art fairs/biennials
artblog goes to documenta, miami basel, carnegie international, and the usual new york suspects.
Saturday this and that
Here’s a short list of four great and interesting things from the inbox.
PAPERGIRL PROJECT GIVES AWAY ART IN NEW YORK CITY
This one is close to my heart since it’s an art giveaway. PaperGirl out of Berlin organizes giveaways of real art to complete strangers on the streets of a busy city. PaperGirl is now in New York state — they did a project in Albany and they’re organizing for a fall event in New York city. If you want to participate, PaperGirl NYC is looking for submissions of your real art (due Aug 1) — art can be any size, shape and material but must be “quality, original and rollable,” as in, they roll it up like a scroll and hand it out to people in its rolled scroll format.
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Posted in art fairs/biennials, national, tags a-z | Tagged ascap, cindy sherman, creative commons, debate, lawrence lessig, national book festival, new york city, papergirl-berlin, papergirl-nyc, qwangju biennale, washington dc, ye jinglu |
Fare at the NY art fairs – the Armory
We know we missed some of the Armory — for starters, we never made it to Pier 92, the Modern section. And while it seems like we saw tons of art we fear we missed some at Pier 94 where the Armory Contemporary was. Carrumba.
Julia Fullerton-Batten, Hallway, 2008, c-type, 40 x 54 at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
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Posted in art fairs/biennials, tags a-z | Tagged armory show 2010, art:concept paris, ben peterson, dewar & gicquel, galerie loevenbruck, gallery side 2, jenkins johnson gallery, john bankston, julia fullerton-batten, new york, peter mcdonald, ratio 3, rena bransten gallery, vidya gastaldon |
Fare at the NY art fairs – Pulse and Volta
We ran into a lot of folks at the art fairs last week. Some we knew, others were artists and gallerists we were meeting for the first time. Either way, the art fairs are chat fests with conversations about art, sales and the exhilaration of being at the fair. Talk is the glue that holds the memory of the fair together this year. Other years it was the art. Here’s a brief report from Pulse, Volta and the Armory.
Daniel Firman, Grey Matters at Galerie Emanuel Perotin at the Armory.
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Posted in art fairs/biennials, tags a-z | Tagged andreas brandstrom fine art, armory ny 2010, brodsky center, charif benhelima, crown gallery, daniel firman, daniel gonzalez, dewar & gicquel, diana lowenstein fine arts, dona nelson, emanuel perotin, galerie loevenbruck, gallery joe, gigi scaria, goodman gallery, hosfelt gallery, jan halfstrom, jeremy dean, johanna unzueta, liliana porter, matthew cox, miki taira, new york art fairs, nick cave, pentimenti gallery, pulse ny 2010, rj fine arts, tamara kostianovsky, thomas erben gallery, tokyo gallery + btap, trenton doyle hancock, videospace gallery, virgil de voldere, volta ny 2010, william kentridge, y gallery |
Whitney Biennial – noisy, quiet, beautiful, ugly
Now in its 75th go-round, The Whitney Biennial is still the big kahuna, the show every American artist wants to be in and every art lover wants to see. This year the career-boosting show includes no Philadelphia artist. We had representation in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 — so much for that trend. Instead, the curators went to Chicago, Oregon, Los Angeles and, of course, New York for the 55 artists, more than half of them women (a first) and many of them under the national radar.
One of the 28 women featured in this year's biennial, Aki Sasamoto, performed at the press preview. Strange Attractors, 2010. mixed media, dimensions variable, collection of the artist
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Posted in art fairs/biennials, national, tags a-z | Tagged aki sasamoto, charles ray, edgar cleijne and ellen gallagher, josephine meckseper, new york, r.h. quaytman, rashaad newsome, robert williams, roland flexner, sharon hayes, whitney biennial 2010 |
Shiny penny no more–Whitney Biennial takes on the new America
By libby | February 26, 2010
Quiet, a little sad, introspective, and not a lot of beauty. Those are how I’d sum up this year’s Whitney Biennial, now celebrating its 75th edition. After the ebullient excess of 2008, in which more than 80 artists exploded beyond the bounds of the museum, taking up residence in the nearby armory, and pock marking Central Park, a mere 55 artists certainly reflects a societal time of retrenchment and self-reassessment.
