February | 2009 | Art.Jet.Set

Jacob Kassay at Eleven Rivington

February 28, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Jacob Kassay is an innovative young artist. Kassay’s first solo show on view at Eleven Rivington, his paintings are paint on canvas that are plated in silver. The technique of the underpainting creates an textured dynamic surface. The painterly graphic quality of the brushstroks are seen quite deliberatly. Tragically the paintings do not photograph well, and unlike this image, these paintings do NOT look like mirrors. I was most attracted by the quality and subtly the dipping technique would slightly […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Eleven Rivington, Jacob Kassay

Lisa Kirk at Invisible Exports

February 23, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Housing in New York for only $199.99! Not a recession special, it’s an art installation by Lisa Kirk!! The real estate bubble burst, global markets are crashing down around us, Lisa Kirk’s Maison des Cartes offers buyers a way to invest in housing and in art at the same time… for the Low Low price of only $199.99! Lisa Kirk’s exhibition is an environmental installation of two real spaces created within the Lower East Side gallery Invisible Exports. In the […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side • Tags: Invisible Exports, Lisa Kirk

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Dror Studios and Dov Talpaz for Yigal Azrouel Men

February 20, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Dror Studios and Dov Talpaz for Yigal Azrouel Men Collection F/W 2009 Dror Studio created □2 , a structural system of four identical L-shaped pieces requiring no fasteners. These panels, at first frame the catwalk, are the □2 that pop into dimension and become the constructed wall. The mural is painted by Dov Talpaz, his prints are also incorporated into Yigal Azrouel garment design. Not just a metaphor, the harmony of the 3dimentional creating a solid, strong, and unity, is […]

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Skulls… Still All The Rage!!

February 16, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Skulls…. still all the rage! We’ve seen them in bone, diamond encrusted, and now duct tape! On view at D’Amelio Terras Gallery

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Sigumoto at Gagosian

February 16, 2009 by ArtJetSet

At Gagosian Gallery, “7 Days / 7 Nights,” an exhibition of fourteen photographs from the Seascapes series by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Where sea and sky merge, Sugimoto created this series where the horizon blurs and then gradually sharpens in each successive photo. One room is white and brightly lit, the other is black and each photo illumated by a spot light.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Gagosian New York, Hiroshi Sugimoto

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Thomas Hirschorn

February 15, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Thomas Hirschorn is a conceptual artist who builds familiar yet disjuncted spaces, with a lot of brown packing tape and plywood. Universal Gym at Gladstone Gallery featuring makeshift gym equipment, tvs showing pulse rates and biological rhythms, and the usual mannequins in vitrines. Much more relatable than the last show of Hirschorn at Galerie Chantal Crousel called Concretion Re, some kind of narration on the body, manipulation and mutilation, disease, and torture. Concretion Re involved heavy amount of photos of […]

Categories: Paris • Tags: Galerie Chantal Crousel, Gladstone Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn

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On Kawara One Million Years

February 11, 2009 by ArtJetSet

On Kawara’s One Million Years is a project in process at David Zwirner Gallery. The project is about time, and years, the time it takes to narrate every year from One millions years ago until one million years from now. A man and a woman sit in the booth, each couple for a 2 hour period. They read the date… 3756BC…. or three thousand seven hundred fifty six bee cee, 3757 BC…. three thousand seven hundred fifty seven beeecee. Chatting […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: On Kawara, One Million Years

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Fashion Photography and the Defunct Gallery Space

February 8, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Chadwick Tyler and Paul Rowland are editorial photographers bringing their glam fashion photographs out of the magazines and temporarily taking over bankrupt gallery spaces to host crossover exhibitions. Walking down 11th Ave at West 21st St there is a white wall with a cutout entry… SUPRISE, yes Alice in Wondeland… it is a narrow doorway to the HoneySpace.Tiberius is Chadwich Tyler’s exhibition. He said the title is a word he likes, because it could be a place, a clan, a […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Chadwick Tyler, HoneySpace, Paul Rowland

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Yves Saint Laurent SALES SALES and PUBLICITY

February 6, 2009 by ArtJetSet

On Feb. 23, auction house Christie’s International will begin a three-day sale of up to $425 million worth of art collected by the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, industrialist Pierre Bergé. The sale of nearly 700 artworks — from Roman antiquities to paintings by Mondrian and Picasso — will feature a celebrity-studded red carpet, $400 souvenir catalogs and a 44,291 square-foot salesroom built into the Grand Palais, Paris’s glass-domed exposition hall near the Champs-Elysées. Concurrently, YSL […]

Categories: Auction • Tags: Christie’s, Yves Saint Laurent

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Marlene Dumas at the MoMA

February 3, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The Museum of Modern Art presents Measuring Your Own Grave, a retrospective of South African painter Marlene Dumas. The dark expressive paintings present intimacy in a raw crude way. From the diversity of people, races, expressions, and faces comes naked bent over figures, massive over sized babies, and highlights of colour dotted throughout a predominantly dark show. Dumas is asking questions of gender, identity, race, religion, and sexuality. The viewer is challenged, as indicated by the title, how deeply do […]

Categories: New York • Tags: Marlene Dumas, MoMA

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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Jacob Kassay at Eleven Rivington

Lisa Kirk at Invisible Exports

Dror Studios and Dov Talpaz for Yigal Azrouel Men

Skulls… Still All The Rage!!

Sigumoto at Gagosian

Thomas Hirschorn

On Kawara One Million Years

Fashion Photography and the Defunct Gallery Space

Yves Saint Laurent SALES SALES and PUBLICITY

Marlene Dumas at the MoMA