Detail: Frieze Art Fair is one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs and every year brings an international focus to the dynamic contemporary art scene in London. Sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the seventh consecutive year, Frieze Art Fair 2010 is a carefully selected presentation of the most forward-thinking galleries from around the globe. The selected galleries will present outstanding work by over 1,000 of the world’s most innovative artists and these will be presented alongside Frieze Art Fair’s unique curatorial programme Frieze Projects. Frieze Art Fair helps set the international contemporary art agenda.
2010 will see more galleries than ever at Frieze Art Fair, with a total of 173 exhibitors.
The dynamism of galleries from emerging territories such as Asia and South America is balanced by a strong European and American contingent. Galleries new to the main section of the fair include: Bortolami, New York (USA); Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (Belgium); Michael Lett, Auckland (New Zealand).

In the main section of the fair there are five Asian galleries partaking:

Long March Space, Beijing
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Tomio Koyama, Tokyo The successful introduction of Frame, dedicated to galleries under six years old showing solo artist presentations, sees its return in 2010. Notable presentations this year include: the first European showing of Brazilian sculptor Carlos Bevilacqua at Simon Preston Gallery, New York; artist duo Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas (Aids-3d) at Gentili Apri, Berlin and Naeem Mohaiemen at Experimenter, Kolkata. Additionally, Platform China of Beijing will be showing videos by Jin Shan and Nanzuka Underground of Tokyo will be showing works by Keiichi Tanaami. The galleries exhibiting in Frame are selected on the basis of an artist’s solo presentation. Frame is one of the key places to see artists for the first time and on a significant platform. The Frame galleries’ selection has been advised by curators Daniel Baumann and Cecilia Alemani. Frame is supported by Cos for the first time this year.
This year’s prestigious Cartier Award was awarded to Simon Fujiwara, a British/Japanese artist based in both Berlin and Mexico City. Fujiwara will be creating archaeological digs within the fair, imagining an ancient lost city beneath the Regents Park site. Glass panels will be built into the floor allowing the visitor to see below their feet into the remains of Fujiwara’s discovered city.
All in all, this year looks to be an exciting year for Asian art and galleries in the fair.
The Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2010-11 will be available in September.

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