Events: Visual Arts

Stefano Ogliari Badessi, is a global artist who has traveled through international cities, presenting his art installations - yet once the installation is finished, he packs up the work, leaving no trace, no damage to the environment - this concern and respect for the environment is also what stimulates the work he will present in his solo exhibition in The DAM Gallery - the sculptures and objects are made from various materials, Italian silks, bamboo and other pliable woods that he searches for in nature, which he then ‘weaves’ into different animal shapes.The last time Stefano Ogliari Badessi was here, Miami saw him wrap Sugar at East Hotel with his Chinese Dream installation, an enormous red inflatable installation, completely altering the cityscape, temporarily. Now, he will bring a new installation from his Wonderland Project, last seen in Italy, and coming directly to Miami’s Little River District, at The DAM Gallery on November 29th for an intimate viewing. A Tribe from Wonderland, promises an immersive experience where visitors can experience his sculptures, inflatable installations all in the artist created space- becoming an environment of Self Discovery, Wonder, Ritual, Mystery and the Universe of One.

For I Don’t Know Where to Go, Stefano will create a large creature and bring it to the streets transforming the roads and side streets of Miami inviting the population to witness and ride with him as he brings art to the streets of Little River, The Design District, Wynwood and Edgewater inviting onlookers to see the work, cycle with him creating memories and moments that go beyond the aesthetic, but also takes into consideration the health of our planet - Ogliari Badessi in creating these creatures and by taking them out of their habitat, is also making statements about not only their endangered status, but also the reduction of their habitat - The animals that he selects to create for this project also draw inspiration from ancient and indigenous cultures, Stefano reinterprets symbolic shapes and beings and utilizes these forms as a path towards self discovery and through the construction of the works facilitates inner piece as ultimately, it is he who conquers and redefines the symbolic associations affixed to the monster - leaving the viewer with a new and more accepting path towards their own inner peace: all his animals have symbolic meanings - not just environmentally but also historically, individually and culturally.

This will be a specific and unique creature sculpture where Ogliari Badessi pays homage not only to the versatility of art but the world from which his materials come from - showing that art can be made from anything and can fit in with the landscape, and be part of the world in which the art inhabits.

Born in France and later nationalized as a Mexican, Rahon joined the Parisian Surrealist circle as a poet, but once in Mexico, she turned her creativity mainly to painting. She became an active a member of a group of European Surrealists artists in exile including Remedios Varo, Benjamin Péret, Leonora Carrington, and Kati Horna.

Rahon’s production was a far cry from that of her contemporaries. She was drawn to light and color, and established a continuous dialogue between painting and poetry. Her creations brought together Mexican landscapes, myths, legends and fiestas, and she was a pioneer in the use of sand and texture on her canvases, which included subtle graffito markings. Her oeuvre has been overlooked for many years.

“Poetic Invocations” marks the first solo show dedicated to Rahon’s work in the United States in 55 years since her exhibition at the Louisiana Gallery in Houston, Texas in 1964. The exhibition examines a robust art-historical moment that emerged in 1940 as an international community of artists fled World War II in Europe and settled in Mexico. It will feature approximately 30 works including paintings, works on paper, assemblages, as well as archival material such as the Dyn journal, original poems and manuscripts and photographs to put an emphasis on Rahon´s oeuvre as a whole. The exhibition will explore five fundamental themes: art as poetic invocation, the power of the immemorial past, the journal that challenged limits, the volcano and the Mexican landscape and light: the dilution of inside and outside, and the metaphorical experience of the inside out: fiestas and popular art in Mexico.

Rahon exhibited regularly in Mexico, New York and California and had solo shows in Paris and Lebanon. Her last solo exhibition took place in 1986 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, just a year before her death. In 2009, with the discovery of her archive, Teresa Arcq curated an Alice Rahon retrospective at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City and then at El Cubo in Tijuana.

Arcq has worked as chief curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, and as an independent curator has produced many high-profile exhibitions. She has served as a professor of Art History at Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm and published several essays for catalogues on Mexican modern art and women artists in Mexico, as well as Surrealism. She is currently advising the exhibition and catalog for the show Global Surrealism opening in 2021 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Tate Modern Gallery in London. She is also collaborating with the Schirn Kunsthalle Museum in Frankurt and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark for the upcoming exhibition Fantastik Women, in Spring 2020 and writing for a publication on Leonora Carrington´s Tarot and one on Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington´s creative collaboration. She will be co-curating a Leonora Carrington retrospective for the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid and the Arken Museum in Denmark opening on the fall of 2020.

