Sweetheart

Ian Davenport & Sue Arrowsmith

Midnight Moonlight, 2012

SWEETHEART

Artist Couples

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

An excited buzz was going on when I arrived at the Pippy Houldsworth gallery last week, the feeling of a show that has gone right was in the air. Good reviews in the papers, feels rightly deserved after a few years in the making. It was not easy to put up this show I was told, a lot of artists got put off by the title, not finding the humor and the irony. But with the once who did you could feel the excitement of working together, either the tension or the artistic pull. 

Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy saying it was easier to work than driving a car together, signing off with a heart on the tree. Combining Rosa Loy's use of animals with Neo Rauch's take on social realism the painting really stands out.

The Ian Davenport and Sue Arrowsmith's work ended up being a layer upon layer painting where he began with the circle and she added the tree silhouette, and with that fulfilling each other.

Neo Rauch & Rosa Loy

Die Jagdegesellschaft, 2012

Anthony Gormley and Vicken Parsons

Relational Aesthetics 2012

With Gormley and Parsons you get a combination of her abstract work and his sculptures based on DNA. A dreamy piece of how we try to relate to each other, never really touching completely? But staying in the same universe.

Rem Koolhaas & Madelon Vriesendorp

Captive Globe Revisited, 1994

Madelon Vriesendorp, 

Flagrant Delit, 1975-2008

The skyscrapers sharing the same bed somehow really hit home for me. Since I fell in love with a man who builds skyscrapers himself, I could just see us lying there in the middle of Manhattan, and with the beach image in the background (where we also moved to). 

These drawings were also part of the inspiration for the Sweetheart show.

It is always interesting to find out how couple works, will it create intrigues or inspiration? closer or looser bounds?

As I am just starting the renovation of my Gallery today, I am sure grateful that I have that close bond to my architect husband, I am not sure how I would do it without him:)

With Love

Kristin

Event Horizon 2010

Event Horizon March 26 - August 15, 2010

ANTONY GORMLEY

My English friends keep asking me why I am not writing about Antony Gormley? Finally he is having an exhibit in New York. But even the distances in Manhattan sometimes feels far.... Tuesday though I finally ventured to Madison Square Park to view the Iron casted Men (casted out of the artist´s own body). 
Unfortunately my pictures did not come up as exciting as the one above...

I hope you can find the men up there, this would be the perspective from you standing at the ground, looking up without a zoom.

I have a feeling this exhibit actually worked a lot better in London where they held it in 2007, especially since the buildings in New York are too tall for us to view the sculptures close up, it is a bit hard to get an intimate feeling from it.

I am impressed though at the incentive to do these public exhibits, it brings art out to the people in a completely different, more open minded and interactive way. People actually thought there was guys on the roof trying to jump, which then again ended up reminding them of 9/11. It also opens up an interest for Antony Gormley as an Artist for us in New York, in London he is a celebrity.

Here are some of his other projects:

Anthony Gormley in front of his 180,000 terracotta Figurines "Asian Field" at the Sydney Biennale in 2006

Photo: Ben Rushton ©

"Between You and Me" 2009

Quantum Cloud.1999 

Firmament, 2008

Anthony Gormley´s web site is pretty impressive if you would like to see more:)

Have a lovely day:) Kristin