ARTNESIA: May 2012

Monday 21 May 2012

GUNTER SACHS PARTY @ SOTHEBYS LONDON

The Legend

Gunter Sachs Collection

Allen Jones and Richard Avedon's Brigitte Bardot

Lichtenstein and Allen Jones' Hatstand

lots of thirsty people...

....are these from Gunters' drinks cabinet?

a very busy bar

Huma Kabakci in front of the DJ in front of the Maos

Judi Piggot, Mariana Ziff, Irina Alekseeva and Mona Khashoggi

with Judi Piggot and Mona Khashoggi

Humababa again: Fontana's Concetto Spaziale hanging
over an elegant Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann's daybed

sitting comfortably

Its so dark in here... as how Gunter would like it!

Seeing double: the legend in front of a Swiss castle

This is for sale too!

pricetag

Thank you Sothebys for a "legendary" evening!

Love this candid clip of how the viewing was installed -

http://vimeo.com/42453187

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Monday 14 May 2012

NYC/FRIEZE: DAY SIX

Father and Son: we jumped on the subway and headed uptown to the MET

The Steins Collect!

A show not to be missed - impressive and overwhelming collection of
impressionist art by the Stein Family.

Well said Gertrude

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Keith Haring: 1978–1982 is the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Tracing the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, posters, subway drawings, and documentary photographs.

A rare Subway Drawing with the original advert still accompanying the work

You get the scale of it?

Genius

A museum cafe that serves up proper burger - only in America!

and we super sized it - *blurb*

Viola invited us to visit Patrick Jacobs studio in Brooklyn

a couple of miniature hand-made paper meadows ...

and here's how they look in the finished state!

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NYC/FRIEZE: DAY FOUR

We revisited David's studio first thing in the morning and
here's a sneak peek of works for the group show in September!

We later paid David Leiber a visit at Sperone Westerwater in Bowery,
currently showing -
AN ACCUMULATION OF INFORMATION TAKEN FROM HERE TO THERE,
a group exhibition focused on works from the late 1960s to early 1970s.

Taking its title from Lawrence Weiner’s 1970 text-based piece, the show highlights a generation of American and European artists who rejected traditional aesthetics in favour of new forms and procedures

Showing upstairs on the 3rd floor is William Wegman's
- Artists Including Me

a solo exhibition by William Wegman of recent postcard paintings that

feature imagery from secondhand souvenirs, imaginary landscapes, and art about art!

We hop over to White Column to check out this small
Ryan Sullivan painting coming up at their annual Benefit auction.
Who is going to be the lucky owner?!

With 30 minutes to spare, you headed to Chelsea to check out the
epic Fontana solo show at Gagosian

Inside Fontana's "painting"

Loris Gréaud solo show - The Unplayed Notes

at Pace gallery sends the chill down the spine...

The exhibition features a series of site-specific, multisensory installations that activate new ways of experiencing Gréaud’s on-going investigation of altered realities.

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