Albano Hernández to Paint the Grass at Frieze Sculpture 2024

Frieze London 2024 9–13 October 2024

Frieze has announced the artworks in this year's Frieze Sculpture, which returns to The Regent's Park from 18 September to 27 October.

One of the quirkier contributions comes from Albano Hernández, who will use non-toxic paint to render the silhouette of a gum tree on the park's grass—a spin on street artists' spray paint outlines of street lamps on roads and footpaths.

Fatoş Üstek, Curator of Frieze Sculpture, said this year's selections feature 'daring and experimental artistic approaches.'

'It also carves a place for playful encounters, socially and environmentally conscious themes, as well as conceptual and spiritual practices that expand the notion of sculpture in the public realm,' she said.

Other works that stretch the boundaries of sculpture include Fani Parali's performance AONYX and DREPAN (2020), named after characters inspired by the harpy eagle and the short-clawed otter, and Scottish artist Nathan Coley's illuminated text on scaffolding work I DON'T HAVE ANOTHER LAND (2022).

More conventional (but no less wonderful) sculptures include Leonora Carrington's bird-headed bronze chimera The Dancer, Yoshitomo Nara's eye-clawed urethane on bronze Ennui Head (2020), and Frances Goodman's glazed ceramic pill tower Pillar III (Comfortably Numb) (2024).

Other featured artists include Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Theaster Gates, and Woody De Othello.

A free digital guide to Frieze Sculpture will be available on the Bloomberg Connects apps. —[O]

Main image: Albano Hernández, Shadow (2024). Non-toxic paint on grass. Courtesy Pi Artworks.