New York Fairs in the Spotlight - Brief Article

During a single week in February, novel York City played host to the Art exhibit and the Armory Show 2000 sum of two units high-profile fine-art fairs. Participating in these circumstances were top-notch galleries and dealers from around the geographical division and abroad. This year, 70 exhibitors put up shop at the 12th annual Art display organized by O. Kelley Anderson and at handed at the 67th Street Armory by means of the Art Dealers Association of America. The Armory display 2000: The International Fair of of recent origin Art, mounted by Tom Delavan and Mark Rice at the fresh North Pavilion of the Jacob Javits Center expanded dramatically this year to include 95 dealers, up from last year's 74 In general, the uptown present to view featured blue-chip and historical material, while the downtown exhibition emphasized cutting-edge work by means of young artists.

a certain quantity of 12,600 people attended this year's Art display while just over 10,000 visited the Armory display Dealers reported brisk sales, and a certain number of sold out their booths--including Lombard-Freid in the Armory present to view which featured photographs by Deborah Mesa-Pelly and Naomi Fisher and paintings through George Shaw. Others reported selling large numbers of works by the agency of a single artist. Mary-Anne Martin at the Art exhibit for example, sold 14 glass plastic arts by Panama-based artist Isabel De Obaldia. Sperone Westwater, which devot its entire Art exhibit booth to large new paintings through Malcolm Morley, sold four of the six works upon view. Some dealers reported items purchased by the agency of museums at the Armory. Gorney Bravin + to leeward sold an Emil Lukas to the Weatherspoon Art Gallery at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, and Paul Morris sold a cluster of Tracey Moffat photos to MOMA.

A number of displays were carefully curated, scholarly exhibitions. Uptown, David Tunick not awayed the most comprehensive survey exhibition of Durer prints in novel York since a 1955 Morgan Library display Holly Solomon's booth at the one and the other fairs was devoted to Nam June Paik to coincide with his generally received Guggenheim retrospective. Among other highlights of the Art exhibit were ceramic works by George Ohr at Charles Cowle of recent origin bronze sculpture and jewelry by dint of Richard Hunt at Worthington, a powerful late Picasso drawing at Lillian Heidenberg, and a spectacular Joseph Stella canvas at Richard York.

Many of the standouts in the Armory display were at the booths of foreign dealers whose artists are underrepresent in the U Arresting works through French painter Bernard Frize appeared at Galerie nachst St Stephan (Vienna) and also at Emmanuel Perrotin (Paris). Perrotin also featured a novel robot sculpture and photographs by dint of Japanese artist Kenji Yanobe, whose striking works, it appears visit New York only at this annual fair. Hard-edge abstractions by dint of Berliner Gerwald Rockenschaub appeared at the couple Georg Kargl (Vienna) and Vera Munro (Hamburg). London galleries made a able-bodied showing, introducing numerous new artists in this land Ian Dawson's wall relief of dissolveed plastic chair seats at new Art drew lots of attention, as did Tom Claassen's big, brown vinyl Large Man statuary at Stephen Friedman. Also at Friedman was a delicate wicker statuary and photographs by the Laotian artist Vong Phaophanit, who, inexplicably, has notwithstanding to make his U.S. solo debut

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