Meridians Y Galleries are the most important and most talked about sectors of Art Basel Miami Beach, But are not the only ones. In Nova, Survey, Positions, Editions, Kabinett Y Magazines, less famous among the public, there are also relevant exhibitors. For the last day of the great gallery fair that gave birth to Miami Art Weeka small guide to walk through them.
1) Nova Sector
As its name suggests, it is the space for novelties in Art Basel. Here the galleries present works by one, two or three artists created in the last three years. This year Not going It has 23 exhibiting galleries. Among them are:
Afriart Gallery
Founded by Daudi Karungi in 2002 Kampala, UgandaAfriart Gallery (AAG) has since become a reference in contemporary African art.
The firm focuses on original forms of expression and dialogue with the public. It provides an environment in which collectors can find powerful ideas and debate contemporary art.
At Art Basel 2022, AAG features three artists living and working in Uganda: Richard Atugonza, Emmie Nume Y Mona Taha. Each, having developed their own distinctive styles of creating figurative art, take the global trend of black portraiture to another level.
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Vision Institute
Instituto de Visión specializes in conceptual practices and its mission is to investigate artistic discourses that have been left out of official history. Through a double program, they also represent some of the most relevant practices from Mexico, Chile, North America, Venezuela, among other countries.
Run by three women and established in Bogota, Vision Institute pays special attention to female voices, queer theory, environmental activism, the condition of displacement and other critical positions that challenge the established order. In this edition of Art Basel he presents the artists Claudia Fontes, Sandra Monterroso Y Tania Candiani.
k-art
K Art is unique: it is one of the very few Native American-owned commercial art galleries, concentrating on the works of established and emerging contemporary Indian, First Nations, and Native American artists. The gallery has presented numerous successful solo and group shows since its debut in 2020, and has published two well-received exhibition catalogues.
dave kimelberg, owner of K Art, argued: “Indigenous art is generally viewed through a historical lens, which sees the indigenous experience frozen in the past and not in the present. Indigenous peoples exist in the present with unique challenges and worldviews: showcasing contemporary indigenous artwork highlights the current experience.” Among the artists doing so at the 2022 edition of Art Basel are Erin Ggaadimitis Ivalu Gingrich Y Robyn Tsinnajinnie.
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2) Sector Survey
Here galleries can highlight the historically relevant art practices of one or more artists. Name Survey in the world of art it means study and inquiry into a specific work, period, or movement. In this edition there are samples from 17 galleries.
Jose de la Mano Gallery
A double line of research marks the work of this Gallery in all its exhibition projects since 2005, the year it was inaugurated. On the one hand, to recover the memory of many of the artists who used, in Spain and Latin America in the 50s and 60s, the geometric abstraction. And on the other, an attempt to rediscover the first conceptual artists who transgressed the Spanish art scene in the early 70s with their radical proposals.
This gallery is a pioneer in the vindication of the artists of the Calculation Center as one of the most transcendental episodes of the last years of the Franco regime and a large part of its exhibition projects rescue the relations between the Spanish and Latin American creators of the time. for the industry Survey of this edition of Art Basel present a study of the work of Aurelia Munoza Spanish artist strongly linked to textile research.
Mitterrand Gallery
This house in Paris is committed to a historical individual exhibition. It shows unique and rare wooden and bronze sculptures and works on paper by the Cuban Augustin Cardenas.
This set of works takes us back to the origins of the artist’s work with his wooden pieces from the 50s and 60s. The wood in which he sculpted his elongated silhouettes and totems is a material par excellence raw; his choice of wood as a medium and the way he works with it allude to his ancestral origins, traditional African artifacts and statue-making. This presentation would later continue with bronze creations in the 1970s.
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Rolf Art
Located in Buenos Aires and founded in 2009 by Florence Giordana Braun, is the only art gallery specialized in technical image in Argentina. Focused on Latin American visual arts, it represents and promotes a select group of artists and legacies that explore the limits of the image in its various expressions.
