Frieze Sculpture returned to Regent's Park for 2022 and runs from the middle of September until the 13th of November. It's the eleventh year of Frieze Sculptures in Regent's Park this year. I recently visited, and I was not disappointed. There is a lot of colour and form to see, and some of the sculptors are well-known. I think this year has a little something for everyone.
Below are the sculptures for the 2022 edition of Frieze in Regent's Park.
Matthew Darbyshire - "Hercules Meets Galatea"
This is a re-imagining of classic Greek and Roman sculptures, though the sculptor encourages the viewer to examine symbolism in the work through the structure, surface, and sexuality.
Ugo Rondinone - "Yellow Blue Monk"
The artist is currently creating a series of sculptures called "nuns + monks", and this is one of the recent in the series. The work is made in bronze and painted in blue with a yellow "head".
Robert Indiana - "Imperial LOVE"
Robert Indiana is known as "painter of signs", and his work features text and large letters and numbers transformed into large sculptures. The "LOVE" sculptures by him are his most-known.
John Giorno - "SPACE MIRRORS MIND"
This sculpture is one in the series of sculptures "Stone Poems", and it has not been seen before. It is constructed out of glacial granite.
Alicja Kwade - "Tunnel-Tell"
This sculpture appears to be a granite boulder pierced by a stainless-steel reflective tube. It encourages the viewer to interact with it; to look at the reflections and to walk around and peer through the tunnel.
Ron Arad - "Dubito Ergo Cogito"
This bronze sculpture appears to be a seated pedestal, and the artist was inspired by Rodin's "The Thinker" sculpture of a seated man in thought. The artist looks at the space left behind from the human form, leaving behind an imprint of his feet and rear. It encourages interaction of the viewer to sit in the space place.
Jody Kerwick - "Vertical Plane Me"
Folklore and a dream world are created in the symbols out of Portland stone.
Tim Etchells - "Don't Look Back"
This phrase "Don't Look Back" is stenciled out into the steel, and it can be read from either side and to consider the placement and landscape that the sculpture is set in.
N.S. Harsha - "Desired for -Arrived at"
The sculpture is described as being a basis to describe life; we often want to be somewhere, but it can take on a non-linear approach to get there.
Ro Robertson - "Drench"
This sculpture explores the figure and body as landscape.
Pablo Reinoso - "Speaker's Corner"
I am guessing that this sculpture was inspired by the people that hang out and speak at the corner in Hyde Park.
Shaikha Al Mazrou - "Red Stack"
This painted steel sculpture describes weight, space, and form. The artist's sculptures often resemble balloons or origami. I thought that this one looked like a stack of pillows.
Ida Ekblad - "Book of Boredum"
This bronze sculpture has been painted with bright angular shapes and patterns.
Beverly Pepper - "Curvae in Curvae"
This Latin word means "curve" and the steel sculpture appears less heavy as a curved form.
George Rickey - "Five Lines in Parrallel Planes"
A series of steel poles changes form and shape in the breeze. This is not a stationary sculpture.
Emma Hart - "Big Time"
Colourful ceramic sundials are on display with painted faces and have words on the ground such as "no time", or "after time".
Peju Alatise - "Sim and the Yellow Glass Birds"
A story is printed onto the different individual sculptures, which display children and birds. The story is about Sim, a nine-year old girl who lives in two worlds. One world is a domestic servant, and the other world is a dreamland of talking birds and butterflies, and she can fly.
John Wood and Paul Harrison - "10 signs for a park"
A series of green signs have been placed around the park to discover with odd phrases, such as "you are reading these words", "tree ->", and "daylight". I saw all ten of them, though the "tree ->" photograph is missing below.
For previous years of Frieze Sculpture in Regent's Park, see my posts below:
Frieze Sculpture 2021
Frieze Sculpture 2020
Frieze Sculpture 2019
Frieze Sculpture 2018
Frieze Art Fair 2017
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