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ARTDISTRICTS REVIEWS l NEWS l ART & MUSEUM GUIDE l MAPS NO. 16 l FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012 WWW.ARTDISTRICTS.COM FLORIDA Miami Beach Convention Center, Booth 201 March 2 - 5, 2012 ad_march_2012.pdf 1/26/2012 9:25:04 PM NICK VEASEY X-Ray March 1st - April 8th , 2012 th Reception with the Artist Saturday, March 10 , 2012 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Bowler Hat, 2008 C-Type print on Diasec, 23 1/4 x 16 1/2 inch, Edition of 5 GREGG SHIENBAUM FINE ART 2239 N.W. 2nd Avenue Miami FL 33127 305-205-9089 gregg@gsfineart. com www.gsfineart.com Kelley Roy Gallery invites you to JAE HAHN MY LITTLE MAN Exhibit through March 3, 2012 Second Saturday: 2pm-9pm 50 NORTHEAST 29 STREET WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT | MIAMI, FL 33137 305.447.3888 • kelleyroygallery.com arteaméricas2012 elger aragundi // booth·705 2-5 DE MARZO Contact Miami AJ Japour Gallery, 429 Lenox Avenue, Suite 704, Miami Beach , FL 33139 · 305 989 4500 www.aragundi.com AA12_artdistricts2_tickets 2/5/12 6:33 PM Page 1 CRISTINA HAUK, COURTESY OF CONSORCIO DE ARTE • GABRIELA CASSANO, COURTESY OF CARLA REY ARTE CONTEMPORANEO • MONIQUE ROZANES, COURTESY OF FUNDACION TORRES AGUERO ROZANES • LEOŃ FERRARI, COURTESY OF CENTRO DE EDICION TALLER GALERIA • EDUARDO PLA, COURTESY OF EL GRAN OTRO TOP LATIN AMERICAN ART GALLERIES | NEW: FOTOAMÉRICAS | INVITED COUNTRY: ARGENTINA THE LATIN AMERICAN ART FAIR MARCH 3-5, 2012 MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CENTER # BE OUR GUEST 2012 AND CELEBRATE GUEST WITH US OUR admits two PASS TENTH YEAR! 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"At Wall Street Exchange" excel-art 154 x 110 cm (62 x 44 inches) 2011 www.BLACKSQUAREGALLERY.com Excel-Art 2248 NW 1st Place Miami, FL 33127 ph.305-424-5002 Opening: March 10th, 6-10pm Fx. 928-833-9914 E-m. [email protected] Alexiy Say March 10th - May 28th, 2012 BLACK SQUARE GALLERY The Naked Truth Nudes and Erotica in Art February 10 - March 31 also join us at art wynwood February 16-20 PanAmericanArtProjects Booth B28 2450 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL 33127 t: 305.573.2400 f: 305.573.0720 www.panamericanart.com and Arte Americas [email protected] March 2-5 Booth 700 William Cannings Run inflated metal and paint 28 x 33 x 19 inches ARTDISTRICTS NO. 16 l FEBRUARy – MARCH 2012 WWW.ARTDISTRICTS.COM FLORIDA CONTENTS DIRECTOR / PUBLISHER José E. López 16 BEYOND THE LANDSCAPE EDITOR THE PAINTINGS OF DIEGO TORRES Raisa Clavijo AND ANIA TOLEDO / By Raisa Clavijo CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 20 THROUGH ONE COLLector’s EYES Jenifer Mangione Vogt Margery Gordon A CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN Veron Ennis MARGULIES Ashley Knight By Jenifer Mangione Vogt Raisa Clavijo 16 24 KATHY KISSIK: PUTTING ART IN COPY EDITOR PERSPECTIVE Gregg Lasky By Margery Gordon TRANSLatOR 24 Diana Scholtz Israel 28 AN INTERVIEW WITH VICENTE DOPICO-LERNER CONSULTING Art DIRECTOR Eddy López By Raisa Clavijo GRAPHIC DESIGNER 38 ARTEAMERICAS 2012 / By Ashley Knight Hugo Kerckhoffs 40 HERBERT MEHLER: CURVED PHOTOGRAPHY Raymond Hernández - Mariano Costa-Peuser By Veron Ennis Jeff Hernández - Vicente Dopico 42 VINCENCH VS. VINCENCH SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE 28 A DISSIDENT DIALOGUE FROM CUBA María Nápoles By Margery Gordon MARKETING COORDINatORS Raymond Hernández 46 DIRTY PINK 305 Silvia Medina A CONVERSATION WITH CLAIRE BREUKEL ARTDISTRICTS is published bimonthly, By Raisa Clavijo (6 issues per year) Subscribe online at www.artdistricts.com 60 SOCIAL SHOTS Contact us: [email protected] 62 ART & MUSEUM GUIDE - FLORIDA Published by: W Media LLC P.O. Box 960008 Miami, Fl. 33296 786 274 3236 W Media LLC, is not responsible for and does not necessarily share the opinions expressed by its contributors, nor does it assume any responsibility for unsolicited materials or contents of advertisements. No portion of ARTDISTRICTS may be used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. Cover page: Diego Torres, Keep away, 2011, oil W Media LLC publications include: on canvas, 43” x 47”. Courtesy of ARTPULSE the artist and Diamont Art Projects. / www.artpulsemagazine.com ARTDISTRICTS www.diamontartprojects.com