Also on view at MOCA November 26, 2019 – March 29, 2020 will be the first major U.S. solo exhibition of influential Chilean-born artist Cecilia Vicuña: “Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen.”

Public Hours: Wednesday, December 4th-8th, Noon-7pm, and Sunday, December 8th, Noon-5pm. Special events are as follows. Additional exciting updates are forthcoming.

Schedule - Please check website for any changes or additional information

DEC.03 ART + CHAMPAGNE

VIP First Look & Press Preview | 11:30am - 2:00pm
(Invite only)

Don't miss this exclusive experience to join us for delectable brunch bites and a champagne mimosa bar as we present our ninth edition: Art Africa Miami, a retrospective. Preview the works of some of the most prolific of emerging and established artists to the sounds of Brazilian jazz and afro beats. Specialty festive coffee bar presented by Baileys Liquor. Don't miss this unique occasion in the heart of Historic Overtown!

DEC.04-Opening night ART + FASHION

THE BLACK PARTY | 8 pm-midnight

Join us for the not-to-be-missed dance party of the week! Moving black art beyond paintings and sculptures, we are the art. Black Attire encouraged as we welcome you to the process of developing Historic Overtown as a site of contribution to the development of the arts throughout Miami. This year will be a 90s throwback with a DJ spinning ole' school hip hop, reggae, and R&B. Ticketed Event. Open bar presented by Ciroc Vodka.

DEC.05 ART + COMMUNITY

The Annual Art + Community Talk by Art Africa Director, Neil Hall | 6 pm

This presentation is designed for community involvement in the transformation of neighborhoods through the arts. Here, the community is not foreign to the arts; it is in it, it participates to its vitality; what comes out is a call and response rhythming the black aesthetic experience — included with the daily pass — Open Bar presented by Ciroc Vodka.

DEC.06 ART + YOUTH

Art Africa Youth Art Insiders presents "Expressive Arts for Social Justice" | 4-6 pm

Our annual after-school workshop welcoming in Overtown youth to have an interactive experience.

DEC 07 ART+Culture

Presenting thought-provoking discussions on the role of Art in communities and in the revitalization of our heritage neighborhoods. Bar by Ciroc.

FACING OURSELVES: PAST AND PRESENT for Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 @ The Betsy Hotel includes work by:

• Ike Ude (1962)– images from the Sartorial Anarchist, including a portrait of curator, Lesley Goldwasser.
  Ude focuses on issues of representation and construction of identity.
• Michael Halsband (1956) – images from the Basquiat/Warhol series, and more.
  The world’s leading portrait artist curates a collection from his storied career
• Pete Turner (1934-2017) – images from a collection called The Color of Jazz
  Turner was recognized as a pioneer in color photography.
• Andy Sweet (1953-1982)– images from The Last Resort collection; words by Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco (b. 1968)
  Sweet immortalized the life of Holocaust survivors on Miami Beach.
• Andrew Kaufman’s archival presentation about Muhamed Ali’s as a Miami Beach Champ
  Kaufman developed and compiled this collection by iconic historic peer artists.
• Sevan Bicakci (1972) –sculpture within gemstones from Turkey’s most famous artisan/craftsman.
  Bicakci produces signature one-of-a-kind wearable Byzantine and Ottoman style works of art.
  One of his iconic works (featured in the show) is an inverted self-portrait carved into a ring.)

In addition, throughout The Betsy’s hallways, and stairways, the hotel will feature the celebrity and art photographs of Robert Zuckerman, and a collection of more than 250 seldom seen images of The Beatles and Rolling Stones from the Bob Bonis Collection. Illustrations by Ricardo Cavolo from his collection, 101 Musicians to Listen to Before You Die are presented in 26 light boxes. A new permanent installation of iconic Andy Sweet images will be installed in one of the hotel elevators, mirroring and remembering guests who might have frequented elevators at The Betsy Ross Hotel in earlier years – when Miami Beach was a post war haven for Holocaust survivors enjoying their golden years in sun and sand.

In the breezeway between Ocean Drive and Collins are The Betsy’s two public art installations – The Betsy Orb and The Betsy Poetry Rail. Sandwiched in between those two pieces and visible through the windows are two iconic works by artist/actor Val Kilmer – one a photograph of David Bowie and mixed media piece called Neon Gandhi. And finally, dogloving guests are invited to a small underground gallery located behind the hotel check-in desk to see images by global dog photographer, Carlos Andres Cruz, that immortalize The Betsy’s Canine Executive Officers, Katie and Betsy.

