Louise Lawler, Hedge Fund (Sugar), 2008, Cibachrome face mounted to plexi on museum box, 139.7 x 117.5 cm, Sprüth Magers Berlin London
With 89 years under its belt already, Art Cologne is the oldest art fair of its kind and plans to make its 90th one to remember. It’s all about expansion, from the established to the experimental. Its permanent sections provide a stellar range of over 200 galleries showcasing their wares, in the Galleries and New Contemporaries sections where you’ll find everything from Berlin’s Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler showing the art collective Slavs and Tartars, and Düsseldorf’s Galerie Schwarzer showing the complete hanging, as prescribed by the artist, of Le Corbusier’s “Le poème de l’angle droit”. Other highlights include Remmert and Barth’s offering of Hannah Höch’s “Woman and Saturn” that hung in the artist’s studio until her death.
The new concept for the fair is a collaborative addition to its usual program. Bringing together artists and galleries from all over the world, this section of the show allows galleries to co-curate a stand or co-host an artist. The area is a collaboration itself (between Art Cologne and the New Art Dealer’s Alliance), and is intended to create artistic parallels and create interesting perspectives on the international art horizon in the context of the fair. For example, a whole stand will be devoted to the blinging, pop-culture-drenched work of Carlos “dzine” Rolon, bringing together Henrik Springmann gallery (Berlin) and Salon 94 (Chicago). Creating connections internationally, this section presents a considered attitude to the international art market, focusing on the exchange of ideas. The art fair’s evolution is underway…
Art Cologne
10-13 April 2013
For more information see www.artcologne.de