camminando | NYC Post Blizzard

Central Park, Oak Bridge

Life return almost to normal on Sunday, after the second biggest snowstorm recorded in New York City. Snow accumulation reached 63 cm in Central Park, only a few millimeters shy off the 63.8cm recorded in 2006.
It was sunny and cold, yet the snow was already turning into slush.

Central Park

Central Park West

Hamilton Fountain, Riverside Park

Broadway at 77 Street

camminando | NYC 2016 snowscapes

Winter storm Jonas, the first massive 2016 snowstorm, has arrived to NYC. Impressive record numbers, with blizzard warning 28 inches accumulation at JFK airport. Travel ban has been issued since 2:30 pm this afternoon, no subway or buses.
Below are my first snowscape impressions from a stroll in Central this afternoon at about 3pm.

Broadway at 72nd Street, Verdi Statue covered by snow

Central Park views

Central Park West at 77th Street, looking south

camminando & vernissage | A White Equinox Night in New York

Urban snowscape: Broadway, at 71st Street

The March equinox 2015, which is also the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, is greeted by snow in New York, as the latest of the multitude of snowstorms hitting the Northeast extends to springtime. White is color du jour, overpowering the darkness of the night with the snow-laced trees of the New York urban grid streetscapes.

White is also the dominant color of "Cyclicscape", Mariko Mori exhibition which opened at Sean Kelly, in this snow dominated evening. The opening also included a performance in collaboration with composer Ken Ikeda. Excerpts from the press release state the intent of the work:

Cyclicscape will present ten new sculptures exploring Mori’s interest in Möbius forms and the endless universe of new physics theory. Variously called “ekpyrotic” or “cyclic” cosmology, this theory posits that the universe did not begin from one singular “Big Bang” but that our cosmos is filled with continuously repeating cycles of evolution, including possible parallel universes and an ever-expanding formation of new galaxies and planets.
     In Cyclicscape, Mori’s sculptural works play with the infinite loop of the Möbius strip as a visualization of our universe’s never-ending renewal of invisible energy. Futuristic and ethereal, the large-scale aluminum and stainless steel works seem to transcend their physical matter. With no beginning, middle, or end, the forms symbolize an eternal cycle of existence — of nature and the universe in perpetual motion.
    Inspired by nature’s invisible energy, the eight computer-generated photo-paintings in the exhibition are based on drawings Mori made in front of the ocean on Okinawa Island. Focused on a microscopic cosmos we can only imagine, Mori’s swirling particles and rotating atoms seem to radiate a phenomenal light and electricity. From the primal particle to the multiverse, Cyclicscape deepens Mori’s ongoing investigation into the interconnectedness of all things and a belief in a fundamental symbiosis between art and technology.

Mariko Mori

Sculptural explorations of the Möbius strip, in aluminum and fiberglass

Computer generated photo paintings

Images from the performance, with composer Ken Ikeda at the synthesizer

Walk Length: 7.25 km

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 & vernissages | Chelsea, February 28

Another painfully cold temperature leads my walk from views of the sun setting over the frozen Hudson river to a vibrant art openings night.

Views of the sun setting behind New Jersey skyline, with a frozen Hudson river in the foreground

Alejandro Cesarco "Loyalties and Betrayals" at Murray Guy

Jonathas de Andrade at Alexander and Bonin

"System and Vision" at David Zwirner

"Future Seasons Past" curated by Manuel E. Gonzalez at Lehmann Maupin

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/