
For Frieze 2020, as we reflect on the world and our relation to it we are grateful to the gift of artists who are able to imagine and spontaneously respond with their own creative measures in the studio and beyond to the fragility of a moment. Inspired to produce new work or return to earlier pieces whose import deepens in this historic time, we share recent works by William Kentridge, Annette Messager, and Giuseppe Penone.
William Kentridge conjures a realm from the everyday, revealing that the artist’s fertile mind develops in solitude as well as in collaboration in his innovative new series, ‘The Natural History of the Studio’. Annette Messager’s dessins, mars, avril, 2020 is a hopeful and affirmative danse macabre of new drawings made in Paris in response to Covid-19. Giuseppe Penone reminds that the essence of life—breath, wind and light—can be an experience of sculpture and drawing in Avvolgere il vento, 2015, Foglie (2014), and Spazio di luce (2008).
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