saw some lovely (closing) shows in Chelsea yesterday.
Vik Muniz, Pictures of Magazines at Brent Sikkema. Hole-punched bits from magazines are reassembled as classic paintings and then photographed. Nice play of texture and volume, the large-scale reproductions brings out the moire in the magazine prints.
Do-Ho Suh, Paratrooper-I at Lehmann Maupin. Stunning. A paratrooper pulls in thousands of threads (close but not touching) extending from signatures stitched into a parachute.
Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks (thru June 27). beautiful larga scale photographs. Arena III is lovely, as are the images of cattle farms. I only wish these prints were of the dimension I saw at the Tate Modern.
Additional shows to catch soon:
- Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Soft Rains at Postmasters (thru June 12)
- Spencer Tunick, Public Works 2001-2004 at I-20 (thru June 19)
- Anish Kapoor at Barbara Gladstone Gallery (thru June 25)
- Michal Rovner, In stone at Pace Wildenstein (thru June 30)