Art Week was fun. I went to all the fairs within the first two days and then just came back to a couple. Well, yeah yeah yeah, just to get out of the way, there are parties. Went to some events, nothing special. Really partied one night - Thursday. A bunch of things, ended up at Soho Beach house (cool place btw, never went before) , then 11, then some other very cool party. Happy to be surrounded by two of my friends that I love. I party ones, but give it a hundred percent.
Every time I go to a fair as big as this I discover one thing - I don’t know my taste. I always end up falling in love with something I never thought was even my ‘cup of tea’
Here I would like to share some great pieces I am crazy about. All from Art Basel (main fair)
Urs Fischer
Limbo, 2019
This is me staring at this photo collage. I think I could do it for hours. My vibe for sure - dreamy trippy. And the pears and mushrooms look delicious.. After a few few seconds of looking at the picture you notice a woman’s face behind the shrooms. I suppose this was an easy sale.
Lucio Fontana
Concetto Spanziale, Atesse, 1964
Water Based Paint on canvas
Magnificent. Just canvas, but looks almost like it’s a clay sculpture/ fresco. And so light at the same time. Love it
Carrol Dunham
Monotype in Watercolor and Pencil, 2016
Well, I love him. I featured him before and he is an absolute talent without a doubt. Here I would just like to quote him: ‘Painting is a relatively recently manifestation of humanity's ancient effort to understand and exploit pictorial space generally understood to consist of sheets of colored paste spread manually across primarily rectilinear planar supports embodying illusionistic or quasi-narrative properties although each of the previous characteristics have been challenged and contradicted to great theoretical and expressive effect without the loss of basic categorical integrity testimony to paintings nature as both bounded and infinite and its ability to absorb apparently conflicting attitudes on the part of its creators. Painting operates at the nexus of intersubjective experience and consensual reality relying on both for its subject matter while remaining stubbornly self-referential, and its content extends into the areas we call psychological social, material (in both the philosophical and economic senses of the word) and—for the lack of a better term—spiritual giving it unusual utility as a tool for studying the evolution of the self of socio-cultural systems and of the complex reciprocities between the two, strikingly manifest within the apparent disconnect within paintings dual nature as a repository of capital and a facilitator of profound contemplation, a perfect storm of the crass, the sacred and the intimately personal.’
Chloe Chiasson Falling on Deaf Ears,
Acrylic,Oil,Charcoal,Glitter and Archival Print on Canvas
2019
This painting is by a new talent at New York Academy of Art. It is fantastic. Great technique, and this mixed media gave it so so much depth and surrealism. You can almost hear the whisper. Loved everything about it.