Filed under: art history, art museum, London, Los Angeles, miami basel, Vincent Johnson | Tags: Art Basel Miami Beach, conceptual art, contemporary art, Contemporary art Los Angeles, Los Angeles artists, Los Angeles artworld, Rubell Family Collection, Sterling Ruby
John Miller's gold paint covered sculptures. He was in the same class at Cal Arts as LA artist Mike Kelly.
The 2011 edition of the Rubell Family Collection’s annual show of new works they’re acquired opened again during Art Basel Miami Beach week. In this exhibition more than half of the work was from Los Angeles, which has received unprecedented international media attention as a center of art production. Yet because of Hollywood’s overwhelming dominance of the entire media universe in LA, outside of the Los Angeles Times, there is almost zero coverage of the Los Angeles artworld. There is not ever coverage of the arts on LA television, there are no radio interviews, not even a mention of MoCA’s record-breaking attendance for its Art in the Streets exhibition curated by Jeffrey Deitch. Fortunately for Los Angeles, other cities have developed major collector bases – such as Miami, and other art markets have developed since the 1990′s – such London, which has both an incredible array of arts coverage and a global art market as well as a river full of international British artists. So it is no surprise then that it is now for the second time in a few years that the Rubell Family Collection in Miami does a focused exhibition on LA Art. A few years ago the collection did a Los Angeles Art show called RED EYE. Even though I am based in LA I still needed to come to Miami to see this work – since it is collected largely through New York City galleries. By coming to Miami, this recent LA art is now seeing its LA audience for the first time. I note that while there is a great deal of media coverage of this exhibition, it is not being treated to multiple seriously considered historically contextualized examinations of the art on view. Unlike in London, which often sees public articles by world-class art historians in their newspapers. London also has vast arts coverage by the BBC and even Saatchi has an arts on television experience. The London newspapers often feature online exhibition walkthroughs with major critics. This barrage of arts coverage is precisely the case with the current Saatchi Collection New Art From Germany exhibition, which has already garnered six major London newspaper reviews. Saatchi also has its own free to the public art magazine and of course Saatchi online is the world most viewed artworld website with no one in second place. I mention this because it is clear that the US artworld is in deep need of intense art writing, while instead it is laying off all the art critics at almost every newspaper in the country outside of Manhattan. This level of critical engagement is necessary not to diffuse but to elevate the market’s tastes in art, before the future art historians figure the real aesthetic achievement of the work at hand. Miami Basel has no equal in the US, and that has to change too, as this country needs far less well-known but strong institutions to be participating in the international contemporary art arena, so that one day there will be no need for an artist to move to one of the coasts to be an artist, because the top of the mountain will be right there in the middle of America, the same height and grace as in the towers of New York and the mountains of California. Artists in Germany enjoy a super-world of cultural support and do not need America. With hundreds of magnificent museums, over 100,000 collectors in the Cologne-Dusseldorf region, which also has 30 contemporary art museums – the worlds largest collection – (with next door The Netherlands in second place in terms of total contemporary museums of art), and even daily intense arts coverage in their version of the Wall Street Journal and the intensely intellectually rigorous Text Zur Kunst. Atop this, German artists are surrounded by art rich and highly advanced countries that also show and make art, write about it and think through it. Switzerland and France are but two of those countries. America needs to become like this someday. And then of course Germany has Documenta, and they can drive to Art Basel.
Vincent Johnson
Los Angeles, California
December 31, 2011/January 3, 2012
LA artist Sterling Ruby's gigantic sprayed paintings
Richard Jackson's upside-down cartoon character sculpture is in the same vein as the work of Paul McCarthy. Both are LA artists.
Paul McCarthy sculptural installation of a man with a boy engaging a goat
Richard Jackson has been making a huge splash in the LA artworld of late. He has recently shown two other large-scale "splashed painting room" works in LA at David Kordansky gallery. In both instances as in this depicted work their is at least one animatronic figure in motion in the work.
Rashid Johnson's massive burnished wood work
LA painter John Mcallister's paintings
This tableau by Hanna Greeely is about time. The left side is the past; the right side, showing age and wear, is the present
Lisa Yuskavage's painting of a woman looking under her night clothes at herself
Lisa Yuskavage's painting of two women wearing only garters
George Condo's oil painting of a faceless red faced male figure and a cow
Dana Schutz portrait of a naked man in a swimming pool
Dana Schutz's vibrant oil painting
LA artist Henry Taylor's sculpture. This work was among many new sculptures created by Henry Taylor for his debut show at Blum & Poe in 2011
LA artist Mike Kelly's found stuffed animals and throwaway rugs as scatter art sculpture. In the background is LA artist's Karl Haendel's drawing of a newspaper story.
LA artist Richard Hawkins' painting
LA sculptor Charley Ray's sculpture of narcissistic men
Richard Prince - one of his paintings from his "Nurse" series that propelled him into the upper end of the art market.
Mark Handforth sculpture of a downed motorcycle covered in candles
Kaz Oshiro scupture of concert stage amplifier. Oshiro also had work at the Margulies Warehouse collection.
A magisterial radiance emanates from this greyscale and red painting by Julian Hoeber
Juliann Hoeber
Charles Long's whimsical sculpture
LA artist Evan Holloway's sculpture
LA artist Phil Wager (left wall), Jason Meadows, rear gallery, and Seth Price, right wall
LA alternative materials painter Analia Saban
LA artist Joel Kwack's work is mildly similar to Paul McCarty's
Elizabeth Peyton's portrait painting
Glenn Ligon's watercolor painting
Elizabeth Peyton's portrait painting
Works in the outdoor sculpture court of the Rubell Family Collection
Jennifer Rubell's new sculpture in the Rubell Family Collection sculpture court
LA artist Aaron Curry's metal sculpture in the Rubell Family Collection sculpture court
LA sculptor Nathan Mabry's work in the Rubell Family Collection sculpture court
Kelley Walker's large-scale photo montage.
Vincent Johnson received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1997 and his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Painting 1986. He is a 2005 Creative Capital Grantee, and was nominated for the Baum: An Emerging American Photographer’s Award in 2004 and for the New Museum of Contemporary Arts Aldrich Art Award in 2007 and for the Art Matters grant in 2008, and in 2009 nominated for Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship, Los Angeles. In 2010 he was named a United States Artists project artist. His work has been reviewed in ArtForum, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art Slant and many other publications. His photographic works were most recently shown in the inaugural Pulse Fair Los Angeles. His most recent paintings were shown at the Beacon Arts Center in Los Angeles.
Vincent Johnson during his recent art trip to London
please feel free to visit my website:
LANYArtiststudio@gmail.com
Like this:
Filed under: Los Angeles, miami basel, Vincent Johnson, Vincent Johnson Images | Tags: Art Basel Miami Beach, contemporary art, Margulies Warehouse, Miami art collection, Miami art collector, Miami Model
William Leavitt installation
Nancy Rubin's sculpture
My annual visit to the Margulies Warehouse collection is always one of the premier highlights of visiting Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach. This collection is for like a small teaching museum of contemporary art. Its strengths and its focus are in sculptural works, installations and international photography. On each of my visits there are always new bodies of works by artists I whom I have read about while living in Los Angeles, but have never seen the work in person. This institution leads quietly; yet is a perennial showcase of world-class art that should never be missed. Miami is so fortunate to have this institution and the competing private collections, including the De la Cruz Collection, the Rubell Family Collection, and the Cisneros Fontenals. It is absolutely the case that even the most well-traveled curators and artists and collectors have not seen all the work that is on display in starting each December, or even a bit earlier as in the case of the Margulies Warehouse, which launches its new collections show in mid-November of each year. Over the years I’ve seen sensational video projects by Issac Julien and Chantal Ackermann that I was not even aware of their having been made until I saw them at the collection. The collection is exemplary of what has been called “the Miami Model” of private art collection spaces in the Miami Wynwood and Miami Design District areas. Up the road I guess we will see the opening of Craig Robin’s space and perhaps even that of Norman Braman’s monster collection of modern and contemporary art. Until then I will keep returning to the collection and to Miami each December, all the while alerting friends of the wonder that is Miami during the fairs.
Michaelaneglo Pistoletto smashed gold framed mirrors work, from his Venice Biennial performance
Video showing Michelaneglo Pistoletto smashing gold framed mirrors, from his Venice Biennial performance
Roy Lichtenstein 3 dimensional work
Jason Rhoades neon sculpture
Jonathan Monk painting on a car hood of an Ed Ruscha photograph
Large-scale Art photography from Germany
Kaz Oshiro's faux objects painted sculpture of washing machines
The back of Kaz Oshiro's scupture of 2 washing machines
Joseph Kosuth neon sculpture
PhotoLight boxes of the Neon Boneyard, Las Vegas, Nevada
John Baldessari print suite with toenail in place of neck and face
Anton Gormley sculptures on upper floor of the collection space
Fokwang de Jong sculptural installation
video installation of animals at play
Los Angeles based artist and writer Vincent Johnson
Vincent Johnson received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1997 and his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Painting 1986. He is a 2005 Creative Capital Grantee, and was nominated for the Baum: An Emerging American Photographer’s Award in 2004 and for the New Museum of Contemporary Arts Aldrich Art Award in 2007 and for the Art Matters grant in 2008, and in 2009 nominated for Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship, Los Angeles. In 2010 he was named a United States Artists project artist. His work has been reviewed in ArtForum, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art Slant and many other publications. His photographic works were most recently shown in the inaugural Pulse Fair Los Angeles. His most recent paintings were shown at the Beacon Arts Center in Los Angeles.
please feel free to visit my website:
LANYArtiststudio@gmail.com
- Vincent Johnson’s California Toilet: Filthy Light Switch (Private collection, Miami, Florida) (2011)
- Vincent Johnson’s Nine Grayscale Paintings – installation shot – 1
- Vincent Johnson’s Nine Grayscale Paintings – installation shot – 2
- Motel Tangiers, (San Fernando Valley) by Vincent Johnson (2003)
- Parked wreck, Los Angeles (2005) by Vincent Johnson
Like this:
Filed under: Vincent Johnson, Los Angeles, miami basel, restaurants | Tags: Aqua Art Miami, Art Base Miami Beach, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Miami, Art Public Art Basel Miami Beach, Baselmania, Bass Museum Miami Beach, Christie's, CIFO, Cisneros Fontenals, Design Miami, ELLE Decor, Erwin Wurm, Faith Ringgold, Gary Nader Fine Art, Margulies Warehouse, Miami Art Fairs, Miami Art Museum, Miami Beach, NADA Art Fair, New World Symphony Miami Beach, North Miami MoCA, O.H.W.O.W Miami, Perry Rubinstein pop up gallery, Pop Up Piano, Pub Belly Miami, Pulse Fair Miami, Rubell Family Collection, Rubelly Family Collection, Scope Fair Miami, Seven Art Fair Miami, Spotify Art Basel Miami concerts, The Sender Collection, World Class Boxing Miami
Baselmania Miami Beach 2011 is here! For the first time I’ll be tracking the events and the must go to places to go that will be in Miami and Miami Beach this coming late November and early December of 2011.
LA MoCA’s Art in the Streets record breaking show has put street art on the artworld map like never before. This is clearly seen during the Miami fairs, as several of the satellite fairs have strong representation of today’s top street artists from around the globe.
Miami offers even the most seasoned curator and collector and artist the opportunity to view works from every part of the earth. I come to Miami Basel each year knowing I will get to experience a fabulous display of contemporary art from South America, Asia, and even Eastern Europe.
No where else in the US do you get the Brazilians, side by side with the Germans, the French, the Chinese and we Americans from every part of the country to this global cultural event.
So this post will be dynamic in that it will be added to up until the last possible moment and we board our plane ride from Los Angeles to Miami.
Every year there are must see shows private collections shows, gallery shows, satellite fairs, all in the most relaxing and truly tropical environment. For a week Miami and Miami Beach become a magical wonderland of contemporary art.
Don’t forget to pick up the annual free Art Basel Miami Beach edition of OCEAN DRIVE magazine. Its a nice souvenir to remember the experience of Miami Basel.
Veuve Clicquot’s Clicq’Up Lounge and Champagne Bar
“There once was a time when Art Basel and all the related hoopla surrounding it was solely about, well, art. Today, however, it’s become the NASCAR of the art world, with sponsors, sponsors everywhere. Luckily for those with a fine tuned palate, the sponsors aren’t Busch Beer but, rather, Veuve Clicquot (the official champagne of Design Miami/), Dom Perignon and Runiart. Veuve, incidentally is taking their Baseling a step further by introducing the Clicq’Up Lounge and Champagne Bar, a mobile food truck and adjacent champagne lounge that will pop-up in key locations in Miami from Tuesday, November 29 through Friday, December 2. For location info, follow @Veuve_Clicquot on Twitter.”
“Tapping into the local chef talent, Veuve hired gastroPod’s Chef Jeremiah, who will be serving, among other things a crispy white corn cake with poached egg and chipotle cream, curry pork tacos, and conch salad. Buy a bottle of Veuve and be the first to have your own Cliq’Up, the origami pop-up champagne bucket that that inspired the food truck’s name. Artful, isn’t it? [EaterWire]“
ART BASEL
Art Basel satellite fairs: Design Miami presents Buckminster Fuller exhibition
By Jordan Melnick
BeachedMiami.com
If you’ve passed through the Design District in the last week, you probably noticed a seemingly alien spacecraft in an open field at 39th Street and First Court.
