Frieze Art Fair

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COLLAGE SCENE

Collage at London’s Largest Art Fair

“Throughout 2016 Frieze London in leafy Regent’s Park, there were few, randomly scattered, traditional collages in the vein of attached materials and images on flat surfaces,” writes Etty Yaniv. Her full report on collage in the international art fair scene appears in Kolaj #18. “Throughout the fair, which presented more than 160 contemporary art galleries from thirty countries, these collages were mostly well-executed derivations of Surrealism, Dada or Pop art. None of them took central stage at the overall exhibits. However, visitors with a keen interest in collage as a thought process, rather than a specific technique, could find some non-traditional collage-based gems which stuck out.”

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Ranging from commentaries on environmental and political concerns to highly personal and idiosyncratic expressions, these rigorous artworks utilize a wide range of disciplines such as assemblage, printmaking, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Viewing the exhibits with a wider interpretation of the medium in mind, collage turned out to play a substantial role at the fair.

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Yaniv reports on Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps Gallery, Francis Upritchard at Kate MacGarry Gallery, Cristina Iglesias at Galeria Elba Benitez, and Allora and Calzadilla at Lisson Gallery.

Images:

The New Social Order – Work For All – Art For All
by Andrea Bowers
45”x66”; acrylic marker on cardboard; 2016
Image courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.

Installation view of work by Francis Upritchard
Courtesy of the artist and Kate MacGarry Gallery, London