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“Tenderness,” 1977, by Varnette Honeywood, on view at the Eric Firestone Gallery booth at the 2020 Armory Show in March. #portraitpainting #doubleportrait #couple #tenderness #varnettehoneywood #ericfirestonegallery #africanamericanart #thearmoryshow (at The Armory Art Show Pier 92) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCWQVJll4MP/?igshid=gkwzguxydrr4

THE ARMORY SHOW Pier 94, booth 601 March 5–8, 2020 Piers 90 and 94, New York __________ Gagosian is pleased to participate in the Armory Show 2020 with a solo booth of recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky. This presentation will coincide with an exhibition of Polanszky’s work at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, inaugurating his representation by the gallery. An important contributor to the artistic landscape of Vienna, Polanszky creates cerebral multidisciplinary works that embrace chance occurrence. Growing up in the immediate wake of the Viennese Actionist movement of the 1960s, he began his career making satirical films, paintings, and performance art pieces that mischievously countered the Actionists’ graphic focus on living bodies in their own notorious performance works. Maintaining a fundamentally improvisational practice, he marries conceptual philosophies with varied modes of production, creating compositions that oscillate between dual identities as concrete objects and symbols of subjective perception. In the early 1990s, Polanszky pivoted away from the legacy of Actionism, turning his attention instead to the formal possibilities of mixed-media painting and sculpture with the ongoing series Reconstructions (1991–). To make these works, he uses salvaged industrial materials such as acrylic glass, aluminum, cardboard, fiberglass, mirrored foil, resin, and silicone, recombining them into purely aesthetic shapes divorced from their original contexts. He often leaves his raw materials outside, letting the elements help determine the work’s final appearance. Working according to an improvisational impulse that he calls “ad-hoc synthesis,” Polanszky generates new meaning from the negotiation between conscious strategy and randomness in the artistic process. Dating from 2013 to 2016, the wall-mounted Reconstructions presented at the Armory Show feature sheets of aluminum affixed to unprimed canvases at haphazard angles. Polanszky then layers translucent pools of resin and fractured panels of acrylic glass on top, producing silver-toned tableaux that spark an interplay of shimmering, reflective planes and weathered textures. Also on view are two sculptures from 2008 and 2014 that transfer Polanszky’s signature process to a floor-based setting. He composes these freestanding works from similarly repurposed materials, employing their jutting, irregular shapes to create curving silhouettes that are elegant and austere in appearance while still retaining a rough-hewn grittiness that divulges their industrial origins. Rudolf Polanszky was born in 1951 in Vienna, where he currently lives and works. Collections include the Rubell Museum, Miami; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Werkstadt Graz, Austria; Landessammlungen Niederösterreich, St. Pölten, Austria; Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Austria; Sammlung SpallArt, Salzburg, Austria; and Belvedere Museum, Vienna. Recent solo exhibitions include Translinear Structures, Zeit Kunst Niederösterreich, Krems an der Donau, Austria (2015); Paradox Transformations, Museo Madre, Naples, Italy (2015–16); and Eidola, Secession, Vienna (2018). To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works in Gagosian’s booth at the Armory Show, please contact the gallery at [email protected]. To attend the fair, purchase tickets at thearmoryshow.com. _____ Rudolf Polanszky, Reconstructions, 2015, cardboard, aluminum, fiberglass, resin, and acrylic on linen, in artist’s frame, 83 1/2 × 105 1/2 inches (211.9 × 268 cm) © Rudolf Polanszky. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Art is the pleasure we have with that experience - there are more diverse way to define what #collecting means😉 _ Rediscovery of @Mazzoleniart , with @davidreimondo in front of his creation, Translation (reminds me of Sky Book @XuBingart)

Lina Iris Viktor. @thearmoryshow 👑 . . #supportblackart #linairisviktor #thearmoryshow #24kgold #mixedmedia #texture #beautifulart #artlovers #artstagram #artsy #artnet #blackart #blackgirlsrock #visualartist (at The Armory Show)

Robert Currie #thearmoryshow video courtesy of CG @mrcarlosgarciavelez

@MarySibande, "Cry Havoc", 2014. 💜 Currently on display at @thearmoryshow 📸: @theladiig . . #supportblackart #marysibande #thearmoryshow #cryhavoc #blackart #contemporaryart #artlover #thearmoryshow2018 #southafrican #armoryweek #africanamazing #womenartists #nycartscene

@simphiwe_ndzube at @thearmoryshow art fair 🔥 Represented by @nicodimgallery 👌🏾 Image captions 1. Untitled, (Grave Digger) 2. On the unknown mountains, 2018 3. Metamorphosis, 2018 4. Bird of Light eating serpent of darkness, 2018 . . #supportblackart #simphiwendzube #limbocolony #thearmoryshow #capetown #southafrican #blackmancan #contemporaryart #abstract #surrealism #artisttowatch #artsy #artnerd #nycartscene #armoryweek #artaddict #artlife #artcollectors #africanartcollectors #representing

“Escape Velocity Blue,” 2018, by Nari Ward at The Armory Show. #abstractart #tondo #nariward #thearmoryshow (at The Armory Show)