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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: 'THE MODERN CENTURY' APRIL 11-JUNE28 Photographer Henri Cartier- Bresson is best known for his idea that
/ Village Voice
24 Mar, 2010
SPRING ART PICKS
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: 'THE MODERN CENTURY'
APRIL 11-JUNE28
Photographer Henri Cartier- Bresson is best known for his idea that picture-taking was about capturing life at the "decisive moment"- and what moments he lived through! He kibitzed with surrealists and Communists, went underground with the French Resistance, helped define the aesthetic of the Magnum Photo collective, was witness to Spanish fascism and the Chinese Revolution, and on and on. MOMA curator Peter Galassi brings together some 300 photos for this retrospective of one of the definitive photographers, and artists, of the 20th century. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, moma.org
ION ZUPCU: 'PAINTED CUBES'
APRIL 15-MAY28
The Romanian-born artist Ion Zupcu works in a defiantly retro style of photography, hand -printing and sepia-toning his own photos. He also has a yen for the timeless subject matter of classic photo still-life, simple domestic objects like eggs, bottles, or folded sheets of paper, dramatically lit. The results are lovely- deliberate and serious-fragments of out-of-time beauty that hark back to early photographers like Paul Strand. Clampart, S21-S31 West 25th Street, clampart.com
DANIEL BAYLES, GINA OSTERLOH, AND PATRICK JACKSON
APRIL 16-MAY 15
If you're looking for some cool art from the other coast, this show skims the cream from the program of L.A.'s Fran莽ois Ghebaly gallery, giving three Angelino artists their first New York outing. Daniel Bayles makes enigmatic paintings of architecture, while Patrick Jackson creates memorable tower-like sculptures of carefully stacked found objects. But pay particular attention to Gina Osterloh, who stages photos in strange artificial environments she constructs out of multicolored paper. Osterloh looks like a star. Kate Werble Gallery, 83 Vandam Street, ka tewerblegallery.com
DOROTHEA TANNING: 'EARLY DESIGNS FOR THE STAGE'
APRIL 23-JULY 23
The full retrospective of late works by ferocious political painter Leon Golub at the Drawing Center's main space is rightly going to draw a lot of attention, but this smaller affair, which opens at the same time, deserves some love as well. The famous painter Dorothea Tanning is known for dark, erotically charged surrealism, but this exhibition showcases her imagination at work in the more genteel world of ballet, making costume sketches for choreographer George Balanchine between 1945 and 1953. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, drawingcenter.org.
SHIRAZEH HOUSHIARY: 'LIGHT DARKNESS'
APRIL 29-JUNE 19
Iran-born, London-based artist Shirazeh Houshiary has made her name intermingling lyrical abstraction with the Islamic mysticism of Rumi. In practice, what this adds up to are complex, quiet paintings that can be quite expansive but still feel intimate, each one conjuring a diffuse visual mist thaf s full of subtle variation the deeper you gaze into it Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 540 West 26th Street, lehmann maupin.com
LIU BOLIN
APRIL 30-JUNE 4
Call him the "Chinese invisible man," call him the "human chameleon," call him what you will, but you will not forget the work of Chinese artist Liu Bolin. Liu hit gold with a series of "photo performances" that depict himself standing in various urban settings- in a supermarket, in front of Beijing's famous Bird's Nest stadium- painted head-to-toe to blend nearly seamlessly into the background. The work is massive on the Internet. Eli Klein Fine Art, 462 West Broadway, ekfineart.com
SHEPARD FAIREY: 'MAY DAY'
MAY 1-MAY 29
The final Deitch Project has arrived, with dealer Jeffrey Deitch set to leave New York behind for the smoggier climes of L.A. And who can doubt that NYC will be more boring without him? For his final exhibition, he has brought in Shepard Fairey, the streetartist-turned-design-entrepreneur-turnedpolitical-postermaker, a pick that perfectly encapsulates the mix of scrappy street culture, celebrity razzle-dazzle, and pop-culture savvy that has characterized Deitch's long reign. Intriguingly, for the man behind the Obama "HOPE" poster, a press release promises works "bemoaning the U.S. twoparty political system," among other things. This opening will be huge. Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, deitch.com
CHRISTOPH DRAEGER: '1ST OF MAY'
MAY 1-JUNE 5
May Day, a/k/a International Workers' Day, is celebrated in most countries around the world except the United States, where it was born as part of the fight for the eighthour workday. Swiss-born artist Christoph Draeger plans to tease this contradiction with specific reference to today's Great Recession. To this end, he promises an installation, but, more tantalizingly, a series of as-yet-undefined "actions" around the Lower East Side to mark the invisible hobday. Y Gallery, 355A Bowery Street, ygallery newyork.com
