camminando & vernissages | March 3, Central Park and Upper East Side

The sun is at the meridian, seen from the Hamilton Fountain in Riverside Drive

Yesterday NYC was visited by another snowstorm, this time mixed with freezing rain. The short walk through the park was unpleasant, with snow and rain hitting my face; yet the deserted white Central Park felt almost surreal and magical. Below are a few visual memories.

Central Park Bethesda Fountain

"Richard Prince: Fashion" at Nahmad Contemporary

Tatiana Trouvé "Studies for Desire Lines" at Gagosian (Park & 75 Street)

Another view of the white ocean on the way back to the Upper West Side

camminando & vernissage | In The Studio and Out in the Park

Even if not by choice,  I am once again enjoying snowscapes in the white ocean of the once green Central Park. The destination du jour is the vernissage of “In the Studio: Photographs”, the monumental exhibition curated by Peter Galassi  on view at Gagosian. 
The exhibition, presenting photographs, spanning over one hundred year, from the the late  to the late twentieth century is articulated in three sections."Pose and Persona" focuses on the artist as bodily presence and includes portraits by William Wegman, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Jeff Wall, Hannah Wilke, Eadward Muybridge,  Charles Ray.  “Four Studios” is abouth the studio as place or art creation; the selected studios  belonged to Constantin Brancusi, André Kertész (photographing Piet Mondrian's Paris studio), Lucas Samaras, and Josef Sudek. Finally“An Embarrassment of Images,” includes photographs by John O'Reilly, Robert Rauschenberg,  
This exhibition was particularly close to my heart, considering that I am currently modifying my living space to include a movement practice inside the icosahedron/ 

Vernissages | December in New York

Robert Mapplethorpe "Saints and Sinners" at Sean Kelly

Slater Bradley "A Point Beyond the Tree" at Sean Kelly

"American Beauty" at Susan Inglett

Yossi Milo Gallery

"Balthus: The Last Studies" at Gagosian Gallery

David Wilson "N a Hutch.,.,., UN dera Stare. cAsE" at NOVELLA

Vernissages | NYC, Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery

Serra Goes Flat

After years (decades) of flowing curves, Sculptor Richard Serra embraces a new geometry in his latest exhibit at the Gagosian gallery, West 24th Street, New York.

Vernissages | NYC, February 7

Alighiero Boetti "La Forza del Centro" at Barbara Gladstone

Jean-Michael Basquiat at Gagosian

My pick of the evening was Trevor Paglen at Metro Pictures. Paglen, commissioned by Creative Time, worked with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to produce a disc micro-etched with 100 photographs. The disc, designed to last in space for billions of years, in November 2012 was attached to a communications satellite and launched from Kazakhstan into Earth’s orbit.

Vernissages | NYC Uptown, November 1

Seventh Avenue closed at 57th Street for the infamous dangling crane of 157 W 57 residential tower

The majority, perhaps all, of the art galleries in Chelsea are closed, due to lack of power and recovering from flooding for many street level exhibition spaces. But for the uptown galleries business as usual, with very crowded openings.

Ana Tzarev "Exposed" at Ana Tzarev

Cy Twombly at Gagosian

Vernissages NYC | May 4

Wow! Quite an evening. I am sore from the 17.5km but quite satisfied from the visual memories from art, to the "super moon" views. I started my vernissage walkabout at Marian Goodman Gallery, exhibiting inspiring Giuseppe Penone's installation and drawings:

Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman

Earth continued to be the theme of the evening, with another remarkable exhibition of Anish Kapoor; the concavity of the space seems a reverted convexity of Serra's steel environments

 

 Anish Kapoor at Barbara Gladstone

On 21 Street the other major opening of the night: Richard Avedon's larger than life portraits. It is the third night in a row that Gagosian opens compelling exhibitions from the widest range of contemporary masters: Picasso on Wednesday, Lucio Fontana on Thursday//

Richard Avedon's "Murals and Portraits" @ Gagosian Gallery: 
would have ever the Chicago Seven imagined to be shown there?

On my way back I am chasing the "super moon" framed by the Manhattan street grid, I  am taking photos every four or five blocks, following the moon path while heading north-east,

 Total walk length: 17.5km