Andrea BowersEducate, Agitate, Organize, 2010 Gallery Andrew Kreps, New York Courtesy MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) Ltd.
The buzz is in. We have all been working up to this for months. Art Basel Miami, in its ninth edition annually draws in artists, gallerists, collectors, and other cultural figures of the ever-changing art world. The Artcards team is heading down to cover this exciting event for our readers, so keep checking back for updates. We have a booth in NADA, details to come soon. So far we have compiled 19 fairs, with countless art events flooding in. To make it easier for you to navigate through all the art happenings, create your personalized map on Artcards Miami and just email it to yourself. In the meantime, Morgan already created a quick art fairs google map.
Ryan Frank’s work borrows from objects that we normally take for granted. Mailboxes, wooden fences, cinder blocks, shipping pallets, and, this one is my favorite, industrial PVC strip curtains. If you have seen Ryan’s photo curtains, you would probably never look at these industrial plastic strips the same way again. Last month, I was invited to do studio visits at the Wassaic Project, and although I completely missed my last appointment, which was Ryan’s, his work definitely caught my attention. At the recent opening of “What is the Where” a group exhibition at the Invisible Dog, I had a chat with the artist standing next to his latest pieces – stage-like mailboxes and a door. Continue Reading More »
Using scent as an inspiration for making a film is not something you would normally hear. Commissioned by Six Scents, a group of filmmakers and artists collaborated with the perfumers Givaudan to create short films based on their childhood memories involving their sense of smell. I had a brief chat with Kaya Sorhaindo, one of the founders of Six Scents, during the Series Three launch party, where he expressed a profound interest in “figuring out new ways for people to engage with fragrance on a more personal level.” Film is definitely a very personal experience, but even more interesting are the bundling of an eclectic group of creatives including designers, perfumers, taste-makers, and artists (Robert Knoke, whom we featured previously, did the packaging art). The selected filmmakers for series three are Alia Raza, Lucas Michael, Olaf Breuning, Sue de Beer, Rainer Judd, Tim Richardson, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Heather Sommerfield, and James Widegren.
Upon entering the MoMA’s Abstract Expressionist New York I immediately felt at home. As cliché as it may sound, MoMA’s most recent exhibition, which takes up the entirety of the fourth floor painting and sculpture galleries, is full of old friends. The show combines hundreds of paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the permanent collection, in an exhaustive effort to showcase New York postwar painting. Many of the paintings in the exhibition are gems usually on permanent display. Re-configured into a new narrative structure, the exhibition has shined new light on old favorites. Barnett Newman’s The Wild, Jackson Pollock’s Echo: Number 25, 1951 and Franz Kline’s Chief are among the most iconic of these examples. Continue Reading More »
Artists and fashion designers collaborated last month to create a remix of pre-Halloween fun at PS1 MoMA. A nice and unexpected mix of crowds showed up, especially for the free hair, make-up, and clothes sponsored by a whole chain of brands. My favorite show was the Olaf Breuning X Cynthia Rowley collab. It’s nice to see the entire creative process as the stream of audience moves along. From outfit selection and being dumped with a bucket of paint by Olaf, to being photographed and displayed instantaneously on the walls, to finally reaching the hallway where the painted collection is displayed neatly in a row. Continue Reading More »
An instigator of the social norm, Pilvi Takala’s artistic practice provokes many hidden questions dealing with societies and communities, and she does so with such nonchalance that almost matches with her innocence. Pilvi is definitely careful and clever in carrying out her performance acts. This past Summer, Pilvi and I had a nice conversation about her recent project Real Snow White, her feelings about the iconic Disneyland, and what irks her about malls. Her solo exhibition at the Finnish Norwegian Culture Institute in Oslo opens on November 18, 2010. Pilvi Takala is a performance and video artist based in Amsterdam.
When did you start doing these live performance acts?
In 2004 I went to Glasgow for an exchange from my school in Helsinki, at that time I was more interested in art in the public space and not so much showing in galleries. There I made the first piece that was kind of meaningful. It’s an artist book based on a performative intervention called Event on Garnethill. Continue Reading More »
When I walked into Pure Beauty, the new retrospective exhibition of John Baldassari’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was skeptical to say the least. As an international art star, Baldassari’s most famous images are ubiquitous. His colored dot paintings have graced the pages of innumerable auction catalogues, art magazines and exhibition advertisements. Quite simply, I had become numb to them. Furthermore, I appreciate the effort that the Met has been making of late to exhibit contemporary art, but have not been remotely impressed by their offerings. Past exhibitions like “The Pictures Generation” have been impressive in scope, but seemed dull and over historical.
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