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SOFA NEW YORK 2006 WRAP-UP REPORT:
CHICAGO, JUNE 5, 2006, SOFA NEW YORK 2006 opened on Wednesday, May 31 with a lively benefit gala for the Museum of Arts & Design, New York. Mark Lyman, Founder and Director of SOFA NEW YORK said, “Opening Night has been steadily building in attendance and qualified buyers. We were very pleased and congratulate MAD on a great evening.”
Terry Davidson of Leo Kaplan Modern, New York said, “It was the biggest Opening ever. With so many art events happening this week, it was great to see that people came mid-week to check SOFA out.” Opening Night attendance was estimated at 900 persons. Mark Lyman added, “We are grateful to our sponsors Chubb and Collectify which invited key clientele to attend, adding potentially new and younger collectors to the mix.” Preliminary counts indicate paid attendance at the exposition was up 5% overall.
The Opening was a banner night at the stunning booth of Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd., New York, who has led the way for Asian ceramics at the fair for the past three years. Mirviss sold a remarkable ten copper-green glazed oribe vessel forms by Katô Yasukage, the 14th generation of a Japanese family of ceramic masters, and the first to be trained as a fine art sculptor. Mirviss said, “SOFA was on an even higher plane than years past, with several important dealer additions elevating the caliber and tone of the entire show. My impression was that attendance was a significant percentage higher than last year. My own show was quite successful, made more so by Mr. Katô’s strong, dynamic works, which found immediate homes.” To view a video interview of Katô Yasukage, click here.
THE OBJECT AS SUBJECT
CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 2006. What do porcelain vessels by Japanese artist Tokuda Yasokichi III (Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd., New York, NY) with rich Kutani glazes dating from the 9th c. updated in brilliant new color schemes; modernist Hans Coper’s strong, gestural ceramics (Galerie Besson, London, UK); and Beth Lipman’s (Heller Gallery, New York, NY) formal renderings in glass of 17th and 18th c. still-life paintings have in common? Virtuoso materiality.
The Ninth Annual SOFA NEW YORK 2006, the world’s foremost arts exposition of fine objects, returns June 1- 4 to the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue. In its most international presentation ever, fifty-nine of the world’s finest galleries and dealers from ten countries present for sale one-of-a-kind masterworks bridging the decorative and fine arts. Countries represented include United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Japan and Argentina.
SOFA NEW YORK 2006 LECTURE SERIES CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 2006. Complimentary with admission to SOFA NEW YORK 2006 (except where otherwise noted,) are twelve Lecture Series presentations featuring internationally renowned artists, collectors and arts professionals. The Lecture Series takes place at the exposition from Thursday, June 1 – Saturday, June 3 in the Tiffany Room at the Seventh Regiment Armory. View Lecture Schedule.
Anne Meszko, Director of Educational Programming for SOFA said, “The New York Lecture Series is especially strong this year in the sector of international art jewelry. Five of the world’s finest jewelry artists survey their careers and inspirations from the elegant minimalism of Italy’s Giampaolo Babetto (Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA), to the cutting-edge intersection of technology and aesthetics in the works of United Kingdom’s David Watkins (Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, London), to the highly conceptual, surreal objects of Ted Noten (Ornamentum, Hudson, NY) of The Netherlands.” Noten will invite the audience to “Chew Your Own Brooch” and spit out a self-sculpted artwork to be reviewed by an “all-star” jury, whose designs will be made into wearable artworks by Noten himself. Other acclaimed jewelers speaking in the Lecture Series are Switzerland’s David Bielander and Australia’s Helen Britton (Jewelers Werk Galerie, Washington, DC) based in Munich, Germany. Read more on Art Jewelry.
