Andy Freeberg: Art Fare
Through his exhibition titled Art Fare, Andy Freeberg continues his longstanding investigation of the junctions where art and people intersect.
Freeberg can be seen roaming through international art fairs with his camera. His gaze pausing on the oddity of human behaviour, Freeberg frames the small moments in life as if they were dramatic events. Quick and skillful with his lens, Freeberg captures what is often overlooked and unseen including dealers on their phones, artists and collectors in interaction and gallery girls gazing off in space. In a conversation with art historian W. M. Hunt, Freeberg said that he “found the lighting, the costumes, and set design excellent for photographing these living dioramas where the art world plays itself.”
Art Fare gracefully offers an ironic look at the way in which the art world practitioners perform their assigned roles. It is a witty and subversive body of work that contemplates on the performativity of the art market, the experience of the art fair and on its potential distance from the act of observation.
Art Fare is on display at Andrea Meislin Gallery in New York until Friday 8 August 2014.
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