Just as stocks and bonds are slightly skittering, contemporary craft - which are sometimes special sly made of glass, ceramic, metal, fiber and wood - are hitting a high. Simply consider the ninth annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art in New York, June 1-4, 2006, also known as SOFA, the brainchild of a former potter Mark Lyman. When the 59 dealers at the fair was closing shop last Sunday night at the Seventh Regiment armory on Park Avenue and 67th Street, they left behind them a banner sales, the new price benchmarks and some new flavor trends are surprising.
Now, it's not like the notion of "craft of the dark side" makes much sense. But SOFA look at all kinds of craft work becomes really scary edge shadows. It seems to be time, at least as far as craft artists concerned, to dress ranging from bugs and bullets to guns and drugs in, shall we say, the domestic apparel for upscale shoppers.
Check out the accessories in Ornamentum Gallery of Hudson, New York, where a collector bag order from Dutch designer Ted Noten show the replica gun wrapped in a clear acrylic body. A bag worn on the other hand, with a pearl necklace to handle, including goods rather unladylike in clear plastic cases - some (imitation) of cocaine and ice slivery. All dolled up, this example is just titled Bitch Bag. Well, this one is struck by the Arkansas collector opening night for $ 14,850, or far more than the Prada bag.
No, do not go to Alice Walton of the new Crystal Bridges museum was born in Bentonville, Ark. But both the Museum of Arts & Design and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum expressed interest in Noten's accessories. Donna Corleone his bag from a 2004 feature a glowing diamond cross, a small collection of white powder and gold bullets, and destined to go to New York collector at $ 16,200. Have not we seen all this before? Cheap drug paraphernalia to be paired with gold values of surprise. Well, yes, but usually in the vanguard of the art district.
Frankly, the Noten bags make the current "Anglomania" show at the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute, with the abundance of punk John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood togs, looking a little restraint in the contrast.
At SOFA, textiles were front and center. The Mobilia Gallery of Cambridge, Mass., is showing one of the latest fashion: Donna Rhae Marder dress, sewn of crumpled up photographs (by itself) and the paper with gold and silver thread. Sold $ 5800. "They talked to people from their childhood," said Libby Cooper, gallery director. Other Marder clothes made of tea bag wrappers stitched with gold thread is still available. "They are intended for children who have died," he said. Call this new burial clothes.
Talk about the new fashion. The crown was, especially when they come wrapped in packaging fashionista favorite - orange Hermes box. Dean Project, based at Central Park West in Manhattan, sold a number of Reinaldo Sanguino's black ceramic crowns. Packaged, they go for $ 3,000. They come customized with a photo collector wearing a crown but was shot from behind, confirms the fact that the buyer is not great in real life.
Move, the Manhattan dealer Garth Clark ceramic clay featuring the latest creations. Liat now dressed. So Adelaide Paul has made in the size of the fierce bulldog at the porcelain and then wrapped in full leather with a zipper, which Clark terms "expert tailoring." Slender claws they will be discussed in the 19th century, brass furniture legs, making them inappropriate as table decorations.
Prices for the creatures run from $ 8,000 $ 18,000, and Clark to sell three of them. What's the appeal of this creature? "Dog the interface between man and nature," Clark wrote in an email message. "It's a complex relationship and then a good choice for those surfaces lambskin gives a strange feeling as the skin, which at once entertaining and disturbing at the same time, saving them from the worst fate, to be funny."
Also selling well is Akio Takamori's Chinese-style character called pot Karako. Strangely premodern, they resemble pigtailed figure commonly found in obesity and porcelain netsuke. Each of them $ 18,000. Betty Woodman's generous vessels, which now grace the Metropolitan Museum of niches in the Hall of a retrospective tribute to him there, also found a buyer.
Further confirms the rise of contemporary animalier, Barry Friedman, Ltd., is an expert hawking canopic jars made of glass by William Morris (b. 1957). One example features hand blown money as headgear. "Canopic" is a term of art to hold the organs in jars, of course, familiar from ancient Egyptian funeral art exhibition. Morris' contemporary use of both can be regarded as an attempt to taksidermi and a visit to the morgue tradition.
Flying off the shelves Holsten Galleries of Stockbridge, Mass., is Charles Miner frog cast-glass vessels decorated. Holsten Jim Schantz said, "We are extremely pleased by strong sales of Miner's vessel forms, as this is the first time we have shown his works in New York." Miner's Ranas went to the Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton outside Boston. Once at home as part of the neat vocabulary, frogs in the hands of Miner seems to overcome the environment of their swamps and reach to the statue. Maybe that's why the price, which run up to $ 24,000, apparently does not interfere with this particular audience.
