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VOLTA NY is taking place once again at 7W 34th Street, directly across
from Manhattan's classic icon, the Empire State building, from
Thursday, March 4th - Sunday, March 7th, 2010.
VOLTA NY is the American incarnation of the successful young fair
founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived to continue the
original mandate to create a tightly-focused, boutique event that is a
place for discovery and a showcase for current art production and
relevant contemporary positions—regardless of the artist or gallery’s
age.
VOLTA NY is an invitational show, organized by art critic and Fair Director Amanda Coulson, to complement the offerings across town at The Armory Show,
with whom VOLTA NY shares the VIP and Talks Programs and shuttles to
and from both fairs. By putting the focus back on artists through
exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep
exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for
discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair.
A platform for challenging, often complimentary, sometimes competing
ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what gives
the fair its unique character. While visitors have positively compared
VOLTA NY to doing a series of intense studio visits, nonetheless the
dedication to a single artist, while surely the most striking of
presentations in any economic landscape, has always be something of a
risk. The dedication and confidence shown by the exhibiting galleries
to continue to commit themselves to a risky and challenging format has
therefore given rise to this year’s title: No Guts No Glory, a phrase
that can be applied both to the work on show, its creators and its
supporters/presenters.
For more information, please write to
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7 West 34th Street - betw. 5th Ave. and 6th Ave.
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Astral Toothache and Gentlemen:
to your battle stations!
Tapestry, 2010
7W Main Entrance & Lobby
Represented by:
Imperfect Articles (A7)
Mike Andrews'
large-scale anarchist tapestries are a tangle of enlarged pixels and
erratic gestures. Homespun techniques such as weaving and stitching are
used to suggest situations where the humdrum transforms into something
powerful. These soft abstractions allude to Neo Geo painting and woven
artifacts through faux naïveté.
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Dispatchwork New York
site specific intervention in NYC, Feb. 2010
Screened on video in elevator lobby
Represented by:
Jarmuschek + Partner (V13)
Jan Vormann's practice involves a mixture of performance art, video and land-art installations.
For his Berlin series Dispatchwork he
selected buildings still damaged from World War II and filled in the
gaps, holes and clefts in the walls, streets and buildings with plastic
bricks, mostly Lego. In New York, he will again be taking to the
streets and conjuring up sporadic performaces to be filmed and screened
at VOLTA NY.
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video, 2010
Elevator video screens
Employing a wide range of media, Trong Gia Nguyen’s
works contend with power relationships between the artwork and viewer,
often using everyday, consumerist models to critique
aesthetics, socio-politics, and the status quo. For VOLTA NY,
Nguyen shows a series of video commercials depicting real artists in
their studios promoting themselves, like an actual TV spots. The
artists deliver irreverent and sarcastic monologues that flirt between
truth and fiction, serving as a colorful analysis of the economy, art
market, identity, party politics, and all else under the sun.
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Whose Smell Is This?
mixed media, 2010
Next to ladies’ toilets
Represented by:
Galerie Stanislas Bourgain (C4)
Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich has
created a site-specific installation for the wall next to the public
toilet at Volta NY made from a solid piece of porous plastic material
saturated with long-lasting perfume. In essence, it functions as an
enormous car-freshener emitting a profoundly artificial overwhelming
odor. Conceptually, the piece brings together and critiques both
communal and private aspects of the creative domain while ridiculing
lack of authenticity of the artistic expression once it ‘belongs’ to
the public.
Whose Smell is This?, references the famous work Whose Fly is This? (1987) by Ilya Kabakov, to whom it is dedicated, and is inspired by his series The Communal Kitchen
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Frorest of Evolution
mixed media installation, 2009-2010
11th floor entrance area, café
Represented by:
Johansson Projects (C8)
Misako Inaoka's sculptures contest the opposition
of nature and artifice in an unusual tone: an impish whisper instead of
a didactic rant. Her a-evolutionary creatures house infinite
little particularities as if keeping their own mischievous mash-ups
quiet. Part mad scientist and part explorer of gadgets, Inaoka allows
access to an enigmatic oasis, a garden of odd adaptations.
The exhibiting galleries for VOLTA NY 2010 - No Guts, No Glory - are:
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