Dubbed the Fly’s Eye Dome, the geodesic structure is not from outer space but from the mental cosmos of one Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), a self-described “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist” who is the focus of Design Miami’s satellite exhibition, Architecting The Future.
To learn more about the globular oddity, visit beachedmiami.com.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/29/2523480/art-basel-satellite-fairs-design.html#ixzz1fAP8BeYL
—
Nas, Theophilus London, TV on the Radio, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, and Penguin Prison, plus DJs Mark Farina and Venus X as part of Spotify and Ricochet’s Music Loves Art, co-sponsored by 42BELOW and Perrier. Thursday, December 1, through Sunday, December 4. Ricochet Bar & Lounge, 3250 NE First Ave, Miami. All shows are invite-only. Call 305-673-3873 or visit ricochetlounge.com.
 Spotify Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 flyer |
Follow Crossfade on Facebook and Twitter @Crossfade_SFL.
HAUTE LIVING MAGAZINE
With an endless list of events to attend during Art Basel Miami this year, Frere Independent’s seventh edition of PooL Art Fair is at the very top our list. The PooL Art Fair will be relocating to Sadigo Court, and will be hosting an opening reception on Friday, December 2. The event will be held from 5 to 10:30 p.m. and is sure to attract a wave of art enthusiasts who are in search of new talent.
PooL is an exhibition that gives unknown artists a platform for their work, making it the only fair that presents independent artists who are otherwise unrecognized. For art dealers, agents and galleries this exhibition is the ideal location for seeking out fresh and emerging artists.
The exhibition will be open from December 2-4 from 3 to 10 p.m. and is located at 334 20th Street.
-
—-\
VERGE ART MIAMI BEACH AT THE GREENVIEW HOTEL
1671 Washington Avenue @ 17th Street
December 1-4, 2011
PUBLIC HOURS
Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 2 – 3 December, Noon to 10 pm
Sunday, 4 December, Noon to 6 pm
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Thursday, 1 December, 2011, 6:00 pm to 10pm
TOMORROW’S ART TODAY: THE THIRD ANNUAL VERGE ART MIAMI BEACH
Coming Thursday, December 1, Verge Art Miami Beach invites you to experience the finest, freshest work on display in Miami Beach by living artists. Unstunted by the blue-chip rehash of a stale market, VERGE breaks away from the false quality of name recognition art to reach for something new and cutting edge
—\
Art Basel Miami Beach – Art Public
Gardar Eide Einarsson & Banks Violette
Collins Park, Bass Museum of Art
30 November – 4 December 2011
Preview: 29 November 4-7 pm
Opening Reception: 30 November 8-10 pm
Banks Violette
Untitled, 2011 is the first sculpture that Banks Violette created specifically to be placed outdoors, a monumental work stretching twenty-four feet across. His process included sketches, the fabrication of lengths of steel, the cutting and welding of separate elements, and the final powder coating of the entirety. Constructed as a shiny black barrier whose modular nature fractures, the form embodies Violette’s deep interest in wedding a minimalist inheritance with the aura of staged tragedy – a melding of formalism with an iconography of cruelty, violence and death. The splintered edge of the sculpture punctures the ground and juts into the air, assuming the appearance of wreckage. In line with his large-scale sculptures of screens partly crushed and his ghostly graphite drawings of crashed cars, the outdoor sculpture, while abstract, resonates as a roadside barrier destroyed in a critical collision.
Violette’s work is included in numerous public collections, including those of the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and MoMA in New York; MoCA and LACMA in Los Angeles, and the Migros Museum in Zürich. He has had monographic exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Belgium, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Gardar Eide Einarsson
Gardar Eide Einarsson’s Untitled (Apparatus), 2011, takes its form from exercise constructions found in prison-yards. To Einarsson, these pull-up bars epitomize contemporary prison architecture, forgoing traditional design conditions for the sake of a functionality aimed at preventing certain behaviors in its prisoners. The artist is interested in theories of discipline and control, and particularly the ways in which they can affect the human body. The sculpture shares a visual affinity with minimalism, particularly in its preoccupation with the relationship between sculpture and the body of the spectator: Einarsson’s artwork could actually be used to transform the viewer’s body, through exercise.
Einarsson was recently the subject of a survey show, Power Has a Fragrance, which opened at Oslo’s Astrup-Fearnley Museum and then traveled to the Reykjavik Art Museum, Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm and the Fridericianum in Kassel. Additional solo museum exhibitions have been held at the Kunstverein Frankfurt, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, and the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis.
The sculptures will be installed at Collins Park, outside of the Bass Museum of Art. Art Public is curated by Christine Y. Kim, who is the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Co-Founder of the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND).
–
Lehmann Maupin Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, 12/1-12/4
Saturday, November 19, 2011; Posted: 04:11 PM – by BWW News Desk
Lehmann Maupin Gallery is delighted to announce its participation in Art Basel Miami Beach with a booth presentation of works by artists Hernan Bas, Billy Childish, Mary Corse, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernández, Klara Kristalova, Angel Otero, Tony Oursler, Do Ho Suh, Juergen Teller, Mickalene Thomas, Nari Ward, and Erwin Wurm.
Highlights will include a half-booth of works by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, who will open Beauty Business at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami on 1 December, 2011. Highlighting the artist’s humorous approach to his multidisciplinary works, the exhibition will present a variety of works, including sculptures with a performative aspect, such as the Drinking Sculptures. These works invite viewers to sit down and drink alcohol, and only when the viewer is drunk is the work complete. Additional highlights include works by minimalist artist Mary Corse, a recent addition to the Lehmann Maupin roster; paintings by Billy Childish and ceramic sculptures by Klara Kristalova – both artists currently have exhibitions up at our Lower East Side and Chelsea locations, respectively; and works by Teresita Fernández, recently appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by President Obama. During Art Basel Miami Beach, MoCA Miami will celebrate its 15th anniversary with the presentation of Fernández’s Untitled (Pool), a work first shown at the museum in 1996 for their inaugural exhibition.
Lehmann Maupin will also be a participating gallery in the Art Basel Miami Beach Video Program. Tracey Emin’s Sometimes the Dress is Worth More Money than the Money and Jennifer Steinkamp’s Orbit 11 will be on view on the 7000-square-foot projection wall of the New World Center on Wednesday, 30 November at 8 PM. Both films will also be on view for visitors in the five viewing pods inside the Miami Beach Convention Centre.
–
Art Basel: BMW i and Dwell Present The Sustaethics Event
On December 2, BMW i and Dwell Media will host The Sustaethics Event- an evening celebrating sustainable design and environmental preservation. Dwell, an established authority in design and innovation has teamed up with BMW i to share their synergistic visions and honor the incredible technological achievement and social impact of the new BMW i3 Concept and i8 Concept- the first purpose-built electric and hybrid-electric vehicles to be made primarily of carbon fiber- which will be on display at the event.
“We take our responsibility seriously when it comes to the mobility of the future and the future of our society,” says Benoit Jacob, head of BMW i Design. “we are in no doubt of the need to take a fresh view of things going forward.”
The event will be held on the top floor of the iconic Herzog & De Meuron car park 111 Lincoln Road. Dwell founder lara Deam will kick off the event along with Benoit Jacob, head of BMW i Design, who will unveil the cars. Miami-based architect Chad Oppenheim will transform the space into a lush, warm lounge using trees to create natural pathways with Treemendous, a local charity, the trees will then be donated to Miami’s Million Trees Campaign, which aims to plant one million trees by 2020.
The Sustaethics event at Art Basel/Miami Beach from BMW i and Dwell will gather innovators on the international, national and local art and design scenes to celebrate the launch of BMW i and modern design principals.
HAUTE LIVING MAGAZINE
WHAT’S HAUTE: ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH
Art Basel Miami Beach
Held at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Art Basel will showcaseworks by more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. In honor of its 10th edition, a new collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art will transform Collins Park with unique artworks and performances by renowned artists and emerging talents. In addition, Art Video will be presented on the large-scale outdoor projection wall of the New World Center, designed by Frank Gehry. Throughout the fair, the world’s most respected art dealers and galleries will offer exceptional pieces by both legendary artists and cutting-edge newcomers.
Fendi
This year, Fendi is back and has invited designer Elisa Strozyk and Sebastian Neeb to create this year’s Design Performance project at Design Miami. The dreamlike installation centers on a series of antique furniture pieces inspired by Palazzo Fendi, the grand Neo-Classical building that houses Fendi’s international headquarters, originally built in the 1700s. The furniture was created using Fendi discarded leather materials allowing the Fendi spirit to permeate the furnishings. The designers will extend this theme into the design of Design Miami’s exclusive Collector’s Lounge, hosted for the first time this year, by Fendi.
Design Miami/
The seventh edition of Design Miami will feature the world’s leading galleries specializing in 20th and 21st century collectable design, adjacent to its sister fair, Art Basel Miami Beach. This year, the Designer of the Year award will go to London-based architect David Adjaye, who will present Genesis, his first large-scale work of architectural furniture for visitors to interact and decompress before entering and exiting the fair. With a 50 percent increase in participating galleries, this year will draw influential collectors, designers and critics form around the world. For the second year, W Magazine Editor-in-Chief Stefano Tonchi will moderate the Design Talks series. Major sponsors include Audi, the official automotive sponsor since 2006, Fendi and Swarovski Crystal Palace will unveil new design projects, as well as VeuveClicquot and Cappellini will continue their support with the 2011 show.
Anselm Reyle for Christian Dior
Prior to becoming a couturier, Christian Dior was actually a gallerist in Paris, making this first-time collaboration between Berlin-based artist Anselm Reyle and the House of Dior a rich one, joining the art world and vision of Dior Deputy General Manager, DelphineArnault. With the freedom to create a collection of accessories for Dior, Reyle played with colors and bold, freestyle interpretations. “I loved working on the Lady Dior handbag. Most of my work builds on objects that already exist, which I then transform. I applied the same philosophy,” said Reyle. As for the characteristic Lady Dior Charms, they are accompanied by colored triangles, the artist’s graphic signature. With contrasting topstitching against bright metallics, this collection is as lively and exciting as the pop-up store that will debut in Miami Nov 28th – Dec 10th at the Miami Design District and will be sold in select Dior stores globally beginning on January 7 through the end of March. Miami Design District, 191 NE 40th Street, Unit 101, (800) 929-DIOR.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and Cartier present Beatriz Milhazes “Aquarium”
As partner of Art Basel for the past five years, Cartier is presenting Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, who for Art Basel has imagined a singular work inspired by her canvases and collages, a mobile composed of pearls, precious and semi-precious stones. Crafted by the Ateliers Cartier, Aquarium is both a unique installation and a work of jewelry of unexpected dimensions, described as “intricate” and “overwhelming,” inviting the spectator to contemplate an ideal purity. The space displaying the mobile is designed to resemble a jewel case and reveals the sculpture’s finesse and surprising lightness.
The mobile will be hung at the Collins Building, 139 NE 39th Street (cross streets 39th and NE 1st Court) Miami, FL. Open to all holding Art Basel cards.
Gary Nader Auction and Private Dinner
The king of fine art in Miami, Gary Nader brings a bang to Basel with his first-ever auction house on December 1, featuring 150-200 lots of Modern and Contemporary fine art, with prices ranging from $50,000 to $5 million per lot. Think you’re a big shot in the art world? Good luck scoring an exclusive invite to Nader’s private 500-person VIP dinner, where the world’s most prominent collectors will join and preview the exhibition on November 30. Offering pieces by artists such as Warhol, Hirst, Lam, Picasso, Botero and Lichtenstein, the auction will continue to expand its luxury market to offer cars, antiques and even wine, becoming Miami’s first-ever full auction house and marking a major moment for the Miami and international art scene. As a response to Miami’s affluent internationals, Nader continues to impress his Rolodex of impressive contacts and clientele. Gary Nader fine art, 62 N.E. 27 Street, Miami, FL.
Christie’s Exhibition
Christies, the world’s leading art business and fine arts auction house had global auction and private sales in the first half of 2011 that totaled $3.2 billion. Highlights from Christie’s London Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art will reside at the JW Marriott Marquis Miami, featuring a selection of extraordinary works of art to be offered on auction at Christie’s London in February. JW Marriott Marquis Miami, 345 Avenue of the Americas, Miami, FL.
Eighth Annual Masters’ Mystery Art Show
The 8th installment of Master’s Mystery Art Show kicks off on November 30 at The Ritz-Carlton presenting original pieces of 6×9 Art created by top designers using T-shirts as their canvases to benefit Florida International University Masters in Fine Arts Program.
The mystery lies on the back of each piece, revealing the artist’s signature only after the piece is purchased. As the only party of its kind during Art Basel, it is a coveted invitation and one of the most entertaining opening night parties. The show will be open to the public on December 1 only.
ELLE DECOR Showhouse at Paramount Bay
During Basel week, Miami’s most prominent address will be a 43rd story, 10,000 square foot penthouse with 360 degree panoramic views at Paramount Bay when ELLE DECOR presents its second Showhouse designed by notable designers such as Juan Carlos Arcila-Duque, Vincenzo Avanzato and more. Each designer will use national and local brands to bring ELLE DECOR’s signature style to life in the indoor and outdoor spaces. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH), the Miami Design District-based magnet school for the design arts. The new condo development on Biscayne Bay will open December 2 though December 18 as an official satellite exhibit of Design Miami.
