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I feel as though I have lived a lifetime in the past few days. I managed to stretch myself to every corner of New York City and see so much.
Upon arriving I basically parachuted off the plane and landed in the Lower East Side to see Matt Connor’s show at CANADA. The show was a huge success and filled with masterpiece’s.
Then it was to Lisa Cooley gallery to see another master; Michael Bauer. Lisa even saved our life in the fair by helping us acquire what we needed most, not a painting but a coffee. The queues were so long she rescued us with exhibitor coffee from the exhibitor tent, no cappuccino’s for those guys!
Enough time to drop into Laurel Gitlen to see the wonderful work of Corin Hewitt.
Anicka Yi’s show ‘Divorce’ at 47 Canal included this washing machine door leading into a dark, scented and cavernous void.
Talking of divorce, in posh Chelsea there were some rather serious works on show at David Zwirner. Jill and I spotted this canny little Richard Prince.
Then further along the gallery in front of a Barbara Kruger were kids in training. Not sure if it was just art for art’s sake?!
The New Museum was full of wonderment including Hannah Sawtell’s ‘Accumulator,’ Camille Henrot’s ‘The Restless Earth’ and Ragnar Kjartansson’s ‘Me, My Mother, My Father and I.’
Ragnar’s work was incredibly ambitious. The orchestrated performance piece ‘Take Me Here By The Dishwasher,’ with ten musicians playing a live composition was enchanting. It is based on Ragnar’s parents apparently conceiving him the night they starred in a pornographic film which included a sex scene on the kitchen floor.
The Whitney Biennial was also incredibly ambitious. Three curators were given the platform to create three completely separate shows instead of the usual collaboration. Stuart Comer from MoMA, Anthony Elms from ICA, Philadelphia and Michelle Grabner, chair of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I loved the works individually but did not have enough time to really make sense of the individual curating methodologies. Loved this incredible work by Ricky Swallow, he truly is an established artist now.
There were so many works I could write about but I’ll finish with this new discovery, Ei Arakawa’s ‘Hawaiian presence.’
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