Each year, in celebration of Art Basel Miami Beach, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University hosts an official Art Basel sponsored event, Breakfast in the Park. This year the event will take place on Sunday, December 5, 2010 from 9:30 am. to 12 pm and is free and open to the public.
Over the years, this event has grown to draw hundreds of art enthusiasts, patrons, collectors, gallery owners and artists from around the world, many of whom are visiting Miami Beach for the most prestigious art show in the United States, Art Basel. Each year a noted sculptor is invited to speak. Guests enjoy a complimentary outdoor breakfast, informal lecture and guided tours of The Sculpture Park as well as the exhibitions in The Frost Art Museum.
Now in its eighth year, Breakfast in the Park will feature an informal lecture by Enrique Martínez Celaya, whose works consists of paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose. Martínez Celaya’s work directly reflects his personal experience with a diversity of fields. His work is often characterized by solitary and autobiographical figures seemingly displaced in surreal and symbolic landscapes. Through his background in science, Martínez Celaya investigates the interaction between modern science and the subconscious is his work.
His work is in the permanent collections of major museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Sheldon Museum of Art Lincoln, Nebraska, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Denver Art Museum, Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany and was most recently added to The Frost Art Museum’s Permanent Collection.
What: Breakfast in the Park with guest Enrique Martinez Celaya
Where: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU
10975 SW 17th street
Miami, FL 33199
When: Sunday, December 5, 2010
9: 30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Other exhibitions currently on view at The Frost Art Museum-
Exhibitions:
Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction
October 13, 2010 through January 2, 2011
Grand Galleries – 2nd Floor
The exhibition presents a historical overview of the origins of the country’s abstract movement, focusing on its early development dating from the late 1940’s to the 1970’s. The selection of works from private collections and foundations included in the exhibit document an important period of Venezuela’s art history which was instrumental in the development of Modern Art in the Americas. Paintings, sculptures, and installations, illustrate the development of Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction and Kinetic Art, and introduce many artists who contributed to the development of movement in Venezuela, unknown to theAmerican public. The show curated by Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig and Maria Carlota Perez features works by Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gertrude Goldschmidt (GEGO), Mateo Manaure, Alejandro Otero and Jesús Rafael Soto, among others.
La Habana Moderna
October 13, 2010 through January 2, 2011
The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Frost Art Museum
Havana is the focus of a new exhibition in the Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at the Frost Art Museum on view in the fall of 2010. By presenting a variety of materials from the collection of The Wolfsonian-Florida International University (magazines, photography, architectural drawings, tourist ephemera, and other media), itexplores how international commercial and cultural links contributed to theemergence of a modern identity for the city in the decades before the CubanRevolution. The exhibition is made possible by financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Sequentia
Xavier Cortada
October 13, 2010 through January 2, 2011
3rd Floor Gallery
Xavier Cortada’ssolo exhibit at the Frost Art Museum explores the sequence of events that make up life on the planet from the molecular to the monumental. The title of the exhibit also references a series of actions Cortada will set in motion to create a unique strand of DNA. The artist will work with a molecular biologist to synthesize an actual DNA strand made from a sequence generated by museumvisitors using Cortada’s art.
Florida Artists Series: Selections from Anomie 1492-2006
Arnold Mesches
October 13, 2010 through December 5, 2010
3rd Floor Gallery
Throughout his 65-year career as an artist and professor, Arnold Mesches has woven many narratives into lush and virtuosic paintings. Beginning in late-1989 and until mid-1996 Mesches created the ANOMIE series, paintings and collages that included overt and subtle references to the overlapping histories and multi-cultural aspects of life. The 48 large acrylic paintings and 150 collages encompassed postmodern concepts with old master techniques and structures. In these works, large canvases of cinematic proportions, nothing is overt, images move and mingle freely through time, find their place conceptually, independent of actualities. In a broader sense, they are the conceptual admixtures of reality and the surreal Mesches has been striving for over these many years of painting and activism. This series incorporated pertinent, often disparate,historical and personal images. It seems to be a summation of Mesches’ collected views on the world’s madness and inconsistencies, on beauty and ugliness, evil and justice, on life over death. Mesches has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad, most recently at PS1 Contemporary, the Museum of Modern Art affiliate. His works are included in the collections of such distinguished institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, the Whitney Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum. Mr.Mesches has recently been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Image Credit:Quiet Night (Permanence), 2001, Bronze, 25 x 34 x 30 in