Art Basel Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas. As the sister event of Switzerland’s Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide for the…
SCOPE Miami
SCOPE Art Show celebrates eleventh year with return to 2010 Midtown Miami location. Cementing its future with an 75,000 square foot foundation across the street from Art Miami
Aqua 11 at the Aqua Hotel, South Beach
Aqua Art Miami contemporary art fair takes place in Miami Beach each December during Art Basel week. Aqua features innovative galleries from the west coast, greater USA and abroad
PULSE Art Fair
The seventh edition of PULSE Miami will be at The Ice Palace Studios December 1 – 4, 2011. Following the success and critical acclaim of PULSE New York in March, the 2011 Miami edition will build on PULSE’s reputation…
Art Miami
Known as Miami’s premiere anchor fair, Art Miami kicks off the opening day of Art Week – the first week of December when thousands of collectors, dealers, curators, and artists descend upon Miami. World-famous for its…
NADA ART FAIR
NADA’s mission is to create an open flow of information, support, and collaboration within our field and to develop a stronger sense of community among our constituency. We believe that the adversarial approach to…
Fountain Art Fair
Fountain was founded in 2006, Fountain is an exhibition of avant garde artwork in New York during Armory week and Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach. ADMISSION $10 day pass / $15 weekend pass all tickets sold at the…
Design Miami
Design Miami November 29 – December 4, 2011 Meridian Avenue and 19th Street, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach http://designmiamiblog.com/ Design Miami/, the global forum for design, will hold the 2011 edition of…
RED DOT MIAMI
Red Dot Art Fair is pleased to announce its return to the Wynwood Art District in Miami, November 30 – December 4, 2011. Red Dot will remain in the same prime location, adja- cent to Art Miami, Art Asia, and Scope and…
ART NOW FAIR
This year the Art Now Fair is running concurrently with the Art Basel Miami Beach making it convenient for those visiting from all over the world for the art events in Miami. Situated among high-end restaurants and hotels in the…
ART ASIA MIAMI
ART ASIA Miami is a highly selective showcase of galleries from around the world that focuses on the best of established and emerging contemporary artists from throughout Asia. Established in 2008, ART ASIA has hosted fairs in…
December 1-4 Verge Art Miami
Verge is an international platform for the most exciting and interesting in new and emerging art.
December 2-4 Pool Art Fair
Inspired from the French tradition of artists fairs, starting from the famous Courbet’s Salon des Independents, PooL is the premiere fair in the US dedicated to un-represented artists. The first edition took place in 2000…
Nov. 30 – Dec.4 INK Miami Fair
INK Miami is a contemporary art fair held annually in December during Art Basel Miami Beach. The Fair is unique among Miami’s fairs for its focus on contemporary works on paper by internationally renowned artists. It is…
BURST Project Art Fair
BURST Project Art Fair is an innovative presentation of contemporary art stretching from Miami Beach to Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. Featuring painting, surreal pop art, sculpture, mixed media, photography and video and…
Nov. 30 – Dec. 4 Seven Art Fair
SEVEN, the pioneering collective project organized by the galleries BravinLee programs, Hales Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, Postmasters, P.P.O.W., Ronald Feldman Fine Arts and Winkleman Gallery will return to Miami for the second…
Sculpt Miami Fair
Sculpt Miami fair showcases outstanding large – scale indoor and outdoor sculptures by prominent modern artists from around the world. It focuses on the newest aesthetic tendencies in contemporary sculpture highlighting…
Zones Art Fair
ZONES is curated by Miami-based artist Charo Oquet director of Edge Zones Miami a niche fair/event, including a food-tasting session, talks, cocktails, exhibition, video screenings, music, performance and publications. A strong…
|
|
Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Suitcase]) Series D, 1941/1961. Box covered in linen containing miniature replicas and color reproductions of works by Duchamp (68 items) Edition 1/30. Collection Miami Art Museum, museum purchase with funds from Lang Baumgarten as well as from Mimi Floback and Sally Ashton Story in memory of Jon Ashton. Photo Credit: Sid Hoeltzell© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Succession Marcel Duchamp.
|
MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum presents Focus: Marcel Duchamp, a rare opportunity for Miami audiences to experience the seminal French artist’s work firsthand. The display presents Miami Art Museum’s edition of Duchamp’s Box in a Suitcase, from 1961, alongside a small trove of works hailing from the collection of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. The exhibition will be on view at Miami Art Museum from Thursday, November 17, 2011 through Sunday, March 18, 2012. “Marcel Duchamp reoriented the way we understand the source of a given artwork’s meaning and value,” said MAM Associate Curator René Morales. “He questioned the barriers that separate art from everyday life, expanding our conceptions of what an artwork can be.” Box in a Suitcase was one of the first artworks purchased by MAM for its collection. Conceived in 1941 on the eve of Duchamp’s departure from Europe to the US, it serves as a portable, miniature retrospective of his own work. With a characteristic attitude of detached irony, the self-exiled artist thus cast himself in the role of traveling salesman, transporting revolutionary ideas rather than housewares – not from door to door but from one continent to another. Surrounded by full-scale examples of Duchamp’s famous ready-mades as well as a rare early painting, Box in a Suitcase functions in this context as an exhibition within an exhibition.
|
——-
Looks like we have a brand new art fair coming to Miami Basel for 2011:
Pianos will “POP-UP” around Miami during Art Basel week 2011
During the week of Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, Steinway Piano Gallery of Miami presents the premiere of Pop-Up Pianos Miami 2011 (PUPM), a public art project made possible by The Black Key Group and a host committee of young, local professionals. The concept of Pop-Up Pianos is inspired by the New York City organization Sing for Hope. Sing for Hope mobilizes professional artists in volunteer programs that benefit schools, hospitals and communities. Sing for Hope’s Pop-Up Pianos celebrate the vision of arts accessibility for all. The inspirational project motivated the Co-Founders of The Black Key Group, Whitney Lykins and Isabella Acker, to bring Pop-Up Piano to Miami with the support of Steinway Piano Gallery of Miami.
Steinway Piano Gallery of Miami is a factory-owned retail location for Steinway & Sons, maker of the world’s finest pianos. They have donated ten pianos to be strategically placed throughout locations in Midtown Miami, Downtown, Wynwood District, Brickell, and Miami Beach.
Ten artists have been carefully selected to customize each of the pianos based on their particular style of art, ranging from graffiti and acrylic paints to 3D sculptures. The Black Key Group and host committee have taken great strides to include a mix of prominent and local artists, all of whom reflect some aspect of Miami culture including Lebo; Surface Merchants and Krave; Rodrigo Echeverri; GG; Reinier Gamboa and Jose Mertz (Creative Native); Arnaud Pages; Alouishous San Gomma; Kazilla & Lorie Setton; Brian Butler; and more.
While there will be important announcements of specific concert dates and times where musicians will perform, Art Basel week spectators will have the chance to tickle the ivories in between performances. In addition to the local talent, various nationally acclaimed artists’ “Pop-Up” performances will also be announced via social media outlets throughout the duration of the installation.
After Art Basel week, the pianos will be donated to Miami-Dade Public Schools with arts programs, local charities, organizations and/or music venues, enriching the cultural and arts community of South Florida.
PUPM will host a launch event and closing party, both of which will be open-to-the-public. The launch event will be hosted at The Opium Group’s Louis Bar-Lounge at Gansevoort South in Miami Beach on Thursday, December 1st. Jacob Jeffries Band will play along with a surprise guest performance. The closing party will be held at the acclaimed Ideobox Artspace in the Wynwood District on Saturday, December 3rd where piano donations will be announced including a special LIVE performance. Lastly, Ideobox Artspace will also be hosting am Art Basel recovery party the following Saturday, December 10th during Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk where all ten pianos will be on display.
Stay tuned for musician announcements and event details as well as the specific locations where the pianos will be placed. For more information, visit www.PopUpPianoMia.com. To keep track of piano locations, artists, and musicians, please follow Pop-Up Piano Miami on Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare (during Art Basel week).
The Rubell Family Collection
American Exuberance
Incubationby Jennifer Rubell
30 Americansat the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
 |
| John Miller, The Newcomers (detail), 2008 |
American Exuberance
November 30, 2011—July 27, 2012
American Exuberance at the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation will include 64 artists and 190 artworks, 40 of which were made in 2011, many specifically for this exhibition.
American Exuberancewill occupy all 28 galleries in the 45,000 sq. ft. museum, and all works in the exhibition are drawn from the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation. A 275-page catalog will be available, with writings by 13 artists in the exhibition including Kathryn Andrews, Frank Benson, Hannah Greely, Thomas Houseago, Richard Jackson, Rashid Johnson, Nate Lowman, John Miller, Richard Prince, Sterling Ruby, Haim Steinbach, Ryan Trecartin, and Kaari Upson.
To pre-order the exhibition catalog please visit our online bookstore.
Exhibition Statement
In our efforts to understand the America we live in today, we turn toward contemporary art and artists. The 64 artists in American Exuberance, all citizens or residents of this country, are keen observers of American culture, economy and politics – whatever their country of origin.
In its totality, the exhibition creates a portrait of the American condition. The artworks span the last few decades for context, with a focus on works made in today’s America.
We asked a number of participating artists to comment on American Exuberance for the catalog. Many of them conceived original texts. The following is an excerpt from John Miller’s essay that has deeply informed our understanding of the subject:
“American exuberance is part myth and part reality… Paradoxically, exuberance is linked to stagnation, entropy and ruin. Its efflorescence becomes mirage-like. For the artists, these conditions are materials.”
| KATHRYN ANDREWS JOHN BALDESSARI MATTHEW BARNEY FRANK BENSON MAURIZIO CATELLAN MATTHEW CHAMBERS GEORGE CONDO AARON CURRY BRENDAN FOWLER FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES HANNAH GREELY WADE GUYTON KARL HAENDEL MARK HANDFORTH KEITH HARING RICHARD HAWKINS JULIAN HOEBER EVAN HOLLOWAY THOMAS HOUSEAGO MATTHEW DAY JACKSON RICHARD JACKSON RASHID JOHNSON |
WILLIAM E. JONES JACOB KASSAY MIKE KELLEY JEFF KOONS BARBARA KRUGER JOEL KYACK ELAD LASSRY GLENN LIGON CHARLES LONG NATE LOWMAN NATHAN MABRY JOHN MCALLISTER PAUL MCCARTHY JASON MEADOWS JOHN MILLER RUBY NERI CADY NOLAND KAZ OSHIRO ROBERT OVERBY RAYMOND PETTIBON ELIZABETH PEYTON |
SETH PRICE RICHARD PRINCE ROB PRUITT CHARLES RAY JASON RHOADES BERT RODRIGUEZ STERLING RUBY ANALIA SABAN DANA SCHUTZ CINDY SHERMAN MICHAEL ST. JOHN HAIM STEINBACH HENRY TAYLOR BLAIR THURMAN RYAN TRECARTIN KAARI UPSON PHIL WAGNER KELLEY WALKER ANDY WARHOL CHRISTOPHER WOOL LISA YUSKAVAGE |
INCUBATION by Jennifer Rubell
Jennifer Rubell presents her 11th annual breakfast installation, Incubation, opening Wednesday, November 30 from 9 a.m. to noon and continuing every morning through Sunday, December 4.
Incubationis an exploration of the creative act, simultaneously addressing the creation of food, the creation of life, and the creation of art. The installation incorporates two essential halves of the creative act: an incubation gallery where yogurt is being made; and an observation gallery where the yogurt is anointed with honey and then consumed.
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse: Opens November 11, 2011 through April 28, 2012
New Exhibitions:
•Sculpture: Nancy Rubins
•Photography: Marry Ellen Mark, John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha
•Video: Hiraki Sawa, David Claerbout
Permanent Exhibitions:
•Ernesto Neto, Olafur Eliasson, Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Donald Judd, George Segal, Richard Serra
Opens November 11, 2011 through April 28, 2012
November 30, 2011 – March 04, 2012
Curated by Jesús Fuenmayor and Philippe Pirotte for CIFO
Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection curated by Jesús Fuenmayor and Philippe Pirotte will be on view from November 30, 2011 – March 4, 2012 and includes over 60 pieces by 41 artists from different generations and latitudes, who share a common experience of promoting and transforming conceptualist practices, which have resulted in becoming an ever-present and driving force in contemporary art today.
The exhibition overlaps geographically and chronologically several times, highlighting coincidences regarding the artist’s journey as historian both through an institutional critique (Frames) and through their capacity to question the ways in which we relate to memory (Documents). Because it is a selection of notable works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection—more than expressing or reflecting the historical canons that frame the study of conceptualist practices—this exhibition encourages multiple views and interpretations from which may uncover new ties within contemporary artistic production.
The works included in the exhibition highlight three distinct instances within the trajectory of conceptual art between the 1960’s and the late 1980’s. One group of artists included in the exhibition are those associated with the birth of conceptualism: Vito Acconci, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Luis Camnitzer, Joseph Kosuth, David Lamelas and Ed Ruscha, for instance. Another group consists of artists like Marina Ambramović, Lothar Baumgarten, Juan Downey, Eugenio Espinoza, Anna Maria Maiolino, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, John Smith and Francesca Woodman who, mainly working in the seventies, participated in the dissemination of conceptualist practices across geographical and cultural boundaries. The third group of artists seen in Frames and Documents are those that worked in the 1980s such as Ricardo Brey, Sophie Calle, Eugenio Dittborn, Louise Lawler, Claudio Perna, and Allan McCollum, among others.
