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February 10, 2025
Frieze celebrates its sixth version in Los Angeles this yr. An occasion designed to have a good time artwork in all its types, but in addition the distinctive dynamic tradition of town. The Los Angeles artwork scene has been booming for the previous 5 years, with dozens of recent galleries organising store.
Frieze Los Angeles will happen at Santa Monica Airport from February 20 to 23 – Frieze LA
Over 100 galleries, established and rising, from some 20 nations, will current, as final yr at Santa Monica Airport, the works of their artists to an more and more worldwide viewers, made up of collectors, celebrities, films and vogue business. Amongst this yr’s new galleries, Southern Guild, a gallery based in 2008 in South Africa by Trevyn and Julia McGowen will probably be one of many sights. Southern Guild has opened a yr in the past within the Melrose Hill neighborhood, making it the primary in South Africa to open a everlasting gallery house within the U.S.
Frieze may also see the artists of London’s Timothy Taylor Gallery and Rome’s Galleria Lorcan O’Neill exhibited for the primary time. The Tilton Gallery’s exhibition devoted to Noah Purifoy, the well-known artist and co-founder of the Watts Tower artwork heart, will unveil his sculptures and assemblages created within the Joshua Tree desert between 1989 and 2004.
Frieze’s eagerly awaited Focus part, curated by Essence Harden, additionally co-curator for “Made in L.A 2025,” focuses on U.S. galleries which were in operation for 12 years or much less. Since 2023, this occasion has been sponsored by the Italian model Stone Island, managed by Moncler Group. The model has awarded a number of grants to galleries together with, this yr, Bel Ami, Dominique Gallery, Make Room, Sow & Tailor and Superposition Gallery.
Helmut Lang exhibition ‘What stays behind’ on the Schindler Home, West Hollywood – Helmut Lang
As all the time, with the inflow of collectors and hundreds of creatives from all around the world, Los Angeles museums and artwork venues are organizing shows throughout Frieze week which are positive to get folks speaking. ‘What Stays Behind’ is the primary institutional solo present within the metropolis by iconic artist Helmut Lang. The previous clothier, who offered his model to Quick Retailing in 2005, will fill the rooms of the Schindler Home on the MAK Middle for Artwork and Structure in West Hollywood with summary metal sculptures. “The presence of Lang’s sculptures transforms each of the storied rooms into echo-chambers reverberating ideas of materialized humanity across concrete, wood and glass,” stated curator Neville Wakefield.
“Proximity and aspect constantly change. Like emotions, they are fugitive, restless and refuse to settle into singular meanings and forms. But beneath these surface impressions is the undertow of darker sexualized forms of desire, a less palpable but more powerful energy field that forces us to confront the inherent tension between the body, the objects, the gaze and the architecture that contains them. Just as all art is manifest thought, so these works are extroversions of interior conditions.” Among the other exhibitions that should be of interest to the fashion world, one organized by Albertz Benda Gallery Los Angeles is dedicated to Western culture. “Saddle Up: Creative Journeys By means of Cowboy Tradition” brings together a young generation of artists who are making their mark on the idea of the West in their practice.
“The American West continues to capture the imagination,” explained Devon Dejardin, curator of the exhibition. “The values derived from the cowboy ethic, with its spirit of independence and rugged individualism, connection to the land and quick expertise of the wonder and energy of nature, have resonated with generations around the globe. This affect will be felt in fashionable tradition, together with vogue, artwork and music, with nation music dominating the charts”.
‘Saddle Up: Creative Journeys By means of Cowboy Tradition’, the exhibition at Albertz Benda Gallery – Albertz Benda Gallery
Invited by the Gagosian gallery in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles-born painter Alex Israel will probably be one of many personalities to be seen throughout this Los Angeles artwork week. Born in Los Angeles in 1982, Israel has already collaborated with Louis Vuitton to create a line of perfumes exploring Californian tradition, in addition to with Rimowa and BMW. Throughout Frieze and till March 22, he’ll current an exhibition of his newest “painted streetscapes”, entitled “Noir.” Significantly fashionable within the vogue sphere, David Kordansky Gallery will current the work of artist Maia Cruz Palileo, whereas Jeffrey Deitch Gallery will unveil the work of Nina Chanel Abney, identified for her vibrant use of colour and layered narratives. Richard Saltoun Gallery will current the work of Greta Schödl. For her most up-to-date works, featured in Richard Saltoun’s solo exhibition, Schödl works with blocks of marble, which she inscribes with repeated textual content, a course of she describes as “clothing the surface with her name”.
Alongside Frieze, conventional Los Angeles museums may also have lots to indicate, together with the “Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics” exhibition at LACMA, that includes works by 60 artists working in Africa, Europe and the Americas.
LACMA, Arielle Bobb-Willis, New Jersey, 2019, Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, Ralph M. Parsons Fund – © Museum Associates/LACMA
Musician and artist Alice Coltrane will headline the Hammer Museum’s “Monument Eternal’s” exhibition till Could 4, 2025. The exhibition, which celebrates the artist’s profession, is a part of the nationwide initiative “The Year of Alice” realized by the John & Alice Coltrane Dwelling and quite a few companions. Different occasions embody Gallery 33 at The Georgian in Santa Monica, the place the primary exhibition of Paris Brosnan’s work, Rhythm and Reveries, will happen. The son of Pierce Brosnan, who not too long ago guest-starred within the marketing campaign for vogue label Pas Une Marque, based by Sean Coutts, will suggest “an exploration of the human situation by a childlike lens utilizing non-representational expressionism, revealing characters and scenes born from the artist’s creativeness and desires, formed by the vivid fantastic thing about tropical locations.” For an experience that fosters connection and renewal through art, The West Hollywood Edition’s lobby will welcome artist Moral Turgeman from February 18 to 23 to conduct individual Blind Portrait sessions by appointment. Through a 45-second eye-gazing exercise, Moral connects deeply with each participant, capturing their essence in a single, continuous line without looking at the paper. These intimate portraits are part of an ongoing project to connect with 10,000 people around the world through direct eye contact.
Axel Israel ‘Noir’ exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills – Gagosian Gallery
The Frieze occasion, held simply over a month after the devastating fires broke out, acquired the help of quite a few sellers, artists and museums to take care of the occasion. A dozen artists in Los Angeles noticed their houses and studios destroyed by flames. The identical destiny befell gallerists and collectors resembling Ron Rivlin, who misplaced over 200 items of artwork, together with some 30 by Andy Warhol. Frieze and different cultural establishments have additionally joined forces to launch the LA Arts Neighborhood Hearth Reduction Fund, which raised over $12 million to help these impacted by the fires.
