The IFPDA has announced postponement from October 2021 to October 2022 of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, scheduled to be held at the Javits Center in New York City. “As an international .
The long-running grassroots public art project Art in Odd Places returns with an edition curated by Furusho von Puttkammer that questions the idea of a return to “normal” after the pandemic with works critiquing U.S. politics and the mythos of the American Dream. Projects will range from the outlandish to the poignant. Lawyer-turned-artist Tootsie Warhol will be in character as ex-president Donald Trump to complain about Kehinde Wiley outsourcing the creation of Obama’s official portrait to China, and anonymous British street artist “Blanksy” will appear in a white spandex suit that passersby are invited to spray paint with provided aerosols, while Sara Lynne Lindsay will pay tribute to the victims of the last pandemic, the 1918 Spanish flu, by carrying a billowing white dress in which she’s written their names in wax down 14th Street.
121.9 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in)
Price: $18,000
Davide Balliano s luscious paintings defy simple categorisation. Layers of plaster, gesso and varnish build up to create an illusion of three dimensions that suggest never ending space. There is something animated about his work the repetitive loops and optical play of black and white are dizzying and make for truly happy yet sophisticated paintings.
Courtesy of the artist and Cardi Gallery
UNTITLED 0174, 2020
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Price: $24,000
In his use of a carefully constructed visual language of minimalist forms and repeating patterns, Davide Balliano’s paintings are at once both visually dynamic and unexpectedly vulnerable. What at first glance appears to be a restricted precise rendering of bold black and white forms, on closer look reveals subtle surfaces on which the artist scrapes back the apparent perfection. The combination of gently worked surfaces and weighty
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