Art Review - March Issue - (Page 170)

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For Return, Rakowitz reopened his Iraqi grandfather’s import/export business in a storefront on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn in order to bring a shipment of Iraqi dates to the US Rakowitz’s ‘store blog’ for this second project – available from the Lombard-Freid website – is, and deserves to be recognised as, one of the most compelling narratives about the realities of the present conflict . When people ask how and why these things qualify as art, one can only respond that it is as art, and only as art, that these narratives can come into the world, and aren’t we the better for it? On view during the Armory opening 23 February : Tala Madani: Smoke and Mirrors. www.lombard-freid.com enterprise dedicated to text-based work, and his share of LFL, the gallery Lawrence co-founded with Zach Feuer and Russell LaMontagne to show emerging artists. Freight + Volume continues both projects and will soon add a third, a journal of critical writing, which promises to elevate the aesthetic discourse of 24th Street, long dominated by the ‘big boy’ galleries across the way. Whatever it does, the gallery is sure to milk the rough-and-tumble image it received when its first show, of paintings and videos by Ludwig Schwarz, opened for one night, on 28 September 2005, and then promptly closed the following day so that construction on the gallery could finish up. Don’t worry, Schwarz got a full run once November rolled around. On view during the Armory opening 23 February : Laurina Paperina: ROTFL; and Joseph Hart: Priority Index. www.volumegallery.com at 3 Brunnenstrasse, in Berlin. Such are the consequences of opening with a truly international slate of emerging artists. Since that time which was only last year , their artists have continued to cut a wide swathe through the cultural landscape. Stephen Bush Australian recently enjoyed a survey at SITE Santa Fe; Susanne Kühn German will open this September at the Kunstverein, Freiburg, and then at the Denver MCA next year, but not before Rangi Kipa New Zealand joins the likes of Chris Ofili and Tim Noble and Sue Webster for Denver’s inaugural exhibition. And Melanie Manchot will take part in ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion, a newly official collateral event for the 52nd Venice Biennale this summer. On view during the Armory: Melanie Manchot: Security. www.goffandrosenthal.com 22nd Street Newman Popiashvili Before art fairs like Scope decided that hotel rooms could offer alternative venues for showing art, Marisa Newman and Irene Popiashvili began showing emerging work in a suite at the Milburn Hotel, on the Upper West Side. www.npgallery.com 25th Street Moti Hasson As venues like Exit Art and the Elizabeth Foundation staked out territory at the western edge of Midtown, it became possible to speculate that what could be called the back burner of Hell’s Kitchen the waywest 30s would soon become the newest destination for cost-conscious, space-seeking galleries. For two years, Moti Hasson found ample room there, on the second storey of an industrial building on 38th Street, but then bucked the northward creep by moving into a beautifully renovated ground-floor space on West 25th. With works by Shinique Smith and Uri Aran, among others, the first show in the new environs, Beyond the Pale, curated by Hasson’s well-picked codirectors, Tairone Bastien and Candice Madey, received deserved critical attention. Next up, and on view during the Armory, is a solo production by Paul Pagk, whose paintings of intense colour and linear, geometric design are good argument for rethinking, rather than just renewing, the project and the concept of abstraction. www.motihasson.com Freight + Volume Zach Feuer LFL Zach Feuer is no longer a new dealer, but he may very well be the next über-dealer, a title usually reserved for the likes of David Zwirner and Matthew Marks. As it stands, Feuer remains the best object or subject lesson for the art critic’s displacement by the dealer. Yes, he is young, but as Feuer himself explains over and over again, he is of the same generation as his artists, and they are rising together. Regardless, the intelligence of artists such as Danica Phelps, and the popularity of others such as Dana Schutz, have kept Feuer pushing the forward edge of expansion. Kantor/Feuer opened in LA shortly after Feuer’s full takeover of the 24th Street space in 2004, and promised later this spring is the opening of London-based Brown & Feuer, a new partnership with Kimberly Brown. ArtReview pegged Feuer’s star at 70 in last year’s Power 100. My prediction for 2007? Half that. www.zachfeuer.com 24th Street Freight + Volume More and more the artworld seems to be a place of perpetual courtship: unions, break-ups, realignments, etc. Some are messy, others amicable, still others tend to demonstrate that parts can prove greater than any whole. Such is the case with Nick Lawrence’s Freight + Volume, which accreted out of the spinning masses of Volume, a Lawrence Taxter & Spengemann 23rd Street Goff + Rosenthal Cassie Rosenthal and Robert Goff opened their doors on 23rd Street in 2004. It wouldn’t be long, however, before they had to open a second space, Taxter & Spengemann Kelly Taxter and Pascal Spengemann met at Bard College’s increasingly prestigious Center for Curatorial Studies. As Taxter describes it, she and Spengemann “became a little frustrated with the perceived slowness of working within an institution, so just went ahead and started our own small gallery ARTREVIEW 170  Warning : Unknown : The session id contains invalid characters, valid characters are only a-z, A-Z and 0-9 in Unknown on line 0 Warning : Unknown : Failed to write session data files . Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct /var/lib/php/session in Unknown on line 0 http://www.goffandrosenthal.com http://www.volumegallery.com http://www.lombard-freid.com http://www.npgallery.com http://www.motihasson.com http://www.zachfeuer.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Art Review - March Issue

Manifesto
Dispatches
Consumed
Tales from the City
David Lynch
Marcel Dzama
Future Greats
Art Pilgrimage: Moscow
Mixed Media: Moving Images
Mixed Media: Photography
Mixed Media: Digital
Reviews
Book Reviews
On the Town
On the Record

Art Review - March Issue

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