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VOLTA NY
7 – 10 March 2013
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Art Marathon: The Centennial Armory Show Pt.2 [Slide Show]
All photos by M-KOS except where mentioned.
Art Marathon: Frieze Art Fair 2012 [Slide Show]
All photos by Marie Roux
Art Marathon: Toronto’s vibrant art scene [Updated!]
Scott McFarland’s large-scale photographic mural “Corner of the Courageous, Repatriation Ceremony for Sergant Martin Goudreault, Grenville St., Toronto, Ontario, June 9th 2010” (2012) in the courtyard of MOCCA. Photo by M-KOS
Toronto’s vibrant art scene and exuberant artist community package many artist-run spaces, a number of notable commercial galleries as well as important public and private art institutions. The annual Scotibank Contact photography festival testifies as a case study to the city’s cultural dynamism, currently showcasing over 100 artists under the theme: Public. M-KOS journeyed to Toronto for this occasion and more, featuring the Canadian metropolis within our regular Art Marathon.
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Art Marathon: Frieze New York, Part 3
Side A – David Shrigley “It’s All Going Very… (2010)” Anton Kern Gallery, NY
Barbara Kruger “Too big to Fail” (2012) at Sprüth Marger, London/Berlin.
Jeppe Hein “You Are Right Here Right Now” (2012) at Johann König, Berlin
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Art Marathon: Frieze New York, Part 2
Sophie Von Hellerman’s work at Greene Naftali (NY)’s booth.
Can’t get much sunlight there… David Maljkovic’s work at Metro Pictures, NY
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Art Marathon: Frieze New York, Part 1
As the yellow taxi boat approached Randall’s Island northwards on East River which runs between Manhattan and Queens, a long white structure makes an appearance, yet unwilling to disclose its content until landing on the seemingly deserted island. Once docked, scores of smartly clad art lovers tread off the taxi boat and into the snaky tent designed by Brooklyn based architect duo SO-IL, but not before walking through a waterside sculpture garden comprising works from James Angus, Joshua Callaghan, Louise Bourgeois, Ernesto Neto, Ryan Gander and so on.
View from the Frieze boat approaching towards Randall’s Island
Adjacent to the venue’s south entrance stands “Shoe Tree” by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel, possibly in support of Occupy movement’s protest rally underway just outside Frieze’s official $20 per vehicle parking lot. Büchel participated in the sculpture garden by placing shopping trolleys stuffed with newspapers and plastic bags behind Subodh Gupta’s bronze stature “Et tu, Duchamp?” Büchel actually bought the trolleys from homeless people for $350–500 a piece. Without any indication of artistic intent (we later found out these are entitled “1%”), Bëchel’s piece of quiet resistance will be remembered as one of the most provocative works in the fair, even before entering the main event venue. In addition to the sculpture park, other exterior Frieze projects included Ulla von Brandenburg’s colourful tent for shadow play, Joel Kyack’s carnavalesque van, themed: “Most games are lost, not won”, Uri Aran’s performance shack and many more.
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Art Marathon: PAPIER 12
Shayne Dark’s sculptures, Critical Mass welcome the audience at the entrance of the fair.
PAPIER offers a refreshing aspect to the widening proliferation of art fairs by featuring works exclusively produced on paper, from drawings to prints as well as photography. This year the PAPIER fair hosted its fifth edition on 13–15 April, setting up its showroom tent at the heart of Montreal’s cultural quarter to accommodate 38 exhibitors from Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax. Many of these were already members of AGAC (Contemporary Art Galleries Association), which organized the event. Although PAPIER started as an internally guarded affair, servicing only a small circle of local galleries, its reputation has been progressively expanding. From last year, some of the best Toronto galleries such as Birch Libralato and Susan Hobbs also joined in. In this edition over 400 emerging to established artists were represented, to attract more than 10,000 visitors with a total sale of approximately CA$700,000. The slightly higher income over last year included purchases from returning corporate collectors such as Loto-Quebec, Hydro-Quebec, Cirque du Soleil and so on.
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Art Marathon: Art Souterrain 2012
Montreal is well known for its underground city. During the long Canadian winter, people get around the city’s downtown area, from one tunnel to another, without ever going out into the frosty air. Between 25 February through 11 March Montreal’s underground city was hosting the fourth edition of Art Souterrain (Subterranean Art, in French), a contemporary art event inaugurated in 2009 by Frédéric Loury, director of Galerie [SAS]. This year Art Souterrain showcased 140 art projects, including installations, photography, video, performance and permanent public art, all under the theme of “Passagewaysâ€. Art Souterrain has been expanding the number and volume of projects every year, to now in its fourth edition it covers over seven kilometers of underpass, with invited artists from as far as Paris and Calgary. Here are some works that caught our imagination.
Mathieu Grenier “Dans le Cube Blanc (O’Doherty) / Inside the White Cube”
Nathalie Quagliotto “Maturity Bend”
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Art Marathon: The Armory Show 2012, part 2
Neon installation by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson over the bar wall is part of Focus: Nordic. Björk joined in Armory’s Nordic rendez-vous as a panel for Armory Show Open Forum with Kjartansson
Painting by Anna Bjerger at David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen.
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