Nancy Durrant features Tal R: Sexshops as one of her Frieze Week highlights in The Times

A guide to seeing the best of Frieze London and Frieze Masters for free. By Nancy Durrant

 

'Oh, it’s so colourful! Oh, it’s so beautiful! Oh! It’s a sex shop. The Copenhagen-based artist Tal R’s extremely jolly paintings depict the exteriors of sex clubs, massage parlours, strip clubs, adult theatres and other red-light establishments around the world, in a pointed questioning of what we think of as beautiful, meaningful and desirable.' 

 

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Image: Tal R, Valencia, 2017

Pigment and rabbit skin glue on canvas
200 x 172 cm, 78 3/4 x 67 3/4 in
September 30 2017