1:54 New York opens on the 6-8 May, coinciding with the Dak’Art Biennale. Here are some of the Special Projects going on at 1:54 this year, the full list can be found here.
Transmissions
1:54 presents Transmissions, a partnership with the 12th edition of the Dakar Biennale (Dak’Art – Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain). To celebrate the concurrence of the biennale’s opening week with 1:54 in New York, 1:54 is screening daily highlights from Dak’Art at Pioneer Works during the fair and simultaneously, daily highlights of the fair will be screened at Dak’Art during the biennale. As a cultural exchange between 1:54 and the current artistic activity in Dakar, Transmissions aims at mapping out the points of convergence between the two platforms.
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Goodman Gallery presents Misheck Masamvu
Goodman Gallery will preview new works by Zimbabwean artist Misheck Masamvu ahead of his forthcoming exhibition at the Johannesburg gallery. Installed in the 1:54 Lounge, Masamvu’s paintings Taxi (2015) and BottomsUp (2015) are part of a new body of work by the artist destined to culminate in a solo exhibition entitled Still.
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Book presentation and signing with Sue Williamson
Sunday, May 8, 4–5 PM, Pioneer Works, 2nd floor. RSVP to info@axisgallery.com
Axis Gallery, Goodman Gallery and Skira Editore will host a conversation with Sue Williamson and the art historian and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu. Sue Williamson: Life and Work brings together for the first time all the significant works of one of South Africa’s most highly respected and celebrated artists. The book contains an introduction by the award-winning journalist Mark Gevisser, and insightful contributions by leading historians Chika Okeke-Agulu and Ciraj Rassool, as well as former TRC committee member and scholar Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.
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1:54 New York, May 6–8 2016
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12–8 PM
Day tickets $20 / Concessions $10
www.1-54.com / @154artfair
