VOLTA NY 2009 Pictures
Image by Art Comments
The VOLTA NY Art Fair held their much coveted opening party at the Tribeca
Grand Hotel last Thursday night in collaboration with the Guggenheim Young
Collectors Council this evening with luminaries from across the art world.
With liberal quantities of Marilyn Manson¹s eponymous, Mansinthe, and
Grolsch beer as drinks sponsor and Art Review as the media partner, the
event was an all-round success topped off by the funky tunes of DJ, Greg
Boust, from Le Baron, Paris. Despite the crush at the door and concerns that
the fire department would leave the crowd waiting outside as capacity was
exceeded, the revellers saw in the first big party of Armory Week with style
and gusto begging the question: depression, what depression?
The event was held at the Tribeca Grand Hotel as part of a larger
collaboration whereby VOLTA NY and Tribeca Grand Hotel brought together
curators Natalie Kovacs and Victoria Brooks to curate a VOLTA NY Special
Project entitled, A New Stance for Tomorrow. This three-fold project
includes a domed installation and performance in the Sanctum of the Tribeca
Grand Hotel, a series of short films inspired around, and including the
films, of Charles and Ray Eames in the Grand Screening Room, as well as a
cinepod installation onsite at VOLTA NY. These three projects can be viewed
for the duration of the VOLTA NY Fair screening times, performance hours
and more information on the individual projects available on request.
Chris de Angelis, VOLTA Production Manager, with Creixell Espilla-Gilart,
VOLTA Project Manager & PR
Lauren Serantoni, Tradeshow Operations, Merchandise Mart Properties, Chris
de Angelis, VOLTA Production Manager
Bryan Kepple (left) talking to a friend
Mark Rappolt from ArtReview with a friend
Noam Gonick with a friend
left: Monya Rowe, VOLTA NY exhibitor, with friends
Chris de Angelis, VOLTA Production Manager, Creixell Espilla-Gilart, VOLTA
Project Manager + PR, Bryan Kepple
Natalie Kovacs with friends
Steve Cole from Basil Hayden with his partner
Cator Sparks and friends
Marc Spiegler, Art Basel Co-Director, Maike Cruse, Art Basel Communications
Manager, with Amanda Coulson, VOLTA Executive Director and Paul Judelson,
VOLTA NY Exhibitor
Creixell Espilla-Gilart, VOLTA Project Manager & PR, with Spanish curator
Paco Barragán
