Photo: James Hall, courtesy of Art Mûr, Montréal
The 12th edition of SCOPE New York Art Fair premiered in an unusual location: the historic James A. Farley Post Office. This Neoclassical building, with its colonnade of 16m high Corinthian columns, was an impressive setting for an event that is typically of mixed quality. This year’s fair, boasting over seventy-five international galleries, was no exception (a life-size, mirrored horse sculpture near the entrance gave little cause for optimism).
The Art Mûr booth quickly allayed these reservations with the humorous sculptural installation Maintiens le droit (2012), consisting of a fallen, fiberglass “Mountie,” his legs chewed through by the taxidermic beaver at his feet. Doubling as the RCMP motto “Defend the Law,” the title hints that the artist duo Cooke-Sasseville perhaps implicates this woodland creature as a heroic defender of its own natural inclinations.
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