Exhibition in London’s Regents Park this weekend featured creations by new artists and more established names, including a Sculpture Park open till January

From high chairs to balloons shaped like cartoon speech bubbles, artworks from around the world went on display at Frieze London this weekend, a huge fair mixing creations by new artists and more established names.

In marquees installed in the British capital’s central Regents Park, the exhibition and marketplace drew together works from more than 160 galleries from around the world. On display were installations including Philippe Parreno’s orange inflatable Speech Bubbles and Jesse Darling’s March of the Valedictorians grouping of long-legged chairs, as well as sculptures and paintings.

We thought it would be very interesting to put together a section of the seminal presentations that artists made in the 1990s that really had an impact on the way people looked at art

This year’s fair, which also had an associated Frieze Masters fair displaying older works, featured a gallery section recreating exhibits from the 1990s.

“The 1990s felt like a decade that was just ready to be revisited and it felt... like a time that the curators were looking at that was influencing artists working today,” Victoria Siddall, director of Frieze Fairs, said.

“So we thought it would be very interesting to put together a section of the seminal presentations that artists made in the 1990s that really had an impact on the way people looked at art and changed the conversation.”

Olafur Eliasson’s Atmosphere with Orbiting Light.

Works ranged in price running up into the millions of pounds and among famous artists, works by Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry as well as Salvador Dalì and Rene Magritte are showcased.

Asked about the potential impact of Britain’s shock vote to leave the EU and sterling’s fall over concerns of a hard Brexit, Siddall said: “The art world has seen many recessions and economic ups and downs but art is something that does endure and it’s an incredibly important part of people’s lives.”

There was also a Sculpture Park, which will be open to the public until January, which presented artworks such as Claes Oldenburg’s Fagend Study, a large cigarette butt.

Visitors to the Frieze art fair view The Pink Table by Portia Munson. Photos: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

An exhibit by Samara Golden.