INDEPENDENT
Moss and Westreich-Wagner collaborate on installation at new art fair
Fitting comfortably within the self-defined “hybrid forum”, as new art fair INDEPENDENT calls itself, is an installation by Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell of New York design gallery Moss and independent art curators, Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner.
Their installation, this that & then some, pairs art objects and design objects as possibilities. Works on display are placed in dialogue to elicit dialogue. It offers an alternative mode of presentation, eschewing the pure, unmitigated museum/gallery space where works are considered essentially on their own, for something more akin to the actuality of residential living, where works are seen proximate to each other.
Says Thea Westreich: “The installation posits that relationships—the placement of art with design, and design with art—can serve to illuminate visual and conceptual meaning, just as such pairings can re-orient or even obliterate notions of beauty, function and hierarchy.”
this that & then some is meant to embrace and accentuate the matter of placement as a modality for the collector’s subjective expression. Thus, says Murray Moss, “the combinations in this exhibition are not intended as ultimate answers, but rather as momentary placeholders, indicators of infinite possibilities.”
Work from the following artists and designers will be shown:
Diane Arbus, Maarten Baas, Pablo Bronstein, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Larry Clark, Ilse Crawford, Ann Demeulemeester, Valie Export, Michal Fronek & Jan Nemecek, Robert Gober, Johanna Grawunder, Sol LeWitt, Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny, Julia Lohann, Wilhelm Neuhauser, Gaetano Pesce, Sterling Ruby, Josh Smith, Thomas Struth, Studio Job, Christopher Wool
INDEPENDENT is open Thursday, March 4 (4pm to 9pm,), Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6 (11am to 8pm) and Sunday March 7 (from noon to 4pm). INDENPENDENT is open to the public free of charge at 548 West 22nd Street (former Dia Center for the Arts building).
For more information regarding this that & then some:
Moss: 212 204 7100 info@mossonline.com
Westreich-Wagner 212 941 9449 info@twaas.com
Fitting comfortably within the self-defined “hybrid forum”, as new art fair INDEPENDENT calls itself, is an installation by Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell of New York design gallery Moss and independent art curators, Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner.
Their installation, this that & then some, pairs art objects and design objects as possibilities. Works on display are placed in dialogue to elicit dialogue. It offers an alternative mode of presentation, eschewing the pure, unmitigated museum/gallery space where works are considered essentially on their own, for something more akin to the actuality of residential living, where works are seen proximate to each other.
Says Thea Westreich: “The installation posits that relationships—the placement of art with design, and design with art—can serve to illuminate visual and conceptual meaning, just as such pairings can re-orient or even obliterate notions of beauty, function and hierarchy.”
this that & then some is meant to embrace and accentuate the matter of placement as a modality for the collector’s subjective expression. Thus, says Murray Moss, “the combinations in this exhibition are not intended as ultimate answers, but rather as momentary placeholders, indicators of infinite possibilities.”
Work from the following artists and designers will be shown:
Diane Arbus, Maarten Baas, Pablo Bronstein, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Larry Clark, Ilse Crawford, Ann Demeulemeester, Valie Export, Michal Fronek & Jan Nemecek, Robert Gober, Johanna Grawunder, Sol LeWitt, Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny, Julia Lohann, Wilhelm Neuhauser, Gaetano Pesce, Sterling Ruby, Josh Smith, Thomas Struth, Studio Job, Christopher Wool
INDEPENDENT is open Thursday, March 4 (4pm to 9pm,), Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6 (11am to 8pm) and Sunday March 7 (from noon to 4pm). INDENPENDENT is open to the public free of charge at 548 West 22nd Street (former Dia Center for the Arts building).
For more information regarding this that & then some:
Moss: 212 204 7100 info@mossonline.com
Westreich-Wagner 212 941 9449 info@twaas.com
