MIAMI PREUIEW

BY RONI FEINSTEIN

he fifth edition of the international with them altogether. Also in this Dec. 5-6, just prior fair Art Basel Miami Beach location is Art Perform, a program of to the opening of (Dec. 7-10) once again offers daily performances curated by Jens ABMB. On Dec. 6, visitors a cornucopia of citywide Hoffman of the CCA Wattis lnstitute, Aquarelle, Guillermo exhibitions and events geared to San Francisco, and an artist DJ Kuitca's site-specif ic cutting-edge art. At the Miami Beach program organized by Alanna Heiss public art project Convention Center, the principal and Klaus Biesenbach of New York's for Aqua, a Dacra venue, some of the world's most P.S.1. Art Projects includes both Development project prominent galleries present their public works of art and performances on Allison lsland, is wares in the company of younger that are on view at various sites in being unveiled; last galleries comprising the Art Nova Miami Beach (maps are provided). year, a Richard Tuttle section of the fair. ln a beachfront ln the botanical gardens opposite the project was dedicat- village of converted shipping contain- convention center are the Art Video ed at the same site. ers situated a few blocks away, Art Lounge, programmed by Michael On Dec. 7, the night Positions offers the work of other Rush of the Rose Art Museum at of the fair's official Brandeis University, and the Art opening, Miami artist Sound Lounge, curated by David George Sanchez- Dale Chihuly: Niijima Floats,2005, hand-blown glass; Weinstein of P.S.1. Calderon will stage at the Fairchild Tropical Gardens. Photo Terry Rishel. Seeking to take advantage of the an art exhibition/ more than 36,000 visitors expected event in Bicentennial to arrive in Miami for the fair, the Park in downtown city's numerous ad institutions, col- Miami. Titled "An American Falla," it the 1969 classic Easy r9rder at the lections, galleries, alternative spaces involves the creation (and subse- Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road; and artists have planned a rich array quent destruction by fire) of a full- Dennis Hopper, its director and one of ofierings. As in years past, a few scale re-creation of the first home of its stars, will be present at the new art spaces have timed their built in Levittown, N.Y., ca. 1947. screening. On the 1oth, a reception openings to coincide with ABMB. One On the same night, the Miami will be held at Cesar Pelli's new of these is the Freedom Center, a collaborative FriendsWithYou is Carnival Center for the Performing new cultural and educational facil- organizing a blimp parade titled Arts with public art works by ity established by Pedro Martin's "Skywalkers" to extend from 21st Jos6 Bedia, Cundo Bermudez, Terra Group. Sited in Miami's historic to sth Streets along the Miami Gary Moore, Anna Valentina Freedom Tower, its opens with the Beach shoreline; other events are Murch, Robert Rahway Zakanitch, exhibition "Carlos Alfonzo: Extreme promised as well. Konstantia Kontaxis and Ed Talavera Expression, 1 980-1 991 ,' curated by On Dec. 8. Art Loves Film shows lsee "Front Page," this issue]. Julia P. Herzberg. The Moore Space, one of the city's leading alternative Detail of Carlos Betancourt's lhe galleries, is inaugurating a satellite Cut-Out Army,2006, 100 individual venue, the Moore Space Loft, a few t least l0 additional art fairs will occur during the four days of ABMB cutouts on cardboard, each I feet tall. blocks from its Design District loca- I design, photo--based Courtesy Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. tion, and the Ambrosino Gallery, a lf lonu focuses on another on work and still long-prominent commercial gallery Fl unoth". o, .ont".pJ.ry prints).The NewArt DealersAltiance that stands opposite the Museum of lnc. (NADA), made up of 90 international galleries, once again takes up Contemporary Art in North Miami, residence in the lce Palace Studios at 59 NW l4th St,while Pulse,with is opening a Wynwood branch, The 50 exhibitors, returns to Miami for its second run at 2700 NW 2nd Ave. Wynwood Art District, the epicenter Scope, which is making its fifth appearance in Miami, occupies a new of Miami's contemporary art scene, venue: a 40,000-square-foot tented structure set in Roberto Clemente promises to deliver any number of Park at I 0 I NW 34th Sr in Wynwood. On its inaugural run in Wynwood surprises, as on a seemingly daily is