Fair and Fair Alike: 2009. The Pretenders

Fair and Fair Alike coverage so far:

. Art Miami
. Red Dot
. NADA
. Scope
. Aqua Art
. Pulse
. The Big One, Art Basel Miami Beach
. An Overview Before the Individual Fairs
. Art Bloggers at Art Miami
. Are We Out of the Woods?
. A Little Gossip
. Art? Or Not Art?
. Nosing Around

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This is the part I like best: connecting the dots. There's so much to see that the work almost starts assembling itself as I'm seeing it. The rest gets done as I go through the images when I get back. Here's the first of my curated posts: the homages, appropriations and knockoffs of iconic images.

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We start with the last image of the previous post: Leslie Holt's lineup of miniature fakes at David Lusk Gallery, from Piero della Francesca to Warhol, each leavened with a Hello Kitty

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The real deal at Aquavella, at ABMB (the wall label gives you a sense of scale); Holt's tiny variation

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The real deal on a ceramic vessel, above, at Galerie Krugier et Cie, at ABMB; Russ Warren painting at Les Yeux du Monde, Aqua Art
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The real deal: Richard Pettibone's iconic miniature reproductions from the 1960s of the iconic big works of the era. I saw them at Art Miami and got so engrossed I forgot to record the gallery
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The "Albers" wall at NADA
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Albers on a wall at Galerie Thomas, Munich, at ABMA
Below, Homage to the Square. Spring Tide

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Robert Indiana at Paul Kasmin Gallery, at ABMB
(The artist also produced "hope" in the same format, not sure which gallery)
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Below, Gavin Turk at Sean Kelly
(Image filched from the Fallon and Rosof Art Blog, whose post also shows a knockoff version, "Porn")
I'm thinking of one myself:
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You knew the soup can wouldn't be far behind.
Andy, above, at Gagosian Gallery; at ABMB
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Mmm mmm, shiny: Jonathan Stein's sequinned version at Olivia Fine Arts, London; at Art Miami
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The crowd pleaser: Enrique Chagoya, Pyramid Scheme, at Lisa Sette, Scottsdale; at Art Miami
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Detail below


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Knockoff magazine and book covers from Alex Rodriguez at Galeria Christopher Paschall, Bogota; at Scope
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Below, closeup of the subject of out next riff:
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Huang Binyan's cloissonne urinal, at Lisa Sette Gallery
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The ultimate knockoff of a knockoff: the logo for Fountain art fair
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Lucio Fontana? Ma, no. Taras Polataiko at Priska Juschka Fine Art; at Pulse
The slits are painted. Ah, the trompe l'oeil homage

Closeup view below
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Next up: Mano a Mano