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InContext Tour of the VOLTA Show NY
Please join InContext Tours http://www.incontexttours.com as we take you through a tour of the VOLTA art fair on Saturday, March 5th, at 11:15am with an exciting selection of galleries' booths from all over the world.
We will take you into 4 booths and one special project created especially for the VOLTA fair. You will meet artists and gallerists, where they will talk about the work exhibited. This is an insider's opportunity to get a better understanding of the creative process and the inspiration behind the work. The tour will begin with a greeting from Amanda Coulson, art critic and fair director, who will let you in to one of the most vital art fairs in the world.
The VOLTA fair is one of the only fairs that specializes in showcasing one artist per booth, highlighting a specific artist's body of work, akin to a full exhibition or studio visit, which creates booths that are more seamless and curated than those in other fairs. This tour will help give you more of an understanding of the oeuvre of each artist.
InContext Tours will visit the following:
Nettie Horn Gallery, London, showcasing Sinta Werner. Born in 1977 in Germany, she lives and works in Berlin. Werner's works stem from a wish to shift and manipulate our perceptions through meticulously planned constructions or transformations. Misleadingly playing with the limits of our perception of reality and its grey areas, she exploits the interaction between what we see and what we imagine. Through her in-situ installations and "3-D constructions", Werneraims to create illusions of flatness in space as well as illogical and dematerialized stage-sets or scenes in order to deceive and confuse the viewer's senses. She establishes a room as something eminently pictorial, and as an image against which both reality and illusion can be measured, creating a stage for the act of observation itself.
New York-based artists Shiri Mordechay and David Tully collaborate and find middle ground in a special project for VOLTA NY. Mordechay's world belongs to the past, to ancestors, to things dead. A childhood in Africa. Seeing reality's rawness; of dense emotions; of gravity, of spirits. Having and using a very real clairvoyant ability. Tully is originally from Ireland and makes site specific works.
Breenspace, Waterloo, Australia presents Joyce Hinterding, born 1958 in Melbourne (AU) and lives and works in Blue Mountains, Sydney, Australia. Entitled Field and Loops: Drawing series 6, these graphite drawings take the form of fractal antennas. When connected to a sound system they make audible the critical mass of signals and energy emitted from the local environment. Formally the drawings operate as meditative fields that depict and compress time and space within distorted sound-scapes. With a nod to Fluxus art of the 1960s, Hinterding explores the world we occupy across media such as sound art and experimental drawing.
Darren Foote, Born 1978 in Idaho, is presented by DODGEgallery. Each of Foote's sculptures live in the space between memory and material. In 2010, Foote received a grant to return to his childhood home in rural Idaho where he encountered the wear of time, finding both recognition and metamorphosis in the materiality of place. Barbed wire, a broken fence, hoof prints, bird shit, barn slats, and weathered doors are vestiges from his past that inspire relationships between materials and form. Wood is prevalent and partnered with other deliberate materials, including hand cut glass and cast concrete. Foote's process mirrors the workings of memory, starting with a specific time, place or object, and then slowly breaking down, combining, and reshaping. Deeply personal and universal, emotive and formal, Foote's work is a poignantly visceral interlacing of the immaterial and the material.
Sue Scott Gallery, NY presents Elisabeth Subrin, born 1965 in Boston. Her work in film, video, photography and installation mines the elusive intersections of history and female subjectivity in an effort to excavate and deconstruct both dominant and minor narratives. Investigating the residual impact of recent social movements, the nature of evidence, and the poetics of psychological "disorder," her projects rarely take the same form or conceptual approaches. Revisiting or reconstructing abandoned or marginal narratives, Subrin has sought to engage history not as evidence of truth but as evocations of absence, erasure and imagination. Who and what merits historical preservation obsesses her, as the nature and naming of history what constitutes a significant event or story and who determines ithas such critical consequences.
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LocationVOLTA NY -- Art Fair
7 West 34 Street between 5th and 6th avenues on the 11th floor
NY, NY
United States
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