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Frameless, London’s latest immersive art experience

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Earlier today, I visited the Frameless immersive art experience, a brand-new show, which just opened near Marble Arch. The experience consists of 4 large show rooms and covers 40 digitized masterpieces ranging from early Renaissance to the first half of the 20th Century. FRAMELESS IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCE IS LONDON’S FIRST PERMANENT VENUE OF ITS KIND Frameless is London’s first permanent immersive art experience. Aiming to emulate the success of Borderless in Tokyo and L’Atelier des Lumières in Paris, the management have plans to open venues in other cities worldwide. FIVECURRENTS BROUGHT TO LIFE THE FRAMELESS IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCE The company was brought to life by FiveCurrents, who have a long track record in creating live experiences. Among others, they were the production company behind the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremonies. As the creative force behind Frameless, they have curated and led an ensemble of renowned experts. Artscapes UK selected and […]

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Sculpture In The City 2022 – Free, Good Fun, and Easy to Do

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I checked out the Sculpture In The City 2022 sculpture trail earlier today and was pleasantly surprised. The 19 works of art have been placed in public spaces since 22 June 2022. The display will continue until 1 April next year. Very conveniently, the artworks are all located within a condensed part of the City of London. Roughly in a triangle between the following three tube stations: Bishopsgate, Aldgate, and Monument. Bank, Tower Hill, Farringdon, Moorgate, and several other stations are also very close. To walk past all of the Sculpture In The City 2022 works takes between 45 minutes and two hours. I chose to take the train to Monument, so this is where my walk started. Should you arrive at a different station, you might hopefully still find this blog post useful. Just dive in wherever your drop-off point is closest to. Then continue to go back to […]

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A.A. Murakami at Superblue – Beguiling Bouncing Bubbles

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Ellie & I recently visited A A Murakami’s Silent Fall at Burlington Gardens at the rear end of the Royal Academy building complex. Timed with the beginning of Frieze Week 2021 the installation will be running until summer 2022. FLOATING BUBBLES You enter a giant, relatively dark room where bubbles are being released from tube-like dispensers above you. Because of the mirrors spread all over the walls, the space seems like an infinite forest. The bubbles look relatively heavy like honey or jelly. However, they turn out to weigh next to nothing. This is why they float towards the ground very slowly. CATCH THEM WITH YOUR HAND You can catch them with your hand. The gallery provides you with a glove for that purpose, as you are not supposed to touch the bubbles with your bare hands. You can make the bubbles bounce up and down on your glove-covered palm […]

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Wayne McGregor & Random International’s No One Is An Island Dance Performance

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We checked out choreographer Wayne McGregor’s & art group Random International’s collaboration No One Is An Island today. The dance performance simply blew us away. Superblue and BMW are presenting this brilliant show. MEET FIFTEEN POINTS/II The 12-minute show explores the interaction between humans and machines. It involves two dancers and one robotic machine or kinetic sculpture called Fifteen Points/II on a track of about 20-metre long rails with 15 stick-like arms that each have very strong lights at the end. It can move forward and backward on the rails and move its arms with the lights up and down, forward and backward.   INPUT FROM HARVARD The ideas for the machine were developed by Random International during various artist residences, including one at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.   A MACHINE WITH SOME HUMAN FEATURES Many of the moves of the machine feel almost human-like. This […]

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Frieze London 2021 – Plenty of Great Art and a Cool Vibe

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From yesterday until this Sunday, 17 October, Frieze London 2021 celebrates current modern art at its usual venue in Regent’s Park. After a missed year (2020 had been cancelled), this year’s theme is around ‘elevating new voices’. The spectacle takes place simultaneously with Frieze Masters, 15 minutes’ walk away, which is showing art from the last 3,500 years. This includes plenty of 20th Century masters. Next to those two indoor exhibitions, Frieze Sculpture has already been running outdoors in the English Gardens since 14 September and it will continue until the end of October. It’s worth spending at least half an hour to check out the many outdoor sculptures. FRIEZE LONDON 2021 Frieze was set up by childhood friends Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, the founders of Frieze magazine. Victoria Siddall manages the art fair. A BIT OF HISTORY The first Frieze art fair took place in London in 2003. […]

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