Frieze Projects NY

Liz Glynn

2013-01-16T16:15:43+00:00

Liz Glynn’s large-scale installations are often assembled with inexpensive materials such as wood and cardboard. These sculptures create impromptu architectures and gathering spaces, which incorporate fictional references to historical civilizations such as ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. Decorated like an old bank vault, Glynn’s bar at Frieze New York 2013 will be accessible through a secret door. Inside, bartenders will perform magic tricks while serving cocktails to guests.

Maria Loboda

2013-01-16T16:08:07+00:00

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 the natural world 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 into a color-coded garden, an exact replica of an illustration of a European interior design motif from the 19th century. Interested in the precision of color mapping, the artist will translate the two-dimensional image into a living landscape of plants, flowers and shrubs, highlighting not only the relationship between interior and exterior, but also between two and three-dimensional landscapes. Loboda’s project incorporates a bespoke perfume that takes as its inspiration an abstraction of tobacco. Loboda’s aspiration is to transport the audience of the work to a smoking room populated by elegant women who are exchanging ideas for their next worldwide art adventures. Loboda has been working with the Swiss fragrance business Firmenich to realize her Project, which is supported by The Fragrance Foundation.

Mateo Tannatt

2013-01-16T16:05:03+00:00

Los Angeles-based artist Mateo Tannatt uses sculpture as a platform for performance, video, photography and painting. He creates 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 of public sculpture, this project not only offers viewers a resting point but also provides temporary stages for public theater, bringing the monumental into the everyday.

Andra Ursuta

2013-01-16T16:03:12+00:00

Andra Ursuta’s work combines 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. Instead Ursuta will pose the fair as an imaginary art village, and will construct a missing part of the everyday life of an art fair: a quaint little cemetery where art goes to die. Since art fairs do not allow room for the afterlife of art, Ursuta will provide that missing space by erecting group of marble slabs in the bucolic landscape of Randall’s Island, turning the site into a place of worship.

Marianne Vitale

2013-01-16T16:00:12+00:00

Known for her large-scale wooden sculptures of burnt bridges, barns and outhouses, Marianne Vitale’s work reflects upon contemporary American sculpture whilst conducting an investigation of vernacular art and architecture.

For Frieze Projects, Vitale installs a monumental architectural fragment at the center of the fair evoking rural landscape, putting into question old-fashioned traditions and values. A severed barn wall with window encourages a vantage point into, or out of, the collapsed circumstance.

FOOD 1971/2013

2013-01-16T15:56:26+00:00

At Frieze New York 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. 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 and a total work of art, FOOD was driven by the energy of the people that ran it and those who gathered there. In the same spirit, FOOD 1971/2013 will be a dynamic platform where each day a different artist will be invited to cook in a convivial environment. Both a restaurant and performance stage FOOD 1971/2013 will be a space where cooking and art are discussed, inspired and produced.

At Frieze New York 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.

Menus

THURSDAY, MAY 9
Chef: Matthew Day Jackson
In collaboration with SunTek Chung, Joseph Hung and Chul Kim

Inspiration: The history of the preservation of food is not only linked to famine. Mobility and ease of transport of foodstuffs is intricately linked to the success of exploration, conquest and war

Prefixed menu served in a cafeteria tray, $15
1. Budae Jjigae soup
2. Hardtack with smoked gouda, dried apricot and pineapple, and honey
3. Red Pepper Beef Jerky
4. Hop Pickles
5. TANG drink

FRIDAY, MAY 10
Chef: Carol Goodden, co-founder of FOOD

Inspiration: Soups offer fabulous nutrition and stick with you better than tea or porridge. But mainly the conception of any soup can excite a good cook’s imagination. They can be used as “paintings” to decorate the table with a colorful carrot soup, or dark greens with whites – aromatic. Carol’s FOOD was based on two choices of soups and a big hunk of freshly-baked bread.

