Task 4

Frieze London

This Year I went to the Frieze Fair Exhibition.  it was exciting to encounter contemporary art in one place.  It really helped me understand the depth and breadth of the art being produced.  Seeing these works first hand and not on the internet or other digital representation made me see that there is no way you can really reproduce a work digitally and expect a viewer to experience it in the way it was made to be seen – to examine the mark making, and appreciate the reality of scale and colour.

I  looked at  varied ways in which artists are making art.  All the exhibitions I had previously viewed were of historic art.  At institutions such as the Tate and the Royal academy.   My eyes were opened to the new possibilitie
s and artists I hadn’t previously come into contact with.

I was overwhelmed by the sheer size and number of exhibits on show, I couldn’t possibly give the pieces I engaged with as much time as I would have liked.  However, it highlighted those galleries I might visit that held the kind of art I would like to see more of.