The Armory Show (art fair)

The Armory Show is one of the leading trade fairs for modern and contemporary art. It takes place annually since 1994 in the borough of Manhattan in New York instead and sees himself in the tradition of the same art exhibition Armory Show of 1913.

History

The Art Fair was founded by the New York gallery owner Paul Morris, Pat Hearn, Colin de Land and Matthew Marks, and found for the first time from April 29 to May 2, 1994 instead. It was initially called Gramercy International Art Fair, as it was in the rooms of the Gramercy Park Hotel held ( in Manhattan's Gramercy Park of the same name ). A branch office was located at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Morris remained until 2012 director of the fair, from 2007 to 2012, he was also Deputy Director of Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. ( MMPI ).

Gramercy International Art Fair

The fair Directorate reserved historic hotel three floors with a total of 60 hotel rooms that she rented for $ 50 per day to your invitees gallery. On and around the double beds and the bathroom fittings between the exhibiting dealers presented their imported arts works - paintings, graphics, sculptures, videos - which cost $ 50-50000. In the first year, over 10,000 interested the art show and find out about the latest trends in contemporary art in the lower to middle price segment. Similarly, albeit with fewer participants and visitors, the store was operated in Los Angeles.

The Armory Show

In 1999, the art fair with its move into the building of the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue and East 25th Street with "The Armory Show " their new, existing to this day name. She tried so to make even the legendary Art Exhibition, which showed in the same building for the first time in the U.S., the American and European avant-garde.

Due to the success of the fair, the increased participation of international exhibitors and the consequent increase in space requirements and because the house is no longer standing 69th Regiment Armory available, a move was necessary. As an exhibition places the historic West Side Piers offered in a central position 88 and 90 on the Hudson River, where the annual art fair held from 2001 until she moved to the still used today Piers 92 and 94.

After the death of co-founder Hearn and de country in 2000 and 2003, Morris completed his art gallery and focussed exclusively on the organization of the art fair. Marks and Morris sold its stake in 2007 to the Great Exhibition organizers Merchandise Mart Properties from Chicago.

In March 2011, attended the four-day Armory Show gallery with 274 contemporary and modern art from around the world participate. In the rooms of Pier 92 contemporary art has been shown to Pier 94 was reserved for the contemporary art galleries. A special exhibition was Scandinavian Galleries reserved. A much larger proportion of the candidates for the coveted exhibition stands was dismissed. In 2012 she received from a competition organized by the London Frieze Art Fair Art Fair on Randall Iceland on the East River.