The art fair returns to the physical world in The Shed, New York.
By María Fernanda Leaño @malincheart
New York is the “City of Liberty”, the statue confirms it. Anyone is free on the streets of NYC, net. And is that one of the most controversial Mexican icons in the world is also a New Yorker …
More than 60 international galleries physically performed at New York’s Frieze Art Fair location, The Shed, in Hudson Yards, a bright sign that the city is returning to normal. Maestro Dobel Tequila @dobeltequila also represented Mex with a dynamic booth called Artphocary with tequila cocktails and Mexican fruits.
In pre-pandemic times, May was undoubtedly one of the busiest months on the New York calendar. In addition to the campaign being carried out by the city, to being back New York, it brings a return to the Big Apple to precovid times.
Frieze Art Fair brought hope to the return of the world of art one on one, and to the return of life before the bug that stopped the world. The art world takes a digital turn by featuring augmented reality (digital art viewed only with your phone), by Precious Okoyomon, Cao Fei, and KAWS.
Precious Okoyomon presented sensory art, which won the Frieze artist award 2021 with digital installations within the fair.
-The Shed/Hudson Yards
The Shed, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group, is an arts space located in Manhattan’s growing West Side Hudson Yards development, America’s largest private real estate development, a gleaming collection of office towers and depas connected to the High Line, The Shed and The Vessle, with a luxury shopping center.
-Malinche at Frieze
La Malinche is invited by Frieze VIP every year to New York, LA and London. And it is also the collector of the biggest galleries, and knows everyone who is anyone in the art world, the most important galleries in the world have tried to sign it, but Malinche Art is a brand that represents itself in collaboration. It is postmodern art in performance, multidisciplinary art and quite digitized. On Instagram you find many stories with multidimensional art @malincheart follow.
-Malinche Art Frees El Chapo to take the streets of New York At Frieze New York
During the contemporary art fair, critics of postmodern art eagerly awaited the announced reappearance of “La Malinche” and her performances, installations or creations very out of the ordinary, no one expects the way in which she is going to present herself, if with a plume, as a wall, as a shadow or with digital art. More never expected the surprise that was presented to them. And it is that the return to the physical world of the arts deserved that Malinche took control of the Street Art of New York when she released Chapo Guzmán, who is imprisoned in the city with a life sentence +30 years. So how did Malinche achieve the impossible?
Creative and radical minds inspired and made NYC what it is today, street art is reciprocal, it is public art and graffiti that influences the streets as much as the streets influence art, the true galleries of New York are the streets. Malinche turned El Chapo into “The Statue of Liberty” and in collaboration with the biggest street artists in town, and in conjunction with @zui_nyc the genius behind the Bernies on the streets of NYC after the elections. Malinche Art exhibited in major NYC landmarks such as Basquiat’s studio, Freeman Alley, Soho NYC, and in you l Meatpacking District he featured views of the Whitney Museum. La Malinche invited them to interact in the city, expressing that “look for El Chapo free in Manhattan during Frieze.” In networks and in statements. And you found it in the form of paste art, stickers and t-shirts in the art landmarks of street art and Frieze New York.
– Where did they find El Chapo?
* Basquiat World. The exstudio with the commemorative of Jean-Michel Basquiat in Manhattan, New York. The New York City artist and icon lived, worked and died in this remodeled landmark, which was owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.
American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn in 1960 and spent all his brief 27 years in the city he loved. The last five years I have spent here at 57 Great Jones Street. At the height of his career in the 1980s, the painter, collagist, and musician lived and worked in this NoHo loft studio, and his connection to the city was an integral part of his work. In these, his later years, he collaborated with Andy Warhol on a number of projects, and it was Warhol who provided this NoHo studio for Basquiat, having purchased the old garage in 1974 as a location for his Factory Films.
* Freeman Alley. One of the most famous graffiti spots in New York, it has become a center of public self-expression. If someone in the “Street art world” tells you: “meet me at the alley” you know where to go. It is “the alley of art in NYC”, there are the most recognized artists in the art of the streets of NYC, they are a fairly closed society, not just anyone enters their group.
* Soho New York. Soho was the area in Downtown where the slaves lived. Then it was practically a dumpster.
The nickname “SoHo” was given to the neighborhood in 1963, when city planner Chester Rapkin used the term to denote “South Houston.” After turning a blind eye to the hundreds of artists living illegally in SoHo buildings zoned for manufacturing, in 1971 the city began legalizing artists residing in joint artist workspaces. Today it is an area of the most “expensive” full of luxury shops and restaurants. It is also a must in street art.
* Frieze Art Fair. “A walking piece of art” very @malincheart, who attended the fair as a VIP guest dressed in Armani, then changed into a “El Chapo Liberty” t-shirt and walked around the fair with a statement piece, leaving their mouths open with his creative errant work. Al chapo enjoyed the fair, commented an art critic with a laugh.
* Bleeker St. The street connects a neighborhood today popular for music and arts venues, the West Village, which was a major hub of bohemian New York.
The street is named after the last name of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, a banker, the father of Anthony Bleecker, a 19th century writer, through whose family farm ran the entire street, he ceded his twenty-acre farm to the city, and In 1817, when the lots were auctioned, the Bleecker name was extended to present-day Sixth Avenue. Bleecker became the name of the entire street in the area that adjoined the “new rich area.” Today’s Village, where celebrities and billionaires live in townhouses.
*THEM. Throughout history, “Lower Manhattan” was the zip code for immigrants from all over the world. In addition to the original Irish, Italian, Polish, and Ukrainian families, German, African American, Chinese, Jewish, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants have cultivated communities on the Lower East Side. Today it is full of bars and hipsters.
* Whitney Museum Of American Art. In the early 1900s, sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney saw that American artists with new ideas had trouble displaying or selling their work.
In 1914, Mrs. Whitney established the Whitney Studio in Greenwich Village, where she presented exhibitions of living American artists. After moving to an expanded site on West 54th Street in 1954, the Whitney opened the Marcel Breuer-designed building on Madison Avenue at 75th Street in 1963. The iconic building housed the Museum from 1966 until October 20, 2014. Current building The Whitney at 99 Gansevoort Street opened on May 1, 2015 designed by architect Renzo Piano and located between the High Line and the Hudson River, the Whitney Building in the Meatpacking District.
*Street Art Stickers. All around Manhattan and BKN! Find @malincheart ‘s El Chapo Liberty. En los icónicos street art sticker walls.
From NYC with love and (conditional) freedom. See you next Friday at #theworldasmybackyard
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