It’s as if America is no longer the youthful shiny penny it used to be. Well, that would be right. It’s not. And this is the Whitney Biennial that reflects the new world order.
Stephanie Sinclair, Self-Immolation in Afghanistan: A Cry for Help, 2005 Digital print, dimensions variable Collection of the artist; courtesy VII, New York
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Posted in art fairs/biennials, tags a-z | Tagged ari marcopoulos, bruce high quality foundation, charles baudelaire, daniel mcdonald, james casebere, jessica jackson hutchins, josephine meckseper, kate gilmore, kerry tribe, lesley vance, loraine o'grady, marianne vitale, michael jackson, nina berman, piotor uklanski, rashaad newsome, robert grosvenor, roland flexner, sharon hayes, stephanie sinclair, storm tharp, tam tran, whitney biennial 2010 |
Shepard Fairey Does Venice, Silvio
Shepard Fairey, who rose to fame and made his mark with his wildly successful and now controversial Obama campaign poster, has left his mark here in Venice as well. During the June international art orgy known as the Venice Biennale, Fairey was brought to a tiny bar in the San Polo quarter near the Rialto Bridge by two Biennale hostesses, according to Guiliano, the bartender at Boteri Cafe.
Shepard Fairey goes up against a Keith Haring knock-off in the Boteri Cafe, Venice, Italy.
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Framing video – in a collection
The best video ever that we saw in Miami was not at the fairs but at the Margulies Collection.
Isaac Julien’s 3-channel projection Western Union: Small Boats, 2007, is a poetical/political piece with watery realms of extreme sensuality and earthly realms both sensual and haunting. Julien works with dancers and here, he’s poised sinuous bodies in and around boats, sea cliffs and a baroque colonial mansion in North Africa. Without the use of a clear narrative thread you are immersed in a realm of suggestion.
Isaac Julien, surreal landscape in North Africa
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Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami
This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB (Art Basel Miami Beach) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel, Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as well as meeting up with Artblog’s Roberta and Libby for a day. The following are random snapshots rather than any attempt at a synthesis.
at the Cisneros Foundation brunch
Posted in art fairs/biennials | Tagged anri sala, being in the world, berta sichel, bill viola, carrie mae weems, chantal ackerman, cifo, cisneros fontanels art foundation, courtney smith, florian baudrexel, george segal, isamu noguchi, jean-paul sartre, juan miro, libby rosof, los carpenteros, margulies collection at the warehouse, martin z margulies, michael heizer, national museum of women in the arts, peter belyi, roberta fallon, robin rhode, sara barker, shinique smith, shirin neshat, susan sterling |
Happy talk in Miami
Words poured out of gallery director Catharine Clark when we asked her about Sandow Birk and his American Qur’an drawings (on view at Pulse). She told us that before the show at her eponymous gallery, there was a lot of internet buzz calling the work anti-Islam, even though the accusers hadn’t seen it. So on opening night, Clark for the first time ever had security on hand. Once people set their eyes on the work, however, they were no longer offended. It’s neither pro-West nor pro-Islam. The imagery is juxtaposed to a Sura in the Koran that is called Smoke, a response to 9/11.
Sandow Birk, American Qur'an, detail. Note the vernacular imagery with the ornate script, in English,
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Posted in art fairs/biennials, national, tags a-z | Tagged barak arikan, baris saribas, burak bedenlier, gunes terkol, hat art fruit, idil yazici, miami art fairs, nick marzano, non gallery, pulse miami, scope miami, the glue society, yigit yazici |
Happy people in Miami
Stand by for a petite post of gossip. We ran into some Philadelphia people (or people with Philly connections) at the fairs, in the airport and on the street. Here’s a list.
Henry Bermudez with his new Batman in Latin American works at Red Dot
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