Tuesday, September 13, 2011

St Moritz Art Masters 2011

Ten days of art that at first I thought I could do in 2 days. Well I stayed longer, and it was well worth it. All throughout the Engadin, public art works, gallery exhibitions,  cocktails, dinners, parties, artists talks and film were what composed a fun and truly ART filled weekend. Many Swiss artists had their turn in the spotlight and some from other parts of Europe, China, America and Latin America. Curated by Reiner Opoku, the third year of this wonderful festival entitled St Moritz Art Masters or SAM was definitely a highlight of the summer art scene. This year's theme, Lingua Franca - A Public Intervention, was curated by husband and wife duo Mr. and Mrs. Marc Hungerbuehler.













Artists

 
Aliabadi Shirin
Armleder John
Aslanian Vahakn
Baum Jacqueline & Jacob Ursula
Choi Jeong Hwa
Condo George
Diaz Alejandro
Dokoupil Georg
Espina Tomas
Ma Jennifer Wen
Martin Ferran
Marty Urs
Meese Jonathan
Morris Sarah
Netzhammer Yves
Reusse Stephan
Signer Roman
Spinatsch Jules
Stolte Fiete
Turello Amedeo
Wei Li

Galleries

 
Gallery Bischofberger
Gallery Cahn
Gallery Caratsch
Gallery Cardenas
Gallery Gmurzynska
Gallery Greve
Gallery Tschudi
Gallery Vann
Gallery von Bartha

Project Lingua Franca

 
Lingua Franca Long
Lingua Franca Short
Baum Jacqueline & Jacob Ursula
Choi Jeong Hwa
Diaz Alejandro
Espina Tomas
Ma Jennifer Wen
Martin Ferran

Art Collection

 
Julius Baer Art Collection - Video works
Maybach Foundation










La Rentree: Catching up with art in Switzerland on the way back to NYC

So after a long break from writing in this blog I'm back. It was an eventful summer, too eventful at times to stop and record all the art things that I saw.
Briefly, in Zurich, there was a great exhibition by Christina Scheublein Fine Art.  Gathering quite a roster of good artists for a group show that opened recently, I was happy to see familiar faces like Tjorg Douglas Beer from Berlin in 863km , Stefano Cagol from Italy and Dimitri Horta from Zurich in Underworld by Galerie Utopia/Forgotten Bar.





To Look Forward To: Richard Serra @ Gagosian 24th

Gagosian Gallery presents Richard Serra, again. Worth checking out this titan's new output in NYC. Wish I were there...
RICHARD SERRA
Junction, 2011
Weatherproof steel
13' 1/2" x 75' 1/2" x 49' 9 15/16" (4 x 22.9 x 15.2 m)
© Richard Serra. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo by Lorenz Kienzle



Born in 1938, Richard Serra is one of the most significant artists of his generation. His groundbreaking bodies of work in both sculpture and drawing have been celebrated with major retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art ("Richard Serra Sculpture Forty Years," 2007 and "Richard Serra/Sculpture," 1986) and the current "Richard Serra Drawings: A Retrospective" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will travel this year to SFMOMA and the Menil Collection in Houston. He has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban and landscape settings spanning the globe, from Iceland to New Zealand. In addition to his 2008 MONUMENTA installation Promenade at the Grand Palais in Paris, Serra conceived The Matter of Time, an eight-part permanent installation at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2005.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Pics of Christmas in the Summer: A Conceptual bi-coastal art show by Derrick B. Harden and Laura O'Reilly

Teddy Willoughby, Laura O'Reily, Derrick B Harden, Meghan Colman and Jasmine Levitt




Derrick & Laura O'Reily


Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Christmas in the Summer: A Conceptual bi-coastal art show by Derrick B. Harden and Laura O'Reilly


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


THE HOLE POP UP & CAPPELLINI PRESENT
“Christmas in the Summer”
NEW YORK TO  LOS ANGELES
A conceptual bi-coastal art show
by Derrick B.Harden & Laura O’Reilly
Featuring Paintings by Kathy Grayson

Curators Derrick B. Harden & Laura O’Reilly, the newly appointed associate directing duo of The Hole art gallery on The Bowery are set to debut the first official “Hole Pop-Up" exhibition at Cappellini in SoHo, New York August 17th and December 2011 in Los Angeles, California. In a conceptual curatorial project about the experience of art, Laura and Derrick pair Kathy Grayson (former director of Deitch Projects and owner of The Hole Gallery) with N.Levi Lewis & Frederick McSwain (Cappellini/Poltrona Frau Group) for "Christmas in the Summer," a bi-coastal art show where you can't see the art for sale. The exhibition highlights both Cappellini’s mission to explore design between imagination and reality, and The Hole’s pursuit to fill the hole in the creative downtown community. All paintings are wrapped in gift wrap and tied up with big red bows, and an audio guide made by the curators offers your only intimation at what might lie beneath. Viewers walk into the bright red showroom like an eager kid on Christmas Eve who has to wait to open their presents until the next day-- or in this case when the show is over.

“Christmas in the Summer” is an art show inside an art show, featuring Kathy Grayson’s hidden paintings of abstracted and hacked pixilated stills ripped from television clips. Harden’s choice to constrain the viewers ability to actually see the paintings is a reaction to the free proliferation of imagery both in the art world and culture in general. “Christmas in the Summer” encourages the public to reconsider the machinery of the art gallery system that processes, packages and exports imagery chiefly to an unreachable exclusive income bracket. Conversely, the exhibition features paintings that reclaim available media images to personalize and re-imagine them, but then forces collectors to purchase the work if they want to ever see what it is.

Don’t worry, you won’t be left totally in the dark. Just because you can’t see the art, doesn’t mean that you won’t see the art: the visual show of pre-gift-wrapped paintings by Ms. Grayson is accompanied by a looped 20-minute audio tour of the exhibition.  The central conundrum of the exhibition is the decision of the collector to ever make the painting and image public, thus controlling information and highlighting the luxury of privacy in our mobile media obsessed cultural moment. They may choose to never share their present with anyone.

The fun doesn't stop there: pre-order Dear Derrick & Laura O’s debut album “Christmas in the Summer” on www.xmasinthesummer.com, which of course you can’t hear! You'll just have to take their word for it.

NEW YORK: “Christmas in the Summer” August 17th- August 23rd, 2011
LOS ANGELES: “Christmas in the Summer” opens December 2011 at Cappellini
8950 Beverly Boulevard West Hollywood, CA

Press/VIP invite only opening reception Wednesday August 17th 7:00-9:00pm  
Location: Cappellini 152 Wooster St between Houston & Prince, SoHo NY
Open to the Public: Thursday August 18th-Monday August 23rd   
Hours: Weekday 11-7pm, Weekend 12-6pm  

Press Contact:  N.Levi Lewis levi.lewis@pfgna.com
Gallery Contact:  poke@theholenyc.com 212 466-1100  

TO ATTEND THE PRESS PRIVATE OPENING RSVP (AND RECEIVE SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS) EMAIL: POKE@THEHOLENYC.COM

Thursday, July 14, 2011