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August 21, 2017
Text: Annie Block
Frieze Sculpture Brings 22 Large-Scale Artworks to Regent’s Park
A Reza Aramesh Cor-Ten steel sculpture is on display in London’s Regent’s Park through October 8 in Frieze Sculpture. Photography by Stephen White/Courtesy of Frieze.
Bronze footballs,aka soccer balls, are stacked 22 high. Pink aluminum looks like it’s twisted into an enormous pretzel. A cartoonlike character with X eyes stands 20 feet tall. These are just some of the large-scale entities visitors to the 395-acre grounds of Regent’s Park in London are encountering this summer. Artworks by Hank Willis Thomas, John Chamberlain, and Kaws, they are among 22 others for Frieze Sculpture, an outdoor exhibition that launched in 2005 as part of Frieze London. But this year, for the first time, it opens free to the public months before the October 5 fair. The 24 artists hail from around the globe—from Tokyo to Berlin—and the age of the works range from 1989 to new commissions.
A colored aluminum sculpture by John Chamberlain. Photography by Stephen White/Courtesy of Frieze.An afrormosia-wood sculpture by Bernar Venet. Photography by Stephen White/Courtesy of Frieze.
KAWS, FINAL DAYS (2013), Galerie Perrotin, Frieze Sculpture 2017. Photography by Stephen White/Courtesy of Frieze.Eduardo Paolozzi, Vulcan (1999), Pangolin, Frieze Sculpture 2017. Photography by Stephen White/Courtesy of Frieze.Magdalena Abakanowicz, Standing Figure with Wheel (1990), Marlborough Fine Art, Frieze Sculpture 2017. Photography by Stephen White/Courtesy of Frieze.Takuro Kuwata, Untitled and Untitled (both 2016), Alison Jacques Gallery / Salon 94, Frieze Sculpture 2017. Photography by Stephen White/Courtesy of Frieze.Tony Cragg, Stroke (2014), Holtermann Fine Art, Frieze Sculpture 2017. Photography by Stephen White/Courtesy of Frieze.
