I liked Spring/ Break this year and it was very sparsely attended Saturday morning in contrast to the nonstop mob scene at fairs like Armory. If you do make it out there tomorrow you can choose to use the half price coupon code HYPER502022. The highlight for me was a room of canvases and works on paper by the German artist Juliane Hundertmark, which I'm told were inspired from the drums of war in Europe though I was unable to extract with more specificity Hundertmark's take on the Ukraine war from the curator. But in the tradition of Grosz with touches of Dix, Beckmann, and Ensor, she focuses on the class relations of the war, pertinent to both Europe and the US.
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| Red Cake, 2022, 135 x 150 cm, oil and collage on canvas |
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| Cake, 2022, 135 x 150 cm, oil and collage on canvas |
I tend to repeat the blog line that Armory was "must see" in 1913 and this year, well.. A lot of global galleries made the trip to NYC at this stage of the pandemic to detain your interest for a few hours. Without question and somewhat predictably the highlight for me was the Luisa Rabbia outside the Blum booth..
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| Luisa Rabbia, Tree of Life, 2021-2022, oil on linen, 213 x 121 cm |
Also enjoyed Terence Koh's pandemic inspired works on paper at the Edlin booth, two of which depict bursts of luminosity such as this one that incorporates a mirror..
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| Untitled, 2021, Graphite, colored pencil, charcoal and mirror on burnt paper |
Of gallery shows I was rushing through Chelsea on the way to Armory. Piri' Miri Muli' readers can surmise my return there next week is preordained because Tàpies is opening at Pace, which means that if the elevator doesn't work at Hauser as it didn't yesterday I'm not going to walk up the five flights to see the Christina Quarles show. Enthusiasts of Baselitz will encounter woodcuts and drypoints from the Eighties at 531 w 24th, enthusiasts of Martínez Celaya will find oils of 2022 at 515 w 22nd.
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