TWO SPECIAL EXHIBITS AT SOFA NEW YORK 2006
The Museum of Arts & Design, New York, presents a golden anniversary special exhibit entitled Jubilee! 50 Years on 53rd Street, featuring masterworks from each decade since the Museum opened in 1956, all from its permanent collection. Featured artists include Lenore Tawney, Peter Voulkos, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Arneson, Dale Chihuly, Cindy Sherman and Frank Gehry, among many others. Presented in the form of a time-line, the exhibit highlights pieces that express some of the artistic and cultural currents of the past 50 years. Visitors will see the forward progression of contemporary arts through specific examples of experimentation with materials and process. Read the SOFA NEW YORK Catalog Essay on "Jubilee"
SOFA NEW YORK 2006 GALLERY AND
DEALER PRESENTATIONS
CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 2006. In SOFA NEW YORK’s most international presentation ever, fifty-nine of the world’s finest galleries and dealers from ten countries present for sale one-of-a-kind masterworks bridging the decorative and fine arts. Countries represented include United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Japan and Argentina. Mark Lyman, Founder and Director of Expressions of Culture, Inc., a dmg world media company and producer of SOFA said, “Now in its 9th year, SOFA NEW YORK continues to grow in the depth and breadth of its gallery presentations, attracting new collectors and visitors. It has achieved a degree of international participation that is the mark of a mature art exposition.” Click on the Gallery or Dealer below to read about their SOFA NEW YORK presentation or View all profiled Gallery Presentations. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
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SOFA NEW YORK 2006 LECTURE SERIES SPOTLIGHT:
INTERNATIONAL ART JEWELRY
CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 2006. The SOFA NEW YORK 2006 Lecture Series announces a special focus on international art jewelry, featuring presentations by David Watkins, Ted Noten, Giampaolo Babetto, David Bielander and Helen Britton. Anne Meszko, Director of Educational Programming for the SOFA said, “We are delighted to present five seminal European jewelers whose artworks have challenged traditional boundaries of jewelry—pieces that move beyond ornamentation and preciousness, towards an increasingly conceptual studio practice.” Featured artists have helped redefine jewelry’s relationship to the body, to culture and the fine art world, a process that has recovered ancient goldsmithing techniques while at the same time opened itself to the many varied manifestations of object art.
A major figure in attempting to (often humorously) question the established codes of the body, of value and consumer society, Dutch jeweler and artist, Ted Noten (Ornamentum, Hudson, NY) has been asking the question—what is jewelry—art form, status symbol or deconstructions of both? Consider his brooches cut from the bodywork of a brand new Mercedes Benz. Or his renowned purses with startling cultural artifacts encased in perspex interiors like pistols, platinum credit cards and 24 carat pills—at once surreal object, both looking glass and mirror.
HISTORIC PANEL OF WORLD’S FINEST GLASS ARTISTS
CHICAGO, APRIL 15, 2006. Principal among twelve SOFA NEW YORK 2006 Lecture Series presentations is Emergence: Early American Studio Glass and Its Influences, an exploration of the beginnings of the American Studio Glass movement presented by its key pioneers. The movement was “born” in Toledo, Ohio in 1962, when Harvey K. Littleton (also represented at SOFA NEW YORK by Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, DC) and Dominic Labino presented two historic glassblowing workshops at the Toledo Museum of Art. Organized by SOFA NEW YORK exhibitor Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY, the Emergence panel discussion will be moderated by Tina Oldknow, Curator of Modern Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass, and feature seminal glass artists Howard Ben Tre, Erwin Eisch, Michael Glancy, Marvin Lipofsky, Richard Meitner, Joel Philip Myers, Tom Patti and Toots Zynsky. All artists are represented at SOFA NEW YORK by Barry Friedman Ltd.
SOFA ANNOUNCES MAJOR SPONSORSHIP OF
CHICAGO, MAY 15, 2006. Mark Lyman, Founder and Director of Expressions of Culture, Inc., the company that produces SOFA, a dmg world media company, said, “We are very excited that Chubb and Collectify will sponsor our New York exposition. Both are high-profile business leaders in the arts. Their generous sponsorship will make special things happen at the fair.” Franklin Silverstone of Collectify, the leader in industry-standard collections management and cataloguing software said, “We are delighted to be sponsors of SOFA NEW YORK 2006 in partnership with Chubb, one of the world’s preeminent insurers of fine homes and possessions. Chubb and Collectify have formed an alliance to provide collectors, curators, and family office managers with efficient software for cataloguing and insuring collections. We look forward to meeting the many collectors at SOFA and introducing our services to manage their fine objects.” Visit Chubb and Collectify at SOFA NEW YORK in Booth #124 and see how their services, individually or collectively, can benefit you and your collections.
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