Dr. Deborah Willis, MacArthur Genius Winner and Chair of the Photography Department at New York University will host two art salons is planned during Art Basel Miami Beach, to include conversations with participating artists Ike Ude, Michael Halsband, Ed Cristin and Andrew Kaufman – to take place at 2 PM on December 5 and 5, 2019. Additionally, two invitation only round-tables will feature conversations about the links between artisan craft and fine art, as exemplified in the work of featured sculptor Sevan Bicakci. Artists Ike Ude and Michael Halsband will all be in residence, in partnership with The Betsy Writers Room, the hotel’s ongoing artist in residence program (website).

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Botero's monumental sculptures have been exhibited on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, Park Avenue in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, and the Palazzo Venezia in Rome.

followed by an unveiling of Donna Sdraiata, (2016 Bronze) at the intersection of Lincoln Road and Drexel Avenue. Culminating with music by the New World Symphony Fellows and cocktails and dining at Time Out Market.

In celebration of Miami Art Week 2019, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA) will present the first major U.S. solo exhibition of influential Chilean-born artist Cecilia Vicuña. “About to Happen” traces Vicuña’s career-long commitment to exploring discarded and displaced materials, peoples, and landscapes in a time of global climate change,

“Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen” is comprised of Vicuña’s multidisciplinary work in performance, sculpture, drawing, video, text, and site-specific installations created over 40 years. Reframing dematerialization as both a formal consequence of 1960s conceptualism and radical climate change, the exhibition examines a process that shapes public memory and responsibility. Operating fluidly between concept and craft, text and textile, Vicuña’s practice merges dissimilar disciplines and communities with shared relationships to land and sea, and to the economic and environmental disparities of the 21st century.

Vicuña’s work reflects the overlapping dialogs of conceptual art, land art, poetry, and feminist art practices. For the first time in this traveling exhibition, the show will include painting, a practice which Vicuña began in the 1970s and to which she has recently returned – in some cases, repainting lost paintings from memory. The addition of painting to “Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen” is an affirmation of a practice that exists, in its entirety, in the logic of every single work – and yet – is also, always evolving.

The exhibition will include an expansive presentation of Vicuña’s precario sculptures, which the artist began creating in 1966. Vicuña assembles these “precarious works” from bits of wood, thread, and other found objects into temporary small sculptures that despite their modest scale have a surprising dynamism and energy. The exhibition also features the installation “Burnt Quipu” (2018), in which lengths of dyed wool hang floor to ceiling, connecting earth and sky, in tribute to recent forest fires in the greater West Coast region. “Burnt Quipu” is part of Vicuña’s longstanding artistic exploration of the ancient Andean writing tradition of “talking knots,” an advanced communication system inhibited during colonization.

Born in Santiago de Chile, Vicuña is a poet, visual artist, and filmmaker. She is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, and exhibits and performs internationally. Her multidimensional works begin as an image that becomes a poem, a film, a song, a sculpture, or a collective performance.

Vicuña’s work is included in the collections of The Tate Gallery, London; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile, Santiago, Chile; MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She was appointed Messenger Lecturer 2015 at Cornell University, an honor bestowed on authors who contribute to the “Evolution of Civilization for the special purpose of raising the moral standard of our political, business, and social life.” She lives in New York City, where she co-founded oysi.org, a site for the oral cultures and poetries of the world. Vicuña’s work is represented by Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Vicuna’s art has also been featured inDocumenta 14 and shown at Witte de With. She most recently was awarded the CINTAS, a very prestigious United States artist fellowship.

“Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen” is organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), and co-curated by Andrea Andersson, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the CAC, and Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Support for this exhibition is provided by Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation, The Helis Foundation, The Kabacoff Family Foundation, and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog.

The exhibition at MOCA is made possible, in part, with support from Funding Arts Network and Citizens Interested in the Arts. MOCA’s exhibitions and programs are made possible with the continued support of the North Miami Mayor and Council and the City of North Miami, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Also on view at MOCA November 26, 2019 – March 29, 2020, a new exhibition featuring works of French-Mexican surrealist painter Alice Rahon (1904–1987). Guest curated by Mexico-City based art historian Teresa Arcq, “Poetic Invocations,” marks the first solo show in 55 years dedicated to Rahon’s work in the United States.

