전 세계 110여 개의 참여 갤러리와 한층 풍성해진 기획 프로그램으로 프리즈 서울이 돌아온다. 이번 아트페어는 갤러리 섹션과 함께 신진 작가 및 고대 미술품을 위한 특별 섹션으로 구성되며, 프리즈 아티스트 어워드(Frieze Artist Award), 프리즈 필름(Frieze Film), 다양한 토크 프로그램, 그리고 도시 전역에서 열리는 프리즈 위크(Frieze Week)의 문화예술 행사로 활기찬 아트페어 개최 주간이 준비되었다.
On Saturday, after the crowds of journalists had thinned out and the international press delivered their judgements, it was time for the official jury (Jessica Morgan; Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy; Francesco Manacorda; Bisi Silva and Ali Subotnick) to present theirs, feline-formed and much coveted.
Moscow seems to have been in the news for all of the wrong reasons recently. The trial of opposition activist, Alexey Navalny, accused of embezzling state funds but guilty of speaking out against President Putin began in Kirov last week; there continues to be intrigue in the case of Alexander Perepilichnyy, the businessman who sought refuge in the UK after denouncing corrupt state officials to Swiss prosecutors and dropped dead whilst jogging near his Surrey home late last year; and, last month, another self-exiled anti-Putin billionaire, Boris Berezovsky, committed suicide in London after having lost to Roman Abramovich in what was supposedly the most expensive legal case involving individuals in history.