Stephanie Syjuco a talented young artist of rising prominence, recently created a smart project for the recent Frieze Art Fair. The Frieze fair sponsors artist projects that are site specific to the fair. For her commission Syjuco chose to use the opportunity to trouble the nature of the art fair itself by drawing connections between the high-end contemporary art market and global manufacturing. The project was called, “COPYSTAND: Autonomous Manufacturing Zone” and here’s her description of how it was organized:
A parasitic project, COPYSTAND is a live artwork counterfeiting event to be held within its own gallery booth space. During the week, a cadre of 3-5 artists at a time will be re-creating other artworks found within the Frieze Art Fair and displaying them as they are finished. All works will be available for purchase at a mere fraction of the cost of the originals, with a final liquidation sale happening on the last day. On the left side is the “production area” and the right side is the “gallery area” that will display the finished artworks.
In addition to herself, Syjuco brought a number of talented artists from around the world to participate, including:
Yason Banal, Filipino, resides in Philippines, Bernd Behr, German, resides in UK, Claudia Djabbari, German/Iranian, resides in UK, Gail Pickering, British, resides in UK, Jim Ricks, American, resides in Ireland, Maria Taniguchi, Filipino, resides in UK
Photo by Sarah Douglas. Stephanie Syjuco and her copy of a Mark Wallinger, which sold for £500 ($820). It was a bargain compared to the original, which goes for £75,000 ($123,000) at the booth of Anthony Reynolds.
This project didn’t just catch our attention, read a great article about the project, titled, Faking it at Frieze by Sarah Douglas on the online magazine ARTINFO.
If you are in New York for Print Week ‘09 you can see more of Stephanie’s work at the Printeresting curated exhibit, One Every Day.
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