Welcome to Frieze London 2012. This diary includes an exciting programme of events organised by London’s museums and galleries during the week of the fair as well as details of VIP benefits. Your VIP Card provides exclusive professional entry to the fair between 11am and 12pm on public days, use of a dedicated concierge service, private club membership and a London guide with recommended hotels, restaurants and local travel information. As a Frieze London VIP, you are invited to all events in the diary and have free entry to all museum exhibitions listed from 8–14 October. For events that require an RSVP to Frieze London by 1 October, please log on to friezelondon.com/vip and use the password included in your welcome letter. Priority will be given in order of response. Please always carry your VIP Card with you to ensure access to exhibitions and events. Coinciding with the tenth edition of Frieze London, we are proud to launch Frieze Masters –a new fair that will also take place in Regent’s Park in October. Frieze Masters presents a unique contemporary perspective on historical art and showcases work made before the year 2000, from ancient to modern. Your Frieze London VIP Card will provide access to the Frieze Masters preview day on Wednesday 10 October 11am–7pm and on each of the fair’s public days, 11–14 October. Please visit friezemasters.com for further details. A new feature for 2012 is a special preview of the Sculpture Park on Tuesday 9 October with a curator- led tour by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. We would be delighted to welcome you to the first opportunity to view the ambitious range of outdoor artwork on display. For further information, please contact [email protected] Event Programme Monday 8 October Monday 8 October RA Now William Klein+Daido Moriyama 8 – 10am 7– 9pm Royal Academy of Arts Tate Modern Breakfast private view Reception and private view Allen Jones Daido Moriyama Enchanteresse Eros, Provoke no.2 2007 1969 place, providing a unique focus on the current Membership and an insight into the future direction of the Royal Academy of Arts. In order to raise awareness and vital Tate Modern presents a commission by Sung Hwan funds for the Royal Academy’s a double retrospective Kim, recent Tate Collection Capital Campaign, the that explores the work acquisitions by Suzanne works in the exhibition will of William Klein, one Lacy and Lis Rhodes, and be auctioned on 9 October. of the 20th century’s most the first chance to see a major Absentee bids can be taken influential photographers electro-media installation Edith Devaney, Contemporary at the breakfast private view. and filmmakers, alongside by Aldo Tambellini. Curator of the Royal Academy For more information or that of Daido Moriyama, of Arts, hosts this special private to place an absentee bid please the most celebrated Tate Modern view, giving an introductory contact +44 (0)20 7287 9212. photographer to emerge Main Entrance talk to guests at 8.30am. RA from the Provoke movement Holland Street Now features a representative Royal Academy of Arts in 1960s Japan. The cities Bankside, SE1 9TG work by every living Royal 6 Burlington Gardens of New York and Tokyo tate.org.uk Academician, and a number W1S 3ET were the focus of both artists’ of international Honorary royalacademy.org.uk major works, with the RSVP by 1 October Academicians. This exhibition 1956 landmark photo-book www.friezelondon.com/vip offers the chance to view Life is Good & Good for You RSVP by 1 October the work of all the current www.friezelondon.com/vip in New York being a formative Royal Academicians in one influence on Moriyama. The new Tanks spaces 4 are also open, featuring 5 Monday 8 October Monday 8 October Tony Cragg Trojan Works Paul Sietsema 3 – 7pm Abbas Akhavan and David Brooks on Paper 6.30 – 8pm Exhibition preview 9am – 3pm 6pm – 1am Drawing Room Cass Sculpture Foundation Institute of Contemporary Arts Reception and tour Special view and lunch Private view Katharine Stout, Associate Gregor Muir, Executive Director, Drawing Room Abbas Akhavan’s site- Founders Wilfred and Director of the ICA, invites and Curator, Tate Britain specific installation Jeannette Cass invite you you to attend an exciting will lead a guided tour of runs throughout Delfina to celebrate the Foundation’s evening of art and music the first major solo exhibition Foundation’s new home 20th anniversary with a tour to celebrate the opening in London of Los Angeles- before the property of Tony Cragg’s sculpture of Trojan Works on Paper. based artist Paul Sietsema, is renovated into London’s on Exhibition Road in Trojan was part of the presenting new drawings largest international London followed by lunch outrageous and flamboyant and films. artist-in-residency space. at the Cass Sculpture club scene in the 1980s, Drawing Room Delfina Foundation Foundation in Goodwood when artists, fashion designers, 12 Rich Estate 29/31 Catherine Place to mark the inauguration club kids and musicians Crimscott Street, SE1 