![]() “My favorite part about Expo is its invitation to the world to experience Chicago as a whole,” adds Sierzputowski. While DJ Vic Mensa spun records between a floor sculpture by Lynda Benglis and a Marilyn Minter photograph, the crowd watched the dancers’ activation of a swing sculpture by another Chicagoan, artist Brendan Fernandes. Lukov, who cut her teeth by spearheading Faena Arts, not only brought the original show’s stars such as Isabelle Albuquerque and Gabriela Ruiz to Chicago, but local rising stars such as Yvette Mayorga and Moises Salazar joined the show with colorful and texture-rich statements. Wednesday evening, the Peninsula Hotel opened an exhibition of paintings by Africobra artists such as Sherman Beck and Jae Jarrell at its lobby, while the Los Angeles-based curator Zoe Lukov brought her lauded group exhibition “ Skin in The Game” to a two-floor office building after the crowd-pleaser show’s talk-of-the-town success in Miami in December. The fair’s forty-gallery Exposure section, which puts emphasis on emerging Latin American galleries, is curated by Humberto Moro, the newly-appointed Deputy Director of Dia Art Foundation. Switching its traditional September date to the spring has been what the fair’s director of programming Kate Sierzputowski explained to Galerie as “changing the collectors’ muscle memory,” in its most internationally diverse year. ![]() ![]() The Ruinart-soaked vernissage, during which the fair has made its long-missed comeback after a two-year hiatus and strong digital programming, was preceded by an ambitious Wednesday night, reminiscing Art Basel Miami or Frieze New York’s saturated “who’s who” itineraries. ![]()
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