Last of my four Frieze posts is on sculpture and highlights the vast range of materials used for work today. You definitely apprecaite humour in the work to help keep you going when trying to see all of the art for sale at Frieze.
Gabriel Lerster - The Probable Composition of an Improbable Rockslide in the Dutch Mountains.
Gimhongsok - A Fire (red) - Bronze
Sudarshan Shetty - Untitled - Wood
Thomas Schutte - The Lonely Ghost - Glass
Michael Landy - with his Heath- Robinsonesque machine that shreds your credit card and in exchange draws a signed Michael Landy signed piece for you to take home.
Nick von Woert - Not yet titled 7 - Mixed media and plexiglass
Javier Tellez - Feeble - Taxidermy duck, gold leaf covered Ostrich eggs
As part of Frieze week, Grayson Perry introduced his British Museum exhibition , The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman.
He felt that Frieze was like the arts equivalent of the village fete.
I had a great chat with him about how he took 2 years searching the Museum's archives and stores, initially selecting around 1000 pieces from the 8 million it holds, and then having to reduce this to nearer 100 pieces for the exhibition. He felt it was a bit like an art world version of the X Factor.
The exhibition mixes these pieces with some of Grayson's own work along with his motor bike , Patience and his 50 year old teddy, Alan Measles.
This is actually Alan Measles's stunt double as the trip to germany would have been too tough for the real Alan.
Whilst it feels a bit odd to feature a teddy as part of a British Museum exhibition, he also said he had learnt that the average age of visitors to the museum was 12 - so lots of potential teddy fans.
Ben Rivers - with a fascinating film called, This is my Land, being shown inside the hut.
Georg Herold - Praise the Lord - Lath, screws, foam and glue
Bjorn Dahlem - M-Zeit 2011 - Wood, steel, clocks, ink.
Pawel Althamer - The Billy Goat - Costume for performance art piece.
Sums up how you feel after 3 hours of Frieze viewing
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