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Miami Beach will once again become a gathering place for art lovers across the globe. International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) announces the Miami International Art Fair (MIA) will return January 14th-17th, 2011 to Miami Beach Convention Center, with a private preview evening January 13th. International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE), and MIA Associate Director Aldo Castillo, has designed the fair to be a catalyst for the finest galleries and dealers to access the South Florida market and have established cultural partnerships with museums, universities and other art-related institutions to ensure a fully integrated fair with innovative curatorial projects and an extensive lecture and panel series.
MIA 2011 is inaugurating a unique new model for the Miami art community, combining carefully selected contemporary and cutting edge galleries with a strong curatorial program aimed at supporting the Miami art community.
The fair will host 65 prestigious international dealers, exhibiting contemporary art, including photography, works on paper, sculpture, installations, art project rooms, and new media from emerging and established artists. "My commitment to the Miami International Art Fair - MIA will be the application of my many years of experience in order to make MIA a unique, contemporary platform for the world of collecting and exhibiting art," said Aldo Castillo.
MIA's "Open Space Project" introduces current art statements and installations; a new art lab experience for top collectors. Some of the 2011 MIA highlights include "Improvising Architectures" - an art proposal of installations with a coincident lecture and symposium series organized by Miami Curator, Gean Moreno. Participating artists include Nicolas Lobo, Christy Gast, Adler Gurrier, Heather Rowe, and Carlos Sandoval de Leon; panelists include Ruba Katrib, Associate Curator of MOCA. "What these exhibitions haven't done as consistently is place the work of Miami artists alongside that of their international generational peers in a concrete way--that is, by literally presenting the work side-by-side, on equal footing" said Gean Moreno.
During its début in January 2010, MIA welcomed more than 17,000 attendees during the 5-day run, garnering positive reviews and sales reports from the participating international exhibitors, collectors, curators and the general public. MIA 2010 attracted influential art collectors and curators from across the globe. Some of the more notable in attendance last year included Rosa de la Cruz, Richard Shack, Tony Goldman, Bonnie Clearwater and Janet Liedeker.
The fair will further promote the Miami art community by supporting the Wynwood's second Saturday gallery walk and other Miami gallery openings.
Lecture Series:
Friday, January 14th:
1:00-2:00 pm
"Strategies of Post-Utopian Art: Panel with Cuban Artists"
Moderated by Adriana Herrera, art critic for El Nuevo Herald and Art Nexus Magazine.
This event will be in Spanish.
Participating artists:
Glexis Novoa, Ernesto Oroza, Fabian Peña, Consuelo Castañeda
This panel will focus on the ways in which Cuban artists continue to use critical strategies in their production after they leave the island. It includes artists from different generations who employ different methods of production and presentation.
2:30-3:30 pm
"With Our Backs to the Water: Framing the Caribbean through Miami"
Elizabeth Cerejido, associate curator, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Panel with scholars and artists from the Caribbean.
This panel aims to understand and situate the Caribbean vis-à-vis Miami in the specific realm of visual culture. Beyond geographic proximity and demographic statistics, how does Miami relate to the Caribbean or what notions shape and inform our definition, imaginary and relationship to the region? How does Miami function as the site that both expands and problematizes "caribbeanness" and generates shifting definitions of cultural identity? On an institutional level, both academic and cultural, the term "Caribbean" is usually subsumed under the rubric of Latin America. What are the advantages and disadvantages to unpacking, distinguishing and drawing parallels?
4:00-5:00 pm
"The Future of the Arts in South Florida: A Conversation between Thom Collins and Dennis Scholl."
Thom Collins, Director, Miami Art Museum
Dennis Scholl, Miami collector and Vice-President/Arts and Miami Program Director, John S and James L Knight Foundation
Thom Collins, recently appointed director of Miami Art Museum, will talk about the future of the museum and the city with Miami collector Dennis Scholl, who is involved with the John S and James L Knight Foundation Arts Partnership Initiative, which has given millions in grants to South Florida cultural institutions and initiatives.
Saturday, January 15th:
1:00-2:00
"Art and Education Outside of Schools"
Ruba Katrib, Associate Curator, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art
Ruba will speak on educational initiatives started by artists throughout Latin America and Europe as part of their artistic projects.
2:30-3:30
"The City as Medium"
Rene Morales, Associate Curator, Miami Art Museum
Sunday, January 16th:
1:00-2:00
Mary Kate O'Hare
"Transcending National Barriers: Pioneers of Geometric Abstraction in South and North America."
Lecture. The formative decades of the 1920s-1950s witnessed the rise of geometric abstraction in the Argentina, Brazil, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Artists from Montevideo to New York, from Buenos Aires to São Paulo, shared a belief that the style of geometric abstraction - characterized by hard-edge shapes that make little or no reference to the natural world-was dynamic, vital, and pertinent for their time and context. As artists at the time asserted, art and the ideas driving it are mobile; national borders cannot contain them. Exchanged across diverse networks, art can connect people, often unexpectedly, through time and place. Recognizing this mobility, abstract artists across South and North America also promoted "exchange" with their contemporaries across the world. They believed that bringing their work together was a productive strategy for securing their place within the international Constructivist tradition.
Fair Hours:
January 14 - 17, 2011
12-7pm
til 9pm on the 14th
Preview:
January 13
6:30-7:30pm
By separate ticket
$50pp in advance
$75pp at the door
Preview tickets also valid for unlimited admission to the fair
7:30-10pm
Collectors' Invitational
Admission:
One day pass:
$10 in advance, $15 at the door
Multi-day pass:
$15 in advance, $20 at the door
Children under 12
accompanied by adult, free |
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