by Paddy Johnson on April 18, 2018
In this episode of Explain Me, Paddy Johnson and William Powhida discuss the New Museum Triennial. Both Johnson and Powhida agree this show has more of its fair share of bad art but only Powhida sees this as a dealbreaker. Debate ensues. The ad in which Pepsi and model Kendall Jenner create world peace gets a mention.
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Lydia Ourahmane, “Finitude, 2018, Courtesy of the Artist
Chemu Ng’ok Image via: Hyperallergic
Anupam Roy installation view
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude, The New Zimbabwe (2018) at “2018 Triennial: Songs
Manolis D. Lemos, dusk and dawn look just the same (riot tourism), 2017 (still). Courtesy of the artist and CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens
Haroon Gunn-Salie “Senzenina” (2018), an installation by the South African artist Haroon Gunn- Salie, memorializes the 2012 police massacre of striking miners in his homeland.
Hardeep Pandhal, Pool Party Pilot Episode, 2018, 4K animation, color, sound; 8:10 min. Hardeep Pandhal.
Tomm El-Saieh
Tiril Hasselknippe, installation view
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Gary Carrion-Murayari
** Carry-on Mur-uh-yar-ee
Tomm El-Saieh
** El-say
Lydia Ourahmane
** Oura-ha-mane
Chemu Ng’ok
** Chem-oo Nuh-gok
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude
** Tap-ee-wa Naw-u-deh
Manolis D. Lemos
** Man-o-lis Lem-os
Tiril Hasselknippe
** Tir-ill Has-ul-nip
Hardeep Pandhal
** Pand-al
Haroon Gunn-Salie ** Sal-ley
Anupam Roy
** A-new-pam
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by Paddy Johnson on March 17, 2018
Last week William Powhida and I spent an enormous amount of time at the Spring Break Art Show. We had so much to say about the show we produced two podcasts and discussed many booths at length. In the first podcast, we give the lay of the land in art fair world (we discuss the character of other fairs, and SPRING/BREAK), identify themes, and get the bad art out of the way. We also collect a few pitches from those in booths, so those who couldn’t attend the fair could get a sense of what it was like. In the second podcast we go deep on a few booths and try to give a more thorough analysis of what we saw.
There are however some limitations to what we can do with a podcast, and one of them is visuals. Handily, Art F City manages those just fine, so in this post I assemble images of a lot of the work we discuss so that listeners have a few cues. That said, a disclaimer needs to be made: some of these photographs suck. I’ve tried whenever possible to use press images, but in some cases, I wasn’t able to make that happen. You’ll know the difference, and I’m sorry.
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