{"id":630167,"date":"2026-10-14T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630167\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:56:09","slug":"frieze-artist-award-winner-theo-triantafyllidiss-spider-sculpture-aims-to-bring-people-together-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630167\/","title":{"rendered":"Frieze Artist Award winner Theo Triantafyllidis\u2019s spider sculpture aims to bring people together &#8211; The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">If the usual Frieze fair seating arrangements are not quite exciting enough for you, then head to Theo Triantafyllidis\u2019s new commission.\u00a0The participatory sculpture, titled Feral Metaverse (Spider) (2026), takes the shape of a giant six-legged arachnid in deconstructed trainers and medical-hued stockings. Triantafyllidis\u00a0was awarded this year\u2019s <a class=\"transition-colors duration-default shadow-externalLink hover:text-red-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frieze.com\/article\/frieze-london-2026-theo-triantafyllidis-artist-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Frieze Artist Award<\/a>, which enabled him to create the new work. Billed as \u201cpart social experiment\u201d, the piece incorporates a collaborative multiplayer video game that involves traversing a fantastical world to escape a giant spider. \u201cI\u2019m hoping I don\u2019t have to explain it at some point,\u201d Triantafyllidis says, \u201cand people will discover and explore the space together.\u201d Take a seat and get involved (unless you have arachnophobia, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the usual Frieze fair seating arrangements are not quite exciting enough for you, then head to Theo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,309005,309004,90891,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-630167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-frieze-artist-award","tag-frieze-london-2026","tag-immersive-experiences","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}