Yangjiang Group commissioned for Frieze Projects 2012

The artists commissioned to make site-specific work for Frieze Projects 2012 are: Thomas Bayrle, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, DIS magazine, Grizedale Arts/Yangjiang Group, and Joanna Rajkowska.

Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions realised annually at Frieze London. Curated by Sarah McCrory, this year Frieze Projects includes five specially commissioned projects as well as the Emdash Award, which each year enables an emerging artist working outside the UK to present new work at Frieze London. Commissioned by Frieze Foundation, Frieze Projects is supported by the Emdash Foundation.

This year’s programme of commissioned projects incorporates a number of unique viewpoints of the fair and includes an examination of the use-value of art by Grizedale Arts and Yangjiang Group in the form of a structure that will act as a forum for a number of artists who produce food, chaotic dining events, performances, and talks. In contrast, Joanna Rajkowska’s work will invite contemplation and reflection by transforming an area of Regent’s Park into a field of smoking incense. Aslı Çavuşoğlu’s recreation of a crime drama scene will look at the unlikely parallels between the production of murder mysteries and decisions made whilst making art. DIS magazine’s unique approach to the production of imagery will be a response to the fair, and a design by Thomas Bayrle will be dramatically woven into the fabric of the fair.

Yangjiang Group is an artistic group founded in 2002 by Zheng Guogu, Chen Zaiyan and Sun Qinglin, they take Chinese calligraphy as the unique media to develop diverse contemporary art practices.

Corresponding to the flexibility and individuality of life space in Southern Chinese context, Yangjiang Group's Garden project responses to different spacial situations, it explores how a "small utopia" could be constructed within limited elements such as trees, bridge, pond, waterfull, which suggested by Chinese classical philosophy meantime nevertheless confront with the social transformation and global movement, there, calligraphy becomes the metaphorical illustrations to imply the life uncertainty and mystery.

Frieze Projects presents newly commissioned artworks by international artists. Offered as an opportunity to work in a unique context, the artists commissioned by Frieze Foundation use Frieze London as a site to realise ambitious ideas in an exceptional environment.

Please read more about Frieze Projects here,

and about the Yangjiang Group in particular here