Announces Commissioned Art Projects
By CAROL VOGEL
The American version
of London’s annual Frieze Art Fair, which makes its debut in New York
in May, wants to be more than just another place to see and buy
contemporary art. Using its unusual and remote location – the 256-acre
Randall’s Island, in the East River between East Harlem, the South Bronx
and Astoria, Queens – it has commissioned eight artists to construct
what is calls “a temporary pop-up village.’’
Cecilia Alemani, the director and curator of art on the High Line, has organized the initiative. The artists participating include John Ahearn, Uri Aran, Latifa Echakhch, Joel Kyack, Rick Moody, Virginia Overton, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and Ulla von Brandenburg.
Most of the projects will be outdoors and will react to the island in one way or another. Mr. Kyack, for instance, plans to create a country-fair game trailer, while Ms. Echakhch will turn a patch of grass into a “three-dimensional still life” with hundreds of the tumbleweeds more commonly found in the American southwest, and Ms. Overton plans to install flexible mirrors among the trees.
Cecilia Alemani, the director and curator of art on the High Line, has organized the initiative. The artists participating include John Ahearn, Uri Aran, Latifa Echakhch, Joel Kyack, Rick Moody, Virginia Overton, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and Ulla von Brandenburg.
Most of the projects will be outdoors and will react to the island in one way or another. Mr. Kyack, for instance, plans to create a country-fair game trailer, while Ms. Echakhch will turn a patch of grass into a “three-dimensional still life” with hundreds of the tumbleweeds more commonly found in the American southwest, and Ms. Overton plans to install flexible mirrors among the trees.
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