New York Art Tours: Gordon Matta-Clark & Rirkrit Tiravanija

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New York Art Tours: Gordon Matta-Clark & Rirkrit Tiravanija2 min 50 sec - Apr 20, 2007What's going on New Yorks world of art? Who are the artists everyone's talking about? Merrily Kerr, your personal art critic and guide, answers these questions and more in her video reviews of New York's hottest art gallery shows. Gordon Matta-Clark & Rirkrit Tiravanija, at David Zwirner March 2007. This month, the exhibition mostly likely to get people talking earns its 'hottest show' tag by literally applying the heat to gallery visitors. As part of an installation, daily vats of feisty Thai curry are prepared, to which visitors can help themselves. Dealers, critics and art world luminaries have been spotted indulging in a spicy lunch at tables and chairs scattered around a plywood structure which replicates 303 Gallery's space in Soho, where the piece was first exhibited in 1992. Tiravanija reveals his indebtedness to Gordon Matta-Clark's precedent-setting caf�, 'Food' and his unconventional use of real estate by sharing the gallery space with a recreation of Matta-Clark's 'Open House' a sculpture made in a dumpster which coincidently occupied the same SoHo address as Tiravanija's exhibition when it was created in 1972. Planning a visit to the gallery districts is the best way to sample cutting edge contemporary art. For more information, visit www.newyorkarttours.com
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