This Week’s Events: Milan Design Week, Dallas Art Fair, Chester County Antiques Show, AD 20/21, John Baldessari & More
Milan
Salone del Mobile
Fiera Milano Rho (Pavilions 1-20)
April 4-9, 2017
S.S del Sempione 28 20017 Rho (MI), Italy
For information, visit https://www.salonemilano.it/en/
- A press conference in advance of the 56th edition. Courtesy the Salone del Mobile.
Rome may be the “Eternal City,” but the industrial metropolis to the north is Italy’s undisputed capital of glitz and glamour. This week marks the opening of Milan Design Week, a six-day celebration of the finer things in life. The 56th Salone del Mobile consists of five exhibitions—Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition, Euroluce, Workplace 3.0 and SaloneSatellite—that will run concurrently at the Fiera Milano Rho, on the outskirts of the city. The festivities are expected to draw some 300,000 visitors (and 5,000 journalists) from 165 countries.
This year’s show will take place against the backdrop of a vigorous Italian furniture market, which “continues to gain ground on almost all the international markets,” says Salone President Roberto Snaldero, citing research conducted by the Federlegno Arredo Eventi Study Centre, in Milan. “The Salone del Mobile is on the home stretch and both the companies involved and the organizers are looking forward to [the event] with great optimism.”
Apart from Italian furniture, the Salone will feature a healthy dose of Scandinavian furniture, as well as a concept photography project from designer Martino Gamper and artist Brigitte Niedermair that recapitulates 500 years of the color blue in figurative art. The project incorporates fabrics manufactured by Dedar, which is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its founding.
London
The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair
Battersea Evolution
April 4-9, 2017
Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ
For information, call +44 (0) 20 7616 9327 or visit http://www.decorativefair.com
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The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair, which opens this week in London’s Battersea Park, will feature a treasure trove of mirrors, jewelry, lighting, modern and contemporary sculpture, curiosities, and objets trouvés from 150 exhibitors from the United Kingdom and Europe. The emphasis this year is on The Morning Room, or a plant-filled, sun-dappled space that mediates between the garden and the interior of the home. In accordance with this theme, the Fair will offer an assortment of glass and decorative objects, such as garden urns for growing herbs and perennials.
Launched in 1985, the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair is the preeminent show dedicated to 20th-century design on the British Isles and is expected to attract emissaries of high society like David Beckham, Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Fiona Fullerton, and Guy Ritchie.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Chester County Antiques Show
The Phelps School
April 7-9, 2017
583 Sugartown Road, Malvern, PA 19355
For information, call 610.692.4800 or visit http://chestercohistorical.org/2017antiquesshow
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Spring is finally here, which means blue-chip dealers from across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will assemble for the annual Chester County Antiques Show, sponsored by the Chester County Historical Society. The 35th edition of the event will be chaired by a triumvirate of antiquarians—Francis “Fran” B. Jacobs II, Chuck Piola, and June Piola— and held at the Phelps School, in Malvern, Pa. This year’s roster includes: Dixon-Hall Fine Art (Phoenixville, Pa.), G. Sergeant Antiques (Woodbury, Ct.), Greg Kramer & Co. (Robesonia, Pa.), HL Chalfant (West Chester, Pa.), Mark and Marjorie Allen Antiques (Gilford, N.H.) and Philip Bradley Antiques (Downingtown, Pa.).
When not hunting for English Hepplewhite dining chairs or a walnut Queen Anne highboy, fair-goers are invited to attend the Mary Elizabeth Robinson Memorial Lectures, which will be delivered by Joel Fry, curator of Bartram’s Garden, and Jenny Rose Carey, senior director of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Meadowbrook Farm.
Boston, Massachusetts
AD 20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries and the Boston Print Fair
The Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts
April 6-9, 2017
539 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02116
For information, call 617.363.0405 or visit http://www.AD2021.com
- One of the highlights of the show: Amalie Szeps, Beaded Necklace, from Wiener Werksttate. Courtesy Glen Leroux Antiques (Westport, Conn.).
This week, Boston will play host to the fourth annual Boston Design Week, a series of programs and exhibitions at a variety of venues across the city. The principal event of this twelve-day extravaganza is the 10th Anniversary AD 20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries and The Boston Print Fair, which will bring together fifty exhibitors offering modern and contemporary furniture, decorative arts, jewelry and fine art. The show kicks off with a Gala Preview, where fair-goers will raise a toast to Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, director of Fuller Craft Museum and recipient of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. Proceeds benefit Design Museum Boston.
The roster of exhibitors at this year’s edition is a combination of emerging and established voices, including stalwarts like Glen Leroux Antiques (Westport, Conn.), a highly esteemed purveyor of mid-century and modern jewelry and furniture. The proceedings will conclude with a presentation by Laura Dowling, who spent six years as the chief floral designer for the Obama White House. After a flower-arranging demonstration, Dowling will sign copies of her newly-released book, Floral Diplomacy at the White House.
New York
John Baldessari: Paintings 1966-68
Craig F. Starr Gallery
April 7-May 20, 2017
5 E. 73rd St., New York, New York
For information, call 212.570.1739 or visit http://www.starr-art.com
- John Baldessari, Eyebrows Furrowed Foreheads Figure with Globe, 2009. Offered by RoGallery (Long Island City, N.Y.).
In the early 1960s, John Baldessari was on the periphery of the art establishment, working in his hometown of National City, Calif. One day, he had an epiphany. “I was always interested in language,” he said recently. “I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can’t it be painted words on canvas?”
This epiphany was the genesis of the artist’s textual compositions, many of which are now on view at Craig F. Starr Gallery as part of “John Baldessari: Paintings 1966-68.” One work, Space Available (1966-67), literally reads, “space available,” pointing to the creative potential of the empty pictorial field, and also highlighting the commercial nature of the artistic enterprise by likening the canvas to a billboard. These witty interventions by Baldessari presaged the text-based hijinks of Conceptual artists and set the stage for his later work, in which Baldessari delighted in confounding the expectations of viewers, as with this suite of Stonehedge prints featured in Thomas Jayne’s East Side Apartment.
Dallas, Texas
Dallas Art Fair
Fashion Industry Gallery
April 7-9, 2017
1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX 75201
For information, call 214.220.1287 or visit http://dallasartfair.com
This week, art lovers are headed to warmer climes for the 2017 Dallas Art Fair, which will feature about fifty international art dealers and galleries presenting new and traditional media, from painting, sculpture and works on paper to photography, video and installations. The fair will take place at FIG (Fashion Industry Gallery) in the revitalized downtown Arts District, site of the Dallas Museum of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center.
Established in 2009, the Dallas Art Fair is a relatively new addition to the international circuit, but it has already established a reputation as a place for serious collecting. That does not mean, of course, that there will not be a full buffet of extracurriculars, including “Unexpected: Roundtable Conversation about Absurdity in Art,” in which a panel of artists will address the more comical aspects of contemporary art.
