Fairs | NYC: TEFAF @ Park Avenue Armory

TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair) open its Fall edition on November first at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. TEFAF started in 1988 and includes fine and decorative arts, antiques, and design. The landmark building from 1880 offers a spectacular background for the exhibitor. 
The fair also hosts a cultural program: perhaps the most interesting of this edition was the screening of "Decoding Da Vinci" about Leonardo's painting.

Film screening at the Cultural Program: premiere of "Decoding Da Vinci"

Art Fairs | Snapshots from Frieze: Objects Over Process?

My first impressions, from strolling in the  225,000 sf prefabricated tent structure of the Frieze Art Fair, can be summarized in the great presence of objects, overcoming conceptual and process-based art.  In the past two decades a reflective process has been part of artmaking, in the effort of bringing meaning to expressions often borrowed from the daily life.
At Frieze objects comes in many shapes, materials and sizes: from paintings and other traditioal media to industrial object, furniture pieces and designed environment.

A recurrent thought comes to my mind: art as commodity and/or commodity as art?

Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo: Julio Plaza

Paul Ramirez Jonas "Public Trust"

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Parra & Romero, Madrid

Jaume Plensa's sculpture for Maison Ruinart

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York & Rome

Instituto De Vision, Bogotá

Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery

 

Special Project: Fabio Mauri "Luna" (1968) presented by galleria La Tartaruga, Rome "Teatro delle Mostre"

Fairs | Frieze New York at Randall's Island

Randall's hosted the 2016 New York edition of the London born international art fair for the third time.