New York City: Exhibits from art history icons such as Helen Frankenthaler, Franz West and more…

hello everyone and welcome back to my channel I'm really happy to be back in my home of New York City and today I'm going to take you all to some really incredible shows on the Upper East Side as well as Chelsea we're gonna see some real art history Legends and also if you haven't subscribed just hit that subscribe button so you stay up to date every time I put out a new video thank you the first stop of the day is going to be scarsted gallery and we're going to see an exhibit of works by Martin kipenberger and the show is in honor of what would have been his 70th birthday he died at the age of 44 sadly and it highlights some of the most important series in kibenberger's career these series include the inp pictures self-portraits Fred the Frog War Wicked hand-painted pictures and Jacqueline the paintings Pablo couldn't paint anymore Kevin Berger was known for having a larger than life personality and he often used humor to discuss more weighted topics such as war and economics foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign just right across the street to Alman rash gallery to see an exhibit of works by Jenny prosinski and Christina day amigo I have been so excited to see this exhibit I'm a fan of both artists but I really love Jenny brosenski's work and really just her as a person in full disclosure I am a collector as well and I really love how this show highlights both artists unique approach to balancing abstraction and figuration one of the things that I really appreciate about brosinski's work is how they convey a sense of this freedom and rebelliousness through her expressive application of paint and her use of raw canvas to have such restraint and not filling up the canvas but still having so much intention behind the painting that's on the canvas I just can't imagine that that's easy to do and if you're not familiar with Jenny brosinski she's based in Berlin and her career is really building momentum she's had quite a few solo exhibits and she actually has an upcoming one with almond Resh in Shanghai in May foreign artist who's based in New York and her Works in this exhibit focus more on the figure than rosinski I would say and she particularly emphasizes the hands and the feet of her figures which give them sort of an over exaggerated almost warped feel it's almost like you can feel the emotions coming out of her figures thanks to the way that she's applied the paint and marks with oil sticks and the emotions feel just very raw and aggressive and uncontrollable foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] we're going to take a quick coffee break at St Ambrose I honestly think Saint Ambrose is a little bit overrated I know that they are an art World favorite but if you have a good coffee shop on the Upper East Side please let me know in the comments below thank you [Music] we're now going to head over to Chelsea to continue seeing exhibits it's really rare honestly that I visit two New York City neighborhoods in a day but I really wanted to see that show at almond rush so we made it work [Music] foreign stop in Chelsea is to gagozian gallery to see an exhibit of paintings by another iconic German artist Albert Olin and sculptures from Paul McCarthy full disclosure I'm not the biggest fan of Paul McCarthy's works so I will be focusing more on olin's paintings because he is one of my favorites the show consists of olin's recent Works which feature a reoccurring Motif titled Omega Man and this is a quote genderless humanoid form inspired by the character of Dr Robert Neville in Sci-Fi Action Movie the Omega Man if any of you guys have watched this let me know below basically it's about as quote the Doom Survivor of a global pandemic Neville symbolizes the runaway scientific development that led to Humanity's downfall this is an example of the form of The Motif in the works it's sometimes in white sometimes in yellow like this and to me it almost looks like a boomerang for lack of a better word [Music] laughs [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] here we have this incredibly large scale sculpture by Paul McCarthy it's almost 20 feet tall and although it looks like Stone it's actually made out of Styrofoam [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] space in Chelsea to see this exhibit of works by the late Helen frankenthaler another art Legend the exhibit features 12 paintings and two large-scale works on paper by frankenthaler that are either on view for the first time in almost two decades or have never even been exhibited at all these works are from the 1990s and she died in 2011 so these are some of the last years that she was producing art she's an artist that I absolutely love seeing how her Works have changed over time and Joan Mitchell is another these works are highly pigmented we've got paint covering the whole canvas sometimes even in large glops on the campus and kind of similar to Jenny brosinski who we saw earlier frankenthaler's earlier works let more of the canvas peek through than what we see here her work mountains and sea is a great example of this it's one that she created in 1952 and it was her first soak stained canvas which is her signature and what she was really known for and it was really influential in the development of the 1960s color field painting foreign she created The Works in this exhibit right after her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1989 and these Works were created between 1990 and 1995 and for those she started to use gel to thicken her paint as well as combing and raking tools to create texture so that's why we see such heavy pigmentation and similar to the way Joan Mitchell