David Shrigley

Frieze London Stand C09

4—7 October 2018 Preview: Wednesday 3 October

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to announce a solo presentation of new work by British artist David Shrigley at Frieze London 2018. The artist is best known for his satirical and deadpan works that explore the absurdities of everyday life.

Presented as a shopfront, the site-specific installation will feature four elements: a new series of large-scale neons, a major two-screen digital animation, a new sound piece and a new body of works on paper.

Shrigley’s five new, large-scale neons showcase his caustic sense of humour. Rendered in his distinctive handwriting, the neons convey nonsensical messages that deliberately undermine their own authority as signs or advertisements. Installed in shop windows, the works will be visible from outside the booth and lend the presentation a playful vibrancy.

Shown in the UK for the first time, ‘Endless Joint’ (2017) is a major two-screen digital animation. The work captures a succession of characters caught in a perpetual cycle of smoking. Hung back-to-back, the viewer will be able to walk around the individually-projected screens and view the animated figures in full profile.

New works on paper will feature a series of proclamatory headlines redolent of those traditionally displayed outside newsagents. Characteristically tongue-in- cheek, the works will be replaced on an hourly basis during the opening day of Frieze, keeping visitors up to date with the artist’s absurd ‘news’ of the day, whilst also giving a nod to the oversaturated nature of the media.

A satirical, sound-based installation will also be on view. Inspired by the noisy judder of his foundry’s extractor fans, Shrigley has recorded his own vocal imitation of the machines in four different octaves. The harmony will be played on an endless loop and accompanied by mock extractor hoods in a dedicated room. This work demonstrates the artist’s uncanny ability to play with the mundane nature of seemingly banal objects and scenarios.

25--28 Old Burlington Street London W1S 3AN T +44 (0)20 7494 1434 stephenfriedman.com Gallery Hours Since November 2015, the British Council exhibition 'Lose Your Mind' has been Tuesday to Friday, 10am -- 6pm touring internationally. It was shown at Art Tower Mito, Japan; Centre For and Saturday, 11am -- 5pm Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand; Storage by Hyundai Card, Seoul, Korea; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile, and Instituto-Cultural- Social Media Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico. Facebook: /Stephen-Friedman-Gallery Instagram: @stephenfriedmangallery Twitter: @SFGalleryLondon David Shrigley's ‘Really Good' was unveiled in September 2016 in Trafalgar Square, London, for the Fourth Plinth Commission. The artist currently has an For sales enquiries please contact: ongoing presentation in the Gallery at Sketch café in London as part of a long- [email protected] term programme of artist-conceived restaurants.

For further details please contact: Shrigley was a nominee in 2013, following his major mid-career [email protected] retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, London entitled ‘Brain Activity'. In 2018, Shrigley was appointed as the Guest Director of the Festival.

Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Laughterhouse', Deste Foundation Project Space, Greece (2018); ‘Life Model II', Fabrica, Brighton, UK (2018); ‘Exhibition of Inflatable Swan Things’, Sprit Museum, Stockholm, Sweden (2018); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA (2016); ‘David Shrigley', Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland Arts Festival, Auckland, New Zealand (2015); ‘David Shrigley: Life and Life Drawing', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2014-2015); ‘David Shrigley', Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2014); ‘Brain Activity', Hayward Gallery, London, UK touring to Yerba Beuna Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (2013); ‘How Are You Feeling?', Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (2012-2013); ‘Arms Fayre', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2012); ‘Drawings', Mumbai Art Rooms, Mumbai, India (2012); ‘Animate', Art Museum, Finland (2011) and ‘David Shrigley', Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2009).

Other recent group exhibitions include ‘Folkestone Triennial’, Folkestone, UK (2017); ‘Toulouse International Art Festival', Toulouse, France (2016); ‘Takashi Murakami's Superflat Collection', Yokohama Museum of Art Japan (2016); ‘Seeing Round Corners', Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2016); ‘Drawing Now: 2015', The Albertina, Vienna, Austria (2015); ‘Eyes on the Prize', The Travelling Gallery in association with Tramway, , Scotland (2015); ‘Private Utopia: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan; touring to Itami City Museum of Art & The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi; Japan and Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan (2014-15).

Shrigley's works feature in prominent collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield; Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Tate, London; and The British Council, London.

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