Show Off & Half of FIAC

So I think last year’s shows were better- while it’s always hit or miss at these things, I honestly really liked a few pieces from last year’s FIAC (Damien Hirst’s Fly Canvas, Subodh Gupta’s bronze potatoes in a plastic bag, Penone’s cast (pumpkin?) vines…), this year’s edition had a few pieces I liked but nothing that I’m quite as excited about.

At the FIAC, I liked Christina Iglesias’ Untitles, 2007, Seriography over Stainless Steel

and Sigalit Landau’s Barbed Salt Lamps from 2007 (barbed wire soaked in dead sea salt).

At Show Off, I liked some flat minimalist wall hangings created from bird feathers by Jodie Carey (although the ones with Bones and overly Baroque motifs were a bit much) and while I didn’t like the photos/posters by Lucie Duval, I think I would like the original sculptures that the 2d works depict, if I saw them in person (“clothing” created out of gloves sewn together). Thomas Tronel-Gauthier’s sculptures at Riff Art Projects were great- I think we’re soul mates!