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Henning Strassburger @ Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen

suggested by Paint! Copyright of the Artist - Courtesy of the Artist and Sies+Hohe, BolteLang and Soy Capitán

Photo: Frank Kleinbach

Henning Strassburger BLEACHING IS TEACHING

Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen 29 May - 7 June 2016

More details on: http://kunstverein-reutlingen.de/ausstellungen/aktuell/

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Henning Strassburger @ Soy Capitán, Berlin

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Copyright of the Artist - Courtesy of the Artist and Soy Capitán, Berlin

Henning Strassburger Superet Light

Soy Capitán, Berlin 29 April 2016 - 25 June 2016

More details on: http://soycapitan.de/artists/henning-strassburger/

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Henning Strassburger @ BolteLang, Zürich

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Copyright of the Artist - Courtesy of the Artist and BolteLang, Zurich

Henning Strassburger Dirt Club

BolteLang, Zurich 29 August 2015 - 03 October 2015

More details on: http://www.boltelang.com/exhibitions/current/

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Henning Strassburger at #boltelang #henningstrassburger #contemporaryart #art #kunst #zürich #switzerland @thestrassburger

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Henning Strassburger @ Sies+Hoeke, Düsseldorf

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Copyright of the Artist - Courtesy of Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf and Soy Capitán, Berlin Photo: Achim Kukulies and Nick Ash

Henning Strassburger Pool

Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf 16 January 2015 - 14 February 2015

More details on: http://www.sieshoeke.com/exhibitions/henning-strassburger-2014

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the Armory Show 2015

So I almost feel as if I am a broken record bemoaning the current state of mediocrity at art fairs. One of the friends who I travelled with today at the Armory Show said, "I wish it was 20 years ago when we went to an art fair, like Basel, and everything seemed so new and fresh." So what's going on? Part of the problem is that the expansion of art fairs, as I've commented in the past, is like the PGA Tour where there is a golf tournament every week all year long, and thus contributes to a dirth of great material. But that's not the whole answer, rather this kind of art market, where dealers feel they can and will sell out their booths if the work is "salable", filters throughout the art chain. I want to be very clear here that I am not faulting the dealers, there job is to sell the art. And so they put pressure on their artists to produce what is proven to be salable. And for both dealer and artist, why risk taking on anything or anyone who may not be proven salable? And the artists benefit as well from doing what is salable and not taking risks and who can blame them.  

 Then there's pressure from the auction market. The flavor of the year is young abstraction which at worst has been dubbed "zombie abstraction". As I have recently pointed out, in Phillips "Under the Influence" auction next week, 33 of the first 40 lots, almost all abstract paintings, were made on or after 2010. I would venture to say that for a fair number of them, this is not the first time they have been "flipped". 

I do not have a solution for this. The irony is that good economic times in the art market seem to directly correlate to an inhibition of creativity. Contemporary art needs to be hated and rejected before it is assimilated and that's not good for sales. Van Gogh sold one painting during his lifetime, and Matisse was hung in effigy at the Chicago Art Institute in anticipation of the 1912 Armory Show coming there.

So the Armory was not terrible, it was white bread. Although what was notable was an absence of the premier galleries, from both sides of the Atlantic, which probably indicates how Frieze has effectively eroded this fair.

So the moments that impressed. Two of the shows at The Armory Presents section, one person show, are worth noting. At Boltelang/Soy Capitan from Zurich and Berlin were the abstract paintings of Henning Strassurger.

Displaying an idiosyncratic and personal mark, he extends the legacy of Cy Twombly.

The second booth is that of Nicelle Beauchene who showed her artist Chris Wiley. Wiley challenges norms about the relationship of photography to painting while at the same time, creating frames for his work that call into play their relationship to sculpture.

The booth that I thought was the most pulled together was the English dealer Victoria Miro. She certainly represents established artists like Eric Fischl and Chris Ofili

And Ofili's painting seems to herald a new direction. Also prominently displayed was a large figure by Chantel Joffe

And a sublime landscape by Celia Paul.

Finally, just a couple of individual works worth attention. The collage paintings of Hans Op de Beeck at Galerie Ron Mandos titled "Obscura" have a real depth and substance.

And the work of Volker Huller at 11 Rivington  stood out. It's interesting that I have probably seen, but not registered, his work at the gallery, and only at the art fair notice.

Similarly, I haven't previously notice the sumptuous work of Dorina Karpov at Pierogi although no doubt I've seen it. I won't overlook it again.