of Eastern Poland, a sacred cult has formed that has withdrawn from the outside world and worships nature. Living in houses made of growing plants, its members have turned their backs on the modern world. These eco-extremists believe that the origins of humankind lie in plant life, and seek to reverse evolution by living like plants. Far from the hectic life of modern society, they celebrate the existence of the forest in a spiritual way, with special altars and mystical ceremonies.

In modern society, nature has become a subordinate product amid a wealth of other products, and people have become alienated not only from their natural surroundings but also from their own nature. In an attempt to reverse this process, Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielczynska explore the extent to which it is possible for us to re-insert ourselves into the holistic system. In the radical reversals of the Polish cult, a near-religious refuge has been created that denies progress. The artists adopt a documentary-like presentation, showing us a glimpse of this outlandish community, absorbed in a quest for something that may in fact never have existed. The cult members have relinquished control over their lives, hoping that a lost intuition will take over.

Steve Bishop

1. My Work Here is Done IX (2009)

Glass, lighting gels, various tapes. 248 x 159 x 40 cm | Photograph: Stefano Galli

2. 16:9 II (2011)

LCD screen, Astonish 'Jasmine & Wild Berries', glass, wood. 130 x 45 x 24 cm

3. As If You Could Only Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity II (2011)

Mercury and cloth in frame. 30 x 23 cm

4. Still Stills - with Jack Vickridge (2011)

Dichroic glass, monoprints, shelf. 210 x 40 x 10 cm

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