Photo Miami,which is directed byTim Fleming and includes 50 inter- basis empty warehouse spaces galleries photo-based are being turned over to artists and national showing work, video and new media; it dealers for temporary exhibitions, takes place in the SOHO Building at2l36 NW lstAve. ln a warehouse installations and performances. space across the street from Pulse is Fountain, an "alternative fair" orga- Already planned is the presentation nized byWilliamsburg, Brooldyn, dealers John Leo and David Kesting, of Carlos Betancourl's "The Cut- which presents the work of young artists and galleries (it is at the corner Out Army," consisting of a group of of 29th St. and NW 2nd Ave.).The Design Miami ltair is located in the 8{oot-high photographic cutouts of Moore Building. people (nearly 100 of them), at the The remaining five fairs are tal

ArtinAmerica 43 Museums Calzada'.ln Dreams Awake," a 30-year premiered, will also be on view. The Moore Space Loft, a new, 7,500- The Museum of Contemporary retrospective of the Cuban adist, who square-foot warehouse facility three Art in North Miami presents "Elusive has been living in Miami since 1960. blocks away (ai3627 NE 1st Court), Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Meanwhile, the Patricia and Phillip is being inaugurated at ABMB wiih Light," a traveling retrospective of Frost Museum at FIU is showing John Bock's performance and installa- the adist's neon and fluorescent light the concept-based work of four tion Zero Hero (2003105), originally pieces organized by the Milwaukee women artists of Cuban extraction presented at the 51st Venice Biennale. Art Museum. Also on view is an in "A Room of One's Own: Teresita ln the Buena Vista Building nearby, exhibition of Pablo Cano's marionette Ferndndez, Maria Elena Gonzdlez, an alterna- sculptures for his new production, Quisqueya Henrlquez, Marfa Bas Fisher lnvitational, tive space founded in 2004 by Miami "City Beneath the Sea," which will be Martinez-Cafras." artists Hernan Bas and Naomi Fisher, pedormed Dec.9 and 10. presents paintings and drawings by MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Private Gollections New York artist Jessica Dickinson. the museum's satellite facility in and llonprofits Elsewhere in the Design District, Wynwood, displays "Artificial Light," The Wynwood Art District is home Robins and Dacra Development an exhibition of light sculpture to five private collection spaces by younger adists influenced by that are open to the public. For the Nauman, Dan Flavin and others, Pablo Cano: King Otto,2006, first time, rather than presenting a organized by the Anderson Gallery mixed mediums, 54 by 24 by series of curated shows, the Rubell Virginia Commonwealth University at 24 inches; al the Museum ol Family Collection has dedicated School of the Arts and the Virginia Contemporary Art. ils enti re 45,000-square-Ioot space Museum of Fine Arts. On Dec. 7, to a single exhibition, organized by "E-Merce: ln Fashion, The Runway director Mark Coetzee, "Red Eye: Battle," a performance inspired by Los Angeles Afiists from the Rubell costumes in Merce Cunningham Family Collection." lt will include dances, will be presented. work in a wide range of mediums The Miami Art Museum, now by Doug Aitken, Frank Benson, the direction of Terence Riley, under Amy Bessone, Mark Grotjahn, presents the midcareer sur- traveling Kristen Morgan, Laura Owens, vey of Lorna Simpson's work orga- Lara Schnitger, Catherine Sullivan nized by the American Federation of and many others. The Cisneros Arts [see artlcle, this issue]. A two- Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), part installation dealing with botanical founded last year by Ella Fontanals research in South Florida comprises waldemar Cordeiro: lddia Visivel, Cisneros to present work from her 1958, enamel on plywood, 24 inches a "New Work Series" exhibition collection, offers two exhibitions. The square; at the Cisneros Fontanals Art Mark Dion. "Modern designed by first, "The Sites ol Latin American Foundation. @ Cordeiro Family. Photographs: The Machine, the Body Abstraction," is curated by Juan and the City: Gifts from the Charles Ledezma, and the second, "Forms of Cowles Collection," with images from Classification: Alternative Knowledge 1900 to the present, is also on view. and Contemporary Art," is organized The Wolfsonian-FlU on Miami by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Beach