Miami Art Museum
Enrique Martinez Celaya: Schneebett – October 14, 2011 – January 1, 2012
Enrique Martínez Celaya
Schneebett (Snow-bed), 2003-4
Mixed media installation
Dimensions variable
Collection Miami Art Museum, promised gift of Dieter and Si Rosenkranz
Courtesy of Enrique Martínez Celaya
American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s – November 6, 2011 – January 1, 2012
American People #18
The Flag is Bleeding, 1967
Oil on canvas
72 x 96 inches
Courtesy of Faith Ringgold and ACA Galleries,
New York
© Faith Ringgold 1967
Photo courtesy ACA Galleries, New York
BETWEEN HERE AND THERE
Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection
Ongoing, with regular changes
Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection
Photo by Yesenia Hernandez
The Bass Museum
erwin wurm: beauty business
November 8, 2011 – March 4, 2012
Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business
December 1, 2011 – March 4, 2012
Miami Beach, FL. (November 2011) — The Bass Museum of Art is pleased to present its latest exhibition, Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business, making its debut during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 with art and sculptures by artist Erwin Wurm. Wurm, an artist living and working in Vienna, combines various art forms: sculpture, photography and performance into a unique personal view of the everyday world. Drawing on history, humor and philosophy, Wurm creates light-hearted artworks with at times serious messages. His new large sculptural works which have a grand theatrical scale and were created specifically for this exhibition, attract the viewer to interact and participate. Wurm’s smaller-scale Drinking Sculpture series ask the audience to engage and in which they literally do; it is a bar. The audience is asked to open drawers and interact with the piece. A Drinking Sculpture is realized when the audience is drunk.
Wurm’s well-known sweater pieces, in the format of large-scale wall works, blur the boundary between human form and the museum building. Here, Wurm eludes to dressing a portion of the museum for warmth and security. A series of smaller sweater sculptures also incorporate fashion – the sweater forms are stretched and altered by crude wooden braces. These altered works transform the visitor’s view of the sweater forms into the present moment, leaving any history, which can be at times painful, and the future, at best illusionary, out of the experience. Additionally, a new series of ‘hoodie’ works push the human form and showcase how balance can be found within the gallery spaces.
Beauty Business, is Wurm’s first cohesive focus on the home or dwelling. As architect Le Corbusier once remarked, the purpose of architecture is to move us. In his art, Wurm consistently realizes architecture’s highest aim as he creates works whose extraordinary power lies not only in how deeply they make us feel, but also in how they let us see the complexity of our feelings, in meaningful environments which help us to dwell. A dwelling is an in-between space where one may hesitate between worlds. The activity of dwelling is therefore a contemplative lingering – a way of remaining in a space or location that is responsive to the nature of that particular place, and open to whatever happens to trigger your imagination; through association, through fantasies, daydreams, desires, or memories.
Wurm’s greatest insights as an artist are that he believes our feelings about such locations are often mixed, that we are often drawn to what both attracts and repels – these are things the artist understands intuitively. If in the space surrounding his objects we experience our own ambivalence about certain issues more intensely, it is because of the way, in theme and structure, his work so elegantly holds contradictory elements in tension.
Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business will be on view during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. Special museum hours will be: Thursday, December 1 through Sunday, December 4, 2011, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
This exhibition is produced in collaboration with Dallas Contemporary, Texas and curated by Peter Doroshenko, Director/Dallas Contemporary, Texas. This exhibition will be presented at Dallas Contemporary and be on view: April 14 through August 19, 2012.
Additional support for this exhibition was made possible by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.
About Erwin Wurm:
Known for his uniquely humorous approach to formalism, Wurm’s multi-disciplinary works have appeared in exhibitions throughout the world. Erwin Wurm has exhibited extensively with shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, (2005); Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France, (2007); Konstmuseum Malmö, Sweden, (2008); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, (2008); the Moscow Biennial (2009); Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2010); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2010); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010). The artist just recently revealed NARROW HOUSE at the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy, in June 2011.
Works by Wurm are included in prestigious collections throughout the world at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenhein Collection, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Musèe d`Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, among others.
Erwin Wurm lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
portrait of a young man | laurent grasso
October 29, 2011 – February 12, 2012
<a id=”firstimg” title=”laurent grasso
1610, 2011
neon tubes, electronic transformer
137 3/4 x 98 7/16 inches
courtesy of alfonso artiaco gallery, napoli
” href=”http://www.bassmuseum.org/art/laurent-grasso/#image_3853″ rel=”gallery”>
<a title=”laurent grasso
les oiseaux, 2008
digital video on DVD, edition of 5 with 2APs – exhibition copy
8 min 55 sec, looped
courtesy of kitty and tom stoner, maryland and guggenheim, asher associates
image courtesy of sean kelly, new york” href=”http://www.bassmuseum.org/art/laurent-grasso/#image_4002″ rel=”gallery”>
<a title=”francesco botticini
portrait of a young man, 15th century
oil on panel
18 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches
bass museum of art, gift of john and johanna bass (1963.024)” href=”http://www.bassmuseum.org/art/laurent-grasso/#image_4028″ rel=”gallery”>
<a title=”laurent grasso
studies into the past
oil on panel
11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches
framed: 15 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches
collection of sean and mary kelly, new york
image courtesy of sean kelly gallery, new york” href=”http://www.bassmuseum.org/art/laurent-grasso/#image_4025″ rel=”gallery”>
<a title=”laurent grasso
horn antenna, 2010
copper, aluminum, wood, pedestal, edition 1 of 5
14 3/4 x 27 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches
pedestal: 35 1/2 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
courtesy of sean kelly gallery, new york” href=”http://www.bassmuseum.org/art/laurent-grasso/#image_4026″ rel=”gallery”>
French artist Laurent Grasso investigates shifting and multiple time frames in his conceptual art practice. His project at the Bass Museum of Art juxtaposes historical works from our permanent collection of Renaissance and Baroque art with his own series of paintings, sculptures, videos and neons. Here, Grasso provocatively forms literal and figurative connections between the past and the present.
The exhibition takes as its departure point Laurent Grasso’s reflections on the rationality of the Renaissance, “the age of discovery,” a period in time when man began seeing the world in a completely different manner, becoming interested in individuality, the natural world, science, cosmology and the study of geography. A time when science and the arts were not disparate fields but rather informed one another.
In the exhibition, Grasso’s fascination with history and science culminates in a recent series of paintings entitled Studies into the past. Produced in collaboration with professional art restorers these works incorporate select imagery such as trees, figures and portions of landscape; and are meticulously reproduced from famous paintings by Uccello, Fra Angelico, Mantegna and Botticelli. However, the artist also integrates depictions of miraculous phenomena such as eclipses, floating rocks and northern lights—imagery that reoccurs throughout Grasso’s practice but would not have appeared in, for example, a Botticelli. Within these works, he layers and recontextualizes this iconography to cast doubt on his own authorship and blur the line we often draw between the historical and contemporary.
Other central works in the exhibition include a series of neons inspired by Grasso’s interest in “the father of modern science,” Galileo Galilei. For Grasso’s work 1610, he pointedly transforms one of the astronomer’s original sketches of a star constellation into neon.
It was at this time Galileo published Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger), proving that the Earth revolved around the Sun, which quickly led to his condemnation by the Roman Catholic Church. According to Grasso, the use of neon forms an allusion to the time it takes light to travel to one’s eye and the more than 350 years it took the Church to admit that Galileo was right. Light is an important metaphor for the artist, as it refers not only to Galileo’s scientific and historical contributions but also to knowledge itself, truth and even time travel.
Laurent Grasso’s approach in Portrait of a Young Man suggests what we call time and/or history is neither linear nor cyclical. Instead, it might best be understood as a constant — if not eternal process — of building and rebuilding meaning.
– Kristin Korolowicz, Knight Curatorial Fellow, Bass Museum of Art
Laurent Grasso was born in 1972 in Mulhouse, France and currently lives and works between New York and Paris. He studied at ENSBA, Paris, Cooper Union School, New York and Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London with residencies at the Villa Médicis, Rome and ISCP, New York. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He has exhibited extensively in group shows and biennials across Europe, Asia and the Americas including Manifesta 8, the Third Moscow Biennale and Sharjah Biennial. His work is the subject of a major monograph, Laurent Grasso: The Black-Body Radiation (Les Presses du Reel, 2009). As the 2008 Laureate of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Grasso presented a special exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Centre (2009). He will have an upcoming solo show at Jeu de Paume in May 2012.
November 30 – December 5, 2011
Art Deco Center / Ocean Drive / Miami Beach
Public Art Locations around Wynwood
1001 Ocean Drive
Miami Beach FL 33139
www.burstartfair.org
Burst Project Art Fair is an innovative presentation of contemporary art stretching from Miami Beach to Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. Featuring painting, surreal pop art, sculpture, mixed media, photography and video and street art – Burst Project presents a selection of exceptionally talented rising artists and galleries from around the world. Additionally, Burst Project is very proud to be able to present new public art installations from Master Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Burst Project Art Fair is a contemporary art celebration founded by artists Gabriela Sanchez-Vegas and Rudolf Kohn. Burst Project Art Fair was created to give emerging artists and galleries an opportunity to present new works during the annual Art Basel festivities in Miami Beach, and to reach beyond the ‘typical’ gallery confines to present art in public places and new unexpected venues. Burst is poised to become one of the leading platforms for inspired contemporary art and emerging artists, and this year’s the debut show is excited to feature a wonderful mix of superb talent.
Art Whino: Art Basel
Friday Dec 2rd and Saturday Dec 3rd, Noon-8pm
Sunday Dec 4th, Noon-5pm
425 NW 26th St
Miami, Florida 33127
Free Admission
More Info
Show Reception Saturday Dec 3rd, 8pm-Midnight
RSVP Only Event: RSVP to ArtBasel2011@artwhino.com
Live Painting by participating artists, Open Bar, Music by DJ Adrian Loving
3 Day exhibit during Art Basel Miami
In conjunction with Art Basel, Miami and its surrounding Art Fairs, Art Whino will present three exhibitions unified in one space. The focus this year will be to present New Brow’s distinct subcultures to the Art Basel world. The custom vinyl exhibit will showcase the premiere artists in this genre. With a series of large scale murals, we will bring street art indoors and accompany each colossal piece with smaller works by each artist. Finally, we will team up with Hope Gallery to bring Quick & Painful. This exhibit will feature the work of more than 15 important artists and designers with backgrounds in fine art, graffiti, and illustration in a unique exhibition where Fine Art becomes tattooed skin. The exhibition will be located in the heart of the Wynwood Arts District along with other accompanying art fairs.
Also in front of the exhibit participating artists will be painting Large Scale Murals on the outside of 10 buildings stretching from NW 2nd Ave to NW 5th Ave. Participating Mural artists include Angry Woebots, Pixel Pancho, J*Ryu, KaNO, Jim Mahfood, Josh Taylor, Lou Pimentel, Mauricio Murillo, Tobar, Sket One, Ritzy Periwinkle, Tristan Eaton, Charlie Owens, Czr Prz, Boosher, LEZA ONE, Jeremiah Ketner, Joe Iurato, Steve Lew and Many More!
Tattoo Artists on the premise Friday-Sunday to immortalize your favorite piece! $40 Tattoos will be provided by industry elites Joe Capobianco, Jesse Smith, Eric Merrill, Christian Perez, Scott White, and Jason Stephan.
Outdoor Murals and Aleloops Mini Showcase Reception Friday Dec 2nd, 4pm-8pm
Live Painting of murals by participating artists on over 10 walls in front of the exhibit.
Check out Aleloops tricked out 10 Mini Coopers!
For more info on Aleloops Minis click here
Get refreshed with Complimentary Izze!
Art Miami fair 2011
EventNovember 29 – December 4, 2011
Miami, FL 33137
With over 110 prestigious international galleries participating, Art Miami will include modern and contemporary paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and prints from Europe, Asia, Latin America, India, the Middle East and the United States.
“Art Miami is a fair that represents an overall cross section of what the current contemporary art market has to offer, and we provide a platform for seasoned, cutting edge and emerging galleries to showcase their artists,” said Nick Korniloff, Director of Art Miami.
“Over the last four years, Art Miami has proven itself as a destination for collectors to have a first view and acquire some of the most important high quality works available in the marketplace.”
European Fashion Designers Coming to Art Basel Miami Beach
Maison Martin Margiela and DSquared’s Dean and Dan Caten plan events at the art fair that kicks off December 1 in Miami Beach.
Art Basel Miami Beach is a major international art event, attended by galleries and art collectors from all over the world. But there is also a design section of the art fair, that incorporates fashion.
STORY: Fashion Pops Up at Upcoming Art Basel Miami Beach
“We’ve already told you that Christian Dior is collaborating with German artist Anselm Reyne on a collection of accessories, and there will be a Dior/Reyne pop up store at ABMB, before the items go on sale to the public.
More than ever, fashion designers have a big presence at ABMB, with cocktail parties, exhibitions, etc, and two major ones have just been announced: Belgian fashion house Maison Martin Margiela will have an off-site exhibtion in the Miami Design Distrcit at 4141 Northeast 2nd Avenue near the Margiela Miami boutique. And the DSquared2 twins from Milan, Dean and Dan Caten, whose flamboyant sexy denim and leather looks are perfect for Miami, will host a cocktail party and dinner with VMan Magazine at the Webster in Miami. ABMB is turning into the biggest American fashion happening outside of New York Fashion Week and the Oscars in L.A.”
The Margiela exhibition is called Love, and it will be open to the public from November 29 to December 3, featuring Margiela’s Line 13, dedicated to objects and publication, explaining the house’s relationship with interiors. A cocktail reception will take place on December 1, and guests will be invited to the boutique where they can look at spring 2012 collections of clothes for men and women. Plus Line 13 will create special objects for Art Basel 2011.
