Gallery Thomas Schulte of Berlin had some nice work by Allan McCullom. these very nice hand-turned objects were done in ash wood, A continuation of his Shapes Project. I was drawn to them both because of the wood and because they rather have a similarity to some of the shapes I play with, basically metazoan body plans. These shelves here go for a cool $108,000. The whole wall of twelve shelves can be had for $324,000. Allan had these turned on a lathe by craftsmen in Germany.
Cuban art was once again present with Cernuda Art gallery. Here is a painting by Manuel Mendive that I liked. I guess he's going for the whole alternate dimensional mechanical elves experience from the Santeria perspective.
James Turrell had not his normal stuff at Pace Galleries.
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Saw a very fun kinetic piece by Carlos Costa at LOCAL Arte Contemporáneo (Chile).
Other than that, saw some art, some good, some hideous. I engaged in painful conservation with curators and gallery owners who would have much rather been talking to rich and famous people. Got mistaken for a gay guy and was hit on. Walked around way too much, and suffered for it later. Ended up in going to bed at 9:30 in the pm. Next up SOFA Chicago in November. Still not sure if I'll go to that.
Almost forgot. They had a whole bunch of neon, pretty much all forgettable. But! Neon lighting is 105 years old. Developed by Georges Claude's company Societe l'Air Liquide in 1910, the fact that a mere 2 years prior, the world's total amount of neon could be measured in gram quantities should astound you.
ReplyDeleteNot 2 years, 8 years. But still. Industrial sized quantities through the liqufiaction of air, when the tech was confined to cutting edge laboratories prior to that is astounding.
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