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10/10/2007

Zoo Art Fair

Royal Academy of Arts, London

London 2007

Zoo Art Fair identifies and supports young commercial and non-commercial art organisations on an international platform. Exhibitors include galleries, project spaces, artist collectives, curatorial groups and publications. Zoo Art Fair is a non-profit enterprise, sponsored by established collectors, galleries, arts businesses and public funders.

For collectors, curators, critics, dealers, artists and art enthusiasts, the Zoo Art Fair remains a considered introduction to the next generation of art talent and an in-depth survey of their emerging markets. In its first year, 2004, the fair showcased 26 under 3 year old local London spaces and welcomed 8,000 visitors, selling over £500,000 worth of work.

In 2005, 28 under 4 year old UK exhibitors were invited and over 10,000 visitors attended with over £1 million in sales. In 2006, the Fair platformed 46 exhibitors, including 31 from the UK and 15 from Mexico, Berlin, and Los Angeles, reaching £1.7 million in sales with 11,500 visitors attending. In 2007 the Fair brings together 61 under 6 year old exhibitors from around the world.

In 2007 Zoo Art Fair introduced for the first time an application procedure open to arts organisations anywhere in the world. Exhibitors have been selected by Whitechapel Gallery Director Iwona Blazwick, freelance curator David Thorp and Time Out Visual Arts Editor Ossian Ward.

Zoo Projects and Collaborations

Jason Fox Solo Exhibition
Winner of the 2006 Champagne Perrier-Jouët Prize for Best Artist at Zoo Art Fair

Champagne Perrier-Jouët are delighted to host an exhibition at Zoo Art Fair of early and recent works by the American artist, Jason Fox, winner of the 2006 Prize. Fox was selected by a panel of experts including renowned artist Marina Abramovic, writer Louisa Buck and Exhibitions Secretary at Royal Academy of Arts Norman Rosenthal. This exhibition forms a significant part of Champagne Perrier-Jouët’s generous and imaginative support of artists at Zoo Art Fair.

Born in 1964, in Yonkers, New York, Jason Fox lives and works in New York. The Flash Art article U.S Pain, New American Figuration, written over ten years ago by Francesco Bonami, described a group of American artists that included Jim Shaw, Raymond Pettibon, Sue Williams and Jason Fox, all commonly linked by their satirical views on art and society and their ‘figuration and language as a cure to all its creative and existential, pathological ills.’ Hailing from this group that adopted the accessible vocabulary of pop and narrative art, Fox’s works bridge classical painting, Cubism and cartoons, synthesising the shorthand of linear caricature.

Often the central focus for Fox’s paintings are hybrid creations of fictionalised misfits, heroes or anti-heroes and the works can be referenced to art visionaries such as Goya and Picasso and to genres such as science fiction, blax-ploitation films and video game iconography. Through Fox’s technique of loose brushwork, the use of a restricted palette and mimicry of a cartoon drawing style, a sense of black humour pervades over the abstract beauty and grotesque symbolism that is created.

Jason Fox has shown widely and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. He is represented in London by Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd.

A special interview with the artist is available at the Fair in the Champagne
Perrier-Jouët Annual Arts Calendar, October 2007-September 2008, which
details key cultural events happening internationally throughout the year.

David Lock Solo Exhibition at Zoo Art Fair
Winner of the 2006 John Jones Art on Paper Acquisition & Award

John Jones are pleased to host a solo exhibition at Zoo Art Fair of new works by British artist David Lock, winner of the 2006 John Jones Art on Paper Acquisition and Award. The 2006 selection panel – artists Sir Peter Blake and Danny Rolph, writer and curator Sacha Craddock and Collections Manager at the British Council Diana Eccles – singled out Lock for his beautifully executed but often-unsettling watercolour series ‘Misfits’.

Beauty and its construction is an enquiry central to Lock’s artistic practice, which questions the idea of unified harmony as the only form of beauty. Collaging fragments taken from various sources including glossy magazine advertisements of film and music stars, he combines these elements of perfection to form new figures that jar with our conception of beauty.

