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Frieze London, one of the world’s largest contemporary art fairs, opens today and runs through October 17. With more than 160 leading galleries from around the world participating and featuring work from more than 1000 leading artists, along with art installations, lectures, films and a sculpture garden, the fair is quite a behemoth. Luckily Nicole Kluk, Senior Consultant at Quintessentially Art shared her best bets and can’t-miss booths with us for Frieze London 2015. Here are her picks. 1. Victoria Miro (B3) “Always a stand out booth, this year we are treated to works by two particularly brilliant artists Do Ho Suh and Secundino Hernández. Spanish artists Hernández’s large canvases are a perfect blend of minimalism, representation, expressionism and abstraction. The thick impasto markings he scatters over his works are full of energy, yet the minimalist aspect of the works make them completely non aggressive and beautiful. Korean artist Do Ho Suh presents a selection of his reconstructed everyday objects that border on beautiful and hilarious. His fabricated buildings, rooms
and fixtures are technically brilliant and questions identity, individuality and community.”
2. ”At Lehmann Maupin (A19), you can actually experience the space of one is Do Ho Suh’s reconstructed rooms. Lehmann Maupin also presents us with a largeTracy Emin stitched work on paper and a lovely Billy Childish painting tucked away behind the large sculptures.” 3. ”Toby Ziegler is an artist whose work never ceases to mesmerise. A full stand atSimon Lee (A2) showcases the artist’s three new paintings and a selection of sculptures. Re-configured landscapes that are worked into aluminium appear as abstract scenes, but upon closer reflection we are reminded of a familiar place. Truly magical.” 4. ”Stevenson Gallery (G11) always brings us interesting pieces from South Africa, this year we have amongst a few other fascinating pieces two particularly outstanding Zander Blom paintings.”
5. ”In the ‘focus’ section of the fair there are some particularly great pieces by some emerging younger artists that are worth looking out for. At Callicoon Fine Arts(H29) there is a solo display of works by James Hoff who cleverly infects his paintings with virus-ridden computer files. The software he has created for his practice prints out these psychedelic images which he then thermally heats onto aluminium creating a glowing surface of brilliant colours. They are absolutely worth going to see.” Petersham Nurseries offers a wonderful refuge from the hectic environment of the fair where you can enjoy a glass of wine and a beautiful meal.