Courtesy Frederieke Taylor Gallery
Through 10.13.07
Jackie Ferrara: new wall drawing and sculpture
Often collaborating with architects and landscape architects, Jackie Ferrara creates public spaces occupying the boundary between architecture and sculpture. For this exhibition Ferrara has created a group of furniture elements sited in a series of wall drawings derived from mathematical progressions enclosing the gallery space.
Frederieke Taylor Gallery
535 West 22 Street, 6th floor
Ring Dome, pavilion designed by Minsuk Cho/Mass Studies for Performance Z-A.
Courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture
9.21.07 through 10.16.07
Performance Z-A
Storefront for Art and Architecture celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new edition of its first event. Performance Z-A is a 26-day celebration in Petrosino Park, adjacent to Storefront, in a specially built pavilion designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho, AIA. Organized by Storefront’s three directors (Kyong Park, Sarah Herda, and Joseph Grima), the event includes representatives of all disciplines that have participated in programs over the past decades: architects, artists, writers, researchers, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, and more. Performances, concerts, open discussions, film screenings, and interviews will occur nightly. Performance Z-A is also part of a citywide celebration of the 40th anniversary of art programming in NYC’s parks.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
Petrosino Park, adjacent to 97 Kenmare Street
Fingering.
Courtesy ISE Cultural Foundation
Through 11.23.07
Synthesized Space
A two-part exhibition includes Artificial Landscapes: Noboru Ota, open through September 14, and Fingering, open through November 23. Artificial Landscapes explores digital tectonics — the study of an imaginary landscape’s inner structure. A site-specific installation, light acts as the mechanism for the sculpture, which allows viewers to interact with the projected, three-dimensional floating sphere illuminated by a two-way projection. Fingering is a reactive video installation that tracks a viewer. A Chinese woman holding a ‘finger-gun’ aims at the moving viewer and will ‘fire’ if the viewer stays completely still for more than 7 seconds in front of her. Visual and audio effects relate to psychological, corporeal, and virtual landscapes in digital technology.
ISE Cultural Foundation
555 Broadway (Between Prince and Spring Street)
The Drawbridge, Plate VII from the series Carceri, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1761; etching on laid paper.
Photo by Matt Flynn, courtesy Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, lent by The Arthur Ross Foundation
Through 01.20.08
Piranesi as Designer
Exhibited is a comprehensive look at Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s influence as an architect, interior designer, and furniture maker. His concept of modern design is highlighted through more than 100 etchings, original drawings, and decorative arts objects. Works by Peter Eisenman, FAIA, Michael Graves, FAIA, Daniel Libeskind, AIA, Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, and Robert Venturi, FAIA, and Denise Scott Brown, RIBA, demonstrate Piranesi’s continuing influence. Drawings and prints of designs will also be shown together for the first time with corresponding three-dimensional objects produced after his designs.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue
Licht.Enstein, Ingo Maurer, 2001,On Off. Circuit-boards, metal, plastic, and LEDs.
Photo by Thmoas Dix, courtesy Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Through 01.27.08
Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer
A retrospective of German lighting designer Ingo Maurer’s 40-years of work features lighting installations, prototypes, commissioned one-off pieces, and photographs and films documenting Maurer’s international illumination projects. Maurer uses unexpected materials and found objects to create light, and he is among the first designers to experiment with halogen and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Sketches and handwritten notes accompany the objects and installations.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue