Week 10 — anna nicanorova

This week is Art Fair Week in New York - the delight of art lovers and exceeding stress for gallery workers and art handlers. Gallerists, artists and art appreciators put on their best, predominantly black ensembles and run around New York City’s Piers and exhibition spaces. Your truly spend 4 hours roaming the floors of the Armory show on the opening night. In my opinion, the encapsulating theme was around utilization of complex materials. Here are my favorite discoveries:

Gabriel de La Mora - made really cool black and white collages out of turkey feathers. Not sure what it means, but looks really good.
Monir Farmandarmaian - I am a huge fan of Op Art, especially when it’s made out of mirrors. It was also delightful to discover a female Iranian artist.
David Shringley - renowned for his satirical comments on everyday situations and human interactions, presented a funny collection called “A cabinet of curiosities”. I especially loved that pieces were small and required me to slow down my tour of fair and pay attention.
David Reimondo -Etimografia is a macro-project embracing much of his latest research into ‘language’. The artist has created a synthesis sui generis (featuring ideograms, pictograms and glyphs among other elements) and produced new ‘graphemes’ and new ‘phonemes’.
Carlos Cruz Diez - his work focuses on the kinetic energy of color - very vibrant
Kate MCcGwire - sculptor who specializes in the medium of feathers. Her work experiments with the binary notions of beauty and disgust, malice and tranquillity, and the familiar yet otherworldly. Her use of pigeon feathers takes a waste product of the ‘rats with wings’ and elevates them to the status of art. By re-framing the object, placing it out of context, it generates a kind of ‘field of attraction’ around it, the viewer is left both seduced and alienated, relishing the spectacle but at the same time aware of something disquieting, something ‘other’ Kate MccGwire - 30 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy
Tezi Gabunia “ Breaking news : the flooding of Louvre” - the artist used a method of “falsification” in order to address the issue of fake news. The video shows the flooding of the museum, which I was watching in horror how the water was approaching masterpieces vy Rubens. Yet this has never happened and the piece was produced through a simulation inside a mini constructed . Watch it here: Tezi Gabunia’s Breaking News: The Flooding Of The Louvre - IGNANT

This is the painting by Abu Bakarr Mansaray, discovered during MOMA Armory Party. His works are studies consist of detailed calculations, sketches and diagrams of strange futuristic and imaginary machines.

“ “I like doing strange, complicated drawings and designing intricate machines inspired by scientific ideas that are at times beyond the human imagination (for example, the machines I designed called Hell Extinguisher and Nuclear Telephone Discovered in Hell). . . . I want people to feel the power of creation.” ”

— Abu Bakarr Mansaray

One of Salvador Dalí’s illustrations for the essays of Montaigne

Completely opposite to Armory Show (less stuffy and more experimental) was Spring Break. It was the 9th year of the fair. Every year the art fair has a and the theme was “In Excess”. The works were hallucinatory and obsessive.

Jonathan Monaghan “Our Bright Future” - the artists turns consumer access into apocalyptic omen: Amazon Alexas rile like monoliths and four horsemen adorned on contemporary luxurious gear. Beautiful execution of important subject.
Miriam Carothers) made me laugh by inserting Linus Torvalds and Paul Erdos quotes onto drawings of vintage perfume ads
Chambliss Giobbi had some incredible crayons imitations of world famous works, as well as infinity sign made out of toy cars.
Stuart Lantry created some cool “mechanical robots as art project”. My friend was unimpressed, but I found the simplicity beautiful
I’ve seen Jessica Lichtenstein’s work multiple times across various galleries. Untitled space defintely did a great display of printing her works as wallpaper and mixing it with acrilyc work. I think we will see more of these types of work moving forward.
Technophilia by faith Holland has some interesting thoughts. (Inspiration for example using cables in the abstract art.
Iva Kinnaird had some really cool paintings of sofas

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inclusionists versus deletionists

The inclusionist versus deletionist debate [within Wikipedia] is as firm and strong as the abortion debate, gun control debate, or the death penalty debate. Inclusionism says, Wikipedia, because it is a virtual encyclopedia, is capable of carrying the sum of human knowledge and hence we should add as many topics, categories and taxonomies. T he deletionists take the attitude [that] Wikipedia is not a junkyard.

“*Deletionism* is a term used to describe the idea that removal of material is a productive mode of editing, and that doing such regularly, primarily, or solely, rather than adding material, is sufficient to call oneself an editor. The main claim is that the wiki mode of editing is ‘ too quick ,’ and that there are too many of them (contributors, of some nominal spectrum of skill), and that culling is therefore an art.”

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