5TE SW1E 6DY of the Fields Programme mingled with luminaries +44 (0)20 7394 5657 +44 (0)20 7233 5344 with new works. A free such as Leigh Bowery, John RSVP required coach service departs Maybury and Michael Jacqui McIntosh at 10am from London. Clark. Rarely shown in [email protected] Cass Sculpture Foundation public, Trojan’s visceral and Goodwood humorous drawings portray Chichester, PO18 0QP a fascinating view of +44 (0)1243 538 449 the ’80s London art scene. RSVP required Institute of Contemporary Arts Tina Dunning The Mall, SW1Y 5AH [email protected] ica.org.uk RSVP by 1 October www.friezelondon.com/vip 6 7 Monday 8 October Tuesday 9 October 6 – 8pm 6.30 – 8.30pm Sculpture Park Lari Pittman Liam Gillick Private view Private view 12 – 6pm special preview 2pm curator-led tour English Garden at Regent’s Park Tom Friedman Circle Dance at the 2011 Sculpture Park, Frieze London Maureen Paley 21 Herald Street, E2 6JT Thomas Dane Gallery +44 (0)20 7729 4112 3 & 11 Duke Street, St. James’s SW1Y 6BN 7 – 8pm +44 (0)20 7925 2505 Rothko/Sugimoto: Dark Paintings 6 – 8pm and Seascapes Private view Tom Friedman A special preview of the the public during the park Private view Sculpture Park at Frieze opening hours. Clare Lilley London sited in the will lead a tour of the quintessentially English Sculpture Park at 2pm on gardens at Regent’s Park. Tuesday 9 October. Please The preview day offers assemble at the south-east the first opportunity to view entrance of the park leading ambitious outdoor sculptures on to the Outer Circle. Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto leads by both established and Stephen Friedman Gallery a discussion of the exhibition. emerging international RSVP by 1 October 25 – 28 Old Burlington Street Pace artists represented by Frieze www.friezelondon.com/vip W1S 3AN Burlington Gardens,W1S 3ET exhibitors. Director of +44 (0)20 7494 1434 +44 (0)20 7437 1050 Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Clare Lilley RSVP required is responsible for the selection Caroline Scali and siting of the works in rsvplondon the garden. The Sculpture @thepacegallery.com Park is a three-minute walk to the fair and is open to 8 9 Tuesday 9 October Tuesday 9 October Hannah Sawtell Matthew Does Size Matter? 12.30 – 2.30pm Darbyshire 12 – 2pm Institute of Contemporary Arts 9 – 11am Le Méridien Opening lunch Zabludowicz Collection Panel discussion and light lunch Hannah Sawtell Breakfast view Degreasor In The Province Of Accumulation 2012 Image courtesy of the artist, and Vilma Gold, London Join Outset/Frieze Art Fair Anita and Poju Zabludowicz Fund to benefit the Tate invite you to a morning Collection for the panel preview of Matthew discussion ‘Does Size Matter? Darbyshire’s solo exhibition, Growth and sustainability T Rooms, featuring a in contemporary art’, part of number of new commissions the Outset Le Méridien Talk and collaborations. Series. Chaired by Jérôme Sans, A curator-led tour of the Cultural Curator, Le Méridien exhibition takes place and Creative Director, at 10am. This event will L’Officiel Art magazine with be repeated at the same Mark Godfrey, Curator, Tate time on Friday 12 October. Modern; Julia Peyton-Jones, The ICA’s Executive Director with digital media, she Zabludowicz Collection Director, Serpentine Gallery Gregor Muir invites you to applies a highly experimental 176 Prince of Wales Road and Co-Director, Exhibitions attend a very special opening approach to explore the NW5 3PT and Programmes, Serpentine buffet lunch to celebrate influence of visual culture +44 (0)20 7428 8940 Gallery; Amanda Sharp, Hannah Sawtell’s first UK on everyday experience and Director, Frieze and Gary institutional solo exhibition the society that shapes it. RSVP required Waterston, Managing Osculator. Heavily influenced rsvp@ Director Europe, Gagosian. by music, design and Institute of Contemporary Arts zabludowiczcollection.com production, Sawtell’s work The Mall, SW1Y 5AH Le Méridien displays images, textures ica.org.uk 21 Piccadilly, W1J 0BH and surfaces, which she +44 (0)20 7761 0390 reconstructs or redeploys RSVP by 1 October RSVP by 25 September from the Internet. Working www.friezelondon.com/vip Alice Miller [email protected] 10 Tuesday 9 October Tuesday 9 October Bharti Kher, 9.30 – 11am 10am – 12pm 6 – 8pm Less is more: Elmgreen & Dragset Laura Owens Exposure the current state of public Breakfast viewing Private view Award 12 sculpture at the Great with the artists St Helen’s: Sculpture Space Victoria Miro 3 – 5pm Panel discussion and tours Parasol unit 16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW Reception and +44 (0)20 7336 8109 artist book signing RSVP required [email protected] Adi Nes 5.30 – 7pm Talk 7 – 8.30pm Private view Speakers include The Burlington Sadie Coles Magazine’s Editor Richard 4 New Burlington Place Shone, Hiscox Chairman W1S 2HS Robert Hiscox, radio presenter +44 (0)20 7493 8611 Exhibiting artist Bharti and journalist Libby Purves, Kher joins Ziba Ardalan, and artist Michael Craig-Martin.