Art at the Bellagio

By Kat Thatcher | Resident contributor

Emmanuel Perrotin opened his first gallery in 1990 at the age of 21 with “art for everyone.” The works represent 50 artists from around the world using diverse mediums, such as Italian Maurizio Cattelan’s 24kt gold, Farhad Moshiri’s Persian hand embroidery, and French street artist JR’s graffiti and photographs.

Three fuzzy brightly colored bears swing through the air in the window display. The dyed turkey feather works are playful and cheerful by nature. Paola Pivi first traveled to Alaska from her native Italy in search of bears, and realizing how separate our media images are from the reality of how a natural bear lives, her works are meant to highlight that contrast. Each bear costs $50k. Blank notebooks with their images, however, are only $25.

Wim Delvoye’s contrasting highly technical and historically driven works elevate everyday objects to the divine. Using steel laser cutting, he often constructs regular object shapes out of shining Gothic architectural details, as seen in his tractor and truck using such construction. Perrotin has lovely Nautilus Penta on stand, a popular Renaissance form, for $275k, and the hand carved Car Tyre with intricate foliate scroll motif one might see surrounding a church door for $75k.

Takashi Murakami’s now iconic smiling flower heads pop up all over the shop, on $5 pins, $15 totes, $125 pillows, $150-$200 tee shirts to $10k purse paintings and a work priced at $345k. Other artist’s tees are available from $15-$150.

Ready for more? Visit Bellagio’s impressive art gallery. Currently showing until September 10 is Art in Bloom, with a pleasant theme of summer flowers, but underlying themes including humanity and social justice. Viewers enter through a “gram-worthy” bright tower of flowers in a riot of colors.

Highlights include Alex Katz’s Jean on a Horse (1976), Lois Dodd’s Blue Sky Window (1979), Ai Weiwei’s Bicycle Basket with Flowers (2014) and Shawn Huckins Evening Glow at Lake Louise: Hey Siri, How Do I Leave The Planet? (2019). Works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Martine Gutierrez, Dan Colen, and others grace the walls.

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