Tate acquires 100th work from Frieze Art Fair

LONDON.- 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:

• General Idea, AIDS (Wallpaper installation), 1988. Wallpaper, screenprint on paper. Overall display dimensions variable. Number 3 in an edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof. From: Maureen Paley Gallery

• Harun Farocki (1944 – 2014), Parallel I-IV, 2012-14. Video, 6 channels, 4 monitors, colour and sound. Duration, each: 16 min, 9 min, 7 min, 11 min. Number 4 in an edition of 6 plus 2 artist’s proofs. From: Greene Naftali

• Harun Farocki (1944 – 2014), Workers leaving the factory in 11 decades, 2006. Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik in 11 Jahrzehnten. Video, 12 channels, 12 monitors, colour and sound. Duration: 12 min. Number 5 in the edition of 5. From: Thaddeus Ropac

• Lubaina Himid, (b. 1954), The Carrot Piece, 1985. Acrylic paint on wood, card, string, 2430 x 3350 mm. From: Hollybush Gardens

Tate were able to acquire an additional two works with an exceptional contribution from Frieze Art Fair to the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund; bringing the total number of works acquired by Tate at the fair to 100, by 69 artists, since 2003. The works are:

• Slavs and Tatars, Love Letters (No. 7), 2014. Textiles, 247 x 247 x 0.5 cm. Number 2 in an edition of 3. From: Raster Gallery

• Bernardo Ortiz, (b. 1972), Untitled, 2014. Mixed media on paper. From: Casas Riegner

Outset Contemporary Art Fund was founded in 2003 as a philanthropic organisation dedicated to supporting new art. The annual fund at Frieze London allows Tate to buy important works at the fair for the national collection.

This year the Fund is set at £150,000 and the selection panel includes Agustín Pérez Rubio (Artistic Director, MALBA, Buenos Aires) and Laurence Rassel (Director, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona) as well as Frances Morris (Head of Collections, International Art, Tate), Ann Gallagher (Head of Collections, British Art, Tate), Tanya Barson (Curator, International Art, Tate) and Clarrie Wallis (Curator, Contemporary British Art, Tate).

The fund is organised and financed by Outset and in 2014 enjoys continued support from Leviev Extraordinary Diamonds.

Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “For more than a decade, the Outset Contemporary Art Fund has played a major role in helping Tate to build the national collection of contemporary art for the benefit of audiences across the country and in London. We are immensely grateful to Outset for this support.”