Home accents, R. Duane Reed Gallery, which is based in St. Louis and has a post Chelsea, was touting a basket of food - but in bronze. Tim Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz has made a giant basket escargots and a bucket of shells that looked like they were on steroids. No sale. But the six-foot-wide "tapestry" titled Song of September and made of hand blown glass, African beads, found objects and steel, fabrics and blown by Jenny Pohlman and Sabrino Knowles, went for $ 36,000. This is more like a necklace from the rug, and sales to underscore a sense of what might be called tribal handicrafts.
What's new in jewelry is not for the faint of heart. Gallery Lou Hurong Philadelphia jewelry featuring actual cast of the beetles, a large, by the German Georg Dobler jewelry. Sell brooch and a necklace with a silver beetle in the price of $ 5000 - $ 14,000. Nearby, Jewelers' Werk Galerie from Washington, DC, shows gold bullets by David Bielander. "They're funny but the iconography is not right for this country," said Ellen Reiben gallery. He reported that the snails to sell well in Europe. Other items of painted cardboard, stainless steel and enameled tin, hammered gold and silver jewelry casting is very popular among visitors to the stand.
Arguably the most important works in the SOFA are in booth bellas Artes / Thea Burger of Santa Fe and New York, respectively, which includes artist Olga de Amarel, Ruth Duckworth and Richard Devore. Several large de Amarael tapestry woven with gold leaf, silver leaf fiber and are sometimes sold quickly. Duckworth large murals, one of the gray-and mauve-colored ceramics, are also picked up. Three works of this artist can be found in nearly 50 museums, proving their great talent. "While the artists who fit the category of clay and fiber, they work really universal and appealing to a large number of serious collectors," said Burger.
Upping the quality level is also the London gallerist Anita Besson, who brought early clay vessels by Hans Coper and Lucie Rie. The pared-down simplicity of their work, with subtle gradations of texture, shape and palette, is an expert and appears in sharp contrast to many other offerings elsewhere in the SOFA. Somehow, those big glass ball, only slightly smaller than a soccer ball, which was spotted at the fair, do not seem interesting or even appealing esthetically. So the fourth grade! However, sensitivity seems popular these days, unfortunately.
However, actually craft made a breakthrough in traditional museums. One sign of the rising stature can be seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art appointment as curator Elisabeth Argo American counterparts crafts and decorative arts. He joined the museum in October. Will be interesting to follow her around the next installment of SOFA.
source: www.artnet.com
Now, it's not like the notion of "craft of the dark side" makes much sense. But SOFA look at all kinds of craft work becomes really scary edge shadows. It seems to be time, at least as far as craft artists concerned, to dress ranging from bugs and bullets to guns and drugs in, shall we say, the domestic apparel for upscale shoppers.
Check out the accessories in Ornamentum Gallery of Hudson, New York, where a collector bag order from Dutch designer Ted Noten show the replica gun wrapped in a clear acrylic body. A bag worn on the other hand, with a pearl necklace to handle, including goods rather unladylike in clear plastic cases - some (imitation) of cocaine and ice slivery. All dolled up, this example is just titled Bitch Bag. Well, this one is struck by the Arkansas collector opening night for $ 14,850, or far more than the Prada bag.
No, do not go to Alice Walton of the new Crystal Bridges museum was born in Bentonville, Ark. But both the Museum of Arts & Design and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum expressed interest in Noten's accessories. Donna Corleone his bag from a 2004 feature a glowing diamond cross, a small collection of white powder and gold bullets, and destined to go to New York collector at $ 16,200. Have not we seen all this before? Cheap drug paraphernalia to be paired with gold values of surprise. Well, yes, but usually in the vanguard of the art district.
Frankly, the Noten bags make the current "Anglomania" show at the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute, with the abundance of punk John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood togs, looking a little restraint in the contrast.
At SOFA, textiles were front and center. The Mobilia Gallery of Cambridge, Mass., is showing one of the latest fashion: Donna Rhae Marder dress, sewn of crumpled up photographs (by itself) and the paper with gold and silver thread. Sold $ 5800. "They talked to people from their childhood," said Libby Cooper, gallery director. Other Marder clothes made of tea bag wrappers stitched with gold thread is still available. "They are intended for children who have died," he said. Call this new burial clothes.
Talk about the new fashion. The crown was, especially when they come wrapped in packaging fashionista favorite - orange Hermes box. Dean Project, based at Central Park West in Manhattan, sold a number of Reinaldo Sanguino's black ceramic crowns. Packaged, they go for $ 3,000. They come customized with a photo collector wearing a crown but was shot from behind, confirms the fact that the buyer is not great in real life.