Menu:
1.Cauliflower and Watercress Soup and home-made bread $7
2. Carrot Soup Español and home-made bread $7
3. Pyrénées Sheep Cheese, fresh green salad and home-made bread $5
4. Carrot Juice $6

SATURDAY, MAY 11
Chef: Jonathan Horowitz

Inspiration: A vegan menu featuring three organizations that Jonathan Horowitz thinks people should know about: ‘Bloodroot Restaurant’, a feminist bookstore and vegetarian café in Bridgeport, CT; ‘Fieldroast’, makers of gourmet, vegan grain meat products; and ‘Shore Soup,’ providing fresh, organic meals for free to economically struggling residents of the Rockaway Peninsula. Horowitz is interested in simply promoting veganism and compassion, choosing simple, classic American fare that he hopes will be appropriate for a Saturday in the park, but made without abusing or killing animals. According to Horowitz ‘They’re facsimile dishes – “fake” hotdogs, “fake” Caesar salad – so you might say that’s where the art comes in – a kind of traditional, realist art, as practiced hundreds of years ago by Buddhist monks who created imitation meat dishes. I’ve also made some art for the walls — portraits of farm animals who I’ve given names to, because how can you eat an animal with a name?’

Menu:
1. Frankfurters from Fieldroast $4
2. Caesar’s Wife Salad from Bloodroot Restaurant $7
3. Roasted Tomato and fennel soup from Shore

SUNDAY, MAY 12
Chef: Tina Girouard, one of the original chefs from FOOD

Inspiration: Going back to the roots of FOOD and Gordon Matta Clark’s spit-firied pig under the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1970s.

Menu:
1.Cochon Amour: Spit roast pig with pickled okra, pecans, purple onion and pineapple $9
2.Roasted sweet potato $3
3.Collar Greens $3
4.GumboVirgin Merry $5
5 Pecan Praline TBD

MONDAY, MAY 13
Chef: Frieze

Inspiration: Gordon Matta-Clark Bone Menu

Menu:
1.Oxtail soup with home-made bread $7
2.Salad $7
3.Carrot Juice $4

Ben Marcus – Frieze Story

2013-01-15T15:00:32+00:00

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. This year’s Frieze Story, novelist Ben Marcus has been invited to contribute 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).

Download Frieze Story 2013

John Ahearn

2012-03-27T19:59:04+00:00

South Bronx Hall of Fame (2012)

The presentation inside the fair at Frieze New York included a series of sculptures originally displayed at Fashion Moda and realized in collaboration with Rigoberto Torres, as well as a casting station where Ahearn and Torres made a new series of commissioned portraits, live for the whole duration of the fair.

The original 1979 sculptures portray faces of neighbors from the 3rd Avenue shopping area, as well as downtown artist friends and people from the methadone clinic across the street. Ahearn and Torres began their castings in the gallery’s storefront window, transforming the space into a public street performance visible from the sidewalk.

During the casting, the model is coated in molding gel and must breathe through plastic straws that extend from his nostrils while being wrapped in soaked plaster bandages that quickly harden. This project will also function as a tribute to the alternative spaces and galleries that were once vital for the artistic community and have now closed.

Uri Aran

2012-03-11T19:58:20+00:00

Untitled, (Ticket Shack) (2012)

Using one of Randall’s Island’s existing buildings – an abandoned ticket office next to the boat pier – Uri Aran turned a derelict structure into a fictional examination room in which actors played the roles of doctors and patients. The encounters were filmed and projected live inside the fair.

The project articulates Aran’s ongoing interest in the depiction of authority figures and power relationships in the media and contemporary culture. In this case he will look at how doctors and patients are traditional roles that impose stereotyped behaviors in society, be it in games, dramas, novels or fiction. Aran’s performance investigated the way in which individuals willingly transform themselves into characters.

Performances:
Thursday–Saturday: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm
Sunday–Monday: 12pm, 2pm, 4pm

Latifa Echakhch

2012-03-10T19:57:39+00:00

Tumbleweeds (2012)

Latifa Echakhch’s work addresses contemporary globalized culture through simple, elegant gestures and formal restraint. For her project, Echakhch turned a patch of grass on Randall’s Island into an enchanting mirage – installing hundreds of tumbleweeds in an incongruous location. Typically seen rolling in the desert or on empty highways in the American southwest, tumbleweeds have long become icons of classic Western movies and popular imagination. As a three-dimensional still life, this constructed illusion invited viewers to re-examine a familiar object that is unexpectedly made present in an idiosyncratic context.