Featuring a line-up of 19 international artists, Frieze Sculpture 2022 opens in London’s Regent’s Park on 14 September (until 13 November). The exhibition will be curated by Clare Lilley, Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, for the tenth consecutive year, and it will run alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which take place between 12 and 16 October also in The Regent’s Park.
Featured artists are: Péju Alatise, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Matthew Darbyshire, Ida Ekblad, Tim Etchells, John Giorno, N.S. Harsha, Emma Hart, Robert Indiana, Jordy Kerwick, Alicja Kwade, Beverly Pepper, Pablo Reinoso, George Rickey, Ro Robertson, Ugo Rondinone, Marinella Senatore and John Wood and Paul Harrison.
For 2022, the 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 the political. This plays out further in the work of Péju Alatise and Ro Robertson, whose gazes turn to female and non-binary healing in nature, and Shaika al Mazrou, Beverly Pepper and Ida Ekblad create ambitious sculptures that are charged with the sensibility of women. The importance of coming together – as a community and as a social voice – is conveyed in works by Marinella Senatore, Pablo Reinoso and Ron Arad. And, as our world looks with uncertainty into the near future, works by Alicja Kwade, George Rickey, Emma Hart and N.S. Harsha conjure the universal and the spiritual, whilst folklore and mythology are explored by Matthew Darbyshire and Jordy Kerwick.
Clare Lilley, Curator of Frieze 2022 and Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, said: “This is my tenth year as curator of Frieze Sculpture and, 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.”
Frieze Sculpture 2022 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. The three initiatives will present an unmissable opportunity for the public to engage with major sculptural works throughout the city, in some of London’s most iconic sites.
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