VIENNA ART FAIR: OPENING PREVIEW

Poster at Vienna Art Fair entrance

 
These are some glimpses of the Preview Opening at The Vienna Art Fair, 2011. The immediate feeling was positive...

JONATHAN QUINN: OPENING RAUCHSALON

Digital Prints by Jonathan Quinn 

LALEH KHORRAMIAN OPENING @ ⦁ GALERIE

29.04.11 opening @ ⦁ Galerie

CoCo OPENING: 28.04.11

THE BEST ICE CREAM IN VIENNA (Bermuda Triangle be damned)

I live in the Bermuda Triangle of Eissalons (Ice cream parlors): Zanoni & Zanoni, Eissalon Tuchlauben and Gelateria Hohemarkt, each separated by their fans and foes and a mere 2 minute walk. Though my favorite flavor resides a whole 4 minute walk away at Schwedenplatz....if I ever disappear check the triangle.

ZUCKERSKULPTUR / SUGAR SCULPTURE

Some examples of my recent Zuckerskulptur (various recipes), dimensions variable (and edible).

SATURDAY GALLERIES: VIENNA 5

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

T.S. Elliot The Waste Land

T.S. Elliot

It would be convenient if tough days were confined soley to an already difficult month. I am would be willing to sacrifice February for this very purpose - to reserve for malaise and malady. But what actually happens is you get a disaster here, a loss there and the next thing you know the whole damn year is flecked with existential crisis and bleak anniversaries. Even April gets blemished, but of course, T.S. Elliot already told us that in the first lines of his modernist masterpiece, The Waste Land.

I had been thinking about the poet is relation to other people suffering as I left the house to view the galleries. Luckily at the end of the day I left these galleries still believing that making art matters. (Litmus test #1: check.) I also thought that maybe all art can be extracted from a few lines in T.S. Elliot.

So of course, the first show I walk into is….