captured landscapes in her Works frankenthaler focused on capturing the feeling of being within nature more so than the nature itself laughs we're now going to pop over to David's Werner gallery to see an exhibit by another art history Legend Franz West I feel like it's impossible to visit a friend's West exhibit and not have a smile on your face there's just such a playfulness about his works this exhibit is titled echolalia and it hasn't been shown publicly in over 10 years The Works title refers to the repetition of words and sounds made by young children when learning to talk and it was inspired by the artist's son who at the time of its creation was three years old and brought his own distinct perspective to his father's oversized works the show consists of quote even colorful Larger than Life sculptures that seem to stand off balance alongside three cushion sofas the original echolalia exhibit was on view in 2010 and it was created just a few years before West's death in 2012. another thing I love about Franz West works is that he really wants us as viewers to become participants there's usually an interactive element to the exhibit in this case it's a sitting component which is really great because it allows you to just sit down take a rest and let it all sink in foreign foreign space this is an exhibit of works by PSY Gavin and I'm really happy to see that Sai Gavin is having this exhibit because I've been a fan of his work since seeing it in fiac in Paris back in 2018 at Gavin Brown's Booth he's had a show recently with David's Werner in 2021 and this is his first with a gagosian gallery and these new works Gavin captures the surroundings of his studio in Hudson Valley exploring themes of quote growth renewal and belonging in his works so when Gavin moved to a studio Upstate he wasn't exactly welcomed with open arms and was met with inhospitability at best and racism at worst so to deal with this he leaned into finding Beauty in his natural surroundings and that became the inspiration for these works I love how Hilton Isles describes Gavin's Works he says quote Gavin uses the natural world as a metaphor to describe love chaos inevitability the overwhelming feelings and actions that are part of being alive [Music] foreign to see an exhibit by Minerva Cuevas and I recently saw her sculpture wall murals at zonamako this year in Mexico City I will leave that video linked above and below so I was really excited to see a full exhibit of them Cuevas is known for quote research-based projects concerned with economic and environmental issues and their socio-political impact this exhibit looks a quote pre-hispanic symbology and the history of relationships between oil and wealth management companies and the resulting pieces combine representations of pre-hispanic gods and goddesses along with corporate logos so throughout the exhibit Cuevas makes a connection between these symbols as a way of commenting on how we got to the ecological crisis that we're in today she's really shining a light on the connection between the colonization of mesoamerica and how it's contributed to global warming and more this is the largest piece in the exhibit and it's called the trust and it consists of 126 monochrome panels spanning roughly 41 feet and in it are the representations of the Aztec goddess of water and fertility the mythological goddess of lust and excess as well as just fauna and vegetation foreign one of the most wild parts of this exhibit in my opinion are these real these are real historic advertisements of oil products dating back from the 1950s to the 1970s they were literally bragging about destroying the Earth foreign which I haven't been doing quite some time so I'm really looking forward to it this is an exhibit by tala madani titled dirty windows and the show features new paintings as well as an animation that quote examine cultural norms socio-political relationships and power dynamics in this show the symbol of the window is probably the most powerful so many of the works are composed to feel like Windows where we as the viewer are on one side and there's condensation in the building and we're looking out on either clouds approaching bad weather or even these sort of infinitesimal figures and sketches sketched out in the condensation so to me it feels like madani is calling attention to this feeling of being on the outside that we're watching all these things potentially very bad things happening but we're just watching and we're not really doing anything about it as you can see some of the works are absolutely massive the largest being roughly 430 centimeters by 340 centimeters that's about 14 feet high matani has a past of utilizing this large scale and I appreciate seeing what seems like sometimes infantile imagery blown up to such serious proportions it's kind of a fun juxtaposition oh foreign [Music] that's all for today I hope you enjoyed this video and thank you for bearing with me and the subpar New York City weather but again if you haven't subscribed please consider doing so so you can stay up to date on all my new videos and I'll see you in my next one

Channel: Mary Lynn Buchanan

Views: 32,183

Keywords: art, art history, helen frankenthaler, artist, contemporary art, paintings, modern art, education, frankenthaler, abstract expressionist, painting, art gallery, abstract art, mary lynn buchanan, new york city, new york art gallery, Tala Madani, 303 Gallery, Franz West, David Zwirner Gallery, Martin Kippenberger, Skarstedt Gallery, Jenny Brosinski, Cristina De Miguel, Almine Rech Gallery, Albert Oehlen, Gagosian Gallery, Cy Gavin, Minerva Cuevas, Kurimanzutto Gallery

Id: TarX6VjNio0

Length: 25min 19sec (1519 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 05 2023