ART BASEL MIAMI - MIAMI PROJECT - SCOPE - ART NOVA
ART ASIA - ART PUBLIC - AQUA - MIAMI DESIGN
12.04-09.12
Reported by Lynnore Goldfarb
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Art Basel Miami Beach : Art Basel, Art Nova, Scope, Art Asia, Miami Project, Aqua, Art Public, Miami Design.
Review by Lynnore Goldfarb: During the week of December 6, 2012 every single store, mall, cafe, restaurant, art gallery, museum, hotel, club, bar & parking lot in Miami & Miami Beach seems to be part of Art Basel Miami, the most important art show in the United States.
I embark on my Art Basel journey Thursday afternoon in Wynwood, the art district of Miami, picking 2 out of the 5 very large art tents to check out. I start with Scope, which includes Art Asia & end with Miami Project, all of it taking 6 hours.
It isn't until Saturday late, after going to many parties, galleries, art fairs, concerts & the Aqua Hotel (which turns each room into a gallery space) that I realize Art Basel is only located in the Miami Beach convention Center. All of the other places I spent most of my time at were peripheral exhibitions capitalizing on the prestigious Art Basel event.
With that said, Miami & Miami Beach are the places to be during Art Basel, assuming you like looking at some of the best art created by some of the best artists while wearing your best summer clothes in the dead of winter.
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Miami Basel:
Lynnore Goldfarb at Art Basel Miami Beach (image c/o Tim Beach).
Starbucks Cuckoo, acrylic & mixed media on cockoo clock by Jani Leinonen.
Bronze art by Rotraut at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Woodburytype by Chuck Close.
Art by Nick Cave at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Rodney Graham, Old Punk on Pay Phone - painted aluminum light box
with transmounter chromogenic transparency.
Art by David Adamo at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Art by Erik Frydenborg - Memorized Structure w/ Orange 2012.
Art by Jose Maria Sicilia at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Art Nova shows galleries representing artists with works that have been created
during the last three years-- and often fresh from the studio.
Video installation by Pipilotti Rist - Tosender Speicher (Thunderous Accumulator).
Art by Nancy Spero - For God & Country - steel, plastic, handprint on aluminium.
Photography by Helmut Newton - Big Nude of Xena, Monte-Carlo, 1991.
Photography at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Art by Alexander Calder, courtesy of Foundation Beyeler.
Art by Cy Twombly - "Untitled" 1961 at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Bronze by Barry Flanagan at Waddington Custot Galleries - "The Boxing Ones" 1989.
Suzanne Duchamp - "Self Portrait" 1920 at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Roberto Matta, Composition, 1959 at Guillermo de Osma Galleria.
Jitka Hanzlova photograph from the series, Horses, 2010.
Art by Tabu at Art Basel Miami Beach.
Sculpture at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach.
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Art Asia : Art Asia Miami is a showcase for galleries whose specialty is the best of established and emerging contemporary artists from throughout Asia.
Entrance to Art Asia Miami.
Sculpture by Qin Weihong - photography by Quentin Shih.
Photography by Quentin Shih - Qin Weihong sculpture.
Qin Weihong sculpture in above image closer.
Art by Liu Bolin c/o Eli Klein Fine Art at Art Asia Miami.
More Qin Weihong sculpture at Art Asia Miami.
Nazia Andaleeb Preema - "Marry My Eggs" - video installation with Artist.
Art by Tayeba Lipi - "Razor Bras".
"Telegrinnies" by Ron English at Art Asia Miami.
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Miami Project : The inaugural Miami Project, a new contemporary and modern art fair debuts in Miami's Midtown / Wynwood Art District. It consists of presentations by 65 galleries from around the world.
Here we are at Miami Project.
Performance art out front at Miami Project.
Photographs of Keith Haring.
Art by Peter Opheim at Miami Project.
Photography at Eric Firestone Gallery.
Entertainment in progress at Miami Project.
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Scope : Scope taps into the cultural psyche to present only the most pioneering work across multiple creative disciplines.
Floor plan / exhibitor list at Scope Miami.
Entrance to Scope.
Valise art.
Cake sculpture by Scott Hove at Spoke Art Gallery.
Antler art by Peter Gronquist at Scope.
Art by Ferris Plock & Kim Cogan.
Arf art at Scope Miami.
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Aqua : Aqua Art Miami 12 is a contemporary art fair which takes place in the Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, during Art Basel Week.
Aqua entrance at the Aqua Hotel.
C-Arte at Solange Guez Arte Contemporaneo - Buenos Aires.
George Lawson of George Lawson Gallery - Aqua art fair.
Photography by Laurent Crast - "Mon Tresor".
Laurent Crast photograph closer (about as close as I want to get - AB).
Art by Travis Louie at William Baczek Fine Arts - Aqua Miami.
"Miss Trudie & Bad Hair" - art by Travis Louie closer.
"Miss Trudie & Bad Hair" explanatory - art by Travis Louie.
Installation by Greg Haberny at Aqua art fair.
Scatological text-based art by Greg Haberny closer.
More art c/o Greg Haberny at Aqua art fair, Miami.
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Art Public at Art Basel Miami Beach & Design Miami .
The agenda at Art Public.
12-hour video art,"Bliss," by Ragnar Kjartansson at Art Public.
Design Miami - The Global Forum For Design.
Art by Picke Bermans at Venice Projects, Design Miami.
Photography at Design Miami.
Pierre Guariche furniture at Design Miami.
Furnishings by Jean Royere at Design Miami.
Jean Royere on exhibit at Design Miami.
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