Frieze Sculpture Park 2016 Fails to Impress at Regent's Park

The Frieze Sculpture Park at Regent's Park in London, running from October 5, 2016 to January 8, 2017, features twenty new works by artists including Jean Dubuffet, Barry Flanagan, Zeng Fanzhi, Nairy Baghramian, Fernando Casasempere, Goshka Macuga, and Claes Oldenburg. Curated by Clare Lilley, director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the exhibition requires a mobile app by Art Fund to locate sculptures, many of which blend into the park environment. Only Dubuffet's 'Tour aux récits', Flanagan's 'Drummer', and Zeng's untitled piece are monumental. Visitors often mistake Casasempere's 'Second Skin' for birds and Baghramian's 'Treat' for a bone. Macuga's 'Last Man' impales heads of Marx, Nietzsche, Mikhail, and Gorbachev, while Oldenburg's 'Fagend Study' satirizes public art expectations. The review notes signs of fatigue in the format.