Building bricks of biggest art fair

Stone To Stone by Richard Long, a sculpture of bricks, forms part of the second Frieze Art Fair
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Should you be jogging through Regent's Park tomorrow you might stumble across this pile of bricks.

Before you ring the park authorities demanding their immediate removal, it may be worth pointing out one thing. They are, in fact, art.

Not only are the bricks a sculpture in their own right, they also form part of a huge fair of modern art being staged in the park over the next four days.

The second Frieze Art Fair brings together artists and galleries from around the world for a programme of displays, talks and events.


It will staged in a giant temporary structure erected in the park by architect David Adjaye.

As well as being a venue for viewing art, the Frieze Art Fair will be a place where it is produced and several artists have been commissioned for the occasion.

Adam Chodzko will create an alternative map of the fair, detailing the route taken by late-night visitors and animals in the park, while Annika Eriksson has brought together a number of individuals who answered her local newspaper advertisement to stage a performance.

Other exhibits will be more static, such as family photographs by Aleksandra Mir, or Emma Kay's multicoloured target, which takes the London Underground map as its inspiration and will be distributed free on the Tube network, as well as at the fair.

Fair curator Polly Staple said: "The fair provides new and rich territory to explore the relationship between systems of cultural exchange and economy.

Artists participating in the commissions programme have been invited to consider the art fair as a site of production and to use it as raw material for their work.

Many have responded by proposing the inclusion of alternative ways of thinking through, or of organising, behaviour."

The work of 2,000 artists will be displayed, making it Britain's largest single contemporary art exhibition.

Frieze Art Fair runs from Friday to Monday, 11am to 7pm (11am to 5pm on Monday.) A day pass costs £12 (concessions £8) and a four-day pass £24. Tickets: 0870 890 0514.

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