DSquared2′s event is a part at the Webster restaurant on Friday, December 2, and will celebrate their presence in the Winter 2011 issue of VMAN. Expected are a slew of fashion people, artists and of course, celebs, who are always flocking to Art Basel Miami every year.”
—
The Sender Collection
SENDER Collection from New York City to be installed in a 5,000 square foot home in North Miami house during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011:
The exhibition is titled HOME ALONE. The exhibition narrative is that the collectors have had to move from the home as the art has taken over.
…”70 artworks throughout the entire 5,000-square-foot home, including in closets and bathrooms. The exhibition features a number of provocative pieces installed in provocative places; a highlight is certain to be Richard Prince’s racy Spiritual America—a reproduction of a famously controversial photograph of Brooke Shields as a child, heavily made-up and naked, standing in a bathtub—hanging in one of the house’s bathrooms, right above the bathtub. (That’s not the only clever placement: Also look for Vito Acconci’s Seedbed, documentation of a 1972 performance the artist did that involved masturbating under a piece of plywood, placed underneath a sloped ceiling.)” NYObserver
Gary Nader Fine Arts
Gary Nader Fine Art’s 55,000 square foot Miami gallery news:
Miami Gallerist Gary Nader Set to Launch Miami’s First Auction House
 |
click to enlarge
Fernando Botero
Colombia b.1932
Self-Portrait, 1994
Oil on canvas
52 x 39 In.
Roy Lichtenstein
Three Brushstrokes
Signed, dated “84″
and numbered “1/2″
Painted aluminum
121 x 32 x 46 in.
“Art gallery owner Gary Nader will launch a new full-service auction house in Miami during the busy Art Basel Miami Beach week of fairs in December.
For the Dec. 1 premiere sale, Nader selected 112 lots valued at more than $40 million. His focus will be on modern and contemporary artists such as Fernando Botero, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Roberto Matta and Joaquin Torres Garcia.
Highlights of artworks already on consignment include Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic large scale aluminum painted sculpture “Three Brushstrokes,” executed in 1984, estimated at $3,000,000 to $5,000,000.
Five auctions per year will also cover wine, antiques, watches and cars.
Nader’s auction will take place at Gary Nader Art Centre, 62 NE 27th Street in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, Seating arrangements and paddle registration are by reservation only.” Sun Sentinnel
.
M Building in Miami Wynwood to feature 12 major international dealers
“MIAMI. For Art Basel Miami Beach (1-4 December), five participating
galleries will also mount commercial shows in the M Building in the
Wynwood district, according to its owner Cathy Vedovi. They are
Kurimanzutto (Mexico City, D4 at Frieze), Regen Projects (Los
Angeles), Tina Kim/Kukje (New York and Seoul, C17), Gavlak (Palm
Beach) and Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Zurich, C5). In 2005, the space
became the home of the Miami branch of Paris’s Galerie Emmanuel
Perrotin (F7), which sold its half of the building to Vedovi last year.
The galleries will rent the 12,000 sq. ft space. Gavlak will show Rob
Wynne and Jose Alvarez; Kurimanzutto is bringing Rirkrit Tiravanija;
Regen will have works by Liz Larner; Tina Kim/Kukje will show
Haegue Yang; and Presenhuber will have sculptures by Oscar Tuazon
and Martin Boyce. Perrotin will show photographs by JR. ■ S.D.” The Artnewspaper London
AQUA ART MIAMI 2011
Aqua Art Miami
December 1/2/3: 11am – 8pm
December 4: 11am – 4pm
1530 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
VIP Preview Opening November 30: 8 – 11pm
Sponsored by Modern Painters
Admission: General: $10 (good for re-entry for the duration of the fair)
Free with Aqua VIP Card, Art Basel VIP Card and Art Basel Press Pass
Free Shuttle Service Available
Aqua 2011 Poised To Make Another Big Splash During Art Basel Week.
Aqua Art Miami is pleased to announce its 7th consecutive installment during Art Basel Week in Miami this December. After last year’s successful return to its original location in South Beach and this year’s surge of interest in art fairs around the country, the fair’s organizers are looking forward to an even stronger event in 2011. With expanded arts programming and the collective exchange of ideas by 45 exhibiting galleries, Aqua 2011 will surely live up to what many in the arts community refer to as “the best hotel art fair in the world.”
Scope Art Fair 2011 has posted its hot international lineup of 80 galleries in its 80,000 square foot exhibition fair space. A quick glance at the list confirms that this edition of Scope will be giving the other satellite fairs some serious competition.
First View
For VIP’s and Press
Tuesday| November 29 | 4pm-8pm
Free for VIPs (or $100 donation to benefit The SCOPE Foundation)
General Admission Fair Hours
Wednesday-Saturday | Nov 30 – Dec 3 | 11am-7pm
Sunday | Dec 4 | 11am – 6pm
KIWI Arts Group
BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy
Shot in the early 1960s when fine art photographer William John Kennedy forged a friendship with both Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol, these images capture the two artists and their soon-to-be iconic works at the seminal point of their careers and the birth of the Pop Art Movement.
After almost half a century in storage, a selection of the nearly forgotten images is now published for the first time as a collection. The exhibition documents a 1960s zeitgeist, with Kennedy’s deft vision narrating a new chapter in the history of Pop Art. Depicting the young artists as both playful and serious—and even prescient of their own future fame—the viewer glimpses a rare moment in time where works such as Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe and Indiana’s LOVE seem like props in a child’s make-believe theatrical production. As history has revealed, Kennedy’s extraordinary ability to foresee the significance that Warhol and Indiana would have on the art world is what makes this collection most compelling.
The exhibition is presented by KIWI Arts Group, a fine art publishing house that transcends the traditional artist-gallery relationship with unique vision and skill. Its mission is to identify talent, create and disseminate multimedia documentation that articulately reveals the artist’s proper historical context, and successfully manage all aspects of marketing and sales on an international scale.
In conjunction with the exhibition, a short documentary film, Full Circle: Before They Were Famous, will screen at O Cinema (www.o-cinema.org). The 40 minute film, starring William John Kennedy, Robert Indiana, Ultra Violet, Taylor Mead and others, chronicles the journey of Kennedy’s images as they were brought to public view.
O Cinema, 90 NW 29 St., Wynwood Arts District
Thursday, December 1 at 9PM
Friday, December 2 at 10AM & 5PM
Saturday, December 3 at 9PM
Warhol Holding Marilyn Acetate I
The Factory, New York City
Silver Gelatin Fiber Print
Edition of 60 with 7 AP
40 x 30 inches
Executed 1964, Printed 2010
@2011 William John Kennedy, KIWI Arts Group
October 14, 2011
PRESS RELEASE 2011
Entry to SEVEN is free, and the opening reception will be on Tuesday, November 29, 1-8pm. The fair will be open from 11am to 7pm, November 30 through December 4. Updates and other information can be found at www.seven-miami.comand www.twitter.com/sevenmiami.
“Anna Betbeze, Snake, 2011, Acid dyes and watercolor on wool, 107 x 69 inches. Courtesy of Kate Werble Gallery, New York.
It Ain’t Fair 2011
Materialism
December 1 – December 4, 2011
81 NE 40 Street, Miami Design District, FL 33137
Opening reception: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 6 – 9 PM
OHWOW is pleased to announce It Ain’t Fair 2011: Materialism, to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach. For the 2011 installment, It Ain’t Fair takes on a topical focus to present this annual group exhibition, now in its fourth year. The theory of materialism, in philosophy, maintains that physical matter is the only true reality. Within the scope of contemporary art, many artists explore ideas of what is not tangible – intellectually, conceptually, and visually. IAF: Materialism aims to focus, instead, on the physicality of artwork, the new methods employed by artists toward their use of material, and how this type of work not only values substance, it magnifies its significance.
Complete artist list to be announced November 7, 2011″
As is the always the case with Miami Basel, there are many new awesome places to come to Miami and drop into, the first on the list being the Miami Beach version of the restaurant of the moment in New York, the Dutch, will be open at the W hotel in South Beach by the time of the start of Baselmania 2011.
Word is out too that the lightning rod of emerging contemporary art – the NADA Art Fair – has expanded from two to three areas in the 1950′s Deaville Beach Resort Hotel in Miami Beach. The hotel has a cool as hell bar straight out of the 1950′s. NADA also expanded internationally this year, participating in Art Cologne in the historic collectors corridor of Cologne, Germany as a separate entity.
The 2011 edition of the NADA Art Fair will feature the following galleries from Los Angeles: : Country Club (also in Cincinnati, recently moved from a Schindler house in Mid-Wilshire LA to Hollywood) ; Ambach + Rice (newly arrived from Seattle, now in Culver City), The Company (in LA’s Chinatown gallery district), Francois Ghebaly Gallery (in Culver City), ltd los angeles (LA collector Shirley Morales gallery on Sunset boulevard in Hollywood), Mihai Nicodim Gallery (in Culver City, next door to David Kordansky gallery, in a warren of huge high ceiling luxurious spaces that recall Baby Bergamot Station during the mid 1990′s in Santa Monica) and Nye + Brown (a New York gallery now in Culver City).
New for Art Basel Miami Beach in 2011 is Art Public, curated by LAND co-founder and LACMA curator Christine Y. Kim.
(Photo: Paper magazine)
Miami Beach New World Symphony's outdoor video projection wall
The Frank Gehry designed architectural sensation Miami Beach New World Symphony concert hall’s spectacular external video wall will be part of the Art Video programming for Art Basel Miami Beach 2011.
Will Ryman's 65rh Street Rose sculpture will be on display at the Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
|
|
|||
The fabulous Wynwood Walls outdoor graffiti art showcase has commissioned several graffiti artists to expand the already massive constellation of highly inventive and visually stunning murals. The Wynwood Kitchen and Bar, which debuted during Baselmania 2010, has turned its kitchen over to a veteran all-star chef from Philadelphia’s Alma de Cuba restaurant.
Pub Belly, the pork-centric South Beach gastropub – which we absolutely loved when we went their after its début in 2010, is expanded with two new restaurants along the same block, with a sushi bar and a Barcelona cuisine inspired restaurant and bar space called Barceloneta. Pub Belly was named the best new restaurant in South Beach in 2010.
from UrbanDaddy:
A Catalan Bistro from the Pubbelly Guys
Those Pubbelly guys.
They’re just so damn… prolific.
As if a pork-belly-filled gastropub wasn’t enough. They went and graced you with bacon sushi and Japanese beers.
But still, you wanted more. You wanted oysters. Sangria. Paella. Housemade sausages, for crying out loud.
So here you go: Barceloneta, the third installment of the Pubbelly empire, opens tomorrow on the western edge of South Beach, ready to envelop you with sultry Catalan cooking and Iberian cocktails.
“Art Basel Miami Beach, the international art fair that will take place in Miami Beach from December 1 to December 4, has a history of fashion presence. In the last few years, major fashion/art photos like David LaChappelle and Bruce Weber have hosted events there, as have designers Viktor & Rolf, Rodarte, Rick Owens and more. This year, Christian Dior is doing a major collaboration with German artist and sculptor Anselm Reyle, and will host a pop up Dior x Anselm Reyle shop in the Design District part of the show starting November 28, a few days before the fair officially beings. And it will be open for three full weeks.” The Hollywood Reporter 10.24.11
“Graffiti Gone Global (GGG), powered by SUSHISAMBA, will take part in its fifth consecutive exhibition of urban contemporary art and design, during Art Basel Miami Beach where French architect, Marc Fornes, will unveil ‘Labrys Frisae’ – a conceptual, non-linear structure reminiscent of three-dimensional graffiti.
‘Labrys Frisae’ will be the largest installation of Fornes’ oeuvre to date. Once completed, ‘Labrys Frisae’ will span 30 feet and rise 16 feet above the floor, utterly transforming Midtown’s glass Rotunda space. The design will allow visitors to obtain a greater understanding of the installation through three entryways leading them ‘inside’ the structure. Moreover, the exhibiton space will permit viewers to experience Fornes’ work from multiple perspectives – from both the ground floor and the mezzanine level – while the visitor’s relationship with Fornes’ 3-D graffiti will shift according to their position in the Rotunda. Beyond the structure itself, Fornes will heighten and seduce the visitor’s visual and auditory senses with lighting and music, leaving them mesmerized by his ability to seamlessly transform mathematical cryptogram into a large-scale, art installation.? Haute Living magazine, Miami 10.19.11
Ivory Tower, a multi-work video installation concurrent with Art Basel, Miami Beach
“I am pleased to be curating this upcoming exhibition with Lauren Gentile of Contemporary Wing in Washington D.C. to be shown in Miami during the art fairs. Following is the curatorial essay and information on the artists. Please visit Contemporary Wing for up-to-date information
“Since the 19th century, the term “ivory tower” has been used to designate a world or atmosphere where intellectuals engage in pursuits that are disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life. As such, it usually carries pejorative connotations of a willful disconnect from the everyday world; esoteric, over-specialized, or even useless research; and academic elitism, if not outright condescension.”
The commencement of the 21st century in general and the collapse of America’s economy in particular have marked an ever-increasing divide between what artists want to create, what galleries want to sell, and what people want to see and buy. Never is this more evident than during the first week of December, when thousands of aesthetes flock like wintering geese to Miami. Ivory Tower is an attempt to bridge the gaps between the experimental/experiential and commercially-viable art, if only for a moment in time. The diversity of works shown span the fields of science, documentary film, user-generated and theoretical content, and the space between the familiar and the bizarre. Ivory Tower is set high above the downtown skyline in the glittering Marquis Miami, “downtown Miami’s most elevated address”. Participating artists to date include: Alex Villar, Nia Burks, Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Paul Moakley, Phillip David Stearns, Sean Capone and Tiffany Carbonneau.”
