What the Tate Bought at Frieze

The Tate has issued its annual press release on Frieze Fair acquisitions:

The following works have been acquired as gifts to the Tate Collection thanks to The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection:

Terry Adkins (b.1953)

Muffled Drums (from Darkwater), 2003

Bass drums, mufflers

Dimensions variable

From Salon 94, New York

Christina Mackie(b. 1956)

The Dies, 2008

Plywood, steel, chalk, plaster, watercolour, plastic

140 x 500 x 25cm

From Supporitco Lopez, Berlin

James Richards(b. 1983)

Not Blacking Out, Just Turning the Lights Off, 2011

Double channel video installation

Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery

From Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul

Sturtevant (b. 1930)

Trilogy of Transgression,2004

3 channel video on 3 monitors, colour

1 minute 45 seconds, 30-minute loop

From Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

The Fund enables Tate to acquire works by emerging and leading international artists from London’s Frieze Art Fair. This year £150,000 has been made available for the Fund. With Tate’s annual government funding for its acquisitions effectively frozen since 1982, the Fund helps provide a much needed contribution towards Tate’s ongoing campaign to develop its Collection.

The 2013 Outset/Frieze London Fund guest selectors are Tobias Ostrander, Chief Curator of the Miami Art Museum and Beatrix Ruf, Director of the Kunsthalle, Zurich. They will be joined by Tate curators Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections, British Art; Frances Morris, Head of Collections, International Art; Tanya Barson, Curator, International Art and Clarrie Wallis, Curator, Contemporary British Art.