Monday, May 24, 2010

Cherry blossoms, International Geophysical Year, and Sue de Beer

Down the corridor from Nicole Klagsbrun, Michael Mazzeo's gallery of weird photo processes showed Yong Hee Kim's 7days - cherry blossoms as you've never seen them photographed before.
And on Sunday, Marianne Boesky artist Sue de Beer screened The Quickening and Sister followed by a Q & A (available to watch here). (organised by AKTIONSART)

While on Saturday, the second show opened at Marianne's uptown gallery: International Geophysical Year" (or I.G.Y.) - 1 July 1957 through 31 December 1958 where cycles of solar activity would reach a high point. Curated by Todd Levin, the show ties in two concurrent art events of the time: The Guggenheim Museum's Inaugural Selection on 21 October 1959, and the Museum of Modern Art's Sixteen Americans (16 December 1959). Artist Richard Lytle remarked how surprised he was that his painting (bounding off the wall with colour) worked so well in this confined domestic townhouse space. And many other works also seemed remarkably at home here too. To the point where the spatial relationship to even the skirting board appeared almost inevitable.
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