Top 5 Videos, NFTs & Multimedia Works on Frieze Viewing Room

BRUCE NAUMAN

Thank You, 1992

one color monitor, one video player, one video source (color, sound, continuous play), 00:04:57

Presented by Sperone Westwater

Nauman is widely regarded as among the most important living American artists and as a catalyst for the shift in international artistic practice toward conceptual and performative uses of language and the body. 

ÖZGÜR KAR, 

Death with clarinet, 2021

4K video with sound, 75” Samsung TV, custom flight case, media player, speaker

48.03" x 69.29" x 49.21", 00:15:00

Presented by Emalin

Kar’s multi-media sculptures function as scenes from theatre pieces: Death whistling (2022) and Death with the wooden flute (2022) complete a larger series comprising three further characters, each introducing a different instrument or monologue into the score. Working with voice actors and instrumentalists, Kar produces multi-part soundscapes that unfold through solemn repetition, forging existential dread mixed with cartoonish macabre. Stoic in their contemplation, his minimally animated drawings are set in imperceptible loops that turn videos into sculptures confined in the 4K screen’s rigid edge. To view the video click here.

GABRIEL MADAN

Puppet Show (4.19.2015), 2020

Video, 00:02:00

Edition 3 + 2 AP

Presented by Gattopardo



Puppet Show (4.19.2015) serves as center of orbit in the cosmology of Madan's practice and has been exhibited via LAND, The Renaissance Society and Locker: Magic Rectangles. Like history paintings of fabulist nightmares, Madan’s work presents the uneasy pathos of glittering anxiety.

LEO VILLAREAL

Cosmic Reef #87, 2022

NFT

0.39" x 0.39" (1 cm x 1 cm)

Presented by Pace Gallery

Cosmic Reef, Leo Villareal's first series of NFTs, consisting of 1,024 unique, digital works presented on Art Blocks, the preeminent platform supporting artists making programmable, generative projects. This collaboration marks a natural evolution in Villareal’s practice and includes the first works created by the artist to exist in a born-digital form. Drawing upon an infinite array of sequences in the natural world, Cosmic Reefreflects on randomness in nature, which is capable of producing beauty and symmetry.

LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN

A Speculative Portrait (for a boy who returned without his face), 2020

video, looped (colour, looped) 38 seconds 

Edition 3 + 2 AP

Presented by Maureen Paley

Lawrence Abu Hamdan has worked with a young historian Bassel Abi Chahine to learn about his extensive archive. Bassel Abi Chahine obsessive analysis and unprecedented research into the Lebanese People’s Liberation Army was done in pursuit of material to reconstitute flashbacks and unexplainable memories from a previous life. In his past incarnation, he was Yousef Fouad Al Jawhary, a soldier who died during a combat mission at the age of sixteen in 1984. Though Bassel has many memories of his life as Yousef, he has no sense of what he looked like. The video 'A Speculative Portrait (for a boy who returned without his face)' (2020) illustrates an attempt at facial reconstruction: the production of an image based on a childhood photograph of what Al Jawhary might have looked like as a young adult. The technique is normally used to sketch the likely current appearance of people who have been missing for a long time.

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