Art Fair
Frieze Masters 2022
Tyler Mitchell
October 12–16, 2022
Regent’s Park, London
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Tyler Mitchell is presenting a special project at Frieze Masters 2022, marking the first time Frieze has commissioned contemporary artwork to be featured in the fair. In photographs, works on fabric and mirror, and a new installation—Altar I (2022)—Mitchell reflects on historical motifs in the context of an Edenic vision of Black beauty and desire. Mitchell’s photos, shot on location in upstate New York and in studios in New York and London, explore the relationship between young Black men and landscape. Some show their subjects interacting with outdoor scenic backdrops; Cage II (2022), for example, depicts a man reclining before a white picket fence, a symbol of the containment of nature. These images combine references to the kinds of pastoral settings familiar from Impressionist and Rococo painting, the history of photographic images of Black people—particularly in the American South—and fashion photography.
Other photographs such as Iridescent (2022) and Fly Away (2022)—the second of which is printed on glass and forms part of a larger installation—picture Black men partially immersed in muddy water, their struggle with elemental forces hinting at a continued need to resist prejudice and pursue unfulfilled commitments. Playing with perceptions of the real and the artificial, Mitchell presents land, water, and sky as signifying both risk and possibility.
The Frieze Masters Commission is presented with additional support from Gagosian.
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www.parisphoto.com
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Gagosian’s booth at Paris Photo 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Man Ray 2015 Trust/ADAGP, Paris 2023; ©️ Estate of Jan Groover; © Kwame Brathwaite; © Jeff Wall; © 2023 June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation; © Tyler Mitchell. Photo: Thomas Lannes
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Tyler Mitchell: Indelible Images
Friday, October 28, 2022, 6:30pm–10pm
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
www.vam.ac.uk
Tyler Mitchell guest curates the October Friday Late at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, by transforming the museum into a space for viewers to engage with images in new and unexpected ways. The event is the latest iteration of Night at the Cinema, a twenty-four-hour online film festival initiated by Mitchell during the COVID-19 pandemic and live-streamed from his computer desktop to viewers around the world. The evening will be a celebration of Mitchell’s unique ability to bring communities together through film and visual culture. Friday Late celebrates contemporary visual culture and design, gathering audiences together with artists and designers through live performance, film, installation, debate, DJ sets, and more. The event is free and open to the public.
Tyler Mitchell’s commission for Frieze Masters 2022. Artwork © Tyler Mitchell. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
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Tyler Mitchell
Zoé Whitley
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Arts Club, London
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Left: Tyler Mitchell. Photo: © Tyler Mitchell. Right: Zoé Whitley. Photo: James Gifford-Mead
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