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FRONT FRONT PAGE last fall by director Graham Beal Record-Breaking Attendance resulted in the folding of two depart- PAGE ments into broader categories and at ADAA Art Fair the subsequent resignations by Lodz Biennale Launches This Fall Egyptian art curator William H. ach winter in New York some of the country’s best Several galleries Peck, his wife Elsie Holmes Peck, Eart dealers get together to show off their prized featured two-person curator of Middle Eastern art, and exhibitions. Jill oland’s inaugural Lodz Biennale, scheduled including many project sketches—were donated, possessions at “The Art Show,” an exhibition hosted Penelope Slough, associate curator Newhouse showed to run Oct. 2-31, will take place at the new at the artists’ own discretion, by participants in by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). This P of Greco-Roman art. The reorgani- works on paper by 108,000-square-foot permanent home of the Construction in Process and other IAM exhibitions. year’s event, held at the Seventh Regiment Armory at zation is part of the museum’s reno- Bonnard and Vuillard; International Artists’ Museum (IAM), located in a The first Lodz Biennale is headed by director Park Avenue and 67th Street, Feb. 18-23, drew a vation and expansion, scheduled and Brent Sikkema recently converted 19th-century textile manufactur- Janusz Glowacki, an art historian and former curator for completion in 2006. record 13,000 visitors. The show’s preview, attended presented one of the ing complex. The city of approximately one million at the Museum Sztuki (Modern Art Museum). About by some 2,500, raised $900,000 to benefit the Henry Art Show’s best dis- inhabitants, chartered in 1423, has donated the half of the $510,000 budget comes from the city of Street Settlement, one of the city’s most venerable plays, pairing small facilities and will also help to sponsor a 12-day Lodz, with the remainder supplied by private social services organizations. All 70 participating deal- Russian Tycoon and medium-size preparation period (Sept. 20-Oct. 1), during which sources. Wasko, now dubbed executive director of ers reported brisk sales and enthusiastic responses to sculptures by St. Clair the roughly 90 invited artists can fulfill the biennial’s IAM, serves as official spokesman, while independent their offerings, which ranged from Rembrandt etchings Buys Fabergé Eggs Cemin with recent, signature requirement—namely that all works be curator Aneta Szylak is artistic director of the (presented by David Tunick) to recent video works by scaled-up canvases by newly created for the event, preferably on-site. “Polish Biennale” section, which will feature about Mary Lucier (on view at Lennon, Weinberg’s booth). n Apr. 20 and 21, Sotheby’s had Shahzia Sikander. The unconventional undertaking marks the culmi- 25 artists. Nine members of an international selec- planned to sell at auction one of At the Art Show entrance, visitors faced a striking Charles Burchfield, O There were some nation of a 23-year struggle by artist-organizer tion committee are each choosing seven artists. the season’s biggest treasure display by David McKee, featuring a large pink-and- Backyards in Golden troves, a group of nine jewel- black Philip Guston painting, Division (1975), flanked dazzling individual Sunlight, 1946-66, Ryszard Wasko, who conceived the artist-run IAM The panelists are Emmett Williams; New York at Kennedy. encrusted Fabergé Imperial Easter by Francis Bacon’s 1961 canvas Two Figures and pieces scattered Model of Serra’s planned installation in 1981, in the heyday of the Solidarity Freedom artists Leon Golub and Lawrence Weiner; Won-il Eggs consigned by the Forbes throughout the exhibi- for the Guggenheim Bilbao. Movement. Inviting well-known international practi- Rhee, artistic director of Media-City Seoul and chief small-scale but intense paintings by Vija Celmins and Collection. The celebrated works tion. James Goodman, for example, brought a rare tioners to Lodz under the auspices of the largely fic- curator of the Seoul Museum of Art; critic and Harvey Quaytman. Another late Guston, Dark Room were expected to fetch around $120 early Mondrian portrait, Zeeland Girl (1909-10). An tional Archives of Contemporary Thought (consist- former director of Warsaw’s Zacheta Gallery of (1978), was the centerpiece of Richard Gray’s nearby million. In early February, extraordinarily large (4 by 4 feet) Charles Burchfield ing of an apartment closet filled with documents, a Contemporary Art, Anda Rottenberg; New York booth. Guston’s work was however, auction house offi- watercolor, Backyards in Golden Sunlight (1946-66), New Serras forfor typewriter and some letterhead stationery), he critics Robert C. Morgan, Gregory Volk and Lilly echoed in the series of cials announced that the radiated from the Kennedy Galleries booth. Robert launched Construction in Process, a freewheeling Wei; and director of the Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, eggs had been sold privately drawings by Mexican-born Miller presented a 1964 Pop-art gem by Tom Bilbao residency-cum-exhibition designed to engage local Zdenka Badovinac. To date, they have selected a to Viktor Vekselberg, a artist Enrique Chagoya, Poor Wesselmann, Landscape #3,a painted-panel work workmen and the general public, that has occurred wide range of artists, such as Polly Apfelbaum, Janet prominent Russian industrial- George (After PG), 2004, n what is billed as one of the most with collaged rubber elements showing a young couple seven times at sporadic intervals in locales ranging Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Patty Chang, Cai ist. Sotheby’s brokered the shown at George Adams; Iexpensive contemporary art pro- seated in a red convertible; the piece had never before from Munich to Melbourne to the Negev Desert Jin, Tara Donovan, Mona Hatoum, Kimsooja, transaction on behalf of the the politically charged jects ever undertaken, the Gug- Forbes family, which wel- been exhibited. [see A.i.A., Mar. ’91 and Mar. ’01]. Richard Long, Mariko Mori, Shirin Neshat, Marjetica images blasting Bush poli- genheim Museum Bilbao has com- comed the deal aimed at At DC Moore’s booth, a stone carving by William missioned Richard Serra to create a Altogether, Lodz hosted Construction in Process Potrc, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Karin Sander, Nancy cies were modeled after keeping the works together Edmondson, Two Birds (1939), had a kind of wistful football-field-size installation of his three times (1981, ’90 and ’93), and it is there that Spero and Fiona Tan. Guston’s Nixon-era “Poor and returning them to Russia. charm, while Jason McCoy’s display was punctuated signature curving steel sculptures for the International Artists’ Museum was officially Visitors will find Lodz—once an extremely pros- Richard” series. While the final sale figure by a vibrant abstract painting by Cora Cohen, A its Frank Gehry-designed facility. founded in 1990, with Fluxus veteran Emmett perous, multicultural manufacturing center—rich in was not announced, experts Among other outstanding Condition of Nature (2004). A highlight of June Kelly’s The monumental works will be locat- Williams as its president. IAM’s small, improvisational historical architecture, since the city largely escaped have suggested a sum of presentations, at Marian booth was Embrace (2003), a tall wood totemlike ed in the 427-foot-long “Fish” gallery, volunteer staff—headquartered in a 6,000-square- bombing during World War II. In the 1930s, it was about $110 million. Saving Goodman’s booth, a which the architect intended to abstract sculpture by Jane Schneider; a large colorful foot building until ousted by developers in 2001— home to an important group of Polish Construc- the costs of producing a cata- haunting Juan Muñoz accommodate large-scale works. Tom Wesselmann, digital photograph of a row of books, by Victor has since organized some 100 international shows, tivists, most notably Wladyslaw Strzeminski, logue and promoting the painted-bronze figure Serra’s Snake, also a Guggenheim works with exhibitions in New York Landscape #3, 1964, Schrager, was a standout at Edwynn Houk’s booth. including an artists-and-poets banner project at the Katarzyna Kobro and Henryk Stazewski, whose about 4 feet high (cast in commission, has occupied the space and London, not to mention avoid- at Robert Miller. L.A. Louver presented since the museum’s opening in 2001 Venice Biennale, and coordinated a network of works form the core of the Museum Sztuki collec- 2003), Louisiana #1, stood ing the uncertainties of the shaky recent figurative paint- 1997, along with a rotating selection eight alternative spaces worldwide. All of the 1,500 tion. The principal galleries of cutting-edge work are before a large yellow-and- Man Ray and Marcel auction market of recent years, Duchamp, 64 in 46, 1946, ings by Rebecca of works from the permanent collec- pieces belonging to IAM—mostly works on paper, Atlas of Art and 86 Gallery. —Richard Vine white-striped painting by Daniel Buren, T11-332 (1966). Sotheby’s opted to forgo the auction at Zabriskie. Campbell, and James tion and with temporary exhibitions, and accept a 12-percent commis- Matthew Marks showed an unusually shaped untitled Graham & Sons showed among them a 1999 show of the sion for the private sale. Vekselberg 2001 pastel-on-paper tondo by Jasper Johns alongside artist’s “Torqued Ellipses.” plans to exhibit the works in Russia, Ellsworth Kelly’s large canvas Yellow/White (1961). those by Duncan As part of the new installation, Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras” from various departments. Citing although he has not yet designated At Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art’s space a pair of self- Hannah, along with Snake will be joined by seven new and “An American Legacy, A Gift to budgetary constraints brought on by a public venue.