We asked New Museum curator and Artistic Director of the Trussardi Foundation, Massimiliano Gioni, to create a “Wish List” after perusing the Armory Show’s pier 94. Here’s what he came up with:
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Ajit Chauhan at Jack Hainley series of record covers in which everything has been erased except for the rather unlikely, mostly eighties hair-dos – simple, pop, rock-n-roll collages with a strange haunting presence.
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Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins & Co: with abstractions by Amy Sillman and Mark Bradford to provide a context, Kara Walker’s miniature dioramas and lilliput silhouettes looked even more violent and gentle.
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Hanne Darboven at Crone Gallery: our lady of the numbers, Hanne Darboven has been counting and measuring time for a few decades now. With works from the sixties and seventies, this one woman show turned the fair into a small museum, an oasis of silence and paranoia or, shall we say, a time capsule?
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A painting by Rudolf Stingel at Massimo De Carlo: a somber shroud of impalpable depth: it is rare to see works in the fair that can retain their integrity and depth, and this painting by Stingel was certainly one. (By the way, Stingel’s painting was just next to one piece by Elmgreen and Dragset, that became a sort of icon of the fair, as it proclaimed: Everybody is Broke.)
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Cary Kwok at Herald Street: sorry, I am just silly, but a drawing of Miss
Piggy from the Muppet Show, can’t help mentioning it.
