30 Must-See Art Pieces at Frieze New York 2013
Galleries from all over the world have brought their best contemporary art to Randall's Island this year.
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The Frieze Art Fair has a reputation for keeping it of-the-moment and ambitious. Its New York arrival on Randall's Island this year has contemporary art by over 180 galleries spanning 6, very large sections total (read: bring comfortable shoes, drink copious amounts of champagne, go for at least 2 days if you can). Yesterday's opening revealed the promised selection of excellent food choices from Mission Chinese, Roberta's Pizza, Sant Ambroeus, Blue Bottle Coffee, Marlow & Sons, and more, making it a little easier to maintain endurance for the entire length of the fair.
In addition to the main tent, there's a fantastic outdoor Sculpture Park with works intermittently placed along the East River grass area, plus Frieze Sounds presented by BMW (featuring works by Charles Atlas and New Humans, Trisha Baga, and Haroon Mirza).
Not only was the fair ambitious and daring in scale, the pieces were, too. Galleries didn't hesitate to bring their larger sculptures and installations, and there was even a performance at the Galerie Peter Kilchmann booth. Carlos Bunga's cardboard Construcción pictórica #11 sculpture towered over the booth barriers, Alexandre da Cunha's Mix (Americana) cement mixer looked capable of crushing fair-goers if it were to lose support, and a piece by Daniel Firman at Galerie Perrotin made visitors wonder whether they were passing a real, live woman turned in towards a wall. In short, there is something exciting around every corner, and the fair feels like a true indication of where contemporary art is in the present moment.
Buy tickets for Frieze NY here, and be sure to visit today through May 13, 2013 if you're in town. For those who want some guidance on what the fair has to offer, check out these 30 Must-See Art Pieces at Frieze New York, and if you want more, browse many of the works on Artsy's Frieze page.
Heap, Jenny Holzer
Unknown, Karla Black
Unknown, Daniel Firman
Mix, Alexandre da Cunha
Balloon Dog, Paul McCarthy
Golden Lips, Marina Abramovic
WWJD, Jack Early
Sand Rollers, Ryan McGinley
Universe No. 26, Zhan Wang
I Will Never See You Again, Elmgreen and Dragset
Untitled (Pizza), Tom Friedman
Pillow Talk, Jonathan Horowitz
Untitled, Berta Fischer
Untitled, Charles LONG
ART (white), Doug Aitken
Folded Into One, Alexander Gutke
Untitled, Daniel Arsham
Untitled (You Look Good), Barbara Kruger
Architecture of Tomorrow, Gardar Eide Eniarsson
BLACK RAGS, Amanda Ross-Ho
Wing, Lynda Benglis
Construccion Pictorica, Carlos Bunga
Nature, Insects, Bruno Jakob
Nature, Insects, Humidity, Sweat, Tears, Dust, Smell, Fire, Earth. Captured Brainwaves, Thought, Light, Air, Pleasure, Pain, Fear, Music, Sound, Echoes, Memory, Talk, Love, Live, Death and the Unknown by Bruno Jakob, 2011-13 (invisible painting/installation/performance)
Gallery: Galerie Peter Kilchmann, A27
Flat Utopia, Haegue Yang
Stuhle mit Raketen, Roman Signer
Fotini, Saint Clair Cemin
A Few Golden Moments, Tom Burr
Untitled, Andreas Lolis
Amgydalas, Martha Friedman
Circle Dance, Tom Friedman
