Art Out: Marc Balet NFT NOW, Pieter Hugo, and I Love You... Leave a Message
Topiary House © Marc Balet
Ca d’Oro Gallery 179 10th Avenue 10011 NYC | Opening Dec. 8, 2022
Ca D’Oro Gallery presents Marc Balet NFT NOW. Included among the works is Topiary House. A 3 dimensional model built to depict Marc’s ironic take on society’s mania for environmental architecture. In this 4 room house (bedroom here) everything grows out of four trees which form a thick, lush canopy of vegetation. Bedspreads are watered, pillows are trimmed. The NFT is an animated version, with sound, of the original piece.
Marc Balet has been a creative director and marketer in the fashion industry for decades. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in Architecture he went on to win the prestigious Prix de Rome in Architecture and was awarded a one man show at the Whitney Museum of Art entitled Dreamhousing. Upon returning to the US he was hired by Andy Warhol to art direct Interview Magazine and the MTV show Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes.
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The Honourable Justice Moatlhodi Marumo, 2005 C-print
© Pieter Hugo
Stevenson Johannesburg | Dec. 3 - Feb. 4, 2023
Stevenson presents Pieter Hugo’s Polyphonic. Comprising over 100 head-and-shoulders portraits taken over almost 20 years, Polyphonic resumes and expands the lines of inquiry forged by Hugo in Being Present, his 2021 survey exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival.
There, the photographs were selected for how they ‘dabble with the lexicons of forensics, surveillance and typologies while keeping a strong humanism at their core’. Here, the artist supplements these ideas with observations on the failure of taxonomies. As its focus, the show comprises simple, studio portraits with no environments present. Through his amassed images, taken in locales as far apart as San Francisco, Beijing and Graaff-Reinet, Polyphonic offers ways of thinking through the tensions between difference and similarity, individuation and collectivity.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., His
Wife, Coretta, Rosa Parks, and
Other Activists March for Voting
Rights, 1965
© Steve Schapiro, courtesy of
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
Fahey Klein Gallery | Dec. 1 - Jan. 21, 2023
On display in Steve Schapiro: “I Love You...Leave A Message”, is a tightly curated selection of Schapiro’s vast range of images. While often praised for his expansive work documenting the American Civil Rights Movement - this important subject matter just begins to scratch the surface of the breadth and depth of Steve Schapiro’s photographic archive. Schapiro photographed some of the most enduring images of the past century.
In the early 1960’s Steve Schapiro began working as a freelance photographer for publications such as Life, Rolling Stone, TIME, and Newsweek. During this time, he produced photo-essays documenting the Civil Rights movement in America, the plight of migrant farm workers, addiction in underserved communities, and Robert Kennedy’s political campaigns. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, Schapiro continued his documentary projects and began working in Hollywood photographing prominent figures in music, art, and film. Schapiro created behind the scenes images for notable films including The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, Chinatown, among many others. He also collaborated on projects with a number of musicians such as David Bowie, Barbra Streisand, and Lou Reed.
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