HOLIDAY POPUP SHOP AT MIAMI PROJECT FEATURES ARTIST-DESIGNED MERCHANDISE FROM PREMIER NONPROFITS

HOLIDAY POPUP SHOP AT MIAMI PROJECT FEATURES ARTIST-DESIGNED MERCHANDISE FROM PREMIER NONPROFITS

Miami Project, the boutique art fair with contemporary and modern artwork side-by-side in Wynwood fromDecember 3 to 8, 2013, will feature a special popup shop for theholidays. Over 50 pieces of artist-designedmerchandise will be for sale from $10 to $1,000.

These items were commissioned by a wide range of premiere nonprofit institutions from across the country, including: The New Museum, The Walker Art Center, CreativeTime, Printed Matter, Project Row Houses,Art Production Fund, and Museum ofContemporary Art North Miami. During the run of Miami Project, all proceeds fromthe popup shop will benefit the participating institutions.

Merchandise by the vanguard artists represented in the shop will include: playing cards and clocks by Tauba Auerbach, beach towels by John Baldessari and KehindeWiley, unique sculptures by the Bruce High Quality Foundation, a knife by PaulChan, bookplates by Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, and Claes Oldenberg, magnets and mugs by Tracey Emin, skateboards by Liam Gillick, scarves by Peter