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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.
Given the values of these artworks I referred to and the fact that they were directly related to such a high profile gallery I asked artist friends to model the Richard Serra Early Work pieces. I was able to engage next to others artists David Coleman, Peter Fend, Leigh Ledare, Wolfgang Maier and Ingo Niermann. For presenting the Blinky Palermo Late Work garments and foulards I asked ladies from the art world who might have been able to meet Palermo before he passed away at age 33 due to his drug consumption. sThea Westreich, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Bice Curiger, Shelly Arons, Linda Yablonsky and Janice Guy modeled who all know a lot about the world of art and its inner workings.

 

 

KARL MARX VISIST DAVID ZWIRNER ON 30TH STERET, BLINKY PALERMO, LATE WORKS

KARL MARX VISISTS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET,   RICHARD SERRA EARLY WORKS

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David Colman, Artist

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Peter Fend, Artist

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Ingo Niermann, Writer

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Leigh Ledare, Artist

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Woflgang Meier, Artist

 

 

KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NYC
Serra Working Class, Template for a Revolution, 1967/2013

leather, male collection, pants

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KARL MARX VISITS DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STREET, NYC
Serra Working Class, Lifting Up the Working Class, 16/2013

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)

 

 

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artist Isaac Julian

 

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Peter Fend, Artist

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David Coleman, Artist

 

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Barry Schwabsky, Artist

 

 

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James --- artist

 

 

 

 

 

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Eric (designer)

 

 

 

 

 

karl marx visiting david zwirner
richard serra working class
shoes

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.

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