Summary
A DANISH gallery has taken the best address at the Frieze Art Fair this year - stand A1, the space directly opposite the entrance. The Gallerei Nicolai Warner, from Copenhagen, has exploited the prime spot to the full. The first thing visitors to the fair will see - out of 173 galleries showcasing their artists - is Catch Me Should I Fall, with the life-sized sculpture of a spindly, nervous boy, standing on a high-dive board over the heads of the crowd.
The piece, by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, is one of several eyecatching pieces in the gallery's stand. Another is the quivering Mirror Wall, by Jeppe Hein, which shakes and shivers the reflections of people who trigger its motion sensor.See the full content of this document
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The Big Frieze
Jonathan Monk's Map of the World in Ties and Jackets quickly became, and remained, a favourite work at the fair. It is a flat sewn map of the world marked out in different fabrics, including flattened clothing. The countries of Africa or Asia are picked out in different swirling or lined shades and patterns, in what seems a play on sweatsho...
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