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Viewing Frieze London

The Wick Culture - Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind:Frieze.

Above Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind:Frieze.

Frieze London
The Regent’s Park, London

12 – 16 October 2022
https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-london

The hottest event in the annual London art calendar is back for its 19th edition. Regarded as the world’s most influential contemporary arts fair, Frieze London focuses on living and contemporary artists and is committed to presenting their innovative practises. This year Frieze London 2022 is set to showcase over 160 top galleries from all over the world such as Sadie Coles HQ, Pilar Corrias, Gagosian, Goodman Gallery and Hauser & Wirth.

Coinciding with Frieze London is its sister fair, Frieze Masters which showcases work created before the turn of the century and offers spectators a unique perspective on the relationship between contemporary and historical art. Not to be missed is Frieze Sculpture which presents a display of outdoor sculptures created by important and emerging artists located near to Frieze London in the park’s English Gardens.

Special curatorial highlights this year include a corridor transformation by recent MaxMara Art Prize winner Emma Talbot, an ambitious sculptural commission outside the fair’s entrance by Frieze Artist Award winner Abbas Zahedi, and a new body of photographic works, installations and fabric pieces presented by renowned photographer Typer Mitchell at Frieze Masters.

And keep your eyes peeled for other exciting collateral exhibitions happening all over the city. It is sure to be a busy week for art lovers.

Viewing The EY Exhibition: Cézanne

The Wick Culture - Paul Cezanne Still Life with Plaster Cupid 1895. The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Photo © The Courtauld

Above Paul Cezanne Still Life with Plaster Cupid 1895. The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Photo © The Courtauld

The Wick Culture - Paul Cezanne - Still Life with Fruit Dish 1879-80. Museum of Modern Art

Above Paul Cezanne – Still Life with Fruit Dish 1879-80. Museum of Modern Art

The Wick Culture - Paul Cezanne - Bathers c.1894-1905. Presented by the National Gallery, purchased with a special grant and the aid of the Max Rayne Foundation, 1964

Above Paul Cezanne – Bathers c.1894-1905. Presented by the National Gallery, purchased with a special grant and the aid of the Max Rayne Foundation, 1964

The Wick Culture - Paul Cezanne - Seated Man 1905-6. © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Madrid

Above Paul Cezanne – Seated Man 1905-6. © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Madrid

The Wick Culture - Paul Cezanne - Mont Sainte-Victoire 1902-6. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Helen Tyson Madeira, 1977, 1977-288-1

Above Paul Cezanne – Mont Sainte-Victoire 1902-6. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Helen Tyson Madeira, 1977, 1977-288-1

Above Paul Cezanne Still Life with Plaster Cupid 1895. The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Photo © The Courtauld

Above Paul Cezanne – Still Life with Fruit Dish 1879-80. Museum of Modern Art

Above Paul Cezanne – Bathers c.1894-1905. Presented by the National Gallery, purchased with a special grant and the aid of the Max Rayne Foundation, 1964

Above Paul Cezanne – Seated Man 1905-6. © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Madrid

Above Paul Cezanne – Mont Sainte-Victoire 1902-6. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Helen Tyson Madeira, 1977, 1977-288-1

The EY Exhibition: Cezanne
Tate Modern, London

5 October 2022 – 12 March 2023
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/ey-exhibition-cezanne

Landing at Tate Modern this autumn is a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of paintings, watercolours and drawings by the great 19th-century French master Paul Cézanne.

Presented in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago in the Eyal Ofer Galleries, which has been the headquarters of major exhibitions of world-renowned artists such as Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso and Sonia Delaunay, the exhibition unites 80 carefully selected works of art from Europe, Asia, and North and South America, with many making the UK debut for the occasion.

Charting Cézanne’s artistic evolution from his earliest paintings in the 1860s to those completed in his final months, the exhibition will spotlight relationships and highlight important themes that were integral in his artistic practise. More importantly, the exhibition seeks to understand the artist in his own context as a painter who proudly explored his Mediterranean roots, yet keenly fought to make it in the French metropolitan capital.

Revealing friendships with the Impressionists, his dramatic rejection of the modern art establishment in Paris, and the relentless pursuit of his own artistic style, the exhibition is sure to be the highlight of this year’s autumn art season.

Viewing Soheila Sokhanvari: Rebel Rebel

The Wick Culture - Soheila Sokhanvari, Wild at Heart (Portrait of Pouran Shapoori), 2019. © Soheila Sokhanvari, courtesy Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.

Above Soheila Sokhanvari, Wild at Heart (Portrait of Pouran Shapoori), 2019. © Soheila Sokhanvari, courtesy Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.

Soheila Sokhanvari: Rebel Rebel
The Barbican Centre, London

7 October 2022 – 26 February 2023
https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/press-room/soheila-sokhanvari-rebel-rebel

Get ready to become a rebel with The Barbican’s newest exhibition of works by Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari. Taking its title from David Bowie’s infamous 1974 pop anthem, Rebel Rebel is a site-specific installation comprised of 27 eye-catching portraits of feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran.

Painted and hung using traditional materials – egg tempera paint applied with a squirrel-hair brush on calf vellum and set against hand-painted murals based on Islamic geometric patterns – these portraits pay tribute to the courage displayed by each subject. Important icons include Simin Dāneshvar, the first major Iranian academic and writer; the film star Roohangiz Saminejad who rose to prominence as the first unveiled actress playing heroine Golnar in the Persian film Lor Girl (1934); and notable 50’s Iranian pop and classical singer Farahdokht Abbas Taleghani who went by the stage name Pouran.

In the background to this charged visual experience are songs from a new soundtrack composed by Marios Aristopoulos. In this commission he has carefully weaved together songs by popular female Iranian singers from the mid-20th century that not only nods to several icons depicted in Sokhanvari’s portraits such as Googoosh and Ramesh, but also provides a poignant reminder of the many women that are still being silenced in Iran.