Frieze Los Angeles: Artists & Events Feb.14 - 16 2020, at Paramount Studios

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Story edit by Karen Ostlund

Frieze pre-events starts, Feb.11-16 in Los Angeles: https://frieze.com/fairs/frieze-los-angeles/events

Frieze Projects returns to Paramount Pictures Studios’ backlot set with a series of immersive art installations, site-specific works, performances and videos, co-curated by Rita Gonzalez (Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, LACMA) and Pilar Tompkins Rivas (Director, Vincent Price Art Museum). 

Frieze Projects is an anchor program of Frieze Los Angeles that takes place February 14 – 16, 2020 at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood.The fair was launched in 2019, with support by global lead partner Deutsche Bank.

Frieze Los Angeles will bring together more than 70 galleries from around the world this year. 

 Frieze Projects takes place across Frieze art fairs in New York, London, Masters and Los Angeles and offer a curated program of ambitious and experimental artwork beyond the gallery booths. 

The LA edition 2020 of the much-celebrated program features new commissions and landmark of works exploring themes of representation, identity and myth.

Artists presenting new works include: Will Boone, Tania Candiani, Sayre Gomez, Channing Hansen, Vincent Ramos, Gabriella Sanchez, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Tavares Strachan, Mungo Thomson and Mario García Torres. 

Other featured artists include: Patrisse Cullors, Jonathas De Andrade, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Barbara Kasten and 

Naama Tsabar.

Co-curators Gonzalez and Tompkins Rivas said: ‘For the second edition of Frieze Projects we wanted to globalize 

the selection of artists, while thinking in particular about Los Angeles’ relationship to the Americas. 

Many of the works draw on the political context within which we are operating today'. 

Latinx and Latin American art and histories are put into focus with projects by Tania Candiani and Gabriella Sanchez, while works by Gary Simmons and Lorna Simpson touch on themes of visibility, identity and self-fashioning in 

relation to the African American experience. An idea was to bring in artists, such as Vincent Ramos and 

Channing Hansen to work within the archive and legacy of Paramount Pictures Studios.

The complete 2020 Frieze Projects program will include: 

Barbara Kasten (b. 1936, USA, lives and works in Chicago, USA)
Presented by Hannah Hoffman and Bortolami

Kasten gives a new life to Intervention, a sculptural installation that evokes the backdrops of pictorial and filmic production while echoing the Bauhaus and Constructivism.

Naama Tsabar (b. 1982, Israel, lives and works in New York, USA)

Presented by Shulamit Nazarian

A performative installation with related photographs that co-opts and upends the guitar solo through a conjoining and doubling. Using two guitars grafted together, Tsabar and a partner turn the performative gesture into an act based on intimacy and cooperation.

Will Boone (b. 1983, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA)

Presented by Karma and David Kordansky

A series of bronze sculptures reconfiguring metal die-cast toys to create new narratives and associations, while evoking a sense of nostalgia.

More artists: 

Tania Candiani (b. 1974, Mexico, lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico)

Presented by Instituto de Visión. A performative installation exploring the history of California during WWII and the forced labor of women in concentration camps at Manzanar. 

Patrisse Cullors (b. 1987, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA)

Presented by LTD Los Angeles. A collective performance which uses dance as a restorative act to reclaim time, space and emotional energy.

Jonathas de Andrade (b. 1982, Brazil, lives and works in Recife, Brazil)

Presented by Vermelho

A video work taking an intimate look inside people’s wallets and their contents, providing a broad portrayal of people living in Brazil and South America across gender, race and class.

Sayre Gomez (b. 1982, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA)
Presented by François GhebalyA new sculpture of a palm tree cell phone tower, shining light on the ways in which Hollywood’s stagecraft has spread to urban planning.

Channing Hansen (b. 1972, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA)
Presented by Marc Selwyn Fine Art
A site-specific installation with a durational performance drawing inspiration from Star Trek episodes.

Jibade-Khalil Huffman (b. 1981, USA, lives and works Philadelphia, USA)
Presented by Anat Ebgi
Huffman’s first outdoor sculpture appropriates elements of cinematic visual culture and pays homage to Grace Jones in A View to a Kill.

Vincent Ramos (b. 1973, USA, lives and works in Venice, USA)
A site-specific installation investigating both the absence and presence of the Mexican and Mexican-American / Chicano experience within Hollywood film production, specifically through the movies produced by the fair’s host, Paramount Pictures.

Gabriella Sanchez (b. 1988, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA)
Presented by Charlie James Gallery
Playing with language and imagery, Sanchez’s banner and other pieces engaging with the signage, reference Chicanx and barrio culture, machismo and the interspace between American and Latin culture.

Gary Simmons (b. 1964, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA)

Presented by Regen Projects

A restaging of the artist’s historic work Backdrop Project first shown at Metro Pictures, New York in 1993. By taking Polaroids of passers-by and offering a copy to his subjects, Simmons explored the power of self-fashioning and authorship.

Lorna Simpson (b. 1960, USA, lives and works in New York, USA)

Presented by Hauser & Wirth

Simpson collaborates with a group of African American ballet dancers on a two-channel video, addressing issues of gender, identity, memory and representation.

Tavares Strachan (b. 1979, The Bahamas, lives and works in New York, USA)

Presented by AF Projects

A neon sculpture exposing the power of Hollywood’s constructed narratives in our contemporary life, while resonating with timely political issues.

Mungo Thomson (b. 1969, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA)

Presented by Frank Elbaz

New bronze sculptures patterned on Amazon boxes underline the contrast between monumentality and ephemerality.

Mario García Torres (b. 1975, Mexico, lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico)

Presented by Galleria Franco Noero

A video weaving together the 1981 accident in which Mohammad Ali talked a suicidal jumper off the ledge of a building in LA with the 1983 hit "Jump" by Van Halen.

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