At Sonnabend, Jean-Baptiste Huynh pulls off an amazing rip-off Richard Misrach's seminal sky pictures, the only difference being a slightly more square format, a larger edition, and double the price. The pictures are 40,000 euros - yikes!
At 535 West 22nd Street, Julie Saul shows Jeff Whetstone's large scale photographs of caves in Tennessee and Alabama that were mined for the saltpetre soil which was used to produce gunpowder in the civil war era. These caves have since become hideaways for both explorers and teenagers as well as a waiting canvas for anything from love notes to graffiti. So the point is the relationship between early cave drawings and the markings left today.
In the same building, an unusually restrained but typically elegant show of work by Masao Yamamoto - he of the pinned up distressed little silver prints. However, a few more works might have been in order here!
No comments:
Post a Comment