ARTtrip to New York

First I ran to Guggenheim, which I longed for my whole life, just to find that it was in between exhibitions. My first time in NY and then something cruel like that happen? Well I got to see the fabulous architecture though.

The MET are huge and I only inspected the modern part – A fantastic place worth returning too.

MOMA was the absolutely best art experience in NY. Six floors of gorgeous artworks and good food too at both 2 and 5 floor. First I found a little painting by Franz West unknown to me (see below) – he is still going strong. Wanted to see original Hopper paintings and found to my surprise that the famous ‘gas station’ painting was very small in REAL LIFE.  Tom Wesselmann was a great surprise too but cant afford his works– and then I came across Tangled Alphabets by Léon Ferrari and Mira Schendel. Absolutely the best I have seen for long. Léons Rereadings of the Bible was a blown away experience. Found this pict and this pict only.

Lucky as we where on the  whole trip (going by intuition always brings about fantastic experiences served right into your orange turban), we ran into : TOAST / Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour / I want to enhance a few artist living and working in Tribeca, who opened their homes and ateliers to us, and gave this awesome experience real good flavour: Mia Wolff make lovely paintings full of presence, Jennifer Kotter makes Details Below 14th Street into strong graphic art, Joan Greenbergs mosaics (see below) makes home an everyday artexperience and Jiyoun Lee-Lodge makesstrong and interesting artexpressions, loved your VULCANO.

Thanks for inviting us into your homes.