Monday December 10, 2007
Aqua, Wynwood, more Pulse, Geisai, Photo Miami, Aipad, Casa Lin, Art Miami
Shana Lutker’s Hear It Here, at Art Perform, was a bit of a dud, at least from the little bit I saw. Maybe it got cooking later, but for me it confirmed a long standing suspicion that performance art is much easier to pull off in a small enclosed space.
Wynwood: This piece is officially the best thing all week. A kid from Dash high school made it, and promised to send me his information, and of course didn’t hasn’t yet. But and so yes, they were offering to take people’s pictures, right there on the street. This skewers more things that deserve skewering in one stroke then most people manage in a career, and it brings to new heights to the “But is it art?” issue for dessert. Rock over London, rock over Miami, Mission Accomplished. Update: Ilan Wilson-Soler. Thanks to everyone who helped track him down, and thanks Ilan for the kick-ass piece. Let’s have more like this.
At Twenty Twenty, Jen Stark’s How to Become a Millionaire in 100 Days (answer: make 10,000 pieces of paper a day, which is exactly how this piece came about).
Did you hear of a fair called Fountain? Me neither, but I stumbled across it, and was pretty impressed. Here’s one of a few of David Opdyke’s great little sculptures.
William Lamson’s Vital Capacity. A guy is in a vertical chamber, encased in a box up to his neck, his face covered with up-facing spikes. Balloons get dropped on him, and he must keep them up as long as possible by blowing, because, imagine a constant barage of balloons popping right in front of your face. Great use of a vertical LCD.
Bob and Roberta Smith (what is up with those names?), 26.05.07 Never Trust an Hippie. I hope you can read this (and btw it’s over 100 inches wide).
It’s always a treat to see one of Robin Griffiths’ pieces.
Brandon Opalka’s mural covers the entire side of Dorsch. (It’s going to have to be a “to-see,” because my photo here just really isn’t doing it any justice.) Do we have a candidate for Largest Artwork in Miami?
At World Class Boxing, Adam Helms’ Che/inkblot series (officially: Untitled Portraits).
At a show of Chinese artists in the Design District, Zhou Chunya’s ass-kicking Green Dog. Note size: 126 × 87 inches.
OK, here’s the thing of which I was trying to explain before: Jade Hughes’ Reliquary for Matthew Benedict, a two-part piece based on the Datura plant. An fabulously crafted wooden box with glass sides accepts your quarter, illuminates a tiny plant growing in the base of the hand portion, and ejects a pill full of the plant’s hallucinogenic seeds, of which I got to keep one(! But don’t try it, it’s apparently a crappy high).
“Is it art yet??” “No, not yet!!” “What if we put them in wet-suits and give them beaks? Is it art now??” Ladies and gentlemen, Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have made art. From top, we have Mars Sandpunt, Bear Parade, and Mars Glider, each an edition of 10 Quadratone prints, and some of each available as of Sunday.
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin. I say that since the Bush administration has decided that the US Constitution doesn’t apply to non-Americans, we invade Germany over this.
Geisai: Eric Doeringer rocks on.
Maria Adelaida Lopez’s doll house covered with vacuum cleaner dust. Yes, it’s all a bit cliché, but I liked it.
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