Frieze Art Fair 2008
23 July 2008
Ron Arad to design Timothy Taylor Gallery stand at Frieze Art Fair
Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to announce that Ron Arad, celebrated
London based designer and architect, is designing its stand for the Frieze
Art Fair 2008.
This will mark the beginning of Arad’s working relationship with Timothy
Taylor Gallery, who announced earlier this year that it is now the primary
gallery representing Arad in the UK. Presenting works from international
artists represented by the gallery such as Kiki Smith, Armen Eloyan and
Mai Thu Perret, Arad’s stand will consist of dynamic clusters of interlocking
planes which challenge the usual distinctions between a stand’s inside
and outside, allowing many more viewpoints for visitors and passersby.
Timothy Taylor Gallery
15 Carlos Place, London W1K 2EX
21 Dering Street, London W1S 1AL
Ron Arad
Bodyguard
Super formed Aluminium
55 1/8 x 74 4/8 x 36 5/8 in. / 140 x 190 x 93 cm
Courtesy the artist, Ernest Mourmans and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Copyright: Ron Arad, 2008
Arad said, ‘I wanted to rethink the idea of the conventional rectangular
fair stand with a solid exterior wall, and to create something that really
gives the best service to the exhibits, doesn’t fight or compete with
them, but is nevertheless expressive. The stand is a temporary, operational
structure, but it doesn’t have to look that way.’
Frieze Art Fair is acknowledged as the UK’s most important contemporary
art event and one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs.
The 2008 fair will present a rigorous selection of around 150 of the most
exciting international galleries, together with Frieze Art Fair’s unique
curatorial programme of artists’ projects.
Timothy Taylor Gallery is one of the UK’s leading galleries and its exhibition
programme is directed by Emma Dexter, who joined the gallery from Tate
Modern where she was a senior curator. She said, ‘It’s a wonderful opportunity
to be able to test the limits of an essentially basic formula by commissioning
Ron Arad to design our stand. As a result of working with Arad’s design,
it has encouraged us to think differently about what we’re showing at
Frieze. It’s adventurous and has opened up a realm of new possibilities.’
Arad’s design for Frieze Art Fair will precede his major solo exhibition
at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, which runs from 19 November 2008 until
26 January 2009 and will then travel to the Museum of Modern Art in New
York. His first solo exhibition with Timothy Taylor Gallery in London
will follow in Spring 2009.
Arad was born in Tel Aviv in 1951 and studied at the Bezalel Academy of
Art and Design in Jerusalem and at the Architectural Association in London.
He was appointed Professor of product design at the Royal College of Art
in London in 1997. Before and After Now, a major retrospective of Arad’s
work was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2000, a year after
the publication of a monograph by Deyan Sudjic, now Director of London’s
Design Museum. In 2004 Ron Arad Talks To Matthew Collings was published
by Phaidon. Arad’s Architectural projects including the Maserati headquarters
showroom in Modena, Italy, and Y’s fashion store for Yohji Yamamoto opened
in 2003. In 2004 he began work on the design of Magis’s headquarters in
Treviso, Italy and the Holon Design Museum in Israel as well as participating
in the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ron Arad
Timothy Taylor Gallery Ron
Arad exhibition : 8 Apr – 9 May 2009
Another Frieze Art Fair Pavilion is to be designed by Adam Caruso and
Peter St John
photo : Caruso St John Architects
Pavilion to be designed by this successful desing-led UK practice. More
details nearer the time, no pavilion images available yet
Caruso St John
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