All day | Art Public |
Outdoor sculptures, site-specific installations and public artworks within walking distance of the Miami Beach Convention Center and the Oceanfront. Curated by Patrick Charpenel, Independent Curator, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Detailed program available at www.artbasel.com/public.
Free public access.
Andrea Bowers | Educate, Agitate, Organize, 2010 | Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
François Bucher | The Man Who Disappeared, 2010 | Proyectos Monclova, México
John Chamberlain | Piquanteagle, 2009 | Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Carlos Cruz-Diez | Color Aditivo, 1975-2010 | Sicardi Gallery, Houston
Minerva Cuevas | Atlas (homage to Jean Vigo), 2010 | kurimanzutto, México D.F.
Runa Islam | Magical Consciousness, 2010 | White Cube, London
Marco Maggi | Global Myopia, 2010 | Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Jorge Méndez Blake | There is no Easy Way From the Earth to the Stars, 2010 |
OMR, México | MSSNDCLRCQ Meessen De Clercq, Bruxelles
Fyodor Pavlov Andreevich | The Great Vodka River, 2010 | Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paulo
Art public Info
Presentation of Art Public with a documentation of each individual work. ADA accessible.
Wednesday from 6pm to 12 midnight.
Thursday to Saturday from 2pm to 12 midnight.
Sunday from 2pm to 6pm.
Oceanfront at Collins Park, between 21st and 22nd Streets.
Art public Guided tours
ArtNexus Guided Tours Desk, MBCC, Info Zone D.
For reservation and information contact Sol Romero, +1 305 891 7270, ext. #4, tours@atnexus.com
Thursday to Sunday. Tours in English and Spanish upon demand. Tour duration 1 hour and ends at Oceanfront.
An audiotour tour by Curator Patrick Charpenel can be downloaded at www.artbasel.com/tours
François Bucher
The Man Who Disappeared, 2010
proyectos Monclova
Eden Roc, 4525 Collins Avenue
The Raleigh, 1775 Collins Avenue
Soho Beach House, 4385 Collins Avenue
The Standard, 40 Island Avenue
Townhouse Hotel, 150 20th Street
Work available in guest rooms only
François Bucher (1972, Colombia) lives and works in Berlin. This project, conceived especially for Miami Beach, consists on placing a small bible-sized book in the drawers of the nightstands of several hotels in the area. More than the object itself, this work, through its enigmatic words and contact with the reader, becomes an event, a connection between real facts, stories, and the spectator; a sort of story inside another stor y. The book is about a scientist who disappeared in Mexico. The title is taken from the posthumous book by Franz Kafka that would have had the same title as this project, but when it was finally edited it was changed to ‘Amerika’. In Kafka’s novel the so called ‘man who disappears’ is the immigrant who loses his passport and starts a voyage
into the void, beyond the coordinates of identity and citizenship.
John Chamberlain
Piquanteagle, 2009
Anthony Meier Fine Arts
Collins Park East
John Chamberlain (1927, USA) lives and works in Shelter Island. From 1957 onward, Chamberlain has been creating sculpture from cars and scrap metal. The work ‘Piquanteagle’ is the first work Chamberlain produced that is imper vious to the exterior elements that we find outdoors. Its strategic location between a parking lot and an avenue, with vehicles surrounding it, establishes an interesting connection with the cultural codes of this touristic destination.
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Color Aditivo, 1975–2010
Sicardi Gallery
Crosswalk MBCC Entrance D and Botanical Garden
Crosswalk Convention Center Drive and 17th Street
Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923, Venezuela) lives and works in Paris. Through the monumental optical game of redesigning painted crosswalks in the streets of Miami Beach, and by playing with visual rhythms and using his characteristic line ‘structures’, Cruz-Diez transforms the social experience of passersby. These works, indeed, change and evolve, according to the path of light and to the spectator’s angle of view and distance.
Minerva Cuevas
Atlas (homage to Jean Vigo), 2010
kurimanzutto
Bandshell Corner of Washington Avenue and Dade Boulevard
Film screening at dusk (6pm)
Miner va Cuevas (1975, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. In this piece, a shor t film conceived and produced specially for this event, the ar tist re-works the filming techniques and imaginary used in Jean Vigo’s films ‘Taris’ and ‘L’Atalante’. Cuevas establishes a connection between fiction and reality and submerges us in places and moments through alternated images that include free-diving, apnea training and dunking, generating a mesmerizing political imaginar y under water.
runa Islam
Magical Consciousness, 2010
White Cube
Auditorium, Miami Beach Regional Library, 227 22nd Street
Special opening hours:
Wednesday, 6pm – 9pm
Thursday, 12 noon – 8pm
Friday and Saturday, 12 noon – 6pm
Sunday, 1pm – 5pm
Runa Islam (1970, Bangladesh) lives and works in London. … in ‘Magical Consciousness’, the camera examines an object’s un/folded sur faces. The work creates planes upon which the viewer’s perception and consciousness project and shift in their attempt to decipher the abstract images. Once the object is revealed in its entirety and we realize that it is a folding screen, its dual nature comes to the fore: it is something one can either hide behind (like a partition) or use as a projection sur face (as in the cinema). This is all the more meaningful once we find out that what we’re being shown is the verso of a Japanese screen that is totally covered in gold leaf. Filmed in black-and-white, the gold turns to silver, and the screen seems to act like the reflector of an imagined
consciousness, countering any depicted narrative.
Marco Maggi
Global Myopia, 2010
Josée Bienvenu Gallery
Convention Center Drive, MBCC, Entrance D
Marco Maggi (1957, Uruguay) lives and works in New York and Montevideo. ‘Global Myopia’ is a convex drawing on a 36 inch outdoor mirror reflecting the cars and public. Thousands of cuts are duplicated by the mirror, presenting the landscape out of focus: a myopic point of view. The entire surface of the mirror, etched with parallels and meridians, gives a fragmented reflection of the
already fluctuating reality of the City. Marco Maggi’s abstract language refers to the way information is processed in our telematic era. He uses scale as a tool for humanization. In his own words ‘myopia is the best answer to globalization.’
Jorge Méndez Blake
There is no Easy Way from the Earth to the Stars, 2010
OMr | Meessen De Clercq
Sagamore Hotel, 1671 Collins Avenue, pool area
Jorge Méndez Blake (1974, Mexico) lives and works in Guadalajara. Jorge Méndez Blake’s sculpture ‘There is no Easy Way from the Earth to the Stars’, is a strange maquette, made in fiberglass, reproducing the famous Seattle Library. This piece is presented in Art Public as a forgotten object floating in the water, where the artist questions the way in which libraries are being replaced by media and becoming cultural ruins.
Fyodor pavlov-Andreevich
The Great Vodka River, 2010
Galeria Luciana Brito
Collins Park East
Supported by Beluga, Noble Russian Vodka
Mixed media performance
Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich (1976, Moscow) lives and works in Moscow and São Paulo. Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich is young Russian per formance artist that explores and extends the connection
between the private and the public, the hidden and the exposed. His piece ‘The Great Vodka River’, makes a profane mythological storyline composed with animals, weed and nymphs, in spectacular
metal structure functioning as ‘The Great Vodka River’. As a complementar y element for this piece, there will be per formed a non-stop ritual for the duration of the fair.