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The exhibition presents a selection of Yang’s oeuvre spanning the last decade – including window blind installations, anthropomorphic sculptures, light sculptures, and mural-like graphic wallpaper – taking its title from an expression of the South Florida vernacular, that describes the predicted path of hurricanes. Alluding to our eagerness and desperation to track the unstable and ever-evolving future, this exhibition addresses current anxieties about climate change, overpopulation and resource scarcity. Framing this discourse within a broader consideration of movement, displacement and migration, the exhibition contextualizes contemporary concerns through a trans-historical and philosophical meditation of the self.

Given its location in Miami Beach, The Bass is a particularly resonant site to present Yang’s work, considering that over fifty percent[1] of the population in Miami-Dade County is born outside of the United States, and it is a geographical and metaphorical gateway to Latin America. Yang has been commissioned by the museum to conceive a site-specific wallpaper in the staircase that connects the exhibition spaces across The Bass’ two floors. This wallpaper will be applied to both transparent and opaque surfaces to accompany the ascending and descending path of visitors within the exhibition. Informed by research about Miami Beach’s climatically-precarious setting, the wallpaper, titled Coordinates of Speculative Solidarity (2019), will play with meteorological infographics and diagrams as vehicles for abstraction. Interested in how severe weather creates unusual access to negotiations of belonging and community, as well as the human urge to predict catastrophic circumstances, the work reflects a geographic commonality that unconsciously binds people together through a shared determination to face a challenge and react in solidarity.

Yang’s exhibition encompasses galleries on both the first and second floors of the museum and exemplifies an array of Yang’s formally, conceptually ambitious and rigorous body of work. Considered an important ‘Light Sculpture’ work and one of the last made in the series, Strange Fruit (2012-13) occupies one of the first spaces in the exhibition. The group of anthropomorphic sculptures take their title from Jewish-American Abel Meeropol’s poem famously vocalized by Billie Holiday in 1939. Hanging string lights dangling from metal clothing racks intertwined with colorfully painted papier-mâché bowls and hands that hold plants resonate with the poem’s subject matter. The work reflects a recurring interest within Yang’s practice, illuminating unlikely, less-known connections throughout history and elucidating asymmetrical relationships among figures of the past. In the story of Strange Fruit, the point of interest is in a poem about the horrors and tragedy of lynching of African-Americans in the American South born from the empathies of a Jewish man and member of the Communist party. Yang’s interests are filtered through different geopolitical spheres with a keen concentration in collapsing time and place, unlike today’s compartmentalized diasporic studies.

Central to In the Cone of Uncertainty is the daring juxtaposition of two major large-scale installations made of venetian blinds. Yearning Melancholy Red and Red Broken Mountainous Labyrinth are similar in that they are both from 2008, a year of significant development for Yang, and their use of the color red: one consists of red blinds, while the other features white blinds colored by red light. With its labyrinthine structure, Red Broken Mountainous Labyrinth bears a story of the chance encounter between Korean revolutionary Kim San (1905-1938) and American journalist Nym Wales (1907-1997), without which a chapter of Korean history would not survive to this day. Yearning Melancholy Red references the seemingly apolitical childhood of French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras (1914-1996). While living in French Indochina (present-day Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos), Duras and her family experienced a type of double isolation in material and moral poverty, by neither belonging to the native communities nor to the French colonizers, embodying the potentiality for her later political engagement. Despite their divergent subject matter, both works continue to envelop an interest in viewing histories from different perspectives and the unexpected connections that arise. By staging the two works together, what remains is Yang’s compelling constellation of blinds, choreographed moving lights, paradoxical pairings of sensorial devices – fans and infrared heaters – and our physical presence in an intensely charged field of unspoken narratives.

A third space of the exhibition will feature work from Yang’s signature ‘Sonic Sculpture’ series titled, Boxing Ballet (2013/2015). The work offers Yang’s translation of Oskar Schlemmmer’s Triadic Ballet (1922), transforming the historical lineage of time-based performance into spatial, sculptural and sensorial abstraction. Through elements of movement and sound, Yang develops an installation with a relationship to the Western Avant-Garde, investigating their understanding in the human body, movement and figuration.

Observing hidden structures to reimagine a possible community, Yang addresses themes that recur in her works such as migration, diasporas and history writing. Works presented in In the Cone of Uncertainty offer a substantial view into Yang’s rich artistic language, including her use of bodily experience as a means of evoking history and memory.

