16.03.10 FAURSCHOU is pleased to be listed as number 1 in Art in America’s Top Ten at The Armory Show Modern.
What more can you ask of the Armory Show Modern than to provide a few transcendent moments with some art-historical significance and a bit of emotional depth? This booth's display graciously fulfilled the request with a large, sumptuous 1964 Picasso painting from his "Artist and Model" series, hanging near an evidently precious but rather abject sculpture, a heap of sunflower seeds piled neatly on the carpet (Ai Weiwei's 2009 Sunflower Seeds). On the wall just above the seed mound was another surprise, a lush and brooding 1895 seascape by Edvard Munch. Completing the scene was a splashy Georg Baselitz canvas and a monumental Robert Rauschenberg painting that covered the entire back wall. Rigorous and austere yet generous in its invitation for viewers to free-associate among wildly diverse, century-spanning visual languages, the presentation offered the kind of unique art experience that makes the circuitous and sometimes arduous trek to the Armory Show worthwhile.
PICTURED: AI WEIWEI, SUNFLOWER SEEDS, 2009. COURTESY FAURSCHOU GALLERY.
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