FRIEZE WEEKEND: Critic’s choice

 
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11 October 2012

Howard Hodgkin: Night 2012

Gagosian Gallery

One of Hodgkin’s smaller paintings, and typically covetable, if only I had a spare $275,000.

Jenny Holzer: Blast 2012

Sprüth Magers, $525,000

Mesmerising dramatic installation of Holzer’s upturned LED texts which scroll along aluminium bars, drawn from her provocative Survival and Living series.

Valeska Soares: Stop Motion 2012

Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo

Forty mirror balls of different sizes, hanging close to the floor, choreographed to rotate in 40 different arrangements to gently poetic effect — disco gets balletic.

Andreas Gursky: Dubai World II 2007

White Cube, €400,000

One of the epic images for which the German photographer is justly celebrated — almost abstract at first, but then the tiny boats at the top of the image describe the vastness — with a typically vast price tag at €400,000.

Anri Sala: Clocked Perspective 2012

Stunning, optically puzzling and vast clock, which is distorted so that it has a permanently skewed perspective, yet still manages to tell the correct time.

Jason Martin: Zé 2012

Lisson Gallery

Martin, who has long made vividly coloured, swirling abstracts and has now ventured into metals — here, the copper is set against a burgundy background, to dramatic effect.

Carol Bove: Untitled 2012

David Zwirner Gallery

The American artist brings together a steel I-beam and a perishing piece of driftwood — the ageless industrial and fragile nature — to subtly beautiful effect.

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