While the sunlight hours get shorter as we approach the fall equinox, important exhibitions open all over town. After gazing the last daily sun rays in my walk through Central Park I arrived at Hauser & Wirth, where "A Visual Essay on Gutai", featuring works in several media, opened. Yoko Ono's visit seemed to animate the gallery
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| Yoko Ono visiting "A Visual Essay on Gutai" at Hauser & Wirth |
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| Sunset sky from skyline viewing from Madison Avenue |
My meandering continued toward midtown, to the Austrian Cultural Forum featuring several site specific installations on the theme "Against the Specialist: Contemporary References to Arnold Schoenberg in Image and Sound" The quite specific title says it all...Thought provoking and eye catching, I believe the best exhibition I have ever witnessed at ACF.
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| "Against the Specialist: Contemporary References to Arnold Schoenberg in Image and Sound"at the ACF |
Divergent narratives and media were also present in another remarkable exhibition which opened in the same night: Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman Gallery. The exhibition featured S
trip Paintings, 2012 and a thesculpture,
6 Standing Glass Panels 2002/2011. The large scale digital
Strips Painting are based on a rigorous generative system, where "complex system of rules for a new game of
chance which imposes on the painting an extreme vertical fracturing of
the space... As his plan
develops a life of its own, it generates a process of mirroring,
repetition and multiplication of ever more reduced sections, until
finally a display of more than 4000 patterns are formed, as if the
digital process had now assumed the role of sorcerer."
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| Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman Gallery |
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| Walk length: 7km |
