Now in its 4th year, FIGMENT opened this weekend on Governors Island with a cornucopia of art events. If like me you needed Sunday to explore yourself, fear not: the island will be populated by exciting goings-on throughout the summer.
Well worth seeking out are Patricia Esquivias' (a Venezualan Madrid-ite) almost childlike videos at Murray Guy that poke at Spanish architectural incongruities within a toy theater framework. Her vignettes, as she admitted in an artist talk, are not so much a criticism of Spain (as some have proffered) rather a celebration of cultural difference and critique of post American colonialism. She doesn't quite put the 'Grimm" back into fairy tales but you wonder around which corner it will lurk. And if so, will it be too stealthy for us to even notice.
American artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor returns to James Cohan Gallery for her third solo gallery exhibition Foreclosed. Returning to her hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada the artist clambered into properties left derelict by the economic crisis and her resulting art work would normally be seen only in Park Avenue mansions. Utilising the Renaissance craft of marquetry (intricately inlaid wood), Taylor creates a dialectic of dislocated architectural space, means of production, and the sublimity of power. Most 'boards' are wall hung like paintings but one piece clings to a corner cornice like some exquisite mold discovering life.
Photos HERE of the recent Stux Gallery opening of Barakat: The Gift. And in the small front room project space of Marianne Boesky's Chelsea gallery, cult film director John Waters has co-curated Outsider Porn: The Photographs of David Hurles concurrent with the publication of his book Role Models. Photos, and interview with co-curator Dian Hanson HERE (PLEASE NOTE there are images of a sexually explicit nature in the background). She has the enviable and possibly best job title in the world: Sexy Book Editor at Taschen.
John Waters greets friends at the opening
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