Arteamericas / Latin America Art Fair / Miami

March 28th - 30th, Merrill Lynch arteaméricas – the premier
fair of art from Latin America – is returning to Miami for the 6th consecutive year. For four days, with the presence of 70 galleries, the Miami Beach Convention Center will be an epicenter of Latin American culture, where the traditional, modern and contemporary will converge. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to see paintings, sculpture and multimedia art from established masters and emerging artists, representing decades’ worth of artistic evolution throughout Latin America – all under the same roof. Below are a few images that will be displayed.

Patricio Reig
Fotos que nunca vi IX, 2005
Fotografía Analógico Digital, 160 x 118cm
© Patricio Reig, courtesy Juan Ruiz Galeria, Maracaibo, Venezuela




Claudio Gallina
Futbol futbol, 2008.
óleo y acrílico s/tela. 70x50cm
© Claudio Gallina, courtesy Alfredo Ginocchio, Mexico




Raúl Pavlotzky
Estructura Espacial
Hierro, 117 x 50 x 33cm
© Raúl Pavlotzky, courtesy Galería SUR, Punta del Este, Uruguay




Guiomar Mesa
Homenaje a Diane Arbus, 2008
Técnica: Óleo sobre lienzo, 150 x 100cm
© Guiomar Mesa, courtesy Fundación esART, La Paz, Bolivia

Partial list of countries represented with number of galleries.
Argentina 13, Boliva 2, Columbia 4, Costa Rico 1, Dominican Republic 2, Haiti 2, Mexico 4, Panama 1, Peru 3, Pureto Rico 3, Spain 1, Uraguay 1, United States 28, and Venezuela 4,


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Arteamericas
Miami Beach Convention Center
Hall A
Miami Beach, FL


Hours:
March 28th, 12-9pm
March 29th, 12-9pm
March 30th, 12-7pm
March 31st, 12-5pm


Admission $12
Free Daily from 12-2pm


For additional information visit the art fair website
Arteamericas


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Gallery Diet / Maria-Jose Arjona Performance

Maria-Jose Arjona will be performing "Untitled" from The White series at Gallery Diet on Saturday, March 15th. The press release indicates from 11 am - 5 pm.

The "white series" encompasses a group of performances were the body redefines and frees the experience of the world from the traditional definition given by words and the use of language in order to communicate that same experience. It poses more than an answer, multiple questions from where performance and beyond performance, the body is called to open new avenues for interpretation and understanding of sensory stimuli, to further create a language with the capability to communicate beyond identity or specific stereotypes.

The above text is from the "white series" website introduction.

For additional information see The White Series


Gallery Diet
174 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33129
305.571.2288


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Carol Jazzar Contemporary ArtJen Stark Exhibition

Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art is proud to present Place in Space, an exhibition of sculptural installation, drawing and animation by Miami luminary Jen Stark. This will be Stark's first solo show with the gallery for which the works will be specifically realized.

Opening reception Friday, March 14th, 2008 7-10pm.

Jen Stark
Flashspectrum, 2008
Cardstock, 12" X 12"
© Jen Stark, courtesy Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art




Jen Stark
Untitled, date unknown
© Jen Stark, courtesy Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art

A testament to process and patience, her sculptures are remarkably simple and ultimately irresistible. Using only paper, an X-acto knife, and glue, Stark succeeds in creating intricate and intelligent sculptures that reveal to us how remarkable a material like paper can become. They exemplify the contrast between exterior and interior and in-between the voids of white and intoxicating myriads of vivid color, often arranged in geometrically mesmerizing configurations, we find a little magic about the world.

This series of work is inspired by the unseen potential of common things. Here Stark deals with the transformation of simple objects, imbuing them with a dimension and meaning hither-to unattained. "The forms and concepts are inspired by the mysteries that lay at the bottom of the ocean and at the edges of the universe. The results resound with ideas of replication and infinity - echoing patterns and intelligent designs found in nature."

