Perrotin Gallery
130 orchard street – 10002
212-8122902
newyork@perrotin.com
Chen Fei – Reunion
This exhibition marks the artist, who is a prominent figure in China’s post-1980s generation, in his first major presentation in the Americas. He is known to paint portraits and still lifes utilizing a unique visual language and perspective, mixing two different cultures, Western art within the Chinese context. The way he paints is more fantasized in which elements are from surrealism or hyperrealist compositions.
Chen Fei’s tight hyper real still lifes and his graphic surrealist figures are extremely interesting to me.
This Chinese artist Chen Fei depicts self-portraits with fantasy subject matter in a surrealist way of representation. He also mixes Western art in the Chinese context and that is a very interesting thing to learn how we can mix cultures.
Chen Fei
Chen Fei
Chen Fei
Chen Fei
Chen Fei
On another floor we saw the exhibition of Lee Bae – Promenade
I was very impressed by the pieces of burn wood in actual size and how he used charcoal to create a composition with different textures and shapes.
This Korean artist made 24 sculptures by burning pine trees for two weeks and wrapped them in elastic bands until they carbonized, describing destruction and renewal.
Lee Bae
Lee Bae
Lee Bae
Across the street we saw an exhibition of Lee’s friend, the artist Jeremy Thomas – Vital expansion at Richard Gallery
121 orchard street newyork@galerierichard.com
This artist used inflated stainless steel heated to create objects that can be an assemblage or a hard surface with a soft, scrunchy look, it seems we can squeeze this pieces.
Rachel Uffner Gallery
170 Suffolk Street , 10002 – 212-2740064
Joanne Greenbaum
I’m Doing My Face In Magic Marker
We went to this first gallery that had just expanded in the lower east side and I found the room with colorful glasses felt very harmonious for me. The group had been to her studio previously and saw how she prepared the glass mixing paint, cooking it afterwards to achieve that fine layer of a mix between paint and glass.
Greenbaum presented a series of new paintings and works in kiln-formed glass achieving different uses for materials, media and surfaces.
The exhibition of Joanne Greenbaum is more appealing for me because I like the way she used glass and how she treated paintings with a collage mix with sculpture using glass. The paintings weren’t so interesting
Joanne Greenbaum- glass
Joanne Greenbaum- glass
Joanne Greenbaum- glass
Joanne Greenbaum- paint
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
54 ludlow street 10002- www.klausgallery.com
Holly Coulis- counter space
This artist made sculptures very colorful and with open spaces that can be seen from different angles and also paintings, but I prefer much more the sculptures.
The
New Museum (Located in the LES) 235 Bowery
New
York, NY 10002
The retrospective of Hans Haacke at the New Museum was a very exciting exhibition where I learned more about this 83 years old German artist that had another exhibition canceled. He produces a type of art that is seen in kinetic works, and environmental sculptures, his retrospective is from the late 1960s and early ’70s up until present day.
His more recent works consider the intersection of global capitalism, nationalism, and humanitarian crises around the world.
He received distinct political commentary. One New York Times article referred to Haacke in a way that painted him as the grandfather to activism artworks like “Triple Chaser” from this year’s Whitney Biennial.
His has a reputation as a sort of ‘loose cannon’ within the art world.
The “Gift Horse,” has an amazing craft, but also has long history that has traveled with the statue from London to the United States.
It seems that many of his works are physical manifestations of ideas, conceptual creations that emulate thoughts through three dimensional construction. His kinetic sculptures were very impressive.
