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Friday, November 6, 2020

Volta Newsletter: Artists and Their Work looks good!

In this newsletter we re-connect with artists, designers, and galleries, highlighting the spirit of collaboration.

This week we re-connect with artist Shantell Martin on her most recent projects. We take you behind the scenes with Hannah Strickland, designer and creative mind behind VOLTA's redesign and new brand identity.

Ahead of the official opening next week, we preview Galerie Heike Strelow's upcoming exhibition Essential Reduction in Frankfurt, a group show featuring new works by several VOLTA artists.

And as always, we keep you up-to-date with more local exhibitions at VOLTA galleries internationally. Enjoy!

"Collaboration is a very important part of my practice. I think there is so much to explore in so many different areas, and when you collaborate you get the opportunity to learn from your collaborators, in mediums that might not generally be within your comfort zone."
— Shantell Martin

We are thrilled to re-connect with artist Shantell Martin, who has been featured multiple times over the past decade at our sister fair PULSE.

Read the interview between Shantell and Kamiar to catch up with her most recent projects.

"Essential Reduction" focuses on the power and poetry that lies in concentrating on its essence."

Whether intended or desired or not, we are in a time where reduction plays a central role. But reduction does not only mean renunciation, rather it has its own power and poetry. Since the beginning of the 20th century, this insight has encouraged many artists to concentrate on essential questions in their work, and in both modern and contemporary art movements, the concept of reduction has had a key role.

The exhibition Essential Reduction will be on view November 13, 2020 – January 30, 2021.

For interest in acquiring an artwork, please visit the VOLTA website and inquire via the online for. VOLTA will connect you directly with the presenting gallery.

"Redesigning the VOLTA brand was an absolute dream come true, but at the same time I was filled with fear knowing the incredible calibre of artists that are represented at the fairs — how on earth was I ever going to do justice to such a brilliant brand? The good news was that the VOLTA team were so invested in making the new brand a success."
— Hannah Strickland

Earlier this year, the VOLTA team worked on a new design for the fairs in New York, Basel and Miami. Read Kamiar's interview with Hannah Strickland, the creative mind behind the fair's new brand identity.

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The Aesthetics of Matter | video interview by GalleryLOG / Catch Volta NYC March 7-11

The Aesthetics of Matter

VOLTA NY is proud to team up with GalleryLOG to present a preview video of The Aesthetics of Matter, curated by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont for VOLTA NY 2018.

Thomas and Chevremont will assemble The Aesthetics of Matter across a 2,600-square-foot space in the heart of PIER 90, an array of freestanding museum-style walls that afford and en- courage dialogue between artists, as well as a specifc focus in contrast to the traditional booth architecture and solo projects surrounding it. “This exhibition will include paintings, sculpture, photography, video, text, and printed matter,” notes the co-curators. “The artists’ works are social and political through the form of collage, which has always been thought of as ‘a moment of crisis in consciousness’.”

GalleryLOG — the art world's award-winning premium bespoke video content creator — was conceived to bridge the gap between galleries and art lovers worldwide by producing compelling interviews with artists, curators and directors. GalleryLOG's content is syndicated to a vast array of notable global art publications.

Essential Information:

PREVIEW:
Wednesday, March 7, 4 – 6 pm

PUBLIC VERNISSAGE:
Wednesday, March 7, 6 – 9 pm

PUBLIC HOURS:
Thursday – Saturday, March 8 – 10
12 – 8 pm
Sunday, March 11
12 – 5 pm

VIP ACCESS:
Mutually acknowledged VIP access
with The Armory Show

LOCATION:
PIER 90, 12th Avenue (at West 50th Street)
New York, NY 10019

#voltany2018
www.voltashow.com

Getting There:

DIRECT SHUTTLE:
Direct shuttle from The Armory Show, Pier 94
to VOLTA NY, Pier 90

PUBLIC TRANSIT:
C and E train to 50 Street / 8 Avenue
1, A, B, C, D to 59 Street / Columbus Circle

