DECEMBER 4, 2018 --- The first stop on day one in Miami Beach for the art fairs and exhibitions was the Bass Museum of Art, where Los Angeles-based twins Nikolai and Simon Haas presented their installation, “Ferngully.” The environment evoking renewal and rebirth in altered physical states is inspired by the animate 1992 film, “FernGully: The Last Rainforest.” In that film, the fairy Krysta and the lumberjack Zak try to save their rainforest home from nature’s destructive forces. The beasts, Martian-like in their appearance, with antennae and eyes often on stalks, alternatively resemble worms and centipedes covered in sumptuous materials, including fur and beads. Icelandic sheepskin browns and whites, curly cow fur, brown goat fur, carved ebony and cast bronze recall prehistoric Animalia and minerals in these creatures of diverse personalities, sizes, genders and races, both human and … [Read more...] about ALTERNATIVE WORLDS AND ALTERNATIVE SPECIES: DAY ONE AT MIAMI ART WEEK AND ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2018
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SMILING AND LOOKING FORWARD: SCOPE AND UNLIMITED FAIRS EARLY HIGHLIGHTS OF MIAMI ART WEEK 2017
By Nancy Nesvet MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, DEC. 5, 2017. Smile and the world smiles with you. In Miami Beach, at the Scope and Unlimited Art Fairs, we are in a happy place, or at least a lot happier than at past fairs and biennales. Maybe it is because we are tired of the depressing state the world is in. But hey, it’s time to come out of the cocoon, especially in this sunny paradise of blue skies and cerulean ocean. So, at the Scope Art Fair, we are seeing lots of manga and comic work; paintings declaring “Life is so Big and Beautiful, Where should we start?” signed Luis XXX, or Francois Bel’s “Warhology Blue Neon Fushia Bubbles” (Virginie Barrou Planquart, Paris). Beauty reigns but so does an infatuation with identity, yours, mine and ours, in Sungchul Hong’s “Perceptual Mirror 0633D,” 2017, of solar LCD units in plexiglass at Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, We are delighted, … [Read more...] about SMILING AND LOOKING FORWARD: SCOPE AND UNLIMITED FAIRS EARLY HIGHLIGHTS OF MIAMI ART WEEK 2017
The Art World returns to Miami; Artscope’s 2017 Art Basel Miami Beach Preview: Part Two
By Nancy Nesvet Miami South Beach, FL - It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhoods of Miami and Miami Beach, with the sun shining, waves mild, murals in Wynwood overwhelming and the Bass Contemporary Art Museum no longer under construction, showing off the Leo Rondicone colors in the totem outside. Striped flag garlands are hung high over Collins Park, marking the territory that Philipp Kaiser, Public’s curator, alludes to. There is a sense of unpredictability that dictates we’d better enjoy the moment because we don’t know what tomorrow or even the next turn in the road will bring. There is also a sense of ominousness, leading to a heightened awareness of all around us. Granted, the artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017 are saying something about what they personally see and feel, but the viewer also seems aware of what is around them. Apparently, the hurricanes in Miami and Puerto … [Read more...] about The Art World returns to Miami; Artscope’s 2017 Art Basel Miami Beach Preview: Part Two