TEFAF NY Fall-2016
Talin Kraft
I don’t always go to TEFAF (the Art Fair in New York) as I don’t usually have a hundred grand or so in my art budget 😢 , but it’s still fun to attend if you treat it as an exhibit where you never know what to expect. So today I decided to go and saw some interesting works (yes, could totally use that hundred grand).
In the Fall, they mostly show antique and classical art, but there’s some modern art as well (technically, it’s “from antiquity to 1920”, but there are later works too).
Here’s a homage to antiquity. It makes me want to work more with bronze.
And here’s a couple of paintings I liked, one by Max Ernst and another by a Dutch artist Geer van Velde. I didn’t know him before, and at first, I thought it was Klee.
And a couple of sculptures by Antoine Poncet, French-Swiss sculptor. He started working around mid-century, was a student of Ossip Zadkine, collaborated with Jean Arp, met Brancusi. His lines are very graceful (you can see Jean Arp’s influence here). I like his biomorphic figures.
Poncet has done a lot of monumental works - here’s one I saw at Northwestern University, another from Paris. There are a couple in New York, one in Mount Sinai Hospital and another in Credit Lyonnais, but I don’t have pictures of those.
All in all, it was excellent couple of hours. There was some jewelry as well, both antique and contemporary (Wallace Chan was very impressive - he combines jewelry with sculpture), but the rooms were too dark for pictures.
In addition, the building itself (Park Avenue Armory) is gorgeous. Now I need to return in the Spring, which is a show of Modern and Contemporary Art.