The Armory Show 2018 | New York
The Armory Show 2018 in New York is where most of the biggest names in the gallery business are putting their assets on show this week.
In the extensive Galleries section, the selections on display try to intrigue different kinds of collectors, by balancing out more eye-catching artwork with notorious names (possibly re-drawn or re-valued from the past), and searching to prove their insight in upward trends and promising talent.
The most recent trends can be sometimes summarized in terms of medium – with the newest media being more «material» than virtual, which doesn’t mean a-technological; nevertheless, the remarkable examples of hand-woven textile work on show are many.
Younger galleries (no more than ten years old) make up the Presents section, where solo-artist and dual-artist presentations allow for a chance to present emerging art-makers and to engage the viewers with more focused curatorial approaches.
Remarkably, groups that have been underrepresented and discriminated against, and that have been speaking up lately – in particular, women internationally, and African-Americans in the US – have a much stronger presence this year, not unlike the other art fairs held this week in New York.
A closer curatorial stance is taken with the Focus and Platform sections.
Similarly to the Armory Presents section, the Focus section is devoted to galleries with solo or dual-artist presentations, chosen yearly by an appointed curator – for this Armory Show 2018 it’s Gabriel Ritter – “through a selection of new or rarely seen work by today’s most relevant and compelling artists.”
The Platform section, now in its second edition – entitled The Contingent and curated by Jen Mergel – stages features 15 large-scale site-responsive projects, some of which are commissions.
The Armory Show 2018 is held at Piers 92 and 94 in New York, March 8-11, 2018
GALLERIES Section
- Nari Ward (2018) Galleria CONTINUA (San Gimignano)
- Ciprian Muresan: 12 Pages from ‘Malevic and Film’ (2017) Galeria Plan B (Cluj)
- Wael Shawky (2018) Lisson Gallery
- Ryan Trecartin (2015) Regen Projects (Los Angeles)
- Nam June Paik Gagosian
- Nam June Paik Gagosian
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Seydou Keïta (1959)
Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris)
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Ana Mendieta (1978)
Galerie Lelong
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Alfredo Jaar (1987)
Galerie Lelong
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Nicholas Party (marble, 2017), Pae White (textile, 2016)
kaufman repetto
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Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (2017)
kaufman repetto
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Grayson Perry (tapestry, 2017)
Victoria Miro (London)
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Andreas Schmitten: Prop (2017)
KÖNIG GALERIE (Berlin)
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Leslie Hewitt
Perrotin
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Roxy Paine: Meeting (2016)
Paul Kasmin Gallery
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Francesco Simeti (2018)
Francesca Minini/Massimo Minini (Milano/Brescia)
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Paolo Icaro (1982)
Francesca Minini/Massimo Minini (Milano/Brescia)
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Sissi (2018)
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore GAM (Bologna)
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Ettore Spalletti (2011)
Vistamare (Pescara)
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Joseph Kosuth: Maxima Propositio (Ovidio) (2017)
Vistamare (Pescara)
PRESENTS Section
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Larissa Fassler: Columbus Circle, NYC (2018)
Galerie Jérôme Poggi (Paris)
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Larissa Fassler: Columbus Circle, NYC (2018)
Galerie Jérôme Poggi (Paris)
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Ryoko Aoki
Take Ninagawa (Tokyo)
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Ivan Moudov
Galerie Alberta Pane (Paris)
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Sissel Blystad (1996), Sojourner Truth Parsons (2017)
Downs & Ross
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Nadira Husain
PSM (Berlin)
FOCUS Section
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Amalia Ulman (2018)
Barro (Buenos Aires)
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Hermann Nitsch
Marc Straus
PLATFORM Section
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JR: So Close (2018)
Presented by Artsy and
Jeffrey Deitch
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Wilmer Wilson IV: Measures Not Men (2017) and FfIiRrEe (2018)
Presented by CONNERSMITH (Washington)
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Beth Campbell (2018)
Presented by Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie (Basel)
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Wang Xin: The Gallery (2014)
Presented by de Sarthe Gallery (Hong Kong)
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Jeffrey Gibson: Without You I’m Nothing (2018)
Presented by Roberts Projects (Los Angeles)
by Matilde Soligno
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Mar 8, 2018