Graffuturism Presents “In situ” Mural Installations Art Basel Miami
by Graffuturism on Nov 1, 2011 • 3:07 pm
“We have finally finalized our lineup of artists for our mural installation project at Art Basel Miami this year. The installation titled “In Situ” will take place in the Wynwood Art District at the Kohn Compound during Art Basel Miami. The artists will include, Eric Haze, Mare 139, West One, Poesia, Aaron De la Cruz, Kema, Jurne, Sueme, Remi Rough, Greg Lamarche, She One, Rae Martini, LX One, Matt W. Moore, and Augustine Kofie.
This project has been in the works for awhile now and we were lucky enough to secure the walls thanks to the Kohn Compound. Also a special thanks to MTN Colors for being our paint sponsor for this event.
The project Titled “In Situ” is a reference to the Mural installations that in the definition of the term will be made and created for the site specific to this event. Permanent Murals that will be placed in a unique and contrary to traditional compositions. As graffiti enters its place among the art world as legitimate art form, we have put together this lineup with the intention of showcasing some of our cultures important figures. With most, if not all the artists having an extensive background in traditional graffiti we have tried to bring many aspects of our current culture. From Legends Like Mare 139 & Eric Haze to emerging stars like Sueme and Jurne. We have picked a wide spectrum of talent. International additions like Remi Rough and She One will also contribute, reminding us of how far our culture has reached. We offer a different vision, modernist at times to street art and traditional graffiti. The great part of the Art Basel event that spreads into the streets of the Wynwood arts district, is that all angles are represented from traditional graffiti, to street artists. We now add our version this year with In Situ. We hope you stop by and say hello. The graffiti Avante Garde as some have called it is here and we hope you enjoy what we will be bringing to the table this year.Also watch out for special guests that will be added to our lineup.
GF”
Multiversal Miami 2011
During Art Basel Miami Beach Week
Thursday, December 1 – Sunday, December 5
Multiversal Miami Event Space
193 NW 24th Street, Miami
Wynwood Arts District
“Miami: prepare to be wow-ed this December with a new and unique one-of-a-kind arts experience! From December 1-4, in the heart of the Wynwood Art District, you will be introduced to more than 120 of South Florida’s best as well as artists from all around the world. By encompassing almost 5,000 square feet, Multiversal will showcase their best visual and performance works under tented and open-air space in this can’t miss event.
Among our artists, you will find both established and emerging names from around the world. Their media will span fine arts, live art, sculpture, urban art, installations, photography, body painting, fashion and film festivals.
Around the artwork will swirl a vortex of belly dancers, BBOY’s, fire dancers, acrobats, exhibitionists, and extemporaneous theater — all to the rhythm of live and recorded music. Open to the public from Thursday-Sunday for an estimated 49 hours — more than any other scheduled Art Basel production — this will truly be a multiversal human experience.
The show will have a tented space and outdoor exhibit, conveniently located in the heart of Miami’s Wynwood Art District next to the Dorsch Gallery.”
“Partners: More Than Art Group
Supporters: Life is Art, deviantART, Heartbeats Unlimited, Control Salon, by1982.com, and many more.
2011 Multiversal Gallery Featured Artists: Buddy Nestor, Chelsea Greene Lewyta, Crystal Barbe, Customz, Dekal, Dubelyoo, Elizabelth Virginaia Levesque, Erasmo Garcia, Fifty Three, Glenn Arthur, Italia Rubio, Jason Page, Jean Paul Mallozi, Kat Gun, Kazilla, Kelly McKernan, Marc Paper Scissor, Richard Alan Haugh, Ruben Ubiera, Squid called Sebastian, Stuntkid, Vaghe.”
- Los Angeles based artist Vincent Johnson at the Spice Table in Little Tokyo, downtown Los Angeles
Vincent Johnson is an artist and writer in Los Angeles
http://vincentjohnsonart.com/
http://vincentjohnsonart.com/ my ArtCat website
Johnson will be participating in The Bearden Project at the Studio Museum in Harlem, with a cutout-collage work created especially for the exhibition.
http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/the-bearden-project
Johnson most recently participated in the début Pulse Fair Los Angeles, with Las Cienegas Projects
Johnson received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1997 and his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1986. He studied with Mike Kelly, Jack Goldstein, Stephen Prina, Liz Larner, Chris Williams, Mayo Thompson (formerly of Art&Language), and Liz Larner. He is a 2005 Creative Capital Grantee, and was nominated for the Baum: An Emerging American Photographer’s Award in 2004 and for the New Museum of Contemporary Arts Aldrich Art Award in 2007 and for the Art Matters grant in 2008, and in 2009 nominated for Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship, Los Angeles. In 2010 he was named a United States Artists project artist. His work has been reviewed in ArtForum, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art Slant and many other publications.
Filed under: Los Angeles, miami basel, New York, Vincent Johnson | Tags: Art Basel Miami Beach, Bass Art Museum Miami, de la Cruz Collection Miami, Gigi restaurant Miami, Latin American art, Locust Projects Miami, Los Angeles collector, Margulies Warehouse, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miami Design District, Miami pop up stores, NADA Art Fair Miami, O.H.W.O.W Miami, Red Light River Miami restaurant, Robert Miller gallery, Rubell Family Collection, Seven Art Fair Miami, Shake Shack Miami, Whitney Museum of American Art, Wynwood Miami, Wynwood Walls Miami
Vincent Johnson’s 2010 Miami Basel Art Report (Baselmania)
This year’s edition of Baselmania Miami Beach sought and found new heights of raw sexual energy in both Miami and Miami Beach, which already had some of the sexiest cool world scenes on the planet.
Ocean Drive South Beach (Miami Beach)
There were more pop up stores than ever. There were more free super fun parties than ever, in this ninth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. The Miami art scene both shifted and expanded, despite most of the satellite fairs being smaller. There were open art world block parties in Wynwood in Miami that went on all night for several days. Miami Basel launches new stores in the Design District, new pop-up stores and fresh museum shows that are timed to open with Art Basel’s arrival. This also happens with new Miami restaurants. Launching the new in December is also what happens in Vegas, from restaurants to new nightclubs and mega-resorts.
O.H.W.O.W. store in the Standard Hotel Miami (refinery29 photo)
O.H.W.O.W. has teamed up with the Standard Hotel Miami to launch the publishing concern STND/OHWOW and shop/bookstore in the hotel. O.H.W.O.W. Miami has also set its eyes upon the LA Artworld with its expansion plans. It will open a new gallery space in Los Angeles in February 2011. Supposedly the space is already programmed for the next two years. Scott Campbell will open the Los Angeles space. O.H.W.O.W. has had a pop up gallery space in LA for a few months.
Friend With You Pop Up
Hello Kitty pop-up store
Small Gifts Pop Up Shop, Sanrio, Hello Kitty Miami
Maison Martin Margiela Miami pop-up shop
Maison Martin Margiela Miami
British designer Duncan Quinn's new 6,000 sq. ft. pop-up shop in Miami's Design District
The Latin artworld and interest in it has grown even while a few top-level European dealers have left Miami.
“Some years ago, Herbert Muschamp, the then architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote “Miami Beach is no longer a southern city of North America but a northern city of the Latin South.”
Something that piqued my curiosity about Miami was how developed its Latin artworld economy was in comparison to other parts of the United States. I’ve wondered whether Miami is a major destination for Latin American artists. Someone pointed out that right across from the Cisneros Fontenals is the offices of largest internet company in South America. The comments that follow seem to answer some of my questions.
“The Brazilians are coming. So are the Argentinians. Collectors from Mexico, Peru and Uruguay are also set to make an appearance next week…”
“Latin American collectors are becoming increasingly committed internationally. The reason we come to this fair is for them,” says the Paris-based dealer Chantal Crousel, who is showing a new work by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco (“81 Euroman”, a gold leaf print on canvas priced at $200,000) and a series of hand-made prints by the Puerto-Rico based duo Allora & Calzadilla…”
“We work with some informed collectors in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil who have made a significant commitment to the art of Joan Mitchell, and to that of other first-generation abstract expressionist painters. Their long-term interest in historical figures from the region – such as Hélio Oiticica – is consistent with their search for great non-representational work of the New York School,” says Adam Sheffer of New York’s Cheim & Read…”
The following New York Times article shows that New York is now positioning itself to absorb Latin American art into the pantheon of Art History.
At Art Basel Miami Beach, Less Heat
By KATE TAYLOR
Wednesday
inaugural exhibition poster of New York City's Robert Miller gallery's A White Studio in Miami 2010
“Born in Eeklo, Belgium in 1958, Dirk Braeckman began his career photographing portraits before moving on to abandoned spaces and desolate interiors. Fragments were enlarged to take up the dimension of an all-consuming still life. In 2002, the artist returned to portraiture when he was commissioned by King Albert and Queen Paola of Belgium for theirs, which are permanently installed along with other of his works in the Sphinx Room at the Royal Palace in Brussels.”
The venerable New York Robert Miller gallery has opened A White Space in Miami. The début exhibition included a 14 foot wide photographic print on Japanese handmade silk paper by Belgian artist Dirk Braeckman. New York’s playful yet serious Perry Rubinstein gallery opened a pop-up gallery in Miami Beach on Collins avenue. We looked in as we were walking to the Oceanfront concert on Wednesday night at 10PM. To get there requires walking through an opening in a glade along the Miami Beach area where the concert happened.
This year indy band Metric performed to a huge crowd that was more than twice the size of last year’s similar event, and still free to one and all. I could not imagine a similar event being held in Los Angeles without a huge police presence.
Indy band Metric performing live at on the Miami Beach oceanfront
Art Basel Miami Beach's Oceanfront Night's poster
Up until 2009 this concert was the main event for the Art Basel collectors. Now they party next door at the newly opened W Hotel Miami Beach, while the youth crowd enjoys the free and totally awesome nighttime concert that is literally a hundred feet or less from the Atlantic ocean. This event alone makes it worth coming to Miami during Baselmania. We left about half an hour into the concert, to take a stroll down the winding brick road that runs behind the hotels along the oceanfront in South Beach. There was an amazing private Detroit Techno party going on that we decided to enjoy, just by taking a seat on the bench directly across from the hotel property. Since sound travels – we were getting to enjoy the same music as the persons invited to the party behind the hotel’s low-rise barricade. We walked a few more blocks on the winding path, then cut back over to Collins and made our way to the Albion hotel’s bar, where we were also guests of the hotel for our Baselmania 2010 days. We had arrived at our hotel in the early afternoon after having gotten about half a night’s sleep, so we were in the bar only until about 2AM on Thursday morning.
Fortunately we had a meal of hamburgers and French fries and artisan beer at the new Shake Shack, from New York City, on Lincoln road on the ground floor of the Herzog & Meuron designed 1111 Lincoln road parking structure and shopping center.
Inside Miami Beach's Shake Shack (from NYC)
Herzog & Meuron's 1111 Lincoln road building, where Shake Shack is located.
Shake Shack Miami Beach on Lincoln road's outdoor mall
The burgers were quite good, but do not come close to LA’s dry aged beef Umami burgers, which GQ magazine had just written an article about, saying that Umami Burger is the best in the country. There is a density of flavor in in an Umami.Burger, which used to cost about $12 for a burger, fries and a glass of house beer from Vietnam. Now it’s about $50 for two persons, as the cheaper house beer is gone, and there is valet service. The last time we were there I said to my partner that this is the beginning of three-tiers of burger experience in LA – with the industrial grade chain burger shops capturing most of the market, followed by the upscale LA burger bars that are actually real and excellent bars like Father’s Office, Golden State, 25 degrees, with Umami Burger sitting on top as King of the Hamburger throne. The Umami Burger that is opening near us in Studio City will be mobbed for its bar scene alone.
There was a party on the uppermost level of the 1111 building, featuring videos by Josephine Meckseeper.
Thursday
Taschen store opens at Herzog & Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln road Miami Beach
Benedikt Taschen at the opening of his Taschen art bookstore at Herzog & Meuron's 1111 Lincoln road parking structure and shopping boutique emporium
Invited guests at the Taschen Miami Beach art bookstore opening. The store will also feature a variety of titles in Spanish and Portuguese.
De la Cruz Collection
new installation at the de la Cruz Collection space Miami 2010 (Bizbash photo)
de la Cruz Collection Miami 2010 (photo Accessible Art blog)
David Altmejd's “The Shepherd" at the de la Cruz Collection space 2010 (artscriticatl website photo)
Rubell Family Collection
LA artist Kaari Upson's awesome installation in the Rubell Family Collection (photo Accessible Art blog)
Kaari Upson paintings (photo art-it.asia)
Matthew Day Jackson had an entire gallery installation at the Rubell Family Collection December 2010
Matthew Day Jackson human body sculpture at Rubell Family Collection 2010
works by Michael Jenkins, Marilyn Minter, David McDermott and Peter McGough, Ross Bleckner, Jessica Stockholder, Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, José Maria Sicilia, Francesco Clemente, Herbert Hamak, Eric Fischl, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Peter Halley, Bruce Nauman, Joe Andoe, Wim Delvoye, Christopher Lucas, Jeff Koons, Richmond Burton, Lawrence Carroll, Matthew Weinstein, and Marlene McCarty in the Rubell Family Collection 2010 show
Margulies Warehouse
Pieter Hugo photograph of Africans with pet hyena (artlurker)
The Endless Renaissance installation view at the Margulies Warehouse. Photograph by Brett Hufziger. (artlurker photo)
Seven
Entrance to SEVEN Art Fair Miami
SEVEN Art Fair Miami had the bunker-like concrete wall superior exhibition space of all the fairs in Miami. There was 24,000 square feet of exhibition space that were shared by seven galleries. The galleries chose this space to be able to truly experiment and to keep costs at a minimum, from shipping to storage to exhibition space itself. A similar space in one of the upper level fairs could have been prohibitive. I was asked by a prominent Los Angeles art collector as to my thoughts about the space SEVEN was shown in. I said to her that it was the best space I had ever seen in Miami, with its seemingly 20 foot high ceilings. Each exhibition area was well used in terms of spacing the works – many of which were large-scale. There was also huge booth-like spaces that had works inside, yet the corridors and walkways were never crowded, despite their being what looked like at least a thousand people at the opening.
