Kohn Gallery is pleased to announce its participation at the 2017 edition of FIAC, with
a booth of historical work that underscores the breadth and scope of 20th century Californian art with leading figures from the «60s through the present.
Not exact matches
«Our program is devoted to establishing dialogue between
historical work and contemporary practices,» says Parker, and that approach is very much in evidence at their stellar
booth of fired
works at NADA New York this year.
His
work often pivots upon a certain Post-Impressionist art -
historical reference — a show at Martos last October focused on a reimagining
of Édouard Vuillard's First Fruits (1899)-- and at Art Brussels, the
booth's centerpiece was a reinterpretation
of Picasso's Guernica.
In the overall context
of a fair that moves back and forth across history, with
work by deceased artists that looks surprisingly contemporary and
work by contemporaries that looks suspiciously
historical, the
booth is a good example
of the topography and approach to «contemporary» art at the moment.