Art Fairs | NYC, Armory Week: Moving Images in Chelsea

Several Armory related fairs take place in the capital of (mainly) commercial art: Chelsea. Interestingly enough the art fair located in Chelsea are not the most "commercial".


Moving Image is located in the the Waterfront Tunnel event space between 27th and 28th Streets with an entrance on 11th Avenue in Chelsea. The location is another glorious space filled of memories from my clubbing days ---it hosted the famous homonym club The Tunnel.
Moving Image presented a selection from international commercial galleries and non-profit institutions. Although mainly comprising single-channel videos the fair also included large video installations.





Another "moving image" presentation happened at the SVA theather, on 333 West 23rd Street, in the movie theater once known as Clearview Chelsea West Cinema.
Artprojx Cinema, a collaborative venture with The Armory Show and VOLTA NY, presents a screening program of over 80 artists’ films and videos from over 40 galleries. Artprojx is curated by David Gryn.

Vernissages NYC | Chelsea, March 4

Facing East at Sundaram Tagore

Michael Eastman "Havana 2010" at Barry Friedman

Art Fairs | NYC, Armory Week: Volta

Geometry, Technology, Video and Interactive Installations @ Volta

After experiencing the Armory Show at Pier 94 visiting Volta and Pulse have provided a very refreshing experience.
Both fair ---although the indisputable focus on selling art, synonymous with fair--- still preserve art as practice and engaged the visitor in an aesthetic presentation/discourse.
Volta presented more innovative and technology based works. I liked the coherence of the presentations; even the homogeneously designed fliers show the galleries effort to engage with the fair attendants, not only with the art collectors.
Besides the widespread single video and multi-channel video installations ---present in almost all the fairs of the Armory week--- Volta presented artworks dealing more specifically with technologically inspired works.

My favorite was Joyce Hinterding's science and form based works presented by the Breenspace gallery in Sydney. Probably for the several affinities with my work..


The mathematical work by Joohyun Kim, dealing with quasi-crystals and other geometrical interesting shapes was realized in many different media, presented by Gallery Simon based in Seoul.


Fun to watch the video "divers" and "swimming pools" by Christina Benz presented by the Cynthia Corbett Gallery (London).

Paper sculpture by Jill Sylvia, Magrorocca (Milan)

Interactive installations by Daniel Rozin, Bitforms Gallery, New York

Lobby installation by Michael Decker

Many more images to post and very little time...so I am concluding with Laurina Paperina quotina Marina ---names rhyming not to be missed!

for more information visit the Volta NY site

Art Fairs | NYC, Armory Week: Pulse

After experiencing the Armory Show at Pier 94 visiting Volta and Pulse has been a very refreshing experience.
Both fair ---although the indisputable focus on selling art, synonymous with fair--- still preserved art as practice and engaged the visitor in an aesthetic presentation/discourse.
My picks at Pulse were mainly installation based works or non-art material sculpture. A few images below...I will post more later.

Art Fairs | NYC, Armory Week: The Armory Show , Pier 94

What Happens to Art in an Art Fair?
to be continued....

Here are my first (mainly) visual impressions walking through one of the main international art commercial venues. It is interesting how art based on objects are presented, in a space which has no resemblance with "an art container."
It feels like that dealers, collectors, "vip" lounges, security guards, markets (mainly secondary), gallerinas, dominate the scene. And this is not something completely new, largely present in the Chelsea galleries "art" scenes, but perceived at the extremely large urban scale of the Pier 94, makes a special impression. And the lighting?!?!?
Installations and video and process bases art are still present. A few pleasant exceptions, mainly from European Galleries ---which I will post later....

Art Fairs | NYC, Armory Week: SCOPE

The most anticipated week in NYC for commercial art has arrived: the Armory week with the several connected art fairs.

Scope was characterized by a large presence of single channel video, video installations as well as non-traditional sculptures, including steel wire meshes and on-glass gellage.

camminando | More Winter Images, from Snowscapes to Sunset on the Frozen Hudson River

Photographs and text are excerpts from the conceptual multimedia project

“Axes Mundi: Perceptions and Understanding of Places as Intersections of Space, Time and Culture"

Events | Images and Sounds: Catskill, February 26

Main Street of Catskill is not too far from one of the sacred sites of the Hudson River School of Paintings: the residence of Thomas Cole. Last Saturday it felts like the energy of one of the greatest movements of American History of Art never left the small town on the west side of the Hudson.

The "New Masters on Main Street" exhibition presented works from ten contemporary from students and recent alumni of studio art programs across the country. Several art venues on Main Street exhibited works in different media and scale, from found object sculpture to video installation and more traditional representational paintings and photography.

From images to sounds: the other major event of the evening was the launch party for the community radio station, WGXC-FM, which broadcasts on 90.7 FM. Besides the discussion of important local issues the radio broadcast also news from the major alternative media Democracy Now "airing on over 900 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the United States."