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Hits of the week in Miami-Post #1
As you know, the art fairs are overwhelming. We saw six fairs and two collections plus some stuff sprinkled around Miami. Here’s what wowed us. We’re starting with sculpture and 2D favorites. Next post we’ll do some videos. We went down to the fairs looking for trends but couldn’t find them since there are so many being worked on all at once–the economy, politics, love, death, hate, women, survival, ecology and just having fun. Things seemed to be selling well from what we could tell. People were happy but a little lost in all the aisles of art. One trend ... More » »
Expanded Tweets about the Miami fairs
While we were in Miami we tweeted a half dozen juicy little tidbits. Here they are — illustrated and annotated! — for your delectation. More posts coming today. Art Basel Miami
Pulse and Fountain–fair wrap-up
So we didn’t spend much time at Pulse but it looked great! As we said, we were too busy schmoozing and then we ran out of time. We are grateful that we did see a few terrific things while we were there. Zoe Charlton‘s gnomes of color at Conner Contemporary (which the gallerist told us sold in a rush shortly after they opened) made us laugh. They are bought gnomes that the African American artist repainted with varied skin tones.
Notes from ABMB etc. 2008
Sophie Matisse The Staircase Group (2001), shown at Art Basel Miami Beach, courtesy of Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. Two and a half days and I managed to attend five fairs and two private collections with museum-like spaces open to the public (three Miami private collections are currently run as private museums open to the public and a fourth has just been announced). I say attend, because to actually see most of the work in the main fair (Art Basel Miami Beach or ABMB) might take three entire days (and at least a day for the other sizable fairs), and ... More » »
Near and far at the art fairs
Hiroto Kitigawa, full-size figure of a woman, at Tokyo Gallery + BTAP at Scope. My best New York moment last weekend didn’t have much to do with the art fairs. A street vendor, a purveyor of hummus, baklava, and more, whipped out his prayer rug, tenderly brushed it off with his hand, and bent toward Mecca to pray. I didn’t take a picture. It seemed rude.
Art in Miami; four more fairs
I know that in the last post I said I’d seen Art Basel Miami Beach and 6 other fairs, but it turns out that one was a double bill, so to speak, so there are still 4 to cover. The fairs in Miami Beach hotel rooms have an entirely different flavor from those in convention centers, warehouses and the like. They are calmer, since each gallery has a discrete space and you can’t see one from or through another; the open-plan fairs make me feel attention deficit. Some hotel fair exhibitors also make imaginative use of bathrooms, closets and the ... More » »
Superheroes and monsters at the fairs
As Libby told you in her last post, Gabe Martinez‘s wonderful performance installation at Scope blew us away. Sad and sweet, the piece was loaded with the idea of heroes shot down and unable to hold their burdens in the onslaught of the world’s tumults. Martinez who was there and described his own Herculean efforts to deal with the logistics of the piece in the face of some snafus about its placement, made a work whose beauty and scariness was enough for me. I was ready to go home after I saw the changing of the guard — I didn’t ... More » »
Two Philly blasts
Changing of the guard occurred hourly in Gabe Martinez’s big display piece at SCOPE Before I start blabbing about the other art fairs, I want to link to Roberta’s post, with its links to all of our pictures on Flickr. The highlight of our weekend was home-townie Gabe Martinez, who delivered a performance piece that broke my heart (presented by Samson Projects). The biggest surprise was the figure in the piece turned out to be a real human being. Well, two real human beings, taking turns, spelling one another from the torture of lying totally still on the cold, cold ... More » »
Asian PULSE and elsewhere
A lot of what I admired at PULSE came from Asian artists. Shi Chieh Huang makes robotic sculptures that remind me of sea creatures and that range from whiz-bang to elegant. The piece showing at Virgil de Voldere Gallery was ethereal as it swam through the air. We’ve posted on his work at Vox Populi here and earlier at Asian Arts Initiative here. The Taiwan-born artist now lives in New York. Across the aisle at Mizuma Gallery, based in Tokyo, we saw intriguing work by several artists, one of them Hisashi Tenmyouya. This piece draws from traditional Japanese art at ... More » »
Criss-cross at Pulse
DSCN1044.jpgOriginally uploaded by sokref1. Chris Gilmore’s “Ford A” made of cardboard. Not only are Western artists making Eastern-influenced art but everybody’s playing fruit basket upset with the materials. How about Chris Gilmore‘s “Ford A,” a luxury sports car made out of cardboard at Perugi’s booth at Pulse? A clear highlight at Pulse, it was one of several cardboard pieces we saw. Crossing cultural and materials boundaries is not even a cool idea anymore. It’s a fait accompli. It’s just another tool. People are making what they want, no matter where on earth they are, and they’re using whatever materials please ... More » »