Like most great discoveries, Stark's practice is one of chance and circumstance but the limitless potential and energy that she gives to her creations is borne of her unique ability to reconcile the serious business of art making with the fun that it regularly affords - a feat few artists have mastered. The works on view will be bigger than anything previously seen, their sheer scale (and accompanying technical considerations inherent with her practice) make this perhaps Stark's most ambitious undertaking to date.

Jen Stark is a 2008 recipient of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium's Visual and Media Artists Fellowship.



Jen Stark
Place in Space

Opening reception Friday, March 14th, 2008 7-10pm
Exhibit runs through April 12th. Friday & Saturday 1-5PM and by appointments.

Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art
158 NW 91 Street
Miami, FL 33150
305.756.1886


For additional information contact the gallery or visit their website, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art


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ARTEAMERICAS & ART.VERTISING 1

Artist Giselle Delgado unveils the first part of what will be exhibited during arteaméricas 2008, in a perfomance that combines projected images, music, and where she will be, once again, giving out pins of the very much talked about LATIN AMERICAN ART IS HOT campaign that was created by her and Emilio Calleja, vicepresident of arteaméricas.

In this work, called ART.VERTISING 1, Giselle is erasing the thin line between art and advertising, by converting arteaméricas’ advertising campaign into a work of art, full of expression of her duality of living and being a creator in both worlds and the change of perception that people have when it’s art and when it’s advertising. (a mural of mixed media will be ehibited in arteaméricas). It also depicts how we are all guilty of manipulating and being willfully manipulated by others. All the photographs taken of people wearing the LATIN IS HOT button, since Art Basel, throughout all the art events in Miami, up until now, will be part of her work.

Also, to prove that both worlds CAN co-exist, she virtually hired a ficticious character, “Super-Woman” created by a well-known latin american artist, to “work” promoting Latin American Art Is Hot. Together, Superwoman, and Giselle Delgado, will have a collaborative piece at the fair, as well as a very interesting perfomance on Saturday March 8, at the Wynwood Gallery Night, between Praxis Gallery and Photo Lab. 7-10pm.

arteaméricas
Praxis Gallery

Thank you, Giselle Delgado Buraye for providing us with the information about this art event.

The Moore SpaceFrench Kissin in the U.S.A.

This is the last week to see the exhibition at The Moore Space. French Kissin in the U.S.A. will be ending on March 8th.
Faces - A Project by Carlos Amorales also ends on Saturday.

Taking its title from a 1986 hit song by Blondie, FRENCH KISSIN' IN THE USA presents eighteen (18) contemporary artists belonging to the emerging art scene in France. This exhibition highlights a selection of artists in parallel projects, more in a laboratory fashion than as a concept or style-driven exhibition. Their work reflects visual production that is largely multi-disciplinary, exploring subjects and matters as diverse as the relationship between art and philosophy, music and film; the dependency of concept to form; appropriated images and the dialogue between form and architecture.

Fabien Verschaere
Posada, 2007
Wall painting: Acrylic marker and Acrylic paint
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Photo Credits: Carlos Ascurra





Marceline Delbecq
Rapture, 2007
Color photograph in lightbox with audio piece
(voice: Kim Gordon)
dimensions variables
Courtesy of Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris





Vincent Lamoroux
Salt Flats, 2007
Photographic Images on Light Box
39 x 59 x 11 inches
Courtesy of the Artist and
Galerie Georges- Phillipe & Natalie Vallois, Paris





Guillaume Leblon
Set of Shelves, 2007
Steel and glass, 118 x 157 1/2 X 78 ¾ inches approximately
Courtesy of the Artist; Jocelyn Wolff, Paris and Projecte SD, Barcelona
Photo Credits: Carlos Ascurra

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French Kissin in the U.S.A.
An Emerging Art Scene in France
December 4th - March 8, 2008


Faces - A Project by Carlos Amorales
December 4th - March 8, 2008


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The Moore Space
4040 NE 2nd Avenue
Second Floor, Suite 200
Miami, FL 33137
305.438.1163


Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 10 - 5pm


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, The Moore Space.


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