Solo Presentations at Frieze Seoul 2022
From Tavares Strachan’s exploration into the unseen to 20th-century masterworks by Pistoletto and Lichtenstein
From Tavares Strachan’s exploration into the unseen to 20th-century masterworks by Pistoletto and Lichtenstein
Frieze Seoul 2022 features a strong lineup of solo presentations from some of the world’s leading galleries. Highlights include:
Global Perspectives
The conceptual artist Tavares Strachan presents an iteration of The Encyclopedia of Invisibility, a sculptural work that features thousands of entries focused on historically marginalized individuals, places, and events. (Perrotin)
Japanese-born artist Atsushi Kaga’s works incorporate a mixture of Western art history, philosophy, Celtic culture, and Japanese painting. Kaga’s solo booth centers around his ‘self-portrait’ series, featuring an anthropomorphized rabbit. (mother’s tankstation and Maho Kubota Gallery)
Subtle and shocking in turn, Swiss artist and feminist legend Miriam Cahn’s robust practice explores an ongoing battle against violence and oppression in all forms. (Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and Meyer Riegger)
Assemblages by José Santos III transform mundane objects into the sublime, puncturing our experience of the perfunctory and demanding a heightened awareness of value in the everyday. (The Drawing Room)
American Art Today
LA-based artist Calvin Marcus zeroes in on the weeds and tiny leaves that so often appear in his work in a new series of paintings imbued with his characteristic playfulness. (David Kordansky Gallery)
Growing up as the son of Ghanaian immigrants in Memphis, Tennessee, Derek Fordjour embarked upon a remarkable artistic journey that continues today, defined by painful — and courageous — reflections on self and society alike. (Petzel Gallery)
New works by Sterling Ruby from the artist’s ‘TURBINE’ series build on his longstanding interest in examining tensions between fluidity and stasis, Expressionism and Minimalism, the abject and the pristine. (Xavier Hufkens)
Solo Frieze Masters
A selection of works by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein from the 1980s, curated by the same gallery that sold out his first one-man show in 1962. (Castelli Gallery)
A presentation retracing the practice and trajectory of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian painter, art theorist, and celebrated pioneer of the Arte Povera movement. (Galleria Continua)
Around forty museum-quality works by the provocateur of Austrian Expressionist art, Egon Schiele, including oil paintings, watercolours and drawings. The exhibition will show the full range of the artist’s genius – his famous erotic paintings of women, his portraits, and his rare landscapes will hang side by side. (Richard Nagy)
Main Image: Derek Fordjour, Cake Man, Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil, pastel and foil on newspaper mounted on canvas, Courtesy of the Artist and Petzel
