David Johansen at ELLIOT TEMPLETON ARTS Cynthia Talmadge at 56 HENRY

Описание: David Johansen at ELLIOTT TEMPLETON FINE ARTS Cynthia Talmadge at 56 HENRY

James Kalm is sweating his way through the first summer heat wave. Your correspondent is back on the bike, and back on the street. David Johansen Paintings at Elloitt Templeton Fine Arts is a collection of paintings from the early twenty teens that display Johansen’s proclivity towards the exotic. Mostly single figure studies of men wearing fezzes, these paintings are thickly built up giving the subjects and framing elements a three-dimensional presence in glittering pigment. They also contrast ironically the image of byzantine icons with the assumed Islamic characters portrayed, and stylistically the notion of “Bad Painting” and the “Pattern&Decorative” movement.
“Sail -By Salute” is a tilted room installation featuring a massive pointillist depiction of the Costa Concordia disaster. From Wikipedia: The Costa Concordia disaster, the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13, 2012, after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. More than 4,200 people were rescued, though 32 people died in the disaster”. Talmage has rendered the sinking ship in high detail tiny strokes which contrasts the idea of timely image creation against the speed of which this disaster actually happened.
A BONUS ROUND featuring DUBUFFET X GIACOMETTI at NAHMAD CONTEMPORARY, from the press release “Despite moving in the same Parisian circles, sharing a gallerist and concurrently introducing their unique postwar European sensibilities to New York, Jean Dubuffet (1901–85) and Alberto Giacometti (1901–66) have only once been presented together in a dedicated pairing: at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, in 1968. After more than half a century and countless solo and group exhibitions across the globe, Dubuffet x Giacometti juxtaposes a careful selection of more than 20 works by these iconic artists, including paintings and sculptures.” #jameskalmreport #jameskalmroughcut #lorenmunk