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Inaugurating a new edition in Los Angeles,
Frieze expands its progressive art fair format
with a premiere at Paramount Pictures Studios
Site en Scene
W R I T T E N B Y J E N N T H O R N T O N
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n launching the first Frieze Los Angeles this month, the prolific and
independent art platform with three magazines, an art academy and now
four international art fairs (including Frieze New York, Frieze London,
and Frieze Masters) is bringing the best of the contemporary art world to
one of its most receptive and forward-looking capitals.
Greatly engaged in advancing global arts, and one of its linchpins, Los
Angeles is fertile ground for the Feb. 14-17 art fair that will be held—with
or without irony—during another glittering awards season at Paramount
Pictures Studios. At the helm is a cast of serious L.A. art insiders, notably
Executive Director Bettina Korek (founder of ForYourArt) and curator
Ali Subotnick (formerly curator at the Hammer Museum). e tie to
Hollywood makes it a more interesting moment for the event, with its
locale, though generally unconventional, not especially so for a Frieze art
fair, which is typically out-of-the-box so far as settings are concerned, with
custom structures by significant architects. To this end there is Kulapat
Yantrasast. e founder and creative director of L.A. architectural firm
wHY designed a bespoke structure for the smaller and more focused yet
creatively ambitious Frieze Los Angeles whose program aspires to a broader
conversation about contemporary art and culture. Hamza Walker of
LAXART will curate Frieze Talks and Frieze Music, while his counterpart
Subotnick heads Frieze Projects, which will feature works of performance,
installation and sculpture scattered throughout a cinematically familiar
street on Paramount's NYC backlot. ese pieces are best understood as
responses to the unorthodox context.
Participation for Frieze Los Angeles is substantial, with the roughly 70
participating galleries including locally known names like e Box, e
Pit, Regen Projects, and David Kordansky Gallery, along with a robust
international representation. Frieze Week, meanwhile, will run Feb. 11-17
and feature a spectrum of related events, from gallery opening to talks and
more. frieze.com
22 DIGS.NET
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2.1.2019
