Looking Forward

Dear , we hope this email finds you well. We, Samuel Bich and Florian Mayr, would like to invite you to participate in our show Looking Forward at the Grand Chelsea in New York. The exhibition will take place on March 20, 2023. It deals with artists’ networks and is solely based on emails. The Grand Chelsea is housed in an apartment complex in Manhattan, in walking distance to Chelsea’s bluechip galleries. The space is on the 20th floor and offers a beautiful view from midtown over to lower Manhattan. Owned by the Austrian government and granted to Austrian ISCP residents, the apartment is withdrawn from the speculative housing market and offered to artists, who without the grant would probably never be able to live in such an environment. Based on the initial idea of mail art as a network-based practice, the show at the Grand Chelsea will host around thirty artists. The shown artists are either connected to us through carried out jobs, past and present, or our personal network within New York City. If you are interested in participating in this show, please send us your piece in the format of an 4 x 6 in image. We will print your image as a colored photo and the text of your email on a standard letter sized paper. They will be presented together in a clip frame. All the works will be installed at the same height next to each other. As the show has to happen very early (Florian’s residency in New York is ending at the end of March) we would kindly ask you to reply to this invitation latest by March 17th. Please reply with a short yes or no. Just so that we are prepared. This short reply will not be exhibited. We are aware that we approach you on very short notice, but we hope that this won’t keep you from participating. Looking forward to hearing from you. All the best, Florian and Samuel. Location: Grand Chelsea 270 West 17th Street Apt. 20 C New York City, NY 10012 Opening: Monday, March 20, 2023 4 to 9 pm Open by appointment from March 22-25, 2023.