It’s a bumper edition of The Wick List this week, as the biggest week in the contemporary art calendar kicks off. Of course, at the undisputed centre are
Frieze London (for contemporary art) and
Frieze Masters (where you’ll find everything from millennia back to the present). This year is especially exciting for visiting Frieze as it reveals a brand new layout, with natural light and a new flow around the booths.
Returning to the main fair is the recent popular recent addition, Artist-to-Artist, where well-established names select up-and-comings to exhibit at the fair: look out for our favourites, Nengi Omuku, selected by
Yinka Shonibare, and Peter Uka, selected by Hurvin Anderson, both exceptional painters with a knack for group portraits and incredible storytelling. There’s also the curated section, this year titled Smoke and devoted to ceramic works from non-western practitioners of the ancient art form.
At Frieze Masters, we’re looking forward to seeing Sheen Wagstaff’s curated section Studio, returning for a second year, and in an expanded form, reflecting on the process of making with presentations by the likes of
Nathalie Du Pasquier and Doris Salcedo. There are also solo presentations by radical 20th century masters in a showcase titled Spotlight, focused this year on artists from the 1950s – 1970s; Judy Chicago, Balraj Khanna, Kulim Kim, Donald Locke, Nabil Nahas and Nil Yalter. We can’t wait to see.
