Paris-based Belgian photographer Tomas Van Houtryve captured this eerie scene – dominated by long human shadows and strange white grids – by flying a drone over a school in California as kids played below. Bold geometries and stark tonal contrasts make each picture look strange, playing to Van Houtryve’s point that drones are increasingly prevalent, yet we see little of them and what they see. (At Anastasia Photo on the Lower East Side through Dec 31st).
Though she was allied with the pre-war Parisian avant-garde, Meraud Guinness Guevara favored realism. This 1938 still life foregrounds an intimate arrangement of curving kitchen objects while a more austere selection of white forms stands behind at attention. (In ‘In Good Company’ at Lori Bookstein Fine Art through July 29th).
Sheila Hicks, Baoli, natural linen, triple-dyed embroidery cotton, 114 x 63 x 8 inches, 2014.
Before she even set foot in Central Park to create a site-specific artwork commissioned by the Public Art Fund, Paris-based artist Tatiana Trouve poured over maps of the park’s utilities. Inspired by the many unseen arteries connecting the park’s lights, water supply and more, she measured all 212 pathways in the park, designating each with a separate spool on towering racks. (Through Aug 30th).
Tatiana Trouve, installation view of ‘Desire Lines,’ at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, 60th Street and 5th Ave, through Aug 30th.
Iconic French designer and architect Jean Prouve’s 1956 Villejuif Demountable House – designed for a school in Villejuif in south Paris – fills a side room at Gagosian Gallery’s 24th Street Chelsea location, turning it into a chic platform to show off sculpture by the late John Chamberlain. (Through April 4th).
Installation view of ‘Chamberlain/Prouve’ (in collaboration with Galerie Patrick Seguin) at Gagosian Gallery, 555 W. 24th Street, March 2015, including Jean Prouve, Villejuif Demountable House, metal, wood, aluminum and glass, 11.5 x 35 x 29 ft, 1956.