Haegue Yang lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Seoul, South Korea. She is a Professor at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Yang has participated in major international exhibitions including the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), La Biennale de Montréal (2016), the 12th Sharjah Biennial (2015), the 9th Taipei Biennial (2014), dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel (2012) and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) as the South Korean representative.

Recipient of the 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, she held a survey exhibition titled ETA at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in the same year, which displayed over 120 works of Yang from 1994-2018. Her recent solo exhibitions include Tracing Movement, South London Gallery (2019); Chronotopic Traverses, La Panacée-MoCo, Montpellier (2018); Tightrope Walking and Its Wordless Shadow, La Triennale di Milano (2018); Triple Vita Nestings, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, which travelled from the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018); VIP’s Union, Kunsthaus Graz (2017); Silo of Silence – Clicked Core, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017); Lingering Nous, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); Quasi-Pagan Serial, Hamburger Kunsthalle (2016); Come Shower or Shine, It Is Equally Blissful, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015); and Shooting the Elephant 象 Thinking the Elephant, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015). Forthcoming projects include the Museum of Modern Art (October 2019), Tate St. Ives (May 2020) and Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto (2020).

Yang’s work is included in permanent collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; M+, Hong Kong, China; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea; Tate Modern, London, UK; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA. Her work has been the subject of numerous monographs, such as Haegue Yang: Anthology 2006–2018: Tightrope Walking and Its Wordless Shadow (2019); Haegue Yang: ETA 1994–2018 (2018); Haegue Yang – VIP’s Union (2017); and Haegue Yang: Family of Equivocations (2013).

About this Event

They’ve crossed the ocean for Miami’s biggest art festival of the year. Eight of Holland’s greatest creative minds have joined forces to create a visual playground in their pop-up art gallery in the heart of Wynwood during Miami Art week 2019. Known for their public art projects and street art exhibitions with world’s most prolific artists at their gallery in Rotterdam and around the world, Sober Collective Art Gallery brings their pop-up exhibition to Miami.

During Miami Art Week from Dec 1-8, the exhibit will be open to guests from 10 a.m.-12 a.m. From December 9-30, it will be open from 12 p.m.-10 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays and from 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. Wednesday-Sundays.

Known as “The Dutch Master of Light,” Tim Boin curated this selection of 8 of the best Dutch street artists in cross-combination with his own solo exhibition ‘Geometry is Life’ at the W South Beach during Miami Art Week. His group of artists all excel in bold, abstract and unconventional large-scale work found internationally and celebrated globally.

About the Artists:

Tim Boin: Conscious elements are at the root of Tim’s message. Celebrated for his larger-than-life sculptures, he depicts the ecosystem’s sensitive state. Using 3D Mapping, Tim literally and figuratively sheds light on his geometric sculptures of endangered species in his most recent work.

Digital Does: He focuses on collecting pieces from past walls and reshaping them into a new form to use as core elements in his new pieces. He perpetuates the past and makes new work traceable to a specific google coordinate of a bygone wall. From China to Mexico and Australia to New York, his work has been found all across the globe.

Said Kinos: His work expresses a fascination for the way people communicate with each other. It’s recognizable by his high-contrast use of distorted typography. His visual overkill is a metaphor for the amount of information we have to process on a daily basis.

Telmo Miel: This creative duo evolved from creating individual pieces on one mural into developing one image, one composition together. They focus on playfulness in abstraction of reality; attempting to make the viewer see opposite perspectives and subjects with a different eye.

Joram Roukes: Using juxtapositions of imagery, he creates abstract narratives and figures that evoke introspection and contemplation. His work gained attention from several international galleries, and he actively paints large-scale murals across the globe, including Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and London, to name a few.

Bier & Brood: Inspired by machines, nature and architecture, they possess a unique style, often interpreted as sinister and apocalyptic. Their preferred mediums include highly detailed pen drawings, spray-cans and paint for their large-scale work.

Mossy Giant: He has a slightly neurotic fascination with detailed line-work and stories within stories. Not made for the easily distracted, recurring themes in this work include nature, man, beast & machine.

Zevous: His company, Dutch Deco Finish, specializes in wall and furniture finishes for amusement parks and large festivals, which has led to over a decade of developing relationships with artists worldwide; and after these artists began approaching him to commission exclusive works of art, it has inspired him to create his own extensive portfolio.

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