There were murmurs among the New York art community that this year’s packed calendar would strand prominent European collectors on the Continent, prompting them to sit out the spring iteration of TEFAF New York and Frieze New York in favor of the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and Skulptur Projekte Münster. But judging from the results on TEFAF’s preview day, whoever stayed home wasn’t missed.
The sense of history pervades even galleries with a focus on modern and contemporary artists, such as Leon Tovar Gallery, whose two New York locations represent artists from Latin America. Gallery Coordinator Nathaly Berrío-Diaz said they chose to present historical works from the ’60s and ’70s from their artists, such as the Venezuelan kinetic artist Jesús Rafael Soto, whose three-dimensional works drew many admirers.
