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With so many venues lined up for this year's Art Fair Week, one work of art will actually make it easier to get from one exhibit to another. NY1's Stephanie Simon filed the following report.Artist Pratima Naithani knows how to make art that really moves people.
"Obviously its a school bus or a refurbished school bus that has been converted into my installation," Naithani said.
The "bus" is Naithani's artwork for Scope Art Fair. It's called "The Sweet Shop" and it's inspired by Indian street culture.
"So it's a very colorful palette and these trucks in India have this kind of iconography all over them," Naithani said. "And then the inside is all about the sweet shops that are also on street level and so it's all these sweet shops that I'm trying to recreate."
The bus will be parked in front of Scope Art Fair at Lincoln Center but it will also transport people from Scope to some of the other art fairs in the city.
"It will be mainly at scope for half the day it'll be stationary so people can come and visit on and off it and then it will go to Armory, the other art fair as well as Pulse and then in the evening it will be in different neighborhoods like SoHo and Long Island City and Williamsburg," Naithani said.
President of Scope Art Fair President Alexis Hubshman describes the nine year old fair as cutting edge with a heavy influence of film and fashion.
"This bus is great example of why we think Scope is special because when you get to work with great artists and it's thinking outside of the box, I mean literally getting outside of this environment of a white cube to show a painting or sculpture which are all wonderful," Hubshman said. "But what we like to do is work and bond in with artists who think larger and in this case this a great example of a moving piece of sculpture that will be moving around the city driving and taking artists and collector to the various fairs back and forth."
"I gotta say this is definitely one of the most interesting vehicles I've driven over of the years," said "Sweet Shop" driver Louis Albornoz. "I've done some driving for other artists but this is a really fantastic art piece. It's very engaging. There is a lot of minute details to take in so it's a great chance for anyone who wants to take in some Indian street culture."
Whether you're riding it to a fair or stepping inside while its parked in your neighborhood at night, the "Sweet Shop" is a great way to see some movers and shakers in the contemporary art world.
This year's Art Fair Week runs from from March 4-7.