Editors’ Picks: 6 Art Events to See in New York This Week
Both of Lehmann Maupin’s New York venues have been given over to Chinese artist Liu Wei, who is presenting two very different bodies of work at the two locations. In Chelsea, Liu has responded to the Jorge Luis Borges poem “Mirrors,” creating a monumental mirrored sculptural installation, “intended to provoke a phenomenological experience of space that can be only activated by the viewer.”
Down at Chrystie Street, the artist has paired colorful, irregularly-shaped paintings on steel with sculptures made from military canvas, metal, and wood.