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    An artist's guide to Frieze
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    Next week, their theatrical work Drama Queens (performed last year at the Old Vic), opens at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. "It's a play with seven modernist sculptures - mechanical replicas that can drive around - on a theatre stage, bitching at each other. The figures include Giacometti and Jeff Koons, Barbara Hepworth and an Andy Warhol Brillo Box that doesn't say anything." Previously based in Berlin, Elmgreen moved to London last year. Full Article at This Is London
    It's a play with seven modernist sculptures - mechanical replicas that can drive around - on a theatre stage, bitching at each other. The figures include Giacometti and Jeff Koons, Barbara Hepworth and an Andy Warhol Brillo Box that doesn't say anything.
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
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An artist's guide to Frieze
  1. They commission artists, they have the sculpture garden, and brilliant lectures. People can learn something. I also like it that Frieze has become a big attraction for normal people. It's a place where you can sniff the contemporary cultural mood, both by looking at people's dress-code, and at the art.
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
  2. Stephanie is making replicas of the works at the fair, and they will be cheap. That's my style, and I love it. And they have Andy Warhol on their stand! There has to be something that you can look at for free.
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
  3. Frieze is one of the better art fairs
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
  4. It was insane two years ago. Back then it was like: what is most mediated, most expensive, most exposed and most glittering is best. Then suddenly the situation changed. It was too tough last year when everyone panicked and no one would buy any art. But I think it's a better time now. It was good to hav...
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
  5. All the gold-diggers left London last year. It's more fun to go out, and people don't speak so much about how much they sell work for. I like this atmosphere, where you have to think about new ways to do things.
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
  6. The café at Frieze is another kind of artwork. You can eavesdrop on what people are saying. You get an idea of what the audience, not the buyers, think.
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
  7. It's the art world after the credit crunch. There's no more walking around!
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
  8. It's a strong piece, and this is a great display. I'm not sure if the planks are the gallery floor or part of it ... Ugo Rondinone had a show at Whitechapel a few years ago. He has made trees before - it's funny in relation to Regent's Park outside. You can see the real trees from the cafeteria, and you...
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago
  9. He's blending in quite well. You get surprised by this man because he's one of the few people at the fair who looks ordinary. When you walk around Frieze you think, 'Oh, I can relate to that guy because he has a human dress-code.' You feel so happy, and then you find out that he's a sculpture. I like Du...
    SOURCE: This Is London 1 month ago

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