October
Frieze in the Park, Art Basel at the Grand Palais, and three major retrospectives opening in one week. The busiest October in a while.
Frieze London and Frieze Masters 15 to 19 October in Regent's Park, Art Basel Paris 22 to 26 at the Grand Palais. The museum opens stacked around both. Sara in the Turbine Hall, Richter at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern, Minimal at the Bourse de Commerce. The Eurostar ran at capacity for two weeks.
Hyundai Commission: Goavve-Geabbil
Máret Ánne Sara
Reindeer hides bound in electrical cable, hauled up the full twenty-eight metres of the Turbine Hall. Behind it, a wooden-fence maze you walk through, with seats lined in fur and headphones playing joik and oral histories from Sápmi. Sara is from a reindeer-herding family; the title means ice-locked pasture, the condition that kills the herd. The critics who wanted spectacle called it quiet. The quiet is the point.
