Three weeks ago, I went to check out this year's Frieze Sculpture festival in Regent's Park. Normally, Frieze Sculpture takes place in Regent's Park every July through October and brings many visitors to the park to enjoy visiting the free artwork. Last year, it was held in October, and this year, it arrived in September. This year, the theme is on powerful structures and environmental concerns.
"Pineapple" - Rosie Wylie
Wylie has been creating pineapples since 2013, and this large white and red sculpture of a pineapple invites visitors into the Regent's Park area.
"Meditation Tree" - Ibrahim El-Salahi
The artist was inspired by the Haraza Tree and uses the tree series of sculptures to investigate the body and tree metaphor that links earth and the heavens.
"Stack 9 Ultramarine Blue" - Annie Morris
This series of bronze organic sphere shapes have been painted and stacked on top of each other and sybolises a balance of motherhood and belonging.
"Lovers in The Regents Park" - Rasheed Araeen
These prisms interlock in different ways and symbolises a minimum shape and form.
"Event Horizon" - Stoyan Dechev
Thundercloud and lightning has multiple symbols in society and mythology.
"Environment de Transchromie Circulaire" - Carlos Cruz-Diez
This uses semi-transparent coloured shapes to encourage interaction and changes to the sculpture by the landscape and other visitors around it whilst observing it. The colours and shapes change.
"Quantum Shift" - Gisela Colon
The large sculpture appears to be not of this earth with the shape and reflection; it appears as if an alien creature. The artist uses classic shapes to create futuristic energy.
"Palanquin" - Anthony Caro
This sculpture appears as a room or bus stop with its interior space. It encourages the viewer to interact with it.
"Untitled" - Tatiana Wolska
This artist's sculptures are on display in two areas in London this year; they are also on display at Sculpture in the City (see my post about Sculpture in the City 2021 here). The artwork is light-weight and has an organic biomorphic form to be placed into the urban or natural environment to highlight plastic waste. The sculpture appears to be living.
"Untitled" - Hose Pedro Croft
This large-scale sculpture includes several rectangular planes of different colour placed against each other. Some of them are solid colours, and some of them are semi-transparent and create their own shapes. They appear to hold each other up.
"Fragment of Serpentine Pavilion for Frieze Sculpture Pak, 2021" - Counterspace
I did not visit the Serpentine Pavilion this year or the past few years. The fragment represents places of meeting and belonging across London.
"Muamba Grove" - Vanessa Da Silva
These shapes appear as though they are organic almost-human forms. Unfortunately, there was someone playing guitar in the middle of the sculptures, so I could not get a better photograph of these playful-looking sculptures.
"Play Sculpture" - Isamu Nogughi
This sculpture is made from sewer pipes. It reminds me of red lips.
"Biosgimature Preservation" - Jorge Otero-Pailos
This sculpture is made from security fencing that surrounded the U.S. Embassy in Oslo and highlights the militarisation of public spaces caused by 9/11.
"Untitled" - Solange Pessoa
These "stones" appear natural, and they are part of the artist's "Skull" series.
"Induk Monster" - Yunizar
These bronze sculptures appear as creatures - natural but man-made at the same time.
There was one sculpture on the map that has not been placed, and I am not sure if it will actually be placed. So, don't worry if you cannot locate all of the sculptures. There is also another "sculpture" that will only be placed during Frieze week for visitors to interact with.
This wraps it up for Frieze Sculpture in Regent's Park for 2021. For previous years, see my posts below:
Frieze Sculpture 2020
Frieze Sculpture 2019
Frieze Sculpture 2018
Frieze Art Fair 2017
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