LONDON.- The following works have been acquired for the Tate collection thanks to the 2018 Frieze Tate Fund supported by Endeavor:
Sonia Boyce (b. 1962), The Audition 1997, printed 2018. Black & white photographs mounted on aluminium. Dimensions variable
Giorgio Griffa (b. 1936), Rose e grigio 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 650 x 1010 mm
Claudette Johnson (b. 1959), Standing Figure with African Masks 2018. Pastel and gouache on paper, 1630 x 1330 mm
Johanna Unzueta (b. 1974), April, May 2016 NY 2016. Watercolour, pastel, pencil, needle holes on hand-dyed watercolour paper (indigo), 1320 x 900 mm
It is the third year that Endeavor has enabled £150,000 to be made available for the Fund. The Fund enables Tate to acquire works by emerging and leading international artists at the Fair. To date, more than 100 works have been acquired, including works currently on display at Tate Modern and Tate Britain by artists including Lubaina Himid, Olafur Eliasson and Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin.
The selection panel includes two guest curators: Katherine Brinson, Daskalopoulos Curator Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Shanay Jhaveri, Assistant Curator of South Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Maria Balshaw, Director, Tate said, The Frieze Tate Fund has made an important contribution to the national collection of contemporary art at Tate. We are once again excited to be able to select work from Frieze so that a broad public at Tate can experience new art as it emerges. We are extremely grateful both to Endeavor and to Frieze for their support.