The art and design community of the San Francisco Gulf region is connected. Artists, designers and architects living here know each other’s names. But every year at the end of January, the community opens its doors to the international audience One art week Which includes Fog design + artAn event that has become one of the best on the western coast to understand contemporary art and design.
The FOG is dear to the local people held at the Fort Mason Center looking towards the Gulf, but more outsiders have started focusing on it. Its 11th edition includes a hearty mixture of hometown heroes and international newcomers with 59 exhibitions from far-flung places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Paris, Hong Kong and South Africa.
Divided into two ghats with a lot of times and lounges to break the spaces (and promote your wandering), FOG is digestible in a trip, but will make you feel satisfied. Photographer Cass Clifford and I entered the preview party and saw items of amazing art and design on the media and scale, which highlighted many types of attitudes. What was special in this year’s fair is given here.
Kim Mupangilai and Maris Van Vlac at Superhouse
Last year, Fog expanded its footprint with Fog Focus, a showcase of emerging designers and galleries located at the neighboring Ghat. This year, with the extraordinary performance of the superhouse of New York, it was once again filled with energy (which was least partially fuel by cocktail).
The gallery presented an installation of furniture by Belgian-Kangoli manufacturer Kim Mupangilai, who inspired her inter-cultural roots and prepared a three-piece seating set. Mupangilai told us, “This is an introduction to the relationship between Art Nouveau and Congo.” “It is becoming more clear that Art Nouveau was very inspired by non-Western countries.”
A fiber work done by Maris Van Wlack completed the place, suggesting the colors and forms of the stained glass window. Cass and I liked that it felt as if it was opening and some of it can be seen – it reminded me that sometimes, the most beautiful moments are when things feel that they feel that they are separating Are.
Yavon Mauzer in Municipal Bonds
One of the four galleries representing San Francisco at Fog Focus, Municipal Bonds offered a single performance by Okalland artist and designer Yavon Mauser. The pieces of the mauzer reflect the line between functions and pure artistic explorations, which came out in a collection of wall-sticks and traditional-furniture pieces including side tables and a chise lounge. I appreciated how the work of Mousar seems to be delicate and strong in turn, with concrete forms from the moments of delicate, such as in the Spiritus Cabinet, whose doors are made of small Sumi ink-ink-painted oak flap which open And can stop. “I like the duality of having two different things of something at the same time,” Mausar told me. “It only depends on the lens you are seeing.”
The furniture of the mazer and the objects hanging on the wall play with contrasts: heavy and light, opaque and transparent, soft and rigid.
Sam Shumarekar in Ochi
Ochi, which has posts in Los Angeles and Ketchm, Idaho, caught my attention with a set of surprises by Los Angeelino Ben Sanders in Fog Focus last year. This year, two lines of artist Sam Shumkekar’s fungi-inspired sculptures attracted me.
I liked organic growth on porcelain pieces, which reminded me of marine anemone, which I found in a jowar pool on the California coast in childhood.
Shoumekar is a micologist, so it is no surprise that his idols were inspired by real mushrooms that he promoted in his studio laboratory.
Blink Space on Fog Mrkt
The main pavilion was filled with tables for FOG MRKT, a new version of the fair, where gallery and retailers were selling products and crafts manufactured by artisans. Local craft legends inspired by the heritage of the legend JB Blink were an extraordinary Blan Space.
He had compositions by the artist Alana Burns of Mexico City, which I have been following for years. I became even more fanged by looking at her conch-inspired jewelery and tableware personally.
Burns makes pleasant desired objects such as spoon and comb, which often begin with oysters.
Sarah myerscoff gallery
The Sarah Myers Coff Gallery in London had a wooden word, in which the material was taking a numerous form in the cranberry booth. “The way our artists discover various biological materials, we like it,” the show’s gallerist Caroline Pastor explained, including an international set of designers like Nick Web and Ellenor Lakelin of the UK, as well as a personal favorite , Also included Julian Watts from Oregon. At a moment when many people are promoting wood as a material that can build a more durable future, it was exciting to see how the designers were adopting its spontaneous beauty and often epic qualities.
In the appropriate title “Raw Edge”, wood was focused here in its many forms, textures and colors.
The sculptures of the Whats were located above the credenza with rough doors.
Gallery Maria Vetergrain
Maria Vetergrain told me at her FOG booth, “I felt that contemporary Scandinavian artists were not getting their rights.” He told how he established his own designated Paris Gallery 15 years ago. Vetergrains now represent an international group of manufacturers, and their first performance on the West Coast made headlines.
Colorful works continue to swing ficklely between art and design, such as a bench with an ombrey mirror by Danish textile artist Greth Sorensen, a digitally woven wall and boris Berlin and German Ermics.
AGO Projects
Entering the booth of AGO projects in FOG felt like going to a party. The colors were thick, the furniture was attractive and luxurious, and designers and galalists were in discussion. Cass and I left the exhibition of Mexico City Studios, saying, “We like everything in this booth.” The AGO often works with emerging artists to help develop its work, including Brazilian furniture manufacturer Rafael Triboli, whose wax and bronze -lighted mahogany pieces have kept the place safe.
For its second performance in FOG, AGO mainly presented a luxurious range of furniture, textiles, lamps and mirrors by Latin American artists.
A full -length mirror of Guatemala’s agnes studio is decorated with ceramic sculptures and amulets in the crystal in the stone.
Anne Lyc
Cass and I could not see the transparent light box of Danish artist Ane Lycs at hosteller Buroz booth even though other beauties were performed at New York and Los Angeles Gallery. Like Maria Vettergrain, the gallery began especially by showing Nordic artists but today it represents an international set.
We liked how a piece of lyc was served as a type of screen, through which various scenes are contrary to the hardness of its grid.
Kesamor Gallery
One of the best things about FOG is to see contemporary bay area art on full performance. The Kasmore Gallery featured the works of local artists including Lindsay White, Raymond Saunders and Sonya Riport. We liked the ceramic word sculptures of Sean McFarland’s synotepe “Cloud Book” and a non-local finish artist Henan Venio.
The spontaneity of the pieces of the venio denied the depths of the supplies he said, which includes: The more we witness, the less language will be enough “and the more we see, the less we will see.”
McFarland’s “Cloud Book” forced us to think about photography and representation; His synotepe prints are made to look like blue sky but are made without the use of the camera.
Lee Shinja in Tina Kim Gallery
Although David Zoroner, Hosser and Virton and Marian Goodman-like veterans offered a bright series of global artists, some of the best international performances in FOG this year were of low-knowledge curator like Tina Kim Gallery. Korean artist Li Shinza was one of the first artists to bring cloth to the world of fine arts in Korea, and her complex, abstract wall-lactation was mesmerized. Keep an eye on the single performance of Lee’s work in Bampfa in Berkeley in this autumn.
The gallery showed the selection of Lee’s textile works from 1960 to 1990s.
Such landscapes were inspired by his childhood in Korean rural areas.
Inspired and excited, we are already waiting for the next year’s event.
