vernissages, camminando, practice | NYC, June 24

The "Summer Group Exhibition" at Marian Goodman Gallery presents a cohesive mix of conceptualism and minimalism, blended in the gallery space. The works —ranging from geometry based murals of Sol Lewitt to subtle sculpture of Fred Sandback or large text wall writings of Lawrence Weiner— generated immersive spatial perceptions, where scale seemed to be the cohesive element.

:Summer Group Exhibition"

Niele Toroni

North Gallery hosted Maria Nordman’s FILMROOM EAT, 1967 – PRESENT and two Standing Pictures.  The press release also announced that "Nordman will also enact THE WHISPER in Central Park with ‘persons met by chance’, continuing a work that started several decades ago in different public spaces in cities all over the world." The work somehow reminded me of Michel de Certau "everyday practice" which is so close to my own heart —and practice. In these days of brutal attacks from my still legal husband and his lawyer, where greed overcomes any ethics and rationality, a rigorous art and movement practice has become an anchor to rationality and attempt to find meaning and beauty in urban places.

Maria Nordman’s FILMROOM EAT, 1967 – PRESENT

I ended my urban practice with a body prayer by the Hudson river waterfront while the sun was setting.

vernissages | NYC, MoMA PS1 Fall Open House and Art Party

Bob and Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty

Francesco Vezzoli Teatro Romano

Performance fron Xavier Le Roy Retrospective

Zero Tolerance

My visual recording of views from the PS1 windows

performance art | NYC, Marina Abramović "Generator" at Sean Kelly

The participatory performace was almost Zen experience awareness of prioprioception, blindfolded and with earmuffs covering sound in an anonymous, not familiar space. No recording device was allowed.

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