Frieze London is an international and world leading contemporary art fair. It takes place every October in London's Regent's Park and presents over 170 contemporary art galleries from 30 countries and attracts more than 68,000 visitors. The fair includes commissioned artists’ projects, a curated program and holds a program of talks and cultural entertainment events. Since the mid-2000s, auction houses Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips have expanded their mid-season contemporary sales that coincide with Frieze London.
CM project is participating in Frieze Art Fair by organizing and curating Romancing Abstraction in collaboration with the FITZROVIA Gallery. A dynamic group exhibition encompassing a stunning collection of painting, print and sculpture, created by six established international artists. The exhibition reveals the artists elaborate working processes, medium and scale and their ongoing commitment to produce an assortment of highly stimulating & diverse visual data. The artworks elevate beyond the aesthetic interaction of color, geometry, rhythm, pattern, and composition. They are all integrated into the debate of a new language of post-abstraction and a subtle balance between geometric and lyric abstraction.
Jonas Ranson is an established English screen printer, MA graduate of the Royal College of Art. He has exhibited widely in solo and group shows in the UK & Europe. His images engage with the aesthetic experience that emerges from observing boundless landscapes. Through obtrusive fractures, darkness, obscurity, privation and vastness, the images encompass subjects relating to the apocalyptic, biblical and the sublime. The Landscapes become a metaphysical realm for the purging of emotional trauma. Ranson work is part of significant national public collections including Pallant House Gallery UK.
Naoya Inose is a Japanese painter and graduate from Tokyo University of the Arts, BA Oil Painting, and currently based in London. His works are included in Takahasi Collection FONDAZIONE BENETTON. He has also participated in solo exhibitions in Japan, Malta and NY. Inose’s work explores the tension between the natural world and its grasping appropriation by human influence. It draws from a traditional genre of painting. Inose uses oil paint techniques to create both meticulously realistic landscapes and abstract oil paintings on canvas which question our perception of and relationship to nature, and the paintings’ historical and current role.
Kentaro Kobuke
1998 Kuwasawa Design Institute, 2009 Chelsea College of Art and Design, MAFA Solo Exhibitions, 2014 Generation Foil Gallery, Kyoto 2013 Primal instincts Identity Gallery, Hong Kong 2012 Letters Nakata Museum, Onomichi 2011 Mokume Daiwa Foundation, London 2009 Zou-no-oto I-MYU Projects, London 2008 Kinopipinoki Graf GM, Osaka 2008 Names AAA Gallery, Paris 2007 Names Prinz, Kyoto 2006 Layer Do Art Gallery, Seoul 2005 Green Caminetto, Tokyo 2004 Parfait SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo 2004 Drawing Show UPLINK Gallery, Tokyo 2003 Woman Hiromi Yoshii + Gallery Koyanagi Viewing Room, Tokyo 2002 Start Little More Gallery, Tokyo 2002 Home Sign Gallery, Tokyo 2002 Visions Tokyoites Galerie St Père, Paris.
Rawan Al Adwan is a visual artist, ceramicist and painter from Jordan, who relocated to London in 2012. The rich cultural heritage of her native country of Jordan, its varied and contradicting landscapes and her Bedouin roots have always influenced and inspired her artistic expressions. The recent influence of Nature and the UK country side have also influenced her latest abstract paintings which have become more expressionistic. The use of a Golden hue is prevalent in most of her works reflecting the ever present sun shine in her subconscious. She has a degree in Fine Arts and has worked for the Queen Alia foundation, Jordanian Prime Ministry, National and Political Museum of Jordan and established her very own Gallery 13 in Jordan. She is also a member of the Jordanian Artist Union, Richmond Art Society and The house of Lebanon in California. She held four solo exhibitions in Jordan and participated in various group exhibitions in London, the USA, Dubai, Kuwait, Austria and Italy. Rawan has also appeared on the cover of Magazines in Dubai and Jordan, where her unique art works, including pottery, gained a lot of attention and recognition. Collectors of her work include the Jordanian Ministry of Culture, Amman municipality, and the Kuwait National Museum.
Christina Mitrentse is an multidisciplinary artist established in London, a curator and Director of C.M projects as well as an educator. She is known for constructing provocative narratives and poetic ensembles of idiosyncratic institutions through manifold processes of vintage book-sculpture, drawing/collage, screen-printing, and productions of site-specific installations i.e Add To My Library & METALIBRARY a major on-going international project and traveling exhibition in Europe and UK. She has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows in galleries, museums and public spaces including Liverpool Biennial UK, XV Biennale de Mediterranean Thess/niki-Rome, ICA London, NDSM-werf Amsterdam, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art & CACT Greece, Nadine Feront Gallery Brussels,, London Art Fair, Royal Academy, The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Mitte Barcelona, The Centre for the Book Arts NY and Brussels Art Fair. Mitrentse artworks have been acquired by private & public collections including Fine Art Society London, The Swedenborg Society, Greenwich Council, The Women’s Arts Library Special Collections, Bank Street Arts Centre, Sill Library Bath, Mol’s collection Holland, Tate Archive, Penguin Collectors Society, Zabludowicz collection, Griechische Kultustiftung Berlin, Marriot Hotels USA, M. Altenman NY, National Library Bagdad, Benaki Museum and E.Venizelos Airport Athens, and Karathodoros collection.