A pochi mesi dalla seconda edizione Frieze New York
presenta i progetti che si svolgeranno durante l'evento con cinque giovani artisti oltre all'interessante proposta di un ricordo al progetto di Gordon Matta-Clark e Carol Goodden del noto "ristorate" Food, era il 1971, che sarà rivisitato negli spazi della fiera. Ci sarà anche un intervento "letterario" con Ben Marcus.
Ecco il comunicato stampa:
Frieze announced
today the Frieze Projects program of specially commissioned works to be
realized at Frieze New York, 2013. The fair is located in the unique setting of
Randall’s Island Park, overlooking the East River.
The five artists
participating in the Frieze Projects program this year are: Liz
Glynn, Maria Loboda, Mateo Tannatt, Andra Ursuta, Marianne
Vitale. The program will also feature a special tribute to legendary artist-run
restaurantFood, originally conceived by Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Godden in
1971, and an original text by novelist Ben Marcus. The Frieze Projects
program is realized annually at Frieze New York and is curated by Cecilia
Alemani.
The program
includes seven specially commissioned projects, three of which are situated
outdoors in Randall’s Island Park. The participating artists have been invited
to conceive site-specific works that either react to the exceptional location
of Randall’s Island or engage with the experience of the fair. Some projects
confront the unique landscape of the site by inserting incongruous presences
within the island’s landscape, including a color-coded garden, a speakeasy, and
a cemetery. Others play with quotidian acts via folkloric traditions and
formalist preoccupations. Together the seven projects envision new, temporary
spaces for participation in everyday rituals.
Cecilia Alemani
said of the program, ‘For the second edition of Frieze Projects in New York, I
asked the commissioned artists to intervene in the fair and its surrounding
landscape by staging challenging works that play with everyday habits and
collective behaviors. Basic actions such as eating, drinking, speaking and
praying serve as the starting point for a series of site-specific installations
that engage the ritualistic dimension of the fair and the unique landscape of
the island.’
Frieze Projects
presents newly commissioned artworks by international artists. The artists
commissioned by Frieze Projects will use Frieze New York as a site to realize
ambitious ideas.
Frieze New York
will take place May 10–13, 2013 and will present over 180 of the world’s
leading galleries. Frieze New York is sponsored by Deutsche Bank.
2013 Projects
Liz
Glynn (b. 1981, Boston. Lives in Los Angeles.)
In a series of
large-scale sculptural installations often assembled with inexpensive materials
such as wood and cardboard, Liz Glynn builds impromptu architectures and
creates gathering spaces that incorporate fictional references to historical
civilizations such as ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. For Frieze Projects,
the artist will use the grid of the fair to hide a secret bar inspired by 1920s
prohibition-era speakeasies. Decorated like an old bank vault, the bar will be
accessible through a secret door. Inside, bartenders will perform magic tricks
while serving cocktails to guests.
Maria
Loboda (b. 1979, Krakow. Lives in Berlin and London.)
Maria Loboda’s
work analyzes systems of communications, underscoring the transformative power
of languages and codes. Reflecting upon the relationship between nature and
verbal communication, Loboda has realized a number of works in which nature is
analyzed through the lens of language. Taking as inspiration the lush parkland
of Randall’s Island, the artist will turn an area of the park’s green lawn into
a color-coded garden, an exact replica of a color plate of a European interior
design motif from the 19th century. Interested in the exacting precision
of color mapping, the artist translates the two-dimensional image into a
living landscape of plans, flowers and shrubs, highlighting the relationship
between interior and exterior, between two and three-dimensional landscapes.
Mateo
Tannatt (b. 1979, Los Angeles. Lives in Los Angeles.)
Mateo Tannatt
uses sculpture as a platform for performance, video, photography and painting,
creating landscapes of objects and props that are often brought to life by
actors and performers. For Frieze Projects, Tannatt will craft seven individual
sculptures that interrupt and punctuate the fair. Each of these seven situations
will be activated by scripted performances and written texts. Viewers will be
invited to sit and use the sculptures as part of the performance. Based on the
subjective association of color and the effect and use of public sculpture,
this project not only offers moments for viewers to rest but also provides
temporary stages for public theater, bringing the monumental into the everyday.
Andra
Ursuta (b. 1979, Salonta. Lives in New York.)
Andra Ursuta’s
work merges references to the traditional folklore of her native Romania with
an investigation of feminine identity through a series of sculptures,
installations and immersive environments. For Frieze Projects, Ursuta departs
from the idea that art fairs have become temporary sites of pilgrimage. As part
of an imaginary art village, the artist will construct a missing part of the
everyday life of an art fair: a quaint little cemetery where art goes to die.
As art fairs do not allow room for the afterlife of art, Ursuta will erect a
group of marble slabs in the bucolic landscape of Randall’s Island, turning the
site into a place of worship.
Marianne
Vitale (b.1973, East Rockaway. Lives in New York.)
Known for her
large-scale wooden sculptures of burnt bridges, barns and outhouses, Marianne
Vitale combines a reflection on contemporary American sculpture with an
investigation of vernacular art and architecture. For Frieze Projects, the
artist will reimagine a number of 19th-century weathervanes – the
admirable, playful folk objects crafted by anonymous artists – by stripping
them down, bulking them up and divesting them of their perceivable use value;
their movement. These noncompliant forecasters will be on display indoors to
disrupt the atmospheric conditions for fairgoers.
Food 1971/2013
In 2013, Frieze
Projects will organize a special tribute to Food, the legendary restaurant
opened in October 1971 by Gordon Matta-Clark and Carol Goodden in collaboration
with other artists. Sited outside the fair, this tribute will take the form of
a temporary restaurant where the history and legacy of Food will be
celebrated. A meeting space, a restaurant, a total work of
art, Food was driven by the energy of the people that run it and that
gathered there. In the same spirit, Food 1971/2013 at Frieze will be
a dynamic platform where each day a different artist will be invited to cook in
a convivial environment which will double as a restaurant and a performance
stage, a space where food is made and art is discussed, inspired and produced.
In 2012, with a homage to Fashion Moda and a presentation of John Ahearn’s
work, Frieze Projects started a series of tributes to historical artist-run
spaces and initiatives that have defined and transformed the cultural and
artistic life of New York City. Food 1971/2013 is the second project
in this series.
Ben
Marcus (b. 1967, Chicago. Lives in New York.)
In 2012, Frieze
Projects inaugurated Frieze Story – a new platform for writers and novelists
who are invited to develop short stories that expand upon the unique location
of the fair – with a short text by Rick Moody. For 2013 Frieze Story, novelist
Ben Marcus has been invited to contribute with an original composition which
will add another voice to the polyphony of Frieze Projects. Associate Professor
at Columbia University, Marcus is the author of a number of novels and short
stories, including The Flame Alphabet (2012), Notable American
Women(2002), and The Age of Wire and String (1995).