Move, the Manhattan dealer Garth Clark ceramic clay featuring the latest creations. Liat now dressed. So Adelaide Paul has made in the size of the fierce bulldog at the porcelain and then wrapped in full leather with a zipper, which Clark terms "expert tailoring." Slender claws they will be discussed in the 19th century, brass furniture legs, making them inappropriate as table decorations.
Prices for the creatures run from $ 8,000 $ 18,000, and Clark to sell three of them. What's the appeal of this creature? "Dog the interface between man and nature," Clark wrote in an email message. "It's a complex relationship and then a good choice for those surfaces lambskin gives a strange feeling as the skin, which at once entertaining and disturbing at the same time, saving them from the worst fate, to be funny."
Also selling well is Akio Takamori's Chinese-style character called pot Karako. Strangely premodern, they resemble pigtailed figure commonly found in obesity and porcelain netsuke. Each of them $ 18,000. Betty Woodman's generous vessels, which now grace the Metropolitan Museum of niches in the Hall of a retrospective tribute to him there, also found a buyer.
Further confirms the rise of contemporary animalier, Barry Friedman, Ltd., is an expert hawking canopic jars made of glass by William Morris (b. 1957). One example features hand blown money as headgear. "Canopic" is a term of art to hold the organs in jars, of course, familiar from ancient Egyptian funeral art exhibition. Morris' contemporary use of both can be regarded as an attempt to taksidermi and a visit to the morgue tradition.
Flying off the shelves Holsten Galleries of Stockbridge, Mass., is Charles Miner frog cast-glass vessels decorated. Holsten Jim Schantz said, "We are extremely pleased by strong sales of Miner's vessel forms, as this is the first time we have shown his works in New York." Miner's Ranas went to the Fuller Museum of Art in Brockton outside Boston. Once at home as part of the neat vocabulary, frogs in the hands of Miner seems to overcome the environment of their swamps and reach to the statue. Maybe that's why the price, which run up to $ 24,000, apparently does not interfere with this particular audience.
Home accents, R. Duane Reed Gallery, which is based in St. Louis and has a post Chelsea, was touting a basket of food - but in bronze. Tim Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz has made a giant basket escargots and a bucket of shells that looked like they were on steroids. No sale. But the six-foot-wide "tapestry" titled Song of September and made of hand blown glass, African beads, found objects and steel, fabrics and blown by Jenny Pohlman and Sabrino Knowles, went for $ 36,000. This is more like a necklace from the rug, and sales to underscore a sense of what might be called tribal handicrafts.
What's new in jewelry is not for the faint of heart. Gallery Lou Hurong Philadelphia jewelry featuring actual cast of the beetles, a large, by the German Georg Dobler jewelry. Sell brooch and a necklace with a silver beetle in the price of $ 5000 - $ 14,000. Nearby, Jewelers' Werk Galerie from Washington, DC, shows gold bullets by David Bielander. "They're funny but the iconography is not right for this country," said Ellen Reiben gallery. He reported that the snails to sell well in Europe. Other items of painted cardboard, stainless steel and enameled tin, hammered gold and silver jewelry casting is very popular among visitors to the stand.
Arguably the most important works in the SOFA are in booth bellas Artes / Thea Burger of Santa Fe and New York, respectively, which includes artist Olga de Amarel, Ruth Duckworth and Richard Devore. Several large de Amarael tapestry woven with gold leaf, silver leaf fiber and are sometimes sold quickly. Duckworth large murals, one of the gray-and mauve-colored ceramics, are also picked up. Three works of this artist can be found in nearly 50 museums, proving their great talent. "While the artists who fit the category of clay and fiber, they work really universal and appealing to a large number of serious collectors," said Burger.
Upping the quality level is also the London gallerist Anita Besson, who brought early clay vessels by Hans Coper and Lucie Rie. The pared-down simplicity of their work, with subtle gradations of texture, shape and palette, is an expert and appears in sharp contrast to many other offerings elsewhere in the SOFA. Somehow, those big glass ball, only slightly smaller than a soccer ball, which was spotted at the fair, do not seem interesting or even appealing esthetically. So the fourth grade! However, sensitivity seems popular these days, unfortunately.
However, actually craft made a breakthrough in traditional museums. One sign of the rising stature can be seen at the Philadelphia Museum of Art appointment as curator Elisabeth Argo American counterparts crafts and decorative arts. He joined the museum in October. Will be interesting to follow her around the next installment of SOFA.
source: www.artnet.com
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