Aside from one aggressively banal swastika and much neon signage, yard sale junk sculptures and animals galore, there weren’t too many trends at the Armory last week. Stumbling through it has yielded these absolutely subjective, commentary-sprinkled snaps. Partake?
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- Best. Nauman. Parody. Ever. If I was rich, I would totally totally buy this. Irony included. (The True Artist Makes Useless Shit For Rich People To Buy, Bert Rodriguez at Fredric Snitzer Gallery)
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![This was stupid. I much prefer the Irish accent breath spray at [Insert Any NYC Joke Store Name Here].](http://content.animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/02-125x125.jpg "The Armory")
- This was stupid. I much prefer the Irish accent breath spray at [Insert Any NYC Joke Store Name Here].
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- Condescending, talking crow head on George Carlin body. A total win somehow. (Kristof Kintera at Jiri Svestka Gallery)
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- Of all the dead animals framed, mounted, or otherwise molested at the show, these were… morbilicious. (Still Birth, Polly Morgan at Other Criteria)
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- Marina Abramovic at Sean Kelly… and everywhere these days.
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- Taxidermy stacks and missing musicians. Best combo of striking and hockey around. (Joachim Schönfeldt at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg)
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- If Dorothy was a drug dealer. (Galleria Filomena Soares)
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- Few people recognized the glorious Mr. Buck Angel, but a many of ignorants flapped lip anyway: “Didn’t you see the documentary about this man born without a penis?” (Buck With Cigar, Marc Quinn at White Cube, London)
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- Yes! Yes! Yes! I’m sorry, but this makes my heart twinkle/tinkle. (The Tree of Life: The Encyclopedia of Blushing, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh at Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp)
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- Aggressively banal swastika and real highlight: gold paint huffer tribute, please name! (Adam McEwen, Nicole Klagsbrun)
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- Win for best use of nature in art, bonus points for no taxidermy/furniture-rization. (Laurent Grasso at Sean Kelly)
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- How delicate and delightfully Cronenbergy. (Mori Junichi’s creeper at Mizuma Art)
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- I want to run through future forrest now please. (Wall Mounted Birch Box, Anthony James at Nicholas Robinson Gallery)
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- Win! Manifesting type onto blank sheet stacks via projections, actually making me stop and scratch my head awhile. (Lukas Machalichy at Vernon Gallery from Prague)
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- Little Russian brat with frisbee moved on to terrorizing Anish Kapoor’s shiny dish thing.
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- Superfluous demagogue art fair crasher…
yeah, what was up with that swastika? i almost did some performance art of my own on that piece. of the bodily fluid variety. the armory art orgy was overwhelming to say the least. some pretty nice work in there though.
the botched sex change was perhaps the most disturbing to me
I hope you're not talking about Buck Angel. Because that's 100% intentional. He, as a person, is more art than 90% of the stuff out there.
Buck Angel is disturbing. I visited "his" website once. I like my genders clear, thank you.
One of Polly Morgan's reps schooled me on her work and I was struck by the whimsy and delicacy of her pieces. They're quite funny if you stare at em a bit. I'm a sucker for bell jars and balloons tho…
Swastikas .. its kinda of a lame thing to do in 2009/2010 but I get the yellow… the color may have been used as a diffuser to deflate its power and meaning… i can't recall which direction the German swastika was facing, so… anyway… or the artist may have used the swastika to fuse power into the color yellow, a take on the color being associated with weakness and so on… whatever. pataters patatehoes.