Artist projects at the Frieze Art Fair

Curated by Neville Wakefield, this year's Frieze Projects commissioned works dotted around the fair that provide a breather from the business of buying and selling nearly all reflect on the unique conditions of the fair itself.

JJ Charlesworth caught up with some of the artists involved: Agnieszka Kurant, Bert Rodriguez and Erling Klingenberg of the Icelandic collective Kling & Bang.

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[AreYouOffended]

Seems like this review is based on the worst of the worst of some of these art fairs...seriously, when interviewed (Parrot artist particularly) just seem to be unable to explain why they are doing what they are...

[AreYouOffended]

@ramitillo There actually was an artwork made where on the outside it just looked like a box made of mirrors but on the inside was a working toilet and one way glass on the inside so you could see everyone and everything outside it but couldnt see in from the outside! Can't remember who made it though...

[leafblower2012]

Artists with NO map.

[jaggerlags]

This kind of art fails me. Badly. These types of installations: massage parlor, smoking booth, sweat collector- there's an openness to art that feels catered to by these artists, especially in the face of an art loving crowd who attend these shows and are certainly open. It sound fun, like "What if we had a booth where people could..." but none of it adds up past novelty for me. Give me someone who loves their medium physically (paint, stone, whatever) not just their own ideas theoretically.

[ralph4ueltzhoeffer]

Were is the spirit, so what...

[ramitillo]

the smoking booth as an art project........that is so fucking lame, say there should be a booth for pissing or shitting on lame ass art projects such as this one.

[oliverodomenico]

Me in the project of Iciland bar Sicurs

[plywood75]

birds in cages is cruel.