The inaugural New York Gallery Week (NYGW) 2010 includes 50 solo gallery exhibitions and associated events throughout the city. And if you've been horologically challenged because they've never been open Sunday and Monday now is your chance this weekend. This afternoon there's a catalogue signing by the photographer Thomas Struth at Marian Goodman. His new work, according to the final line of the press release is "a visual record of the unfathomable". Which is exactly what strikes you traversing the walls of physics institutes, pharmaceutical plants "and other edifices of technological production". The mystery lies here in the density of these objects. Unlike Bernd and Hilla Becher's photos of industrial relics, Struth captures a quietly dangerous world betwixt the dead, the divine and the delirious.
Gallery Week opened last night with Hauser & Wirth's first US exhibition devoted exclusively to the drawings of artist Roni Horn. Artistic celebs including Björk, Matthew Barney and Rachel Weisz pondered over Roni Horn's strange patternations. And in many ways one felt a sense of Gaia about the work - a monadic dialectic between an inner volatility and inner peace. An earth seen from far above or microscopically through plankton beneath.
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