Eearlier this month I spotted a mattress that was in this pre-internet colour palette installation with an old mattress by Sarah Lucas on view at the Whitechapel Gallery at her solo exhibition (Au Naturel, 1994 Mattress, water bucket, melons, oranges and cucumber). Frieze Foundation during Frieze Art Fair 2013 presented the work by an artist Lili Reynaud Dewar, related to her body of work I am intact and I don’t care, 2013. According to the press release, the artist is committed to produce only the bedrooms this year. In her installation she was lying on the bed with an ink fountain, nestling on the pillows and reading a book aloud. (Media: bedframe, mattress, bed sheets, pillows, fabric, basin, fountain, water, ink.). Beautiful mattresses by an artist Kaari Upson represented by the Overduin and Kite Gallery from Los Angeles were shown in the FRIEZE ART FAIR’s main exhibitors section. Karin Upson’s mattresses are lingering between sculpture and painting as they are hung on wall and made of silicon and pigment. A week later at FIAC 2013 in Paris C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G Brussels presented the work of Korakrit Arunanondchai. In the gallery installation there were many blankets lying around that looked like canvases. On the ground floor of FIAC, where the established galleries were exhibiting, a beautiful red and blue mattress by NY artists duo Guyton/Walker was occupying visitor’s attention. And at the end of list is an installation that includes blankets at the Moving Museum Open Heart Surgery exhibition in London. Sleep tight!
Lili Reynaud Dewar, I am intact and I don’t care, 2013 (detail) at Frieze
Sarah Lucas exhibition “SITUATION. Absolute Beach Man Rubble” at Whitechapel gallery, London (detail)
Guyton/Walker at FIAC 2013
Kaari Upson at Frieze
Korakrit Arunanondchai at FIAC
Open Heart Surgery exhibition at Moving Museum
