NYAB Event - "Haymaker" Exhibition

"Haymaker" Exhibition

Freight and Volume

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Featuring five extraordinary talents new to the F+V arena, “HAYMAKER” examines the role of commerce in art, and in particular, the connection between opulence and decadence in this provocative quintuplet.
“Money is a kind of poetry,” Wallace Stevens once said, and nowhere is this more evident than in Pop and post-Pop art of the last few decades. From Warhol’s silkscreened dollar signs to Damien Hirst’s bejeweled 100-million dollar skull, everyone wants a piece of the action; the borderline between art as commodity and commodity itself is officially blurred.
The five artists in “HAYMAKER” explore the message and madness behind this trend, in subtle and not-so subtle depiction. Warhol also coined the familiar phrase “everyone is famous for fifteen minutes”, and in the gallery world, artists’ careers in many cases are abbreviated: five years in the public favor, five weeks for the typical run of an exhibit, five days in the case of a art fair, or literally five seconds when a work is on the auction block. Cruel and unusual marketing practices are the norm these days; an artist leaves grad school, and if lucky, grabs the horn of the mechanical bull, and holds on for dear life while the attention lasts. During that time the market demands its version of the classic dog-and-pony show; artists and galleries who are better equipped to satisfy the appetite for hype and trend generally survive the longest in the rodeo, and those with the long view tend to, well, take a long time to bear fruit - both commercially and critically.