Recap Miami: Satellite Fairs Part 1

A snow-day in Dallas has made it possible for me to finally update my blog! Since I already showed the recap for the main fair in Miami back in December, this recap will be filled with pictures of the Miami satellite fairs. Excuse my brevity and enjoy the images!

Scope Miami

Shi Jindian, White Wire No. 1, Unique

Coloured Stainless Steel Wire, 185 x 65 x 40 cm

Contemporary by Angela Li (LA/Hong Kong)

Jose Maria Mellado, Hotel by Tequendama Falls

Giclee, Pigmented ink print on fiber based paper, 110 x 223 cm, edition of 5

Crown Gallery (Brussels)

Anthony Ingrisano, Power Lines #2

Ink on paper, unframed 42 x 40 inches

Muriel Guepin Gallery (Brooklyn)

Design Miami

Jean Prouve, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, and Jean Royere

Galerie Patrick Sequin

Ingrid Donat, Hommage a Klimt Fils, 2002

Chiseled and partially gilded bronze, 45 5/8 x 29 1/2 x 15 3/4 in, edition of 8

Barry Friedman Ltd.

Simon Hasan, Chair

Johnson Trading Gallery

Johnson Trading Gallery

Ceres

Graft Architects, Phantom Table

NADA Art Fair

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions (San Francisco)

Toshiyuki Konishi

Arataniurano (Tokyo)

AIDS 3D (Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmas)

Andreas Melas Presents (Athens)

Nolan Hendrickson, images from Faggot Carnival 

Above Right:  Last Resort Wear, 2010, Acrylic and Latex on Canvas, 72 x 48 in

Ramiken Crucible (New York)

Basel Recap: Satellite Fairs- Scope

Along with Art Basel, which I will continue recapping throughout the month of July, there were plenty of satellite fairs in Basel. Of them, I attended Scope, Volta, and Liste. Here are a selection of images from Scope, the satellite fair I first attended. 

All in all I was really impressed by Scope. Unlike Art Basel, whose 40 year anniversary boasts a beautifully designed and enormous layout, Scope was a bare essentials kind of fair. Nonetheless, the younger art and galleries presented did not fail to make their mark in the space provided. I think what really struck me as a common theme in this fair was the intersections made between East and West, high and low, historical and mythical, etc. 

Mattia Biagi’s work deals with the intersection of faith and war. The mixed media sculptures, like Heaven and Hell, are meant to show the absurdity that drives parents to send their children to fight in wars, while they in turn sit at home and pray for their offspring's survival. In this piece the artist pushes this interplay further by mixing a classical sculpture with a black-tarred weapon. This same type of intersection continues in Kris Kuksi’s assemblages. The artist takes low (mass commodity) objects and forms them into history-laden surrealist sculptures, as seen in Colonel Wilhelm Von Howitzerhead. 

I wish I could continue talking about all the pieces I love, but I hear my thesis calling. Instead I will just add their images and stress how much I enjoyed Scope's galleries and artists, as well as the fair's no-frill, no-confusion environment. 

Photograph of the Fair Area, Kaserne, Basel

Mattia Biagi, Heaven and Hell

Year Unknown, Multimedia Sculpture

Holster Projects, London 

Kris Kuksi, Colonel Wilhelm Von Howitzerhead

2010, Mixed media assemblage, 32 x 30 x 12 in.

Joshua Liner Gallery, New York

Michal Macku, Glass Gellage III

Year Unknown, Glass, 

PaciArte Contemporary, Brescia

Scope Installation Artist 

Robert Montgomery 

THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE BECOME GHOSTS INSIDE OF YOU

 AND LIKE THIS YOU KEEP THEM ALIVE

 2009, Painted wood, LED lights and recycled sunlight

Courtesy of Analix Forever

Art Basel

Hey everyone, so sorry for the lull in posts. My art event calendar has gone from limited to overstuffed in a matter of days.


Right now I am in Basel for the Art Basel, Scope Basel, Volta6, and Liste15 events. As you can imagine its quite hectic just attending all the fairs and satellite events scheduled during this week. But when you add my thesis work to the load, (yes, I still have to finish that), then there really is no time left to blog. 


The great thing is that when I start blogging again I will have plenty to talk about and plenty of images! So keep checking back here, but I will definitely be posting something exciting after this week wraps.