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''Freeze'' is the title of an art exhibition that took place in July 1988 in an empty London Port Authority building at Surrey Docks in London Docklands.〔(Setting the 'scene'. ) ''Exposure''. Retrieved from Internet Archive 27 April 2015.〕 Its main organiser was Damien Hirst. It was significant in the subsequent development of the Young British Artists. ==Organisation== ''Freeze'' was orchestrated by Damien Hirst, who was then a student at Goldsmiths College of Art.〔 Hirst and his collaborators consciously imitated the look of Charles Saatchi's first gallery in St John's Wood that had opened a few years earlier. Saatchi, an art collector, attended ''Freeze'' and purchased a piece of art by Mat Collishaw. Michael Craig-Martin, a tutor at Goldsmiths Art College,〔 used his influence in the London art world to convince Norman Rosenthal and Nicholas Serota to visit the exhibition. A show of work by Angus Fairhurst in February 1988 was the precursor to ''Freeze''.〔Akbar, Arifa; Powell, Mariane. ("Artist behind 1990s boom 'commits suicide'" ), ''The Independent'', 1 April 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2008.〕 Fairhurst, along with other students from Goldsmiths College of Art, were instrumental in organizing ''Freeze''.〔 It was there that the work of the Young British Artists caught the attention of the collector Charles Saatchi.〔 The catalogue for ''Freeze'' had surprisingly high production values for a student exhibition. It was designed by Tony Arefin and included an essay by art critic Ian Jeffrey. The catalogue was funded by the property developers Olympia and York. The title of the show came from the catalogue's description of Mat Collishaw's macro photograph ''Bullet Hole'' which showed a gunshot wound to a human head (taken from a pathology textbook). In 2007, Michael Craig-Martin said in an interview with Brian Sherwin: :I had always tried to help my students in any way I could, particularly in those first years after art school. I knew from personal experience how difficult it was—I never had things come easy. I did the same with Damien and Freeze. I encouraged people to go and see the work. I would never have done this if I hadn't believed the show was of exceptional interest—why waste people's time? It amuses me that so many people think what happened was calculated and cleverly manipulated whereas in fact it was a combination of youthful bravado, innocence, fortunate timing, good luck, and, of course, good work.〔Sherwin, Brian. ("Art Space Talk: Michael Craig-Martin" ), Myartspace, 16 August 2007. Retrieved on 12 July 2009.〕 The exhibition was sponsored by the London Docklands Development Corporation and Olympia and York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Freeze (art exhibition)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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