Open Now: Frieze Sculpture 2022
A major public exhibition in London's Regent's Park from 14 September to 13 November, featuring 19 large-scale works by artists including John Giorno, Ro Robertson and Ugo Rondinone
A major public exhibition in London's Regent's Park from 14 September to 13 November, featuring 19 large-scale works by artists including John Giorno, Ro Robertson and Ugo Rondinone
Frieze has revealed details of Frieze Sculpture 2022 in The Regent’s Park, curated by Clare Lilley (Yorkshire Sculpture Park Director) for the tenth consecutive year. Featuring a line-up of 19 international artists, the celebrated public art exhibition opens 14 September through 13 November 2022. Frieze Sculpture is free and open to all and runs alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which both take place from 12 to 16 October 2022 in The Regent’s Park, bringing together the world’s leading galleries to celebrate the creative spirit of the city.
Frieze Sculpture will also collaborate with two major public art initiatives, the 11th edition of Sculpture in The City, an annual exhibition of contemporary art placed among the striking architecture of the City of London, and the Mayor of London’s Fourth Plinth Programme in Trafalgar Square. Together, they will form Sculpture Week London, a city-wide celebration of public art featuring work by 38 artists.
Clare Lilley, Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park commented: ‘This is my tenth year as curator of Frieze Sculpture. It’s been a wonderful decade of working with the Frieze teams, installation crews, galleries, and with a range of exceptional artists. Since 2012, Frieze Sculpture has gone from being a week-long display alongside the fair, to a substantial summer and now autumn exhibition for London. Each year I set out to make a show that serves one of the world’s leading art fairs, as well as those who might never before have considered looking at sculpture. No two Frieze Sculptures are the same but all are a paean to sculpture in the open air.’
The 2022 display engages with a number of themes; works by Robert Indiana, John Giorno, John Wood and Paul Harrison, and Tim Etchells are structured as texts, conveying messages that merge poetry and political messages. The poetic-political plays out further in the work of Péju Alatise and Ro Robertson, whose gazes turn to female and non-binary healing in nature, and Shaikha al Mazrou, Beverly Pepper and Ida Ekblad create ambitious sculptures that are charged with the sensibility of women. The importance of coming together – as community and as a social voice – is conveyed in works by Marinella Senatore, Pablo Reinoso, and Ron Arad. Finally, as our world looks with uncertainty into the near future, works by Alicja Kwade, George Rickey, Emma Hart and NS Harsha conjure the universal and spiritual, whilst folklore and mythology are explored by Matthew Darbyshire and Jordy Kerwick.
Participating artists and galleries, Frieze Sculpture 2022:
Péju Alatise
Sim and the Yellow Glass Birds, 2022
kó Art Space
Ron Arad
Dubito Ergo Cogito, 2022
Osborne Samuel Gallery
Shaikha Al Mazrou
Red Stack, 2022
Lawrie Shabibi
Matthew Darbyshire
Hercules Meets Galatea, 2022
Herald St
Installation kindly sponsored by Selfridges
Ida Ekblad
BOOK OF BOREDOM, 2022
Galerie Max Hetzler
Tim Etchells
Don’t Look Back, 2022
Vitrine
John Giorno
SPACE MIRRORS MIND, 2022
Almine Rech
N.S. Harsha
Desired for – Arrived at, 2021
Vadehra Art Gallery and Victoria Miro
Emma Hart
Big Time, 2022
The Sunday Painter
Robert Indiana
Imperial LOVE, 1966-1971
Waddington Custot
Jordy Kerwick
Vertical Plane Me, 2022
Vigo
Alicja Kwade
Tunnel-Tell (Ceci Sera), 2020
König Gallery and Pace
Beverly Pepper
Curvae in Curvae, 2013-2018
Marlborough
Pablo Reinoso
Speaker’s Corner, 2022
Waddington Custot
George Rickey
Five Lines in Parallel Planes, 1966
Kasmin
Ugo Rondinone
yellow blue monk, 2020
Gladstone
Ro Robertson
Drench, 2022
Maximillian William
Marinella Senatore
Bodies in Alliance, 2022
Mazzoleni
John Wood and Paul Harrison
10 signs for a park, 2022
Galeria Vera Cortês
Frieze Sculpture is free and open to all until 13 November and runs alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which both take place from 12 to 16 October 2022 in The Regent’s Park, bringing together the world’s leading galleries to celebrate the creative spirit of the city.
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Main image: Detail view, Ro Robertson, Drench, 2022, Artist's impression, Artwork and design credit Ro Robertson, Digital render credit Mike Gregory / Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre, Courtesy the artist and Maximillian William, London
