camminando & vernissages | NYC February 21

Tenth Avenue & 34 Street

 "Gimme More: Is Augmented the New Reality Medium?" at Eyebeam

Miroslaw Balka "The Order of Things" at Barbara Gladstone

Jim Dine at Pace Gallery

Walk length: 10km, burnt 531 calories

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 | Reconstructing Deconstructed Dwelling NYC, September 13

Dwelling —or recreation of dwelling in a "hyper-reality" fashion— was the theme du jour of the Chelsea vernissages of September 13. Which leaves totally uninspired and wondering about the meaning of these extremely expensive installations. With the exception of the somehow pleasing patterns from Andrea Zittel's carpets.

Andrea Zittel's rug pattern at Andrea Rosen

Jonah Freeman JustinLowe "Stray Light Grey"at Marlborough Gallery

Thomas Hirschhorn "Concordia Concordia" at Barbara Gladstone: a recreation of the interior of the shipwreck of the sunk cruise ship "Costa Concordia" from the January 13 2012 disaster

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

Vernissages | NYC, January 12

 Shirin Neshat at Gladstone Gallery

 Paula Sher "Maps" at Bryce Wolkowitz

Thomas Scheibitz at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

HoodWincked at Nyehaus 

And of course, Damien Hirst "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011" the exhibition vernissages took place at  all of Gagosian Gallery's eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong. As usual, no photos allowed!

My Evening Walkabouts