Frieze Los Angeles opens for public today on Saint Valentine's Day!
Held at Paramount Studios from February 14-17th with over 70 galleries on show, Frieze Los Angeles may only be in its second year, but it's already a clear staple on the cultural calendar.
Explore the world’s leading galleries alongside special projects from ground-breaking artists.
From the preview days, here are the works Kate Vass Team liked the most:
David Zwirner Gallery
Natural History (#2), 2020
Five (5) flat screen video monitors and two (2) LED light fixtures
105 1/2 × 104 3/8 in
268 × 265.1 cm
Metro Pictures
CLOUD #902 Scale Invariant Feature Transform; Watershed, 2019
Dye sublimation metal print
49 1/2 × 64 in
125.7 × 162.6 cm
AF Projects
Sometimes Lies are Prettier, 2017
Blue neon, transformers
20 × 95 × 8 in
50.8 × 241.3 × 20.32 cm
With more than a third of the galleries on show based in LA, the fair prides itself on having a local focus. One of this year’s highlights includes a collaboration of Pace Gallery and Kayne Griffin Corcoran are joining forces on the Paramount lot to show new immersive work by the artist James Turrell , with an immersive LED ceiling installation and four of his famous light works on display.
Turrell’s work has found a major following in the entertainment world. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen recently installed one of his works at their new The Row store in London. Leonardo DiCaprio once called a Perpetual Cell piece by Turrell, which was shown at LACMA, “one of the most existential experiences I’ve ever had as an observer,” while Drake mimicked the artist’s oeuvre in the video for his song “Hotline Bling.” Last year, Kanye West donated $10 million to support the completion of the artist’s monumental Roden Crater project, in which he is transforming a volcanic cylinder in the Northern Arizona desert into a naked-eye observatory. West also filmed his movie Jesus Is King at the site.
Pace Gallery
James Turrell
Aquarius, Medium Circle Glass, 2019
L.E.D. light, etched glass and shallow space
71 × 53 in
180.3 × 134.6 cm
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