Lock’s new works develop these considerations, synthesizing human and animal form through a concern with the allegorical traits humans can acquire through symbiosis with noble animals. These investigations into relationships between humanity and the animalistic culminate in a modern cultural phenomenon from film: the tragic figure of the werewolf. Although a violent threatening figure, ultimately the werewolf is a tragic one. A victim powerless to control his shape shifting, he becomes vulnerable and horrified at his transformation into beast.

This special exhibition at Zoo Art Fair is a significant part of John Jones’ commitment to the support of innovative art and artists. As part of the Award, four works from the “Misfit’ series were acquired and have been on public display in the John Jones Collection in North London since November 2006.

176

As an extension of the inaugural exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection's new project space, 176 will present a special exhibition at Zoo Art Fair. Featuring works drawn from the Collection, An Archaeology examines the notion of history as a subjectively shifting dynamic, and the role of a contemporary art collection in recording such histories. The artists represented offer contemporary re-imaginings of works from 16th & 18th Century painting, Shakespeare, Milton, New Wave and Psycho music, as well as fractured Dystopian landscapes with glimpses into an apocalyptic future.

176, the Zabludowicz project space opened in Chalk Farm, London in September 2007. It is the first time the Collection has been opened to the public and will feature three major exhibitions a year.

The Collection was founded in 1995 and currently comprises over 1,000 works by more than 350 contemporary artists from 33 countries. It is one of the first major contemporary art collections in the UK to focus on emerging artists on a global level. The Zabludowicz Collection continues to be a key and integral supporter of Zoo Art Fair since the Fair’s launch in 2004.

http://www.projectspace176.com
http://www.zabludowiczcollection.com

Saatchi Online

Saatchi Online stages a show at Zoo Art Fair dedicated to artists who have loaded their work onto this free showcase for thousands of works of art. The artists have been chosen from Saatchi Online’s weekly Critic’s Choice, where a well- known critic is invited to select his or her favourite ten artists registered on the website. These artists, often unknown and unrepresented, will be promoted and sold at Zoo Art Fair where visitors will be able to buy work directly from the artists on view, free of any commission.

Saatchi Online is the world’s largest interactive art website featuring over 60,000 artists and art students, as well as information on international museum and gallery exhibitions, a daily magazine, global art news updated every 24 hours, forums for debate, a live chatroom, and regular competitions for registered artists.

Since its launch in 2004, Zoo Art Fair has been supported by The Saatchi Gallery as an Honorary Zoo Keeper. This year the Saatchi Gallery builds on its support of through increased sponsorship and its extensive promotion of the Fair on one of the world’s most active and global art websites.
http://www.saatchigallery.com

Other Criteria

Other Criteria is an independent publishing company created to produce and publish books, editions, multiples and clothing in collaboration with emerging and established artists. All publications are produced to the highest standards and reflect the detailed requirements of the artists concerned. Designed to complement and showcase an artist’s work without compromise, the books have won international awards.

Other Criteria has worked with artists on a variety of publications and editions including: Phillip Allen, Ashley Bickerton, Mat Collishaw, Itai Doron, Damien Hirst, Rachel Howard, John Isaacs, Michael Joo, Thomas Scheibitz, Jane Simpson, Neal Tait and Martin Westwood. . Newly released and forthcoming projects include: a substantial publication on the work of Berlin based sculptor John Isaacs; a book and triptych silkscreen print by Mat Collishaw; a portfolio of etchings by painter Philip Allen; and a comprehensive monograph on Michael Joo, who represented South Korea at the Venice Bienniale in 2001 and silkscreened ‘skull’ prints, a large format butterfly print and ‘spin skulls’ by Damien Hirst. Future projects include work by Polly Borland, Paul Fryer, Jim Lambie, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, and Keith Tyson.

Sponsoring Zoo Art Fair for the second year running demonstrates Other Criteria’s commitment to supporting up and coming artists and emerging arts organisations. All publications and editions are sold at http://www.othercriteria.com

Private view: Thursday October 11th

Royal Academy of Arts,
6 Burlington Gardens - London

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