The curatorial profile of the gallery investigates the union, always in tension, between formal strategies and conceptual depth, challenging the situation and considering the political, social and economic context of artistic production as a determining factor for the interpretation of art. For this edition of Survey presents studies of Colombians Jose Alejandro Restrepo Y Maria Teresa Hincapie.
3) Positions
This sector brings together galleries that make a monographic show of emerging or relegated talents. In each edition of Art Basel it reaffirms itself as a highlight for collectors and museum curators. In 2022, 19 art houses participate.
Ruth Benzacar Gallery
Founded in 1965 by Ruth Benzacar, focuses on the promotion, dissemination and commercialization of Argentine contemporary art. It represents artists with a great trajectory and other emerging ones, whom it accompanies in their consolidation at a local and international level. Currently the gallery, based in Buenos Aires, is directed by Orly Benzacar Y blackberry bacal.
On this occasion he presents himself with the work of Rosario Carlos Herrera. During Miami Art WeekIn addition, Benzacar exhibits works at The Bass Museum and at the Pérez Art Museum (PAMM).
Night Gallery
It is Los Angeles‘ leading platform for new talent. It was founded in 2010 by Davida Nemeroff and in recent years it has become the epicenter of the visual arts in southern California.
Among its artists is Samara Goldenwho exposes Under a Skin Roofa colorful installation that achieved critical acclaim.
4) Edition
Here, the work of publishers from the art world is honored, a very particular category. You can find everything from essays by well-known critics to posters going through prints on a small or large scale. On this occasion, 11 publishers are participating, all of them highly prestigious among artists.
Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art
This house specializes in drawings and editions, including engravings Y monotypes, photographs, artist books and installations. The gallery publishes issues for institutions such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Crown Point Press
Based in San Francisco, this workshop primarily creates and publishes engravings. He works with artists by invitation only and has published prints of more than 100, including Anne Appleby, John Baldessari, Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close Y Alex Katz.
Pace Prints
The print arm of the famed gallery was founded in 1968 to provide leading contemporary artists with resources and facilities to create and exhibit limited edition prints and multiples. His first project, the Book by Lucas Samaras, set the creative standard and ambition for his printmaking workshops. Pace Prints’ exhibition spaces and production facilities continue to offer extensive opportunities for collaboration in the continued expansion of printing techniques.
5) Cabinet
Within the stands of some galleries -29 in the 2022 edition-, this sector offers small and forceful exhibitions, like a gem among other valuable pieces. They can be group or solo exhibitions: they’re just concisely curated.
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This Chicago gallery brought work by david hockney. But not one of his famous swimming pools or one of his large-scale portraits of him: the British artist has been interested in the tools that technology can give art, and has worked with photography, video and tablets as a tool major.
At 85, Hockney works extensively in digital painting and explores new ways of drawing colorful landscapes of the British and French countryside, which he later expands as collage. The large-scale works on show Gray combine different works made on iPad.
Simões de Assis
The paulista house presents emanoel araujowho died in 2022. If he is known in the world as the founder of the Afro Brazil Museum, to whom he dedicated his life in the search to preserve Afro-Brazilian art, his personal work is no less celebrated. His Orixás series reflects his work with abstraction and symbolism and is displayed in the booth within the booth of this gallery under the title A Living Legacy. There are also bas-reliefs and sculptures representing 40 years of his career.
The Modern Institute
The Glasgow-based organization selected Barbados-born, Scottish-based artist Alberta Whittle, who uses a variety of media to address structural racism and systems of oppression.
The institute’s Kabinett space displays recent work, created from drawings on the stories of his native Barbados, reflecting on assimilation, resistance and ancestry. White represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale
6) Magazines
To take a breather from so much bustling in the corridors, this sector brings together art publications from all over the world. Its editors often accompany visitors, and no doubt participate in the lecture series. conversations. Of art nexus a Financial Times, the main media that are dedicated to art or give it a place among their contents are represented.
In its pages are diverse perspectives on the economic dynamics of the artistic sector, the daily realities of artists’ practices, the main concepts in the conversation about contemporary art.
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