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As the curtain falls on Frieze London, Ojiri Gallery lifts the veil on an exciting new group exhibition. Titled Not Invited!, the show journeys through a surreal and vibrant pursuit of authenticity, featuring the work of Baldur Helgason, Izumi Kato, Nigel Howlett, Dustin Emory, Max Rumbol and Kila Cheung.The faces of Not Invited! bear the likes of nostalgic cartoon and video game characters, evoking a sense of childlike wonder and playful rebellion. In a cast of hybrid figures and distorted forms, the exhibition teeters between comfort and confinement with an uncanny ambiguity that only draws you in closer.The exhibition becomes a space for exploring the raw and often contradictory nature of being human. Ranging from the sleek, poreless robot in Howlett’s “Neither Revealed Nor Hidden” to H...

Hauser & Wirth is showcasing a love letter to the City of Angels in a new group exhibition at its newly minted West Hollywood location. Named after Steve Martin's 1991 romantic comedy, L.A. Story presents sculptures, paintings and installations from an expansive list of contemporary artists who comment on the surreal idiosyncrasies that LA is known for through their respective practices. Perhaps more than any major city, including New York, London and Paris, most understand LA primarily through entertainment. Sun-kissed palm trees, celebrity sightings, drives along PCH, the perfectly trimmed hedges of Beverly Hills — there is a romanticism that tourists come to the city expecting, which is inevitably countered by the reality of navigating LA's sprawling streets without a well-designed...

The Sigg Art Foundation has just announced the winner of its inaugural Art Prize. Founded in 2020 by collector Pierre Sigg, the foundation aims to redefine the boundaries of contemporary art through the integration of AI and technology. However, the competition's embrace of technology goes beyond the artwork itself, placing an AI judge amidst its jury of curators, writers and collectors.Selected from over 300 applicants hailing from 70 countries, the 2024 Art Prize goes to Paris-based German artist Dana-Fiona Armour for her interactive video installation, Alvinella Ophis. In light of this year’s Future Desert theme, the work bears life to a hybrid snake creature in a dry, dystopian landscape, incorporating infrared sensors to mirror the animal's heat-sensitive capabilities. Armour’s work a...

Jake Vanden Berge is an emerging Los Angeles-based artist who paints striking juxtapositions exploring the hazy threshold between memory and nostalgia. Born in Whittier and entirely self-trained, Vanden Berge's oil compositions are diluted to appear like snapshots racing through the mind, spanning the real to the imagined, from burning suburban houses to images of a doberman pinscher contrasted with a field of chromatic tulips. There is a cinematic quality to the images that Vanden Berge culls. He purposefully stacks opposing themes as a way to spark dialogues with disparate subject matter and spotlight the beauty in the everyday. His latest Untitled print features a field of pink tulips split between a cropped image of a women's lips. The impermanence of beauty, emblematic of the use of...

In the hum of Frieze London, Almine Rech presents a new exhibition curated by 16Arlington's creative director Marco Capaldo. For Capaldo’s first curatorial foray, Memories of the Future summons a tender suite of artworks at No.9 Cork Street, each echoing the surreal nature of time.The exhibition is an ode to memory, anchored by an anachronistic sensibility. Bringing a fresh perspective to what is both old and new, the show shines a light on how memory doesn't just belong to the past, but acts as an ever-evolving agent in our future.A rising star himself, Capaldo spotlights a new era of British artists, drawing together a cast of fresh faces and seminal figures in contemporary art. Spanning across various mediums, the exhibition features an installation of John Giorno’s “Dial-A-Poem,” paint...