exhibits "Modernism in The Margulies Collection at the American Silver: 20th-Century Warehouse has once again been Design," organized by the Dallas Maria Elena Gonz{lezi Mi Casa no es reinstalled so as to accommodate a Museum of Art. During ABMB, tu casa, 2005, mixed mediums, 13yzby plethora of new acquisitions, among the Wolfsonian will unveil a com- 12 by 12 leet; at the Frost Art Museum. them pieces by Zilvinas Kempinas. missioned, site-specific installa- Courtesy The Proiect, New York. Hiraki Sawa, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Olafur tion by Lawrence Weiner-"[LO & Eliasson, Maurizio Pellegrin, Heidi BEHOLDIIMI RA & VEl"---created Sprecher and Cho Fei. World Class in response to the Wolfsonian's coi- European art center since the fall of Boxing, the warehouse space lections. The English and Spanish the Berlin Wall. Several pieces were devoted to the collection of Debra text-based installation begins on the specially made for the exhibition. and Dennis Scholl, presents two facade and lines the lobby walls. "Austrian Art from the Bass Museum projects: "The Other Side of Perfect," A few blocks away, the Collection" is also on view. four collage works by L.A. artist Bass Museum of Art presents ln Coral Gables, Miami Art Central Mark Bradford, and Gr7ls Beware, Humberto Calzadai The Collapse of an ,srand, 1998, acrylic on canvas, 60 inches "Constructing New Berlin.'a major (MAC) ofiers "Video: An Art, a History, a video by lsraeli artist Tamy Ben- square; at the Lowe Art Museum. multigenerational survey of art in var- 1965-2005: New Media Collection, Tor. Colleccion Gary Nader, which ious mediums produced in this major Centre Pompidou," organized by the opened during the last ABMB in Paris instituiion. A a converted warehouse with an panel park, Frank Thief: Stadt 2136lA (Berlin Reichstag), 1998, discussion on adjoining sculpture houses C-print, 70 by 94% inches; at the Bass Museum ot Art. video art is being both Nader's personal collection of Courtesy Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva. held on Dec. 9. The modern, contemporary and Latin nearby Fairchild American masters and the commer- Tropical Gardens cial venture Gary Nader Fine Ar1. displays in situ work The Moore Space, an alternative by Dale Chihuly, venue founded in 2001 by collectors Sol Lewitt, Mark Rosa de la Cruz and Craig Robins in Dion, Ursula von the Design District, features the exhi- Rydingsvard, Franz bition "CLAMOR, Allora & Calzadilla," West and Daisy with a collaborative sound sculpture Youngblood. incorporating live musicians that Also in Coral investigates the music of war; it was Mark Bradlord: Scorched Earth, 2005, Gables, the Lowe conceived by artists Jennifer Allora collage on paper mounted on canvas, Art Museum of the and Guillermo Calzadilla.'Twilight 94% by 118 inches; at World Class University of Miami Town," consisting of five videos by Boxing. Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins, New York. presents "Humberto Sean Dack, three of which are being rie. Deitch is also collaborating with ents "Decadence is Degradation," Paper magazine on "The Paper $99 the first show of paintings by Art Store," a "cultural shop" filled with Naomi Fisher; her new drawings inexpensive objects (sneakers, CDs, and photographs will also be mouse pads) by artists and arlist col- included. lnstalled in the outdoor laboratives. Tilton Gallery, New York, project space is "Back9," a nine- offers work by contemporary lndian hole miniature golf course with artists and Nina Menocal Gallery, obstacles designed by local afi- Mexico City, presents "Rising Stars: ists. While Ambrosino Gallery's North Latin Americans," curated North Miami branch is showing an by Daniela Wolf. "Out of True," an exhibition of work by young artists exhibition of work by international curated by Miami artist Jonathan artists on the theme of a world gone Peck, the new Wynwood space Jessica Dickinson: Srow B,rth, 2004, oil awry, is organized by Byblos Art has a show devoted to the work on limestone polymer on panel,49 by Gallery, Verona, ltaly. Electronic of Barbara Strasen and another 46 inches; at Bas Fisher lnvitational. devices are the subject of "Pause," that showcases gallery art- including work by 11 artists curated ists. Diana Lowenstein Fine by San Francisco-based Christopher Arts presents five sculptures John Sanchez: Arc You Ready, Old Culver. An