Thank You Frieze Week Visitors

Thanks to everyone who visited my studio during Frieze week. I’m pictured here with a group of visiting journalists from the UK. 🇬🇧 great conversations throughout the week. And for those of you who brought Chadwick artworks home - a hearty thank you. Thanks @18thstreetarts and all my artist colleagues. Already looking forward to next year.

Press visitors included:

Ian Sturgess, Assistant Chief Sub-Editor, The Mirror (circulation 245,655)

Natasha Colyer, Editor, Seen in the City (Circulation: 21,500)

Amber O’Connor, Writer, Cosmopolitan (Circulation: 39 million)

Cassam Looch, Director of Content, Culture Trip (Circulation: 4 million)

Neeru Sharma, Lifestyle Editor, Bauer Media (circulation: 1 million)

Tom Miller, Santa Monica Travel & Tourism UK Representative

Lauren Salisbury, Senior Director of Communications at Santa Monica Travel & Tourism

Artist Mobina Nouri was one of many amazing artists to visit during Frieze week in Santa Monica 

As the city transitions away from an active runway to more art events like Frieze and eventually a Great Park, we are in the midst of the creation of the Santa Monica Artport.

#frieze #art #contemporaryart #artport

Anish Kapoor's Gangnam for Freedom

                 Gangnam for Freedom - Anish Kapoor and Friends 

The British sculptor Anish Kapoor and a group of his human rights oriented friends have released a new video in partnership with Amnesty International and PEN International to bring attention to the ongoing persecution of artists and writers across the globe from China to Russia who have been harassed and imprisoned because of their work. Taking up where Ai Wei Wei's recent Gangnam Style video left off, Kapoor's own Gangnam Style romp combines symbols of imprisonment and torture with the names of many who have been persecuted in their artistic strivings for freedom. Please watch, visit the links, and find out what you can do to help shed light on this growing problem of censorship and oppression.

As an emigré from India to the United Kingdom, Anish Kapoor has often been concerned with the ideas of freedom and dislocation in his artwork. I have posted a few examples below that provide a brief glimpse into his artistic practice. For me, Anish Kapoor is one of the most important and visionary artists working today.

Anish Kapoor.
Dismemberment Site 1
Mild Steel Tube and Tensioned Fabric 2009
Gibbs Farm, Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand
photos courtesy  Gibbs Farm

 In North America, his best-known creation, Cloud Gate, is the centerpiece of Chicago’s Millennium Park:

Anish Kapoor
Cloud Gate
Stainless Steel 2004-2006
Millenium Park, Chicago, Illinois
Photos by Gregg Chadwick

Anish Kapoor, Hole, 1988; sculpture; fiberglass and pigment, 84 in. x 84 in. x 102 in. (213.36 cm x 213.36 cm x 259.08 cm); Collection SFMOMA, Gift of Mrs. Milo Gates; © Anish Kapoor

Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/169##ixzz2CtD7h8ex
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

More At: 

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/gao

Write Against Impunity
http://www.pen-international.org/write-against-impunity-the-campaign/
http://www.daytoendimpunity.org

Gibbs Farm

Thanks to:
Proudfoot http://www.proudfoot.tv
Akram Khan http://www.akramkhancompany.net/