www.artdistricts.com WYNWOOD, The Art Magazine Ania Toledo, Untitled, 2011, oil on canvas, 57 ½” x 45” All images are courtesy of the artists and Diamont Art Projects. BEYOND THE LANDSCAPE The Paintings of Diego Torres and Ania Toledo By Raisa Clavijo The island’s natural beauty has fascinated Cuban painters Romañach and Domingo Ramos, approached this genre since the 19th century. Since then, many artists, both native without freeing themselves from the tethers of academic art, and foreign, have perpetuated the geography and vegeta- but they were still able to achieve works of singular beauty. tion of the island on their canvases. Esteban Chartrand, a However, it was Tomás Sánchez toward the end of the follower of the Barbizon school, stands out in the second 1970s and beginning of the 1980s who finally managed to half of the 19th century; he, along with his brother Philippe, apprehend the Cuban countryside, while avoiding all mim- left behind idyllic scenes of the Cuban countryside, nostal- icry and leaving his own indelible imprint. He reclaimed a gic and full of light. Another landscape lover was Valentín genre that appeared to have been exhausted in the national Sanz Carta, who left to posterity flashes of intense and lush visual arts, and he did it at a moment when contemporary nature. Other artists, such as Armando Menocal, Leopoldo art on the island was betting on post-modernity. Sánchez, 16 ARTDISTRICTS l www.artdistricts.com on the other hand, gambled on continuing the tradition and human vestiges. They refer back to an evocative state, to a nos- revolutionizing landscape art, leaving an aesthetic legacy talgia for the forgotten mountains or jungle. They comment on that would influence many of the artists who came after lost and perhaps irretrievable idyllic scenery,” 2 a pact between him. It is precisely, thanks to his legacy, that in the decade of man and nature, an ancient and perhaps eternal pact that few the 1990s, landscapes once again gained a place in Cuban remember. The human figures that we occasionally find in her art. The return to this genre on the part of some artists trans- work are of herself. It is she who gets lost in the woods, who lated into a return to the craft, to the practice of painting, merges with the rainforest, who seeks in nature the opportu- after some turbulent and controversial years in the 1980s nity to escape, the door that finally saves her. when conceptual art prevailed. Within contemporary Cuban For his part, Diego Torres, born in Havana in 1970, ap- arts scenery, landscape art began to overcome its status as a proaches landscapes in a very different way. He is not inter- minor genre and to rise as an autonomous practice. ested in a realistic reproduction of a specific scene, although Many have followed the legacy of Tomás Sánchez, but very he confesses that his work is influenced by American pop few have managed to save themselves from falling prey to mim- and photorealism. Torres prefers to capture and synthesize icry or to the ease of copying formulae that they feel will guar- the essential details, those that help him piece together a antee commercial success. Among those authentic landscape story. For this painter, landscapes are a pretext for leaving painters worthy of mention are Ania Toledo and Diego Torres. behind a commentary that goes way beyond the sensual rep- Ania Toledo, born in Cabaiguan, Cuba, in 1957, reclaims the resentation of a natural scene. His works contain hidden value of bucolic and traditional landscapes, providing us with a handful of unique and unrepeatable scenes that capture the natural beauty of her homeland and of Costa Rica. The landscapes of Ania are not exact repli- cas of nature; rather, they carry the imprint of her glance and her imagination. Tomás Sánchez has commented about the oeuvre of Toledo: “The landscapes of this artist do not always represent specific locations. It may be that the place does not exist as such; in- stead, it is a reconstruction based on images stored in her excellent visual memory.”1 We are not standing before nature copied from reality in the manner of the Barbizon school or the Hudson River school; however, Ania is undoubtedly a follower, being influenced by that masterly manner of representing textures and lights.