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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: 'THE MODERN CENTURY'
APRIL 11-JUNE28
Photographer Henri Cartier- Bresson is best known for his idea that picture-taking was about capturing life at the "decisive moment"- and what moments he lived through! He kibitzed with surrealists and Communists, went underground with the French Resistance, helped define the aesthetic of the Magnum Photo collective, was witness to Spanish fascism and the Chinese Revolution, and on and on. MOMA curator Peter Galassi brings together some 300 photos for this retrospective of one of the definitive photographers, and artists, of the 20th century. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, moma.org
ION ZUPCU: 'PAINTED CUBES'
APRIL 15-MAY28
The Romanian-born artist Ion Zupcu works in a defiantly retro style of photography, hand -printing and sepia-toning his own photos. He also has a yen for the timeless subject matter of classic photo still-life, simple domestic objects like eggs, bottles, or folded sheets of paper, dramatically lit. The results are lovely- deliberate and serious-fragments of out-of-time beauty that hark back to early photographers like Paul Strand. Clampart, S21-S31 West 25th Street, clampart.com
DANIEL BAYLES, GINA OSTERLOH, AND PATRICK JACKSON
APRIL 16-MAY 15
If you're looking for some cool art from the other coast, this show skims the cream from the program of L.A.'s Fran莽ois Ghebaly gallery, giving three Angelino artists their first New York outing. Daniel Bayles makes enigmatic paintings of architecture, while Patrick Jackson creates memorable tower-like sculptures of carefully stacked found objects. But pay particular attention to Gina Osterloh, who stages photos in strange artificial environments she constructs out of multicolored paper. Osterloh looks like a star. Kate Werble Gallery, 83 Vandam Street, ka tewerblegallery.com
DOROTHEA TANNING: 'EARLY DESIGNS FOR THE STAGE'
APRIL 23-JULY 23
The full retrospective of late works by ferocious political painter Leon Golub at the Drawing Center's main space is rightly going to draw a lot of attention, but this smaller affair, which opens at the same time, deserves some love as well. The famous painter Dorothea Tanning is known for dark, erotically charged surrealism, but this exhibition showcases her imagination at work in the more genteel world of ballet, making costume sketches for choreographer George Balanchine between 1945 and 1953. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, drawingcenter.org.
SHIRAZEH HOUSHIARY: 'LIGHT DARKNESS'
APRIL 29-JUNE 19
Iran-born, London-based artist Shirazeh Houshiary has made her name intermingling lyrical abstraction with the Islamic mysticism of Rumi. In practice, what this adds up to are complex, quiet paintings that can be quite expansive but still feel intimate, each one conjuring a diffuse visual mist thaf s full of subtle variation the deeper you gaze into it Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 540 West 26th Street, lehmann maupin.com
LIU BOLIN
APRIL 30-JUNE 4
Call him the "Chinese invisible man," call him the "human chameleon," call him what you will, but you will not forget the work of Chinese artist Liu Bolin. Liu hit gold with a series of "photo performances" that depict himself standing in various urban settings- in a supermarket, in front of Beijing's famous Bird's Nest stadium- painted head-to-toe to blend nearly seamlessly into the background. The work is massive on the Internet. Eli Klein Fine Art, 462 West Broadway, ekfineart.com
SHEPARD FAIREY: 'MAY DAY'
MAY 1-MAY 29
The final Deitch Project has arrived, with dealer Jeffrey Deitch set to leave New York behind for the smoggier climes of L.A. And who can doubt that NYC will be more boring without him? For his final exhibition, he has brought in Shepard Fairey, the streetartist-turned-design-entrepreneur-turnedpolitical-postermaker, a pick that perfectly encapsulates the mix of scrappy street culture, celebrity razzle-dazzle, and pop-culture savvy that has characterized Deitch's long reign. Intriguingly, for the man behind the Obama "HOPE" poster, a press release promises works "bemoaning the U.S. twoparty political system," among other things. This opening will be huge. Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, deitch.com
CHRISTOPH DRAEGER: '1ST OF MAY'
MAY 1-JUNE 5
May Day, a/k/a International Workers' Day, is celebrated in most countries around the world except the United States, where it was born as part of the fight for the eighthour workday. Swiss-born artist Christoph Draeger plans to tease this contradiction with specific reference to today's Great Recession. To this end, he promises an installation, but, more tantalizingly, a series of as-yet-undefined "actions" around the Lower East Side to mark the invisible hobday. Y Gallery, 355A Bowery Street, ygallery newyork.com
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