London Frieze Art Fair

Frieze London Art Fair The Frieze London art fair presents a ceramic section with Latin American highlights. The Frieze London contemporary art fair, which opens its fifth fair, will feature a new section of ceramists, mostly Latin American, that work or clay based on ancient traditions.

For this 21st edition, the curator of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Guatemalan Pablo José Ramírez, created a thematic section that includes "Fumaça", to show a piece between the ceramic art and the work of 11 artists, mainly from the continent American.

This space “gives visibility to artists who otherwise probably would not be present at an international art fair,” says Ramírez, who was previously responsible for creating contemporary indigenous art works for the Tate Modern collections.

“Ceramics and clay will always exist, but only recently have they been re-established as an art form,” or that it provided “a boom in the world of contemporary art.”

- "Indigenous stories" - More than technique, it is the fact of navigating between various worlds, between “indigenous and ancestral stories” and globalized contemporary art that unites the artists of “Humo”, stands out.

The totens of Venezuelan Lucía Pizzani, who came to London in 2007, who serves as a guard, are made of brightly colored English clay, on which Latin American plants such as milho or eucalyptus are impressed.

A mixture that “reflects the history of migration,” Pizzani told AFP.

His other terracotta ceramics were made in the olive community of El Cercado, on the Venezuelan island of Margarita, collecting clay from the mountains and then burning in open fire, according to traditions transmitted orally from pre-Hispanic times.

Like every year, nearly 60 thousand gallery owners, “influencers” and visitors are expected on Sunday at the gigantic white shop installed in Regent's Park, where big names and emerging artists are on display.

“A Frieze brings together the entire artistic community, with collectors from all over the world, galleries with exceptional presentations (...) and with the best sales,” says Frieze London director, Eva Langret.

Parallel to this unmissable commercial event, for which 160 galleries from 43 countries will reserve their space at a high price, exhibitions, readings and private parties will be held daily in four corners of the British capital.

- Somber context - Visitors can discover the exhibition of Francis Bacon at the National Portrait Gallery, the works of Tracey Emin at the White Cube gallery or Yayoi Kusama at Victoria Miro.

You will also be able to see works by Banksy during the reading of one of his tails against bullets with a Union Jack, a British flag.

A Frieze London presents a gloomy context for the global art market, whose sales will fall 4% in 2023, second report from UBS and Art Basel.

Due to economic uncertainties and geopolitical tensions, buyers are increasingly reluctant to purchase contemporary works whose value frequently fluctuates.

The United Kingdom continues to be a bastion of art, with 17% of the global market share in 2023, second to UBS and Art Basel. But it has seen its brilliance weaken since Brexit and its new fiscal regulations, being surpassed for the first time in China (19%).

Frieze, raised in London in 2003 before moving to New York or Seoul, also faces the appearance of a competitor on the other side of the English Channel with the fair "Paris + by Art Basel", inaugurated on October 16 in A restored Grand Palais could eclipse it.
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