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KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET Capitalism today takes on many forms and goes through many transformations. Art is a perfect vehicle for moving big moneywith a minimum of formality, rules and regulations and a maximum of intransparency and secrecy. Art collecting on that level is for many people throwing blue chip dices that never lose their value. Some dead and some living artists are perfect media to lubricate that exchange for sublime mehrwert/surplus value production. With the arrival of wall street and hedge fund money as well as that of investment fonds, Russian and Asian taicoons in a gloabal market - Basel Miami, Basel Hongkong, Basel Switzerland - the rules of the game have changed. Dealers too have to be on the move spreading locations world wide with Gagosian Gallery leading the pack. David Zwirner - who I really like - entered this game and needed to grow as big as otherse if he didn't want to be swallowed and compet on this top level. He really does and does it with style and a beautiful new musuem style gallery building in Chelesea on 20th street. On my last visit in June, he showed Palermo and early works of Richard Serra - two amazing shows !!!!
KARL MARX VISISTS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, RICHARD SERRA EARLY WORKS functions just like the works of Palermo with adapted titles and work features. The Serra piece Template, 1967 looking like an upside town leather apron was hence turned into a simple leather apron to be worn with the subsequent title KARL MARX VISISTS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, RICHARD SERRA EARLY WORKS, Template for a Revolution, 1967/2013. Serra’s To Lift, 1967 consisting of vulcanized rubber from the same Zwirner show was copied as well into a similar looking rubber piece to be carried as something wearable.
KARL MARX VISIST DAVID ZWIRNER ON 30TH STERET, BLINKY PALERMO, LATE WORKS KARL MARX VISISTS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, RICHARD SERRA EARLY WORKS David Colman, Artist Peter Fend, Artist Ingo Niermann, Writer Leigh Ledare, Artist Woflgang Meier, Artist
KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NYC leather, male collection, pants
KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NYC rubber - male collection, coates 36 x 78 inches. and . 3.2 mm -- black .. regular neoprene, 10 kg/ 22 pound each starring: David Harvey (Marxist, Philosopher)
artist Isaac Julian
Peter Fend, Artist David Coleman, Artist
Barry Schwabsky, Artist
James --- artist
Eric (designer)
karl marx visiting david zwirner the palermo works were silk screened with the help of MAIN AID - MICHAELA WIRSIG and the print shop at the academy of fine arts, Stuttgart.
For the presentation of these KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREETworks on stage Richard Serra was so kind to produce a wonderful screenplay as listed in his work: Actions to RelateS to Oneself 1967-1968 -- hence in this - segment we will ROLL, bend, twist, drop, splash, scatter, pair, hide, and hopfully IMPRESS. one thing we will engage which is not on the list is: dangerously balancing - as his work does. |