TAKING THE FERRY FROM NJ:
Frequent ferry service to Midtown at Pier 79,
a 13 min walk to Pier 90 on the Hudson River Greenway http://bit.ly/2qHzOg7

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The VOLTA team dubbed their 2017 edition in Basel “Lucky 13”,

VOLTA13

BASEL'S ART FAIR FOR NEW INTERNATIONAL POSITIONS

BASEL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21: The VOLTA team dubbed their 2017 edition in Basel “Lucky 13”, going against the grain of superstitious qualities around the number, which simply did not quantify when considering the staying power of an international art fair, particularly a satellite to the mighty Art Basel. Likewise, maintaining a high level of consistency and quality while introducing a growing clientele to an ever broader international contingent of new positions is not simply “luck”; it is sheer willpower, effort, and passion by the seven-member team and the 70 galleries who constitute VOLTA13.

“We are always appreciative of the effort our galleries and the artists put into every edition, but this year was truly a standout,” Amanda Coulson, VOLTA Artistic Director, praised the 2017 Basel participants. “Perhaps the spectre of the mighty ’13’ compelled galleries to create especially good juju. We had wonderful projects and an audience who was responsive and engaged. Most of the dealers reported long, intense, and fulfilling conversations, leading to solid sales — and, for the first time in many years, it didn’t even rain!”

image: Mauro Piredda (second from left) and Silvia Borella (seated, co-owners of PRIVATEVIEW, Torino) discusses their solo project of Ted Larsen with collectors

New discoveries equalled immediate success for galleries throughout Markthalle. In their Basel debut, PRIVATEVIEW (Torino) presented a stark and minimal installation of 10 mixed-media wall sculptures by mid-career American artist Ted Larsen, featuring reclaimed metal and other objects rendered in elegant geometric arrangements. By Thursday the gallery had sold out the booth, plus, according to co-owner Mauro Piredda, “Many people optioned for other pieces from the catalogue!” Added co-owner Silvia Borella, “We’ve had a great reaction and met many nice and serious collectors.” “Many Nordic people!” added Piredda, “kindly and young in mind!” Reflecting on the week, Borella said “Many collectors have been telling us that they leave the other satellite fairs behind. VOLTA is the next parallel fair after Art. It’s not overly experimental, but it is quite clean and concrete. And we agree!” Next door, VOLTA veteran Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt am Main) enjoyed considerable attention throughout the week for her, shall we say, more colorful than usual booth. Beyond the three Florian Heike paintings, rendered in the Frankfurt artist’s signature black on untreated cotton, the gallery debuted and nearly sold out of Venezuelan wunderkind Starsky Brines, moving all of his works on paper and all but one painting to an avid international clientele. “He’s in a really hot spot here!” commented Strelow. “We’ve had an amazing quality of collectors this year. It was already always good, VOLTA, but this year it’s even better.” Reflecting in Winter/Hörbelt’s massive Pixelbild mirrored work dominating the floor, the gallery recorded a commission from an Australian private collection for the German duo. Across the Halle, The Hole (New York) were very pleased in visitors’ reactions to young American artist Drake Carr, selling six of the young artist’s 10 cut-canvas painted dancers to all new clients from Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. “This is Drake’s first time showing his art, really,” noted owner Kathy Grayson, not counting the gallery’s big debut with him in group show Post-Analogue Painting II this past spring, “and he’s been super well received.” “It’s been an amazing fair,” said Tomas Umrian, director of SODA gallery (Bratislava), taking a pause from his busy week receiving guests around three distinct positions, between contemporary talents Lucia Tallová and Jaro Varga and the late great Slovakian all-star Stano Filko. All told, the gallery recorded multiple sales of Filko’s crucial works from the ‘70s, including an additional 20 works situated at the gallery, plus Umrian noted intense interest from guests, including an Italian collector specializing exclusively in works from the 1970s, who came up on the booth 15 minutes past closing time earlier in the week and returned the next morning, ready to buy. “So let’s say it’s been fabulous!”

VOLTA13 JUNE 12 – 17, 2017
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