Contemporary scupltures take over London park

Описание: (6 Jul 2019) LEAD IN:
London's largest free display of outdoor art returns to Regents Park, featuring more than 20 international artists.
Far from Frieze art fair's packed hallways, towering art works are populating the English garden in the central London park.

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This exhibition does not wait for people to come to the art, it brings the art to where the people are, passing by on their way to work, meeting friends, having lunch or walking the dog.
Without the walls and constraints of a gallery building, park dwellers and art aficionados alike can be seen circling the colourful shapes, bronze sculptures and giant installations all around Regents Park's English gardens.
The art fair's annual Frieze Sculpture, curated by Claire Lilley, is claimed to be London's largest outdoor exhibition.
Frieze director Victoria Siddall says that seeing "people having picnics and sort of coming across the sculptures accidentally as well as intentionally" is a "wonderful thing".
Londoner Sabrina Said agrees, adding that it is "amazing" for people who do not usually go to galleries.
Exploring Joanna Rajkowska's sculpture "The Hatchling" - a large-scale replica of an egg that emits sounds of hatching birds - Said says she finds that being able to approach the works "from whatever distance you want and obviously view it how you want to" is "the best thing about art".
Another aspect enjoyed by locals is that they can visit the sculptures again and again over the summer months, as does Sam Rutt, who enjoys them every day on his way to work.
Standing near a giant androgynous bronze sculpture cast from carved cork and polystyrene by Huma Bhabha, entitled "Receiver", Rutt says that the works get people to think about "sometimes quite challenging bits of art that express all sorts of themes of life, death, gender, sexuality."
Exhibits include sculptures as diverse as Zak Ove's "Autonomous Morris", a simultaneously retro and futuristic mask made of car parts, Bill Woodrow's "Celloswarm" depicting bees enveloping on an outsized Cello, and "On Hold #9" by Peter Buggenhout, a giant messy structure partially made of inflatable shapes, signifying a perpetual state of incompletion.
Californian visitor John Whelan was particularly drawn to the giant numbers of "ONE Through ZERO" by Robert Indiana, and says that not having to "go through a door, and up some stairs" to reach the art "invites interaction".
As the sun begins to set on a summer's day, Tracey Emin's "When I Sleep" - a larger than life bronze sculpture of a woman curled up in the grass - catches the last of the light, contrasting in its stillness with the chatter of people coming and going around it.
"You can still see the hand prints of the artist in the work", says Siddall, rendering it a "very tender and intimate" sculpture in a public space at the centre of a busy capital.
Frieze Sculpture runs from 3 July to 6 October 2019.

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