Art Basel Miami Beach is one of the most important art fairs in the United States, cultural and social to highlight North and South America.
As a gesture of resistance after the impact of the pandemic, Art Basel Miami Beach will return the first week of December as a face-to-face fair after the 2020 break and will do so with the same intensity as in previous appointments: a total of 253 outstanding galleries from all over the world with historical masterpieces, new pieces and emerging signatures.
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It returns from December 2 to 4 with its recognized intact sections (Galleries, Kabinett, Positions, Nova, Survey and Edition) and a new addition, the so-called Meridians, an exhibition of 16 large-scale works curated by the Mexican Magalí Arriola, director of the Tamayo Museum.
This year there is “enormous emotion within the art world on both sides of the Atlantic” regarding Art Basel Miami Beach, not only because it is “our first fair in two years in the Americas” but because “it has never before shown a range so diverse of voices ”, Marc Spiegler, global director of the fair, said in a statement.
The Kabinett section, true to its name, includes this year 25 presentations by emerging and established artists, a selection of galleries with curated exhibitions in different booths.
Among the galleries selected in Kabinett stands out Jorge Mara-La Ruche, from Buenos Aires, who will highlight the influential work of three figures of the photographic avant-garde and their “visionary modernism” in Europe and South America during the 1930s: Ellen Auerbach, Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola.
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The German gallery Sies + Höke will present rare early drawings by postmodern painter Sigmar Polke (1941-22010) and also by the German artist Gerhard Richter, one of the most outstanding painters of abstract expressionism and contemporary art.
The Spanish Mayoral, located in Barcelona, will present a series of works by the Canarian painter and printmaker Manolo Millares (1926-1972), “one of the most important Spanish artists of the informalist movement of the European postwar period”.
The Meridians platform becomes a unique space of miscegenation for the presentation of pictorial projects, installations and large-scale works, an opportunity for galleries to exhibit “monumental pieces”, as well as video projections and live performances.
Thus, a new work by the Brazilian Maxwell Alexandre as part of the “Pardo é Papel” series exhibited by the Gentil Carioca gallery, or the installation and performance entitled “Contract and Release”, based on the “activation of six bodily devices”, by Canadian contemporary artist Brendan Fernades (Monique Meloche Gallery).
Regarding large-scale works, the American Todd Gray will present a piece that exceeds 30 feet entitled “Sumptuous Memories of Plundering Kings”, in which he explores the “history and lasting impact of European colonialism, slavery and the African diaspora” .
“Many of the works included in Meridians question the traditional representations of class, race and power to resist social conventions” and connect with “the physical and cultural borders that emerge in our society,” Magalí Arriola said in a statement.
Art Basel Miami Beach also maintains its commitment in this edition to the popular Conversations section, which serves as a space for the exchange of ideas on points related to the global contemporary art scene.
This year Conversation proposes ten panels that bring together artists, gallery owners, collectors, art historians, exhibition curators and museum directors and critics from all over the world.
The Position sector, one of the most attractive segments for collectors and exhibition curators, will maintain its usual commitment to emerging artists and galleries, with 19 separate presentations from such innovative creators as the Canadian Tau Lewis, the American Kyle Dunn and the photographer and also American artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
The artistic event, which concludes on Saturday, December 4 and will take place at the fairgrounds of the Miami Beach Convention Center, will maintain a “strict security” protocol for the protection of visitors, exhibitors and staff due to covid- 19. (I)
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