20th-Century Visionaries at Frieze Los Angeles

From icons of modern art Ed Ruscha and Alighiero Boetti to self-taught talents such as Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and subversive figures of the avant-garde including Edward and Nancy Kienholz

in Frieze Los Angeles , News | 15 DEC 22

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The 2023 edition of Frieze Los Angeles will feature 20 galleries with a specialism in the 20th century, gathered together in the Barker Hangar.

Including a strong representation of women artists and an emphasis on pioneering figures who have been historically overlooked, highlights include...

Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, 1966, Color screenprint on commercial buff paper, 25 5/8 x 40 inches. Image courtesy of Berggruen Gallery
Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, 1966, Color screenprint on commercial buff paper, 25 5/8 x 40 inches. Image courtesy of Berggruen Gallery

American Pioneers

A booth showcasing works by groundbreaking American artists including Ed Ruscha, Richard Diebenkorn, Donald Judd, Wayne Thiebaud, and Ellsworth Kelly among others. (Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco)

Jennifer Bartlett, renowned for her mathematically elegant riffs on the modernist grid, who had a strong connection to nature and themes of quotidian violence. Her Fire paintings explore the motif as a symbol of resurrection, renewal, and transformation (Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York)

The Comedian as the Letter C for Max Gordon, 1990Oil on canvas96 x 192 inches, 243.8 x 487.7 cm© Jennifer Bartlett. Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and The Jennifer Bartlett 2013 Trust. Photo credit: Object Studies
Jennifer Bartlett, The Comedian as the Letter C for Max Gordon, 1990. Oil on canvas, 96 x 192 inches, 243.8 x 487.7 cm © Jennifer Bartlett. Courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and The Jennifer Bartlett 2013 Trust. Photo credit: Object Studies

Lakota artist Dana Claxton’s work, speaking of the encounters, exchanges and violent conflicts that have shaped North American Indigenous experiences to the present day (Donald Ellis Gallery, New York)

Edward Ralph Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, American installation artists and assemblage sculptors whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. The British art critic Brian Sewell described Edward Kienholz as "the least known, most neglected and forgotten American artist of Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation of the 1950s, a contemporary of the writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Norman Mailer, his visual imagery at least as grim, gritty, sordid and depressing as their literary vocabulary". (LA Louver, Los Angeles)

Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz My Country 'Tis Of Thee, 1991 mixed media assemblage 101 x 56 1/2 x 37 in.
Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz, My Country 'Tis Of Thee, 1991 mixed media assemblage 101 x 56 1/2 x 37 in.

A presentation of works by self-taught and visionary artists Joe Coleman, Paulina Peavy, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and more (Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York)

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910 - 1983)Wand of the Genii, Nov 5, 1956, 1956Oil on posterboard22 x 28 inches3190 / SKU EV3962Courtesy Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Wand of the Genii, Nov 5, 1956, 1956. Oil on posterboard, 22 x 28 inches. Courtesy Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

Visionaries from Around the World

'Who's Afraid of Red?', a curated exhibition illustrating how artists have harnessed the power of this colour, showing works by stars of the Italian art scene Lucio Fontana, Mimmo Rotella and Alighiero Boetti, alongside renowned American sculptors Alexander Calder and John Chamberlain (Robilant+Voena, London)

The ethereal yet monumental textile sculptures of Polish fibre sculptor Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, one of the most important textile artists who transformed tapestry from flat decorations to avant-garde installations. (Richard Saltoun Gallery, London)

Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA 1933 - 2019  Cloud [Chmura], 1986  Glue, synthetic fabric  130 x 170 cm
Barbara LEVITTOUX-ŚWIDERSKA 1933 - 2019, Cloud [Chmura], 1986. Glue, synthetic fabric. 130 x 170 cm

An overview of Italian Post-War movements through a selection of works by artists including Carla Accardi, Alberto Biasi, Francesca Pasquali, Mimmo Rotella, Paolo Scheggi, Mario Schifano and more (Tornabuoni Arte, Florence)

Dialogues between the Historic and the Contemporary



Significant Korean artists from modern pioneers to influential contemporary talents, including Haindoo, Yun Suknam, Song Hyun-sook, and JOUNG Young-Ju (Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul)

A project exploring the Light and Space movement presenting works by some of the protagonists of the post-war international art scene – such as Lucio Fontana and Victor Vasarely – in dialogue with contemporary, multidisciplinary artist Marinella Senatore (Mazzoleni, London)

Lucio Fontana, 1899 -1968, Concetto Spaziale. Attesa, 1966Signed, titled and inscribed 'l. Fontana / Concetto Spaziale / ATTESA / a Nino Carozzi con simpatia / Dieci, venti, trenta / sessanta' (on the reverse). Waterpaint on canvas33 x 24 cm
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale. Attesa, 1966. Waterpaint on canvas, 33 x 24 cm. Courtesy of Mazzoleni

A presentation of new works on paper by Marsha Cottrell, alongside historic sculptures by Larry Bell (Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco)

Plus more 20th-century highlights to be revealed soon... 

 

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Image at top of page: detail, Alighiero Boetti, Aerei (Aeroplanes), c. 1987. Ballpoint pen on paper laid down on canvas. Three parts, each: 139 x 100 cm (54 3/4 x 39 3/8 in.); With frame: 145 x 306.5 x 7 cm (57 x 120 33/50 x 2 3/4 in.). Courtesy of Robilant+Voena

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