Scattered on the grassy lawns adjacent to the formal garden and fountains of Regent’s Park, with the backcloth of John Nash’s elegant regency terraces, a successful initiative of Frieze this summer was the sculpture park where a wide range of strange and wonderful sculpture was on display through the summer by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi, Emily Young, Bernar Venet, Hank Willis Thomas and Tony Cragg, sponsored by galleries who were also exhibiting in Frieze or Frieze Masters.
A great initiative which created interest to park visitors, especially Alicja Kwade’s “Be Be Hide” with its reflective mirrors, Miquel Bareclo’s balancing “Gran Elefandret” and KAWS “Final Days”, a subject of a great number of selfies, while Hank Wills Thomas’s “Endless Column” was a hit with football fans and linked to his exhibition The Beautiful Game on show at Ben Brown’s Fine Arts. Let’s hope Frieze repeats and develops it in future years.
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