Kimiko Yoshida
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Artlog Lower East Side Art crawl
FINE ART GALLERY is delighted to participate to the Artlog Collect LES’09 on Saturday, April 18th. Join Artlog for Collect LES, an art crawl through the Lower East Side’s burgeoning art community. Coordinated by Artlog in partnership with the LES Business Improvement District, Collect LES includes 28 galleries and the New Museum. Schedule: 4:00 – 6:00pm $2 off admission to the New Museum’s Triennial “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus,” including a private curator-led tour for Collect LES ticket holders from 4:00 – 4:45pm. Space is limited- RSVP TourRSVP@newmuseum.org 6:00 – 8:30pm Gallery crawl 8:00 – 10:30pm Reception at The Sixth Ward (Garden), 191 Orchard St, New York 9:30pm – Late…
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Self-portraits, brides of the world, and Descartes
Through a series of self-portraits taken during the last seven years, the Japanese photographer Kimiko Yoshida embodies the brides of the world. Subverting the stereotypes which pertain to tribal minorities and segregation, she challenges the search of narcissism: she seeks erasure: erasure of the origins. Borrowing from the precept of Descartes “Larvatus Prodeo”(`I come forward masked’), and like an Ovidian tale, transforms into an African, an Indian, an Egyptian, a Russian, a Tibetan… alluding to the condition that we live in the globalization of goods and images, exceeding the possession of a fixed identity by mixing cultures, religions, rituals and references. She crossbreeds, she hybrids, she metamorphoses. Her approach is…
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Inanugural exhibition of Kimiko Yoshida @ Fine Art Gallery on Orchard St.
The inaugural exhibition of Kimiko Yoshida at Fine art attracted art scenesters, bankers, diplomats and the usual suspects. The latest news in contemporary and modern art in New York, London, Paris and Berlin
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Fine Art Opening
Finally, Fine Art opens Saturday. Thanks to Liz-n-Val for coming in today. Look forward to seeing you tomorrow. The latest news in contemporary and modern art in New York, London, Paris and Berlin