Category Archives: Art Fairs

AIPAD – Park Ave Armory

March 28, 2009 by ArtJetSet

AIPAD is the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, held their 29th annual photography show at the Park Ave Armory. Unlike other art fairs, photography fairs cause your eyes to shoot around like pinball… so much to see. A wide array of everything photographic, from daguerrotypes to large digital C-prints.We saw a lot of secondary market, a lot of Great American Photographers (Steichen, Weston, Arbus) and the great photographers throughout history as a part of the AIPAD program Innovation: An […]

Categories: AIPAD • Tags: Kenneth Josephson, Laura Letinsky, Robert Polidori, Stephen Bulger

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Scope Foundation – Cheap Fast and Out of Control

March 14, 2009 by ArtJetSet

The Scope Foundation is a not for profit that grew from the Scope Fair, with a mission to support emerging artists. Cheap Fast and Out of Control was a benifit space, selling artists multiples (t-shirts, photos, prints, editions) where 70% of the profits went to the artists, and 30% went to the foundation to support future projects.There was a lot going on in this space, I know well since I have been collaborating with the Scope Foundation since January.Film and […]

Categories: Ashley Higgins, Scope • Tags: ashley Higgins, Cheap Fast and Out of Control, Scope Art Fair

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Scope Art Fair New York

March 11, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Scope Art Fair New York is the FUN emerging contemporary fair. Where most of the fairs this season were quiet and modest, Scope promotes a lively dynamic program. Scope is refreshing and high energy. Scope Fair is held at the Lincoln Center, the exterior surrounded by highrises, the interior an hommage to nature and camping. The entry was crowned by the resin deer head by Carolyn Salas and Adam Parker, from there we are guided down a ramp lined with […]

Categories: Scope • Tags: EVOL, Kristen Schiele, Marc Séguin, Scope Art Fair, Yigal Ozeri

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The Armory 2009 at Chelsea Piers

March 7, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Art Fair week in New York openned to much worry and whispers about the state of the economy and the reprocussions upon the art market. Break it down…. there is the Art Dealers Association of America ADAA Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, then there is The Armory Show at the Chelsea Piers. Volta, featuring a single artist in a curated booth, is a sister fair owned by the same parent company as The Armory Show. Pulse and Scope […]

Categories: The Armory Show • Tags: Alexandra Mir, Barbara Astman, Gabi Trinkaus, Ian Wallace, James Casebere, James White, Kibong Rhee, Nicolas Hlobo, The Armory Show, Tony Matelli

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Volta NY New Stance for Tomorow: Noam Gonick + Luis Jacob

March 5, 2009 by ArtJetSet

Volta NY art fair presented an off site performative installation in Tribeca Grand Hotel’s Sanctum, Wildflowers of Manitoba by Noam Gonick + Luis Jacob. The work is presented within a furnished geodesic dome whose projected films feature four young men living off the grid in an idealistic survivalist camp on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. The loosely scripted scenes establish a naturalist idyll seemingly removed from modernity and, like wildflowers, the male subjects are intimately tied to a seductive meadow […]

Categories: Volta • Tags: Noam Gonick + Luis Jacob, Volta

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NADA Fair Miami

December 24, 2008 by ArtJetSet

NADA, the New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, was one of the most pleasurable fairs to visit. The hammocks and lush green space surrounding the tents complimented the light humoured mood of the fair. NADA is a fair which encourages and promotes New Art Dealers and emerging innovative artists. Some works I enjoyed James Bonachea’s organized randomness and Ariel Orozco’s reworking of unexpected colour at Myto Gallery, and Scott Treleaven pensive collage at Kavigupta Gallery. NADA showed a raw and youthful […]

Categories: NADA - New Art Dealers of America • Tags: Ariel Orozco, Charlie Kaufman, James Bonachea, Kavigupta Gallery, Myto Gallery, NADA, Schott Treleaven, Synecdoche

Scope Fair Miami

December 23, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Scope Art Fair the fair that was about collectivity and creation more so than just commerce.The Friendswithyou Fun House for kids, the Cafe corners.Brilliant programs which artists created works in and as a part of the fair, like Lucia Madriz EAT, and Russell Young’s screen printing performed live, grafitti artist Mr.Brainwash’s works which could be found in around and throughout the fair. The Girl Project (TGP) is a national initiative that explores the lives of American teenage girls and empowers […]

Categories: Scope • Tags: Adela Goldbard, Annie Kevans, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Lucia Madriz, Mr.Brainwash, Russell Young, Scope Art Fair

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Pulse Miami Fair

December 21, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Pulse Miami is a fair which features international galleries showing cutting edge but polished emerging young artists. I saw some great new artists, but the fair itself was much to maze-like and very difficult to navigate. I kept finding myself in the Grolsch Cafe without knowing which way was up and which way was out. A special feature was the upstairs portion Geisai Miami, Takashi Murakami’s studio of young artists presenting their works directly to the public. My favorites at […]

Categories: Pulse • Tags: Amanda Besl, Elijah Gowin, Grzeszykowska, Martin Golland, Pulse Miami Fair, Timothy Tompkins

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Art Asia

December 21, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Art Asia Fair was the first Asian fair in Miami, and was hosted along side sister fair Scope. The 44 exhibitors from 17 countries showcased the best in Asian Contemporary Art. As the Asian Art market has been growing over the past few years, Asian art was in all the satelite fairs, but nice to see a collection of pervasive Indian and South East Asian artists at Art Asia. A unique part of Art Asia was the vibrancy of the […]

Categories: Asia • Tags: Art Asia Miami

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Photo Miami

December 19, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Photo Miami was an interesting fair. Many of the other fairs included a lot of photography, and I feel there is an inherent challenge in hosting an entire photography fair, but viola quite a diversity of works and galleries. Among the halls and halls of stunning photos, I personally enjoyed the layered stiched technique of German Gomez at Fernano Pradilla Gallery, and José Ramon Amondarain at Galeriea Estiarte.

Categories: Photo Miami • Tags: German Gomez, Jose Ramon Amondarain, Photo Miami Fair

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Design Fair Miami

December 18, 2008 by ArtJetSet

The Design Fair Miami was the smallest, but most beautiful logistically. The black carpeting, clear signage and homely inviting booths made the Design Fair a sweet pleasure to attend amongst the chaos of the satalite fairs.

Categories: Design • Tags: Design Miami Fair

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Art Basel Miami Beach 2008

December 12, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Art Basel Miami Beach is the scene-and-be-seen art fair. It is considered the most important art show in the United States, as it hosts over 250 leading art galleries from around the world. Satelite art fairs have formed and clustered around the main event, creating a true marathon of must see art. Art Basel Miami hosts thematic fairs within the main fair. Art Projects in Lummus Park on Ocean Drive, outdoor installations, a bit obscure, must see was Ai Weiwei […]

Categories: Art Basel Miami Beach • Tags: Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Positions, Art Projects, Art Supernova

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Contact Toronto Photography Festival 2008

April 15, 2008 by ArtJetSet

Contact is Toronto’s annual photography festival, where galleries (both public and private), restaurants, clothing stores, shops and offices of all kinds exhibit photographs and photo works. The festival last the entire of the month of May. Between Memory and History is the theme of this 12th annual Contact Photography Festival. One of the first shows I saw was a stunning exhibition at Paul Petro by photographer Henry Vehovec. Titled Tibet: Rights and Rings, Vehovec’s works harmonize the notion of the […]

Categories: Art Fairs • Tags: Contact Toronto Photography Festival, Henry Vehovec

FIAC – Highlights

December 3, 2007 by ArtJetSet

The immense glass domed roof of the Grande Palais envelopes the stands with a warmth and increadable light that illuminates the darkest of paintings, or alternatively these fun asthetically calming pieces. Loris Cecchini, Cloudless uses plastic balls and metal wire, creates these massive organic sculptures suspended which seem to hang so naturally in the space. Nice compliment to Julian Opie’s flat landscape. Opie easily identified by his linear drawings, he represents not realism but the symbols and signs we identify […]

Categories: FIAC - Foire Internationale D'Art Contemporaine Paris • Tags: Claus Oldenburg, FIAC, Hans Op De Beeck, Julian Opie, Loris Cecchini, Nelio Sonego

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FIAC – Paris Body Politics

November 26, 2007 by ArtJetSet

FIAC, Foire International D’Art Contemporain, Every October, Paris holds its annual contemporary art fair. This year the locations were divided between Grand Palais and Cour Carree Du Louvre Aside from the usual, too much abstract art, the provocative compelling works dealt with body politic. Douglas Gordon, Portrait of You + MeBlack and White photos mounted on mirror, with strategic holes burnt in them.Douglas Gordon is most reputable for his monumental video installations, like 24 Hour Psycho (slowed down Hitchcock’s film […]

Categories: FIAC - Foire Internationale D'Art Contemporaine Paris, Venice Biennale • Tags: Douglas Gordon, FIAC, Kendell Geers, Thomas Hirschhorn, Vik Muniz

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BEST OF GIARDINI

November 26, 2007 by ArtJetSet

USAFelix Gonzalez-Torres used 700 lbs of individually wrapped licorice in an analogy to missiles and oil, pariotism and capitolism . His use of these dark multiples, manufactured goods, and strings of lightbulbs, playing with the idea of candy is a sinister melange of sweets and darkness. Did anyone else see this guy in the Padiglione Italia? He was walking a mechanical dog on a leash…. bon, bref. He also obscured my shot of Sigmar Polke stunning painting…. rather pigment on […]

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: Felix Gonzalez Torres, Giardini, Isa Genzken, Maariya Wirkkala, Sigmar Polke, Tracy Emin, Venice Biennale

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Venice Biennale – CANADA

November 26, 2007 by ArtJetSet

CANADA Lets be honest, I am Canadian and I love Canada, but the exterior of the pavillion looks like an outhouse!!David Altmejd creates a hallucinatory architectural environment mixing glass mirrors with natural elements businessman bodies with bird heads all culminating in Giant an anthropomorphic commentary on man nature and our highspeed society.

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: Canada, David Altmejd, Venice Biennale

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Russia – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Last Riot a triptych digital video created by the collective called AES+F (Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky + Evgeny Svyatsky).Using very basic computer graphics , the montaged segmented videos showing in digitized computer animation, animals birds and reptiles cut by sceens of desert with army jeeps, then vast arctic landscapes of torso-nu children fighting in slow motion with baseball bats and golf clubs. An apocalyptic view of modern society corruption and video games. Contrastly, Audrey Bartenev Lost Connection spun […]

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: AES+F, Russia, Venice Biennale

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Venezuela – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Photographer Antonio Briceno exhibition titled Gods of America. Pensive and heroic, these portraits reconsider our role in the landscape.

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: Antonio Briceno, Venezuela, Venice Biennale

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Best of African Pavillion – Venice Biennale

November 25, 2007 by ArtJetSet

Algeria’s Philippe Parreno, an empty room the ceiling filled with black helium filled speach bubble balloons. Haiti’s Mario Benjamin Sublime emotive portraits. Kendell Geers 7 Deadly Sins http://www.youtube.com/get_player MOUNIR FATMI – Save Manhattan 03 An assemblage of speakers old and new lined up in the middle of the space. The subtility is what gives this work its bulldozing effect, a massive spotlight casts from the speakers a shadow reminiscent of the Manhattan skyline. The voice of the iconic city floods […]

Categories: Venice Biennale • Tags: African Pavillion, Kendell Geers, mounir fatmi, Philippe Parreno, Venice Biennale

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