ltd, Los Angeles & DUVE, Berlin. Debora Delmar Corp’s artifacts of a luxury-obsessed waste-culture perfectly cast as Birkin bags at ltd, Los Angeles and as UGGS at DUVE, Berlin. Brand New Gallery, Milan. Well-curated #squad featuring a stand-out corner threesome activated through the coupling of works by Joe Reihsen, Kate Steciw and Amy Feldman at Brand New Gallery. CULT exhibitions, San Francisco. Traversing the California desert as site of conflict and escape through the multimedia realms of Rhonda Holberton at CULT exhibitions. Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence. Esther Stocker’s monochromatic installation of acrylic on cotton dimensional geometries at Eduardo Secci Contemporary. Y Gallery, New York. A retrospective of more than 20 years of video works capturing the infinite guises adapted by Bjorn Melhus at Y Gallery. Parque Galería, Mexico City. A toilet in the shape of Museo Soumaya— home of mogul Carlos Slim’s collection— glistened as the collaborative product of  Yoshua Okón and Santiago Sierra at Parque Galería. Utilizing workmen as props may have aimed to wage each artist’s continued investigations concerning ‘art and labor…’ but mostly seemed to secure this as grappling the most controversial commentary throughout the week… then again, wasn’t that the point? Travesía Cuatro, Madrid / Guadalajara. Master surface-skewer Walead Beshty appeared within the fragmented void of his smashed screen sculptures and Travel Drawings series at Travesía Cuatro. The latter’s matter compiled from the artist’s six-week daily purchase of  local tabloid Metro and accompanying request for stream-of-conscious letters from gallery staff describing the magazine’s contents. Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago. Dannielle Tegeder’s translation of 2D drawings into 3D systems and ‘patterns of collision’ at Carrie Secrist Gallery. Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City. Daniel Buren’s op-art-esque MDF, auto paint, and mirrored wall installation at Galería Hilario Galguera. To conclude a list of stunners, a note on two mega-talents running so rampant throughout, their individual glitter sadly glistened more like litter: Carlos Cruz-Diez and Anish Kapoor. Reflective repeats induce #selfie vertigo not introspection… Really, this every other booth? Please [insert] mirror-spacers! Moving along to the first satellite to spawn from MACO… enter the third edition of Material Art Fair. Founded by local gallerists Daniela Elbahara and Brett W. Schultz in tandem with consultant Isa Natalia Castilla, Material came into 2016 spawning its own 50% growth featuring over 200 artists represented by 64 exhibitors from 34 cities and 15 countries. (Whoa!). Despite the claustrophobic maze hopefully up for considerable redesign (or at least re-formation) at Expo Reforma (or elsewhere) next year, Material hold promise to be what NADA was and UNTITLED is: an eclectic roster of cool, net-savvy heavy, emerging artists you should pick-up and follow now before they end-up as sell-outs at Art Basel. To top-off picks from Material, here are 10 favorites: SADE, Los Angeles. A surreal marriage of the corporeal came to life at SADE where Finnish multimedia artist Tuomas A. Laitinen’s glass Sensory Adaptation Devices floated between augmented Asger Carlsen prints and paintings by Pablo Carillo and Ariana Papademetropoulos. Smart Objects, Los Angeles. Precisely punctured canvases by Conor Backman at Smart Objects. Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago. Danish artist and curator Amalie Jakobsen’s latex architectural grids at Efrain Lopez Gallery. Good Weather, North Little Rock. Strongest curatorial coupling: evolving and maleable sound installation by San Francisco-based James Cordas against tactile wall works by NY-based Anne Vieux at Good Weather. Lodos, Mexico. Plenty to like at Lodos— serving a fly-swarming fruit bowl and WIFI encrypted fortune-cookies by collective Oa4s, with prints by Temra Pavlovich spliced to a T with Noah Barker’s video Thomas Shannon. Kansas Gallery, New York. Photographic sculptures by Rachel de Joode at Kansas Gallery. Yautepec, Mexico. Saturated shapes and construed artifice in the severed planes of Natalia Ibáñez Lario and Ryan Perez at Yautepec— metallic silver Corona chairs adding a perfect breaking point. Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin. Works created from materials localized in DF and reassembled on-site by Santiago Taccetti and Asger Dybvad Larsen at Galerie Rolando Anselmi. Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles. Recent Rema Hort Mann Foundation (RHMF) grantee Nevine Mahmoud at Arturo Bandini’s fair erected white facade mirroring a sliver of their LA outpost HQ. XPO, Paris. Pierre Clément’s presentation at XPO dismantled the booth into a modular web resembling something like the tentacular waves of the internet.

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