SEVEN Art Fair Miami 2010
Video showcases at SEVEN Art Fair Miami
Engineless Hummer parked at SEVEN Art Fair Miami 2010
Red Light River Miami is on the former Miami prostitution corridor on Biscayne boulevard. There are now several restaurants and live music venues within a few blocks of one another.
barbecued shrimp at Red Light River Miami on Biscayne, about 7700 block
Diners at Red Light River Miami
Friday
NADA
NADA Art Fair Miami Beach 2010
NADA Art Fair visitors
NADA Art Fair sculpture (elle magazine)
more art at the NADA Art Fair 2010 (elle magazine)
Christopher Russell at Luis de Jesus gallery Los Angeles
NADA Art Fair sculpture suspended from an extremely elaborate string structure
Bass Museum
Bass Museum of Art Miami Beach
Film and Video Artist Issac Julien at the Bass Museum
Installation of Issac Julien's large-scale photographs
Isaac Julian 9 channel video installation "Creative Carribean Network" at the Bass Museum
Issac Julien's 9 screen video installation at the Bass Museum
Art Basel Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Beach convention center 2010
Kehinde Wiley painting at Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Kehinde Wiley painting - Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Eddie Martinez's painting the Feast, 2010, at Art Positions Art Basel Miami Beach
Robert Williams sculpture "The Brain Trap" at Tony Shafrazi gallery Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Nick Cave sound suits at Jack Shainman gallery Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Adel Abdessemed's Mappemonde (2010) at David Zwirner gallery in Art Basel Miami Beach (Wall Street Journal photo)
Ernst Hass photograph of Route 66 in Albuquerque in 1969
Mounir Fatmi's 'Maximum Sensation #1' (2010) (Associated press photo)
Wynwood Walls (sponsored by Goldman Properties and Deitch Projects)
The by far most graphically intense and dynamic event-scene of all of Miami Basel 2010 was Wynwood Walls. The entire Wynwood area was filled with international and nationally known street artists, intermixed with artworld artists such as assume astro vivid focus and Kenny Scharff, who work in the street art style yet are part of the Art World.
The gate entrance to Wynwood Walls
“This year, Wynwood Walls gets four new murals by key artists that are part of this exciting group: Ryan McGinness, Ben Jones, Dearraindrop and assume vivid astro focus. avaf will also present an installation of their fantastic wallpaper labyrinth in the Wynwood building that their mural adorns, co-produced by Suzanne Geiss and Tony Goldman. The Wynwood expansion will also feature special sculptures by FriendsWithYou and Kenny Scharf, murals by Ron English and Space Invader, Eric Firestone presenting famous 70s graffiti legends, a public sticker wall organized by DB Burkeman, an exhibition of ten street artists curated by Jonathan Levine Gallery in the space next to Joey’s Italian Café and a curated nighttime video presentation each evening at dusk.”
Spectacular street art at Wynwood Walls
Assume-Vivid-Astro-Focus-at-Suzanne-Geiss-Wynwood-Art-Center
The street artists in Wynwood Walls know that they were competing to be in Jeffrey Deitch's Street Art show at MoCA Los Angeles in 2011
More astounding street art at Wynwood Walls Miami
One of the several exhibitions of Street Art in Wynwood
Inside Kenny' Scharf's Airstream trailer at Wynwood Walls
Wynwood Walls street art - incredible
LA MoCA's Jeffrey Deitch checking out the Miami Wynwood street art
Supine The Occurrence at English Kills - Miami. This work reminded me of Richard Hawkins' montages.
Ron English mural at Wynwood Walls Miami
Wynwood Walls map
Art collective Primary Flight's mural in Wynwood
Wynwood Kitchen and Bar was the party of the hour in Miami on Friday. We were be seated within a few minutes of leaving next door Wynwood Walls, which had free hard liquor drinks and a popcorn machine, which we took advantage of for fun. The space is subdivided into an event space – where there was yet another party – and the main restaurant space, where we saw SOHO and Wynwood developer Tony Goldman helping keep everything flowing swimmingly.
Interior of Wynwood Kitchen & bar Miami
Collage mural by Shepard Fairey at Wynwood Kitchen and bar - photo by Moris Moreno
Exterior of Wynwood Kitchen and Bar
Christian Awe preparing his murals for Wynwood Kitchen and Bar - photo by Robert Whitman
Christian Awe at work on his murals - photo by Bernd Borchardt II
Ryan McGinness: Women blacklight paintings - poster
Ryan McGinness Blacklight paintings at strip Club Madonna Miami Beach
Club Madonna Blacklight show
Club Madonna performance (dustproject photo)
Ryan McGinness Blacklight painting at Club Madonna
Saturday
MoCA North Miami Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese at North Miami MoCA - photo by Peter Fleissig/Vogue
CIFO William Kentridge
William Kentridge Art 21 screening at CIFO in downtown Miami was a delight.
CIFO presented a new exhibition for 2010 Miami Basel:
Inside Out, Photography After Form: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
It included work by several photographers whose work I had never seen, and the work of one of my visiting artists advisors from graduate school: Uta Barth. The show was tightly focused and well conceived. It was similar to the great show of women photographers at MoMA that I had just seen a few weeks earlier, in that it showed works that should become far more well-known, as these photographic artists come to the world stage. Every year we come to Miami and get to see work we only imagine exists. I tell my friends that one reason we go to Miami every year is to get a full dose of truly international modern and contemporary art, and this year’s CIFO photography show was yet another memorable and sharply curated photographic program.
Cisneros Fontenals is now working with the Renia Sophia in Madrid to get Latin American artists into the international artworld
GiGI
Gigi is one of the hottest new restaurants in Miami
We arrived at Gigi's around 10pm on Saturday night. We were told it would be nearly an hour wait before we were served, and there was not an inch of space at the bar, so we left for Pub Belly, a sensational new gastropub in Miami Beach
Pub Belly
Pub Belly in Miami Beach is one of the coolest gastropubs we've ever had the pleasure of dining in. It has an eclectic menu of Pan-Asian cooking, all well prepared.
Pub Belly's dumplings were so delicious that we ordered them twice.
Local Miami Artworld
Emanuel Perrotin gallery from Paris closed up shop on its 13,000 square foot exhibition space after five years of operation in Miami. The gallery had thrown spectacular opening parties and had taken on a few Miami based artists. Since early 2009 the gallery became a shell operation with intentions of closing, which will happen at the end of the current and final exhibition on now. When the gallery expanded to Miami to in 2005, the Miami artworld was extremely excited about this development. The move signaled that Miami was a viable place to be as an artist when it added Miami artists to its program. Recently Perrotin gallery has added a third space in Paris. Long gone now are the plans to build a swimming pool on the Miami property for artworld Miami pool party openings. There was also a plan to build out a space to have artists in residence for on site projects that never materialized. Perrotin will be missed from Miami because of its strong exhibition program. Perhaps in the future Miami will be a place that more collectors feel comfortable buying contemporary art.
Cristina Rodriguez and a few of her artist friends started this project space in Miami.
Artist run project space in Miami
Locust Projects Miami
Locust Projects in their new Miami's Design District space
Saturday's Ransom A solo exhibition by Jim Drain. One of my artist friends who lives in Miami and LA says Jim Drain is central figure driving the rise of the Miami artworld. He is also co-director of the Bas-Fisher Invitational project space in Miami.
Jim Drain's solo show at Locust Projects Miami Basel 2010
Liam Gillick billboard project at Locust Projects Miami
An out-of-town artist said this about how it feels to compete with the fairs and the artworld:
“You can pretend to be an independent artist in your studio, but in Miami, you really see the rigidity of the art world hierarchy. It’s hard not to feel slighted, but once you become aware of the rankings, and you start to understand it, then you can enjoy it.”
Sunday
return to LA
============
Los Angeles Artworld notes:
Since this blog is based in Los Angeles, let me start by saying that there are some quite powerful players in the New York art world who are neither happy or excited about the rise of the LA Artworld, which itself was in attendance all over Miami, from the art fairs to the private collection shows to the art parties. There are some quite powerful players in the New York art world who are not impressed that the Armory Show owners are doing a show in Los Angeles in 2011. I have been informed that the Los Angeles private collections will be made available to a select audience to this event.
Allow me to further say this:
NYC’s rise to coming an art capital can be easily traced back from the late 19th century, when it dreamed of being like Paris, until the time it overtook the Paris artworld in the 1950′s as the center of art production. Paris had over 300 galleries in 1960. They were open all year round, including in August. There was no shame in showing in August as there was in New York. Many Paris galleries had free catalogs or booklets, so much so that people carried bags just to collect them all when they went gallery hopping. Yet by 1960 NYC was in total control of the production side of the art world, despite Paris having been the center of the European artworld for well over a century. Paris had all the infrastructure that NYC did not have, but with the United States government aid, NYC took control of the art world conversation.
Los Angeles is in the same place as New York was in 1950, when Abstract Expressionism had overtaken the international artworld. Los Angeles has a stranglehold on Conceptual Art in the same way that New York had a stranglehold on Abstract Expressionism. Instead of having the U.S. government behind it, Los Angeles has the several of the most powerful New York City secondary market galleries behind it, each of whom wants to access and market Contemporary Art from a Los Angeles platform. These galleries include New York powerhouse dealers L&M Arts (already open in Venice, California), Matthew Marks (opening in West Hollywood in 2011), and Gagosian, which doubled their Beverly Hills space to 11,000 square feet recently. Rumor has it that the elegant Cheim & Read gallery is looking into Los Angeles for its contemporary art market. Los Angeles will have its own Biennial 2012, jointly curated by The Hammer Museum and LAXART. This is separate and new and different from the California Biennial, which is on now at the Orange County Museum of Art, which will have a Jack Goldstein retrospective in 2012. I had the privilege of studying with Jack Goldstein for the entire year of 1995, while I was in graduate school at Art Center College of Design’s MFA program. So I am really looking forward to seeing Jack’s show.
L&M Arts has expanded its program to Los Angeles because they found “a creative energy comparable to what happened in the ‘50s in New York,” Dominique Levy says. The combination of meeting European artists who had moved to L.A, getting to know the established art community and falling in love with the old power station led to a marriage between L&M and Los Angeles…” reported by Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2009
L&M Arts stands for owners Dominique Levy and Robert Mnuchin.
“The Los Angeles market can’t be denied, and we find ourselves spending more and more time there,” said gallery partner Adam Sheffer, adding, “but nothing’s been confirmed yet.” reported by Charlotte Burns, The Art Newspaper, Art Basel Miami Beach Daily Edition, December 4, 2010
“In 2011, Matthew Marks Gallery will open a gallery in Los Angeles.” from Matthew Marks gallery website
The equally important change in the LA Artworld is that young artists and dealers with deep pockets with ivy league MFA degrees and off the chart connections are setting up shop in LA in project spaces. This is another first for LA – that a project space – The Company- launches another project space in the Pacific Design Center in LA, and both spaces get into major art fairs as soon as they launch. Like so many of the new power players in LA, they too are from NYC. Ten years ago in Williamsburg the young galleries attempted to directly compete with the New York art market purses and wallets. Clearly this did not work, almost all the commercially successful Brooklyn galleries except for Pierogi, moved to Chelsea, which has two huge gallery spaces in Brooklyn. LA is the place for an artist to have a project space to get the artworld’s attention. I spoke with one of the dealers who moved their gallery from Northeast Los Angeles to the booming Pacific Design Center in West LA recently. She said that she’s had visitors from MoMA, the Whitney Museum, P.S.1 and the Walker Art Center since opening up in the superb new spaces that many former Chinatown LA galleries have moved to as well. The Pacific Design Center featured floor to ceiling glass walls for each gallery. All of the artworld galleries are located on one floor. They have huge numbers of visitors for the openings. LA is truly stepping up its game now for real.
Vincent Johnson is a writer and artist in Los Angeles.
Filed under: miami basel, Vincent Johnson | Tags: Art Basel Miami Beach, Bass Museum, Cisneros Fontenals, de la Cruz Collection, Guyton/Walker, Jonathan Meese, Jumex Collection, Le Baron Miami, Margulies Warehouse, MoCA North Miami, NADA Art Fair, New World Symphony Miami Beach, Oh Wow Oh Wow Miami, Rubell Family Collection, sexy miami, United States Artists project artist, Vincent Johnson
Miami Basel 2009 was turned upside down by the opening of the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space building. It has 3 floors and 30,000 sq. feet of exhibition space. The collection has over 1,000 works.
Imagine: In 2008 Rosa de la Cruz said that she was opening a new museum in Miami to house her private collection. One year later it actually opened. While I was on the staircase to the second floor of her awesome space – free to all – with a 30,000 book art library – also free to all – Lisa Phillips of the New Museum walked upstairs past us with Ms. de la Cruz. Her new museum highlights the incredible achievements of many artists – but has a special space on the 3rd/top floor for Miami Born Latin Artists who became superstars in the artworld but have passed away. (Felix Gonzalez Torres and Ana Mendieta). With the Rubell’s 40,000 volume art library, Miami has one of the most important set of contemporary art libraries in the country.
The museum is in Miami’s white hot Design District, and will be joined in 2012 by the 40,000 sq. ft. Craig Robins Collection building. We had dinner at 8:45PM Saturday night at Fratelli Lyon, one of the Design District’s top restaurants. The restaurant was packed. When we left at midnight it was still packed and more people were coming in to enjoy themselves. The architect John Marquette owns the restaurant and is the designer of the de la Cruz space. Boutique hotels are planned for the area. Boutique stores are flooding in from across the globe. Several new restaurants are opening soon. Miami and Miami Beach have made it a habit to launch new restaurants and lounges in time for the next Baselmania.
With the Eugenio Lopez Collection also on display at the Bass Museum, Latin pride was in the house in Miami big time. There were Latin and Black guides, even to direct you to the restrooms! There was free luxury coffee service on the patio of the de la Cruz space.
On Saturday we visited the Margulies Warehouse was only partially rehung from the previous year, a first. They had a haunting George Segal work entitled Breadline on display.
New World Symphony building, Miami Beach, opens 2010
Frank Gehry’s New World Symphony campus under construction 11/23/08
Miami just opened a new bar called the Democratic Republic of Beer, with 400 different selections. Miami has a brand new concert hall, opera house and dance showcase. Miami Beach will open the Frank Gehry designed New World Symphony concert hall in 2010, giving Miami TWO major new concert halls. Because of the attention given to the other major Miami art collectors, Major collector Beth de Woody, of Palm Beach/NYC, is now planning her own blowout art museum space. Miami’s Norman Braman is considering a building as well. He owns over a billion in Modern and Contemporary Art. The Rubell Family Collection has over a thousand more works of art than LA MOCA, which has over 5,000 works. There were no serious restaurants in the Design District in Miami a five years ago. Across the street from the de la Cruz building is a dead apartment building that looks like it washed up in a hurricane. I doubt it will be there in two years.
de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space
http://accessibleartny.com (photo credits)
Felix Gonzales-Torres and Jim Hodges (both who were at Pratt Institute during the early 1980′s) at the de la Cruz art space.
http://accessibleartny.com (photo credits)
a Jonathan Meese room
http://accessibleartny.com (photo credits)
a Guyton/Walker installation
http://accessibleartny.com (photo credits)
Jumex Collection at the Bass Museum
Gabriel Orozco’s Pool Table
http://accessibleartny.com (photo credits)
When we arrived at the Bass Museum, the New York Times was there photographing the Eugenio Lopez Collection. The Dzine Ghost Bike was sensational in the project space.
Private Collections @ Miami (via artcorporationblogspot.com)
Alexandre Arrechea at Margulies Foundation
Margulies Foundation
Cinsneros-Fontanals Foundation (CIFO)
Muntean/Rosenblum at Cisneros-Fontanals Foundation
Re the Video works at MOCA North Miami. Stellar works done by master storytellers. This is the second time we’ve seen a blowout show of video only works that were absolutely hypnotic. The first was at the CIFO in Miami in 2005. That still is the best video art exhibition I have ever seen anywhere in the U.S. The best I have ever seen was a massive stunning history of film and video at the Pompidou in Paris in 2006.
Jason Rhoades in the Rubell Family Collection
lmgreen & Dragset in the Rubell Family Collection
Maurizio Cattelan in the Rubell Family Collection
==========
We spent over seven hours looking at work in the half million square foot display that was 2009′s Art Basel Miami Beach. Because of this experience of total immersion into absolute quality, it was difficult to appreciate most of what was at Aqua and Pulse and NADA, each of which we spent but an hour or so visiting. We missed Art Miami, Photo Miami and Scope this year despite being in town 5 days.
NADA
Cool as fuck lounge areas in a retro-fun hotel on 67th and Collins ave. in Miami Beach. 1950′s Vegas on the South Florida coast. For the first time we realized that the Westwood area of LA was similar in layout, but far smaller in scale relative to what seems to be several miles of coast lining condos and apartments and hotels built at mid century in Miami Beach. The nondescript restaurant and lounge across the street from NADA was overflowing onto the sidewalk even as the evening sun gave way to nightfall. Bad at Sports was podcasting from NADA to their home base of Chicago. I’m looking forward to checking out the interviews online.
On Wednesday night, we attended the free Art Loves Music concert, featuring the fireball Londoner Ebony Bones. This evening concert that was held on the sand of Miami Beach at 10PM about 200 feet from the ocean. It was absolutely incredible. The glow from the open door of a truck parked on the beach was mesmerizing. In all past years this concert was for Basel VIPs only. This year there were dozens of Basel concerts everywhere, at the fairs, at the clubs, on the streets. This year the Basel VIP’s were next door in the new W Hotel South Beach, built on the land of the demolished Holiday Inn.
==========
Lots of live entertainment arrived from out of town, as usual. This year’s hottest ticket was for The Box at Nikki Beach, a hot as hell burlesque performance space from the Lower East Side of New York.
The Box VIP Party 11PM-1AM
| Doors will open at 11pm and the show will commence shortly thereafter. The late night show is bottle service only and will turn up the heat with their performance. Bottle service packages are available for parties of 2,4,6,8, and 10. VIP packages provide premium seating centered on or around the stage. Listed prices do not include tax and gratuity.  |
PARIS NIGHTCLUB LEBARON AT THE DELANO HOTEL MIAMI BEACH 2009
==========
Goldman Warehouse
“Back in December of 2005, father and son developer duo Tony and Joey Goldman, who’ve had their hand in fostering growth and revitalization in the Wynwood area for some years now, donated the 14,000 square foot space.” The Goldman Warehouse severed its ties with MOCA North Miami, and will now go it alone as a big time project space. Francesco Clemente’s 180 foot long magisterial watercolor is currently on display. If the warehouse is curated in a compelling fashion it could become one of the most important spaces of its type in the U.S.
We attended the IT AIN’T FAIR opening just after dinner at Casale, one of Miami’s several new pizza spots. It was expensive. Parking was by valet for $10. The space was fashionable, the service superior, the waitstaff primarily from Italy. But the food made no impression on me at all as compared to the best pizza in LA (Mozza and Antica Pizza). Gang Gang Can Dance performed later in the week at this Miami alternative space that is the toy of a few New Yorkers, which may be over 10,000 square feet.
IT AIN’T FAIR 2009
Art Basel 2009
December 2 – 6, 2009
3100 NW 7 Avenue / Miami / Florida / 33127 8PM
“The second installment of It Ain’t Fair promises to be even more spectacular than our inaugural exhibition. Calling on our community for participation, we assembled an international group show comprised of over 30 artists that we feel are creating the most relevant work today including Rita Ackermann, Tim Barber, Lizzy Bougatsos, Scott Campbell, Julia Chiang, Barb Choit, Peter Chung, Brian Degraw, Ry Fyan, Cyprien Gaillard, Michael Genovese, Todd James, KAWS, Zak Kitnick, Terence Koh, Harmony Korine, Andrew Kuo, Nate Lowman, Adam Marnie, Megan Marrin, Santiago Mostyn, Neck Face, José Parlá, Erik Parker, Brad Phillips, Kenny Scharf, Aurel Schmidt, David Benjamin Sherry, Agathe Snow, Spencer Sweeney, Eric White, Bobbi Woods and Aaron Young. Opening night will be highlighted by a special rooftop performance by French symphonic composer Koudlam alongside a jumbo-sized outdoor screening of Cyprien Gaillard’s Crazy Horse accompanied by explosions and visual effects.”
==========
The LA Artworld wants Basel to move to LA and is applying soft yet serious pressure to get it done. The city that for so long touted its artworld as coming into existence because it had no market, wants both global market access and control now through Basel, to go along with its position as a major production center for contemporary art. I envision that there literally will be a contest between the several Internationally connected Miami Billionaires/Art Collectors versus Eli Broad and the LA Artworld to get/keep Miami Basel. One of the chief reasons to go to Miami Basel is to see the newest selections of the private collections. The CIFO, World Class Boxing, the Rubell Family Collection, the Margulies Warehouse, and now the de la Cruz space. And the small but incredible museum shows, which this year included Miami Museum, the Bass Museum, and MOCA North Miami, which as I will say again because the works were so strong, had the best selection of world-class videos I have seen anywhere, equaled only by the 2005 video exhibition at the CIFO. Both the former Miami Art Central (MAC) building, and the Design District’s massive Moore Space are still standing and available to be used for exhibitions, as they were in earlier Miami Basels.
I might be wrong, but it was 80 degrees and balmy in Miami this past week, while it was in the 50′s/40′s in LA. Miami is closer to Brazil, Mexico, and Europe in terms of lifestyle and worldview than is LA. Miami is only one of two US cities that has a 5AM nightlife scene seven days a week. Miami/Miami Beach has virtually no traffic and loves staying up all night.
Miami’s airport has built two massive spectacular new wings in the past 3 years. Fort Lauderdale has gained so many luxury beachfront hotels as to be a world-class destination unto itself. And its airport is serviced by Virgin Atlantic. Let’s see whose fingers break first between the Miami and LA handshake re Basel. For the West Coast, Vegas is a far better place for an art fair of the caliber of Basel because of its caliber of restaurants and nightclubs, its low traffic, and it’s proximity to Los Angeles. LA could have a far greater presence at Miami Basel if it were closer to Los Angeles. Yet I cannot envision NYC loosening its grip on either Miami Beach or Miami Basel anytime soon. NYC’s media coverage is tall, wide and deep for Miami Basel, from Bloomberg News, the New York Times, New York Magazine, ArtForum, ArtInfo, ArtNet. The Miami newspapers, particulary Miami’s New Times, start bouncing off of the ceiling over Miami Basel and provide comprehensive local color and perspective on the scene. This is where it was reported this year about the fly-by-night galleries that set up in Miami during Basel, and about the extreme discontent of the local art community over their not getting Basel and the international artworld’s attention after even eight years of being there. It is there that the closure of galleries is reported, and the temporary reopening of galleries for Basel that have otherwise closed their Miami space, like Paris powerhouse Emanuel Perrotin gallery. The LA Artworld world love to be showered by the coverage of Basel in LA by the NYC and London media machines every December. So would many other cities that have similar and even lesser ambitions. I’m pretty sure that NYC would love it if Basel came to town, even if it meant that New Yorker’s wouldn’t be going to Miami Beach for a just before winter art holiday. My thinking is that the Armory Show should expand to Miami Basel time, and close up shop in New York. That would cause even more high-end galleries to come to Miami. That would give the NADA Art Fair some incredible competition. And it would keep the galleries in Miami that will be again pushed away once the galleries who did not do Basel this year want back in for 2010. It would also allow the Armory Show to go head to head with Art Basel, and move a huge market-based show away from the buzz of the Whitney Biennial and the Greater New York shows.
==========
Miami is the winter showcase for global contemporary art. Only a handful of Miami artists have risen with inbound Basel tide.
Miami media represented in 2009 that Miami realizes it is being used and not being invited to the big art party. Local art events continue to showcase Miami artists in more and more professional situations in an endless effort to capture the Basel audience. On Biscayne Boulevard there was a curated show of Miami artists selected by ten Miami local curators. In the Design District was a show in a quality design building of the handful of Miami artists who had reached the world stage through their Miami gallery representation. Many creative people in Miami are convinced that if they just ramp up their game that Basel will give them a full share at the artworld power table. Many others believe that they need to decamp to LA or NYC to have a fighting chance.
=======================================================
Vincent Johnson is an artist and writer in Los Angeles.
LANYArtiststudio@gmail.com
Johnson received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1997. He is a 2005 Creative Capital Grantee, and was nominated for the Baum: An Emerging American Photographer’s Award in 2004 and for the New Museum of Contemporary Arts Aldrich Art Award in 2007 and for the Art Matters grant in 2008, and in 2009 nominated for Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship, Los Angeles. His work has been reviewed in ArtForum, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
LANYArtiststudio@gmail.com
Vincent Johnson Artist Statement
Vincent Johnson’s work is a form of sustained cultural mining that explores the depths of his subjects. His photographic works created from 2001-2007 delved into architecture as fantasy, from the vernacular architecture of Los Angeles to that found throughout the American West. He has documented several of the no longer extant commercial vernacular structures in both South Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley that came into existence during the birth of long distance family travel by car. In 2007 he presented a fully fabricated work of sculpture – a 12 foot long six-foot high replica of a 1956 Chrysler Air Raid Siren. This project developed as he was both researching and documenting a former military corridor in the San Fernando Valley that included a retired military airfield. His newest photographic works, all created in 2008 and 2009, are large-scale photographic montages, each of which confront significant cultural figures and several dramatic signal events of Cold War era Western cultural history, including Television, the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Space program, American home-based bomb shelter program, and Vietnam. He is working on large-scale photomontages of the several major American political figures of 1960′s, including Martin Luther King, the Kennedy family, and Malcolm X, as well the representations of both Communism and Capitalism, Hollywood and Los Angeles and many related Cold War era subjects. Johnson’s photomontages can take several months to create as he captures hundreds of images from online sources, before selecting those which most well index a particular historical moment, personage or event. The creative juxtapositions and scale shifts of the found images is what he most relies on to develop his potent and illuminating photographic works.
