It was crowded today but my plans to go Friday were grounded by wind patterns.
Mary-Anne Martin always coughs up some luminous Leonora Carringtons and this time there's an ample selection of her 1940 Down Below sketches which employ, in at least two instances each: the frottage method and anthropomorphic figures with bird heads, suggesting her emotional connection to Max Ernst on the heels of their traumatic separation. Later I'm not aware of her use of frottage and her vision becomes more individualistic. Wearing masks and removing them is a recurring theme of the drawings.
Salon 94 has portraits and works on paper of Ibraham el-Salahi, on the more realist side of his production. The small scale works on paper, which portray Sudanese city life, are a highlight, but the oils here aren't as compelling to me as his more Surrealist work which I've never seen in person. Two galleries have major Joseph Cornells and Philly's Locks Gallery tops in this category. Peter Blum presents a selection of Chris Marker's series from North Korea in 1957. Altman Siegel has paintings by Liam Everett.
This blog has no scoop on when and where the Moving Pictures fair is this year nor, it seems, does any other online publication or their website. My email is listed somewhere if you have a tip.
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