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Photograph: Sonnabend Collection; New York; © 2013 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS); New York “Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New”
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Sat 21–Apr 21
MoMA celebrates the famed dealer and collector, whose galleries in Paris and New York showcased and promoted the biggest names in Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Works by some 40 artists who Sonnabend exhibited during her career are on view, including contributions by Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons.
Photograph: Fondazione Pistoletto; Biella; Italy Michelangelo Pistoletto, “The Minus Objects 1965-1966”
Luhring Augustine Bushwick, Fri 20–May 3
Although best known for his “mirror paintings”—large, polished sheets of stainless steel appliquéd with full-scale photographic renderings of people or things that, along with the reflection of the viewer, created a sort of trompe l’oeil scene—Pistoletto was also a key figure in Italian Arte Povera, thanks, most notably, to the works in this show. A disparate lot of items, ranging from abstract to vaguely referential, throwaway to carefully crafted, they were made and shown together in the artist’s Turin studio between late 1965 and early 1966, creating the effect of a group exhibition. They were hugely influential on other Italian artists of the period, and helped to define the Arte Povera vocabulary, mainly by calling into question the efficacy of artistic originality during a time when whole notion of making art was being radically deconstructed.
Photograph: Robert Wedemeyer; courtesy Luhring Augustine; New York Ingrid Calame, “Tracks”
James Cohan Gallery, through Feb 8
This California painter employs an Old Masters technique called pounce transfer, in which preparatory studies are applied to a canvas or a wall by using a template of tracing paper inscribed with a pinhole pattern shaped like the drawing. (The holes were sometimes created with a perforated wheel resembling a pizza cutter.) The paper would be held against the intended surface, and powered pigment would be tamped through the holes, leaving behind a facsimile of the drawing. For Calame, the transfer itself often serves as the finished product, resulting in ghostly fragments of imagery—like skid marks off the track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway—which the artist traced from an original source.
Photograph: Bing Wright; courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery Bing Wright
Paula Cooper Gallery, through Jan 18
Over the years, Wright’s photography has been marked by a focus on surface as metaphor for the photograph itself, with his work achieving a poetical stillness as a result. The photos here, for example, include his color series “Broken Mirror/Evening Sky,” in which the setting sun is seen reflected within the cracks of a shattered mirror, scattering the oranges and violets of dusk to an almost stained-glass effect.
Photograph: Courtesy the artist Jack Davidson, “when we touch”
Sometimes (works of art), through Jan 3
This Scottish painter, who lives and works in Barcelona, creates elegant abstract compositions based on patterns or informal geometries, emphasizing deep sumptuous color combinations. Though definitely formal, they sing with life experiences.
Top five shows: Dec 26, 2013–Jan 1, 2014
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