The annual Frieze Sculpture returned to Regent's Park for 2025 yestrday, and it will run until the second of November. The free outdoor art in Regent's Park (near Great Portland Street tube station) is in its 14th year this year and coincides with the Frieze Art Festival held in October. This year has a nice selection of sculptures to visit, and all of them are on display now.
I was impressed with this year's sculpture display. The last couple years, I found something was lacking.
Grace Schwindt - "When I Remember Through You"
This ceramic and bronze human-like figure blends with visual representations of plants. The sculpture seems to suggest human's relationship with the natural world. The bronze part of the sculpture holds up the head of the figure, suggesting fragility and dependence.
Elmgreen & Dragset - "Life Rings"
The sculpture appears to be made from lifesaver rings entertwined together and balancing haphazardly. The form seems to show that safety is required, and a balance is needed.
Burçak Bingöl - "Unit Terrenum Rosa"
The sculpture is made using rammed earth with ceramics cast from different flowers encased in a cube. The cubed object looks like an ordinary cube until going up close to see the detail of the colourful ceramics inside and the layers of colour of the rammed earth. The earth and roses came from the park. The sculpture appears to be like an excavation of objects.
Simon Hitchens - "Bearing Witness to Things Unseen"
This is a concrete cast of a shadow of a 250-million-year-old boulder during the equinox. The artist studies time and humanity.
Erwin Wurm - "Ghost (Substitutes)"
This aluminum sculpture is a free-standing outfit/clothing without a body inside it. The clothing seems to float suspended in the air. The artwork seems to question identity based upon the fashion of our clothing.
David Altmejd - "Nymphs"
The sculptures of mythical nymphs are captured in movement of dance. From a distance, we see the free flow of the forms, but up close, they appear to be created with a rough execution.
Henrique Oliveira - "Desnatureza 8"
The artwork is constructed from reclaimed plywood that was previously used for scaffolding and billboards that the artist reclaimed and renewed. The plywood would have come from trees, and the artist transforms the pieces back into tree-like or root-like forms. The sculpture suggests human's involvement in nature and the ecosystem.
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith - "King of the Mountain"
The artist is of native American background, and the work showcases the buffalo on top of a boulder and inside a broze canoe. The sculpture shows identity and endurance, and the sculpture is ironically placed in London as many moved from Europe and exploited the culture in pre-European-migration America.
Andy Holden - "Auguries (Lament)"
The sculpture shows the wavelengths of the sounds of different types of birds on top of poles that appear like electrical poles or totems. The birds are nightengale, cuckoo, and the crow. The first two types are nearing extinction. Birdsong is becoming rarer, and the sculpture wishes to highlight the issues with humans and the relationship with nature.
Reena Saini Kallat - "Requiem (The Last Call)"
The sculpture is a World War II device that was used to listen to sounds of any incoming enemy planes. It has been transformed into an audio sculpture that has the last recording calls of extinct birds.
Abdollah Nafisi - "Neighbours"
This steel sculpture appears like two horns facing each other. The different colours and material contrasts. The sound inside the horns is reflected from the surroundings of the park.
Lucía Pizzani - "The Tale of the Eye, the Snake, the Seed"
This sculpture features prehistoric symolbism found in nature and important to humankind for growth.
Assemble - "Fibredog"
The sculpture has been created from natural materials found in Regent's Park. The sculpture reminds me of a harvest festival sculpture.
Timur Si-Qin - "Last of the Wild and Free (Rhododendron calophytum)"
The sculpture is created in stainless steel and depicts an endangered rhododendron bonsai tree appearing to be cased in chrome or silver.
This wraps it up for Frieze Sculpture in Regent's Park for this year. For previous years, see my posts below:
Frieze Sculpture 2024
Frieze Sculpture 2023
Frieze Sculpture 2022
Frieze Sculpture 2021
Frieze Sculpture 2020
Frieze Sculpture 2019
Frieze Sculpture 2018
Frieze Art Fair 2017
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