Fair Play: The World Wide Web

The posts so far:

Occupy Miami?

Prologue: Head to Toe

Peekin' In.

At Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy, ABMB: Mona Hatoum, Conversation Piece

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"'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the Spider to the Fly.

The first web I saw was Mona Hatoum’s, crystalline and glistening, suspended from brocade-upholstered Queen Anne chairs at Art Basel Miami Beach. I gasped, so contemplative was it set amid the bustle of the fair. So unexpected. Then I saw another of hers, a bed whose springs had been configured into a web, making a shadow on the floor. In short order I saw a Louise Bourgeois spider and a Jim Hodges web attached high in a corner, a big floppy web by Carlos Amorales, and several webby nets made by the aptly named (at least for English) Ernesto Neto.  
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At White Cube, London, ABMB: Mona Hatoum, Webbed III

Detail below

I kept walking and looking. And the more I looked, the more I found. The interesting thing is that most of these webs—and by extension, nets and interlacements—are not necessarily fiber. Hatoum, for instance, used chairs, wire and glass beads for one; steel, rubber and wood for another. There are also webs and nets made of hot glue, bronze or  pipe cleaners. The webs are drawn, printed and photographed. And, yes, some are woven.

This post spun out from what I saw:

At Yvon Lambert, Paris, ABMB: Carlos Amorales, Transformable Spider Web, aluminum tubing and black rubber paint

At Robert Miller, New York, ABMB: Louise Bourgeois, Spider, bronze

At CRG Galery, New York, ABMB: Jim Hodges, Untitled, copper chain

Detail below

At William Baczek, Northampton, Mass., Aqua: Nanny Vonnegut, hand-colored monoprints, above and below

At Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, ABMB: Eduardo Basualdo

At Kudlek Vander Grinten, Cologne, Pulse: Lucie Beppler drawing

Detail below 

At Adler & Conkwright, New York, ABMB: Francois Morellet wire and wood construction, above and below

At Thatcher Propjects, New York, Pulse: Adam Fowler paper construction

At ABMB, artist and gallery lost to my notes, but too good to not post

At David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, Pulse: Hong Seon Jang,  Black Mirage, hot glue on fishing line

Detail below

At Dan Galerie, Sao Paolo, ABMB: Leon Ferrari

At Kimmerich Gallery, New York, Art Positions section of ABMB:  Alexandra Bircken knitted construction

At Spanierman Modern, Art Miami: Ibram Lassaw, Loom III, bronze (?)

At Diana Lowenstein, Miami, Pulse: Caroline Lathan-Steifel, Cohosh, pipe cleaners

Detail below

At Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, ABMB: El Anatsui hanging sculpture, too big to be photographed in one shot

At Andrew Kreps, New York, ABMB: Roe Etheridge, work appears to be a photograph of knotted net

At Tanya Bonakdar, New York, ABMB: Ernesto Neto sculpture of knotted line over shaped wood

Detail below

At Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paolo, ABMB: Neto again, with crocheted net pinned to the wall

At Now Contemporary Art, Art Miami: Carolina Ponte crocheted sculpture

At FTC, Berlin, Pulse: Beat Zoderer metal sculpture

At Alida Andersen Art Projects, Washington, D.C., Aqua: Erwin Timmers glass sculpture

At Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles, Pulse: Margie Livingston acrylic sculpture

At Sperone Westwater, New York, ABMB: Emil Lukas thread paintings, below, with detail above

At Bridgette Mayer, Philadelphia, Art Miami: Paul Oberst Cermonial Blanket, steel wire sculpture

Detail below

At D'Amelio Terras, New York, ABMB: Cornelia Parker, nets made from wire drawn from the lead of a bullet

Detail above; view of three works below

At ABMB (gallery unidentified): Daniel Sinsel, Untitled, linen casein and hazelnut shells

Detail above, full view below, app 30 x 20 inches

At ABMB, either Standard, Oslo, or Paula Cooper, New York: Tauba Auerbach, Corner V, woven cotton tape

Detail below

At Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, NADA: Hugh Scott-Douglas slit-fabric painting

Detail below

At Nye+Brown, Los Angeles NADA: Brian Wills, Untitled (Open Cross), oil and thread on panel

Detail below

At Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pulse: Xylor Jane watercolor weave

At Lausberg Contemporary, Dusseldorf and Toronto, Art MIami: Dani Marti bungee cord weaving

Detail below

At Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, ABMB: Orly Genger knitted scupture

At Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, Aqua: Gyongy Laky, Simple Conversation, telephone wire, 13" diameter

At Sikkema Jenkins, New York, ABMB: Sheila Hicks, wrapped linen sculpture

Detail below

At Valenzuela Klenner Galerie, Bogota, Art Nova section of ABMB: Liliana Angulo photograph

Installation view below

Next up: A twist on Ingres and then a walk through the Convention Center

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