exhibition of work from employing projected imagery Friend?,2006, oil on canvas, 48 by 54 the Craig Robins Collection, selected by New York artist Sterz and inches; at Dorsch. by German curator Karola Grasslin, a project room installation by is on view at Dacra's new offices at Spaniard Daniel Verbis. Bernice 3841 NE 2nd Ave. Steinbaum ln conlunction Gallery offers with the Design Wanxin Zhang: Trinoculars, a solo show Miami fair, one 2005, fired clay and pigment, of the work of of ABMB's satel- 84 by 22 by 26 inches; Hung Liu entitled lite fairs, taking at Bernice Steinbaum. "Matriarchs," place in the Moore a project room Building at 4040 NE exhibition by 2nd Ave., are sev- Wanxin Zhang, eral exhibitions of "Waniors Pit #5," "crossoved' interest. and a group show Among these is a of gallery artists selection of objects, titled "A Timely Zilvinas Kempinas: Column, 2006, models, furniture Response." videotape and mixed mediums; at the and drawings Fabian Marcaccio Margulies Collection. from the Centre returns to Kevin Naomi Fisher: Ladies 8-25-06, 2006, Pompidou's design Bruk Gallery with ink on vellum, 42 by 30 inches; at collection, a show "Private Contractor an exhibition concerned with digres- Fredric Snitzer. of architectural Paintant"; work by sions and imperfections and includ- photographs spon- Daniel Hesidence ing the work of eight Latin artists, is sored by Metropolis is also featured. at Luis Adelantado, a gallery from magazine, a pre- Dorsch Gallery, Valencia, Spain, that was inaugu- miere of new work celebrating its 15th rated here in 2005. in crystal by artists anniversary, offers lngalls and Associates presents Jeff Zimmerman "20 Questions," a a show devoted to the work of lvan and Michele Oka group show featuring Toth Depena and anotherto the Doner, and a new all of the gallery's work of Robert Wyndham Bucknell furniture colleciion adists, includ- and Viktor Wynd. On Dec. 9, a by Wendell Castle, ing Rene Barge, night of music performance projects organized by Ralph Provisero, in the coufiyard is scheduled in Steuben Glass and John Sanchez and conjunction with Rush Arts Gallery, R 20th Century. newcomers Arnold New York, which is devoted to the Mesches and work of minority artists. Throughout Elisabeth Condon. ABMB, The Yard@Casalin, an ln the Locust Proiects, artist-run outdoor exhibition space Galleries one of Miami's prime in Wynwood, presents ad interven- As before, the alternative spaces, tions, performances and sound Daniel Hesidencei Untitled ( 1 7 7 7 ), number of com- Wim Delvoye: Everybody Loves showcases the work afi by Robefio Behar and Rosario 2006, oil on canvas, 35 by 30 inches; mercial aft galleries Sunshine, 2001, ink tattooed of New York-based Marquardt, Robert Chambers, at Kevin Bruk. in the Wynwood on pigskin, 35lz by 263/t inches; artist Scott Hug in Joshua Levine and others; spe- Art District has at Emmanuel Perrotin. the main gallery and cial performances by Gustavo expanded over the Jesse Bercowetz Matamoros and Mark Koven are are again sponsoring Art Loves past year, although and Matt Bua, both scheduled. Art Center/South Design, a range of exhibitions in some of the most also from New York, Florida, a nonprofit with an artist-in- spaces lent to various out-oftown art interesting offerings in the project room. residence program established over institutions and galleries for the dura- originate with those Galerie Emmanuel two decades ago on Miami Beach's tion of the fair. The Cultural Mission that have long been Perrotin, the Paris- Lincoln Road, presents "We'll Make Foundation, Moscow, presents an fixtures on the city's based gallery that a Lover of You," an international exhibition of young Russian artists contemporary art opened a branch group exhibition of artists associ- titled "Modus R - Russian Formalism scene. Fredric in Miami last year, ated with the Lowbrow movement, Today." New York dealer Jeffrey Snitzer Gallery, presents three solo curated by Francesco LoCastro. Deitch offers three suspended sculp- which has featured shows, by Elmgreen tural installations by E.V. Day that the work of Miami- and Dragset, Xavier Auhori Roni Feinstern is an art historian Synthesize Cold War technology, based adists for Veilhan and Wim and writer who recently left Boca Raton NASA prototypes and women's linge- over 20 years, pres- Delvoye. "Blemish," for Westport, Conn.

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