Demiurge Installs at London’s Frieze Art Fair

Demiurge is taking its fabrication abroad. Recently, Demiurge travelled to London's Regent's Park to help install Will Ryman’s Icon, the next in a series of public exhibitions of Ryman’s ‘The Roses’ sculptures since they were shown on Park Avenue in New York in January 2011.

Will Ryman's "Icon"Icon was featured among some of the most acclaimed international sculptors such as Thomas Houseago and Claudia Fontes, as well as pieces by Tom Friedman and Kiki Smith at the Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, which offers a rare opportunity to see a significant large-scale international work presented in the English Gardens of Regent’s Park.

Like with The Roses, Demiurge fabricated the 32-foot stems of Icon in its Denver studio and then transported them to London for installation, working on site with Momart, a London company with more than 30 years of experience and an international reputation of handling fine art and antiques.

A January 16, 2011, New York Times article said The Roses were a “large scale love letter to New York… transforming Park Avenue into a fanciful garden” and “reflecting Ryman’s flair for the dramatic and absurdly wonderful.”

Prior to London, Demiurge fabricated The Rose for an outdoor installation at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. and at the Verbier 3D Foundation Sculpture Festival, Verbier, Switzerland.

Next, Ryman and Demiurge will work together in Coral Gables, FL, where Ryman's solo exhibition, Will Ryman: Desublimation of the Rose will be installed at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden starting December 1, 2011 – May 31, 2012, through Art Basel Miami week and a brand new sculpture for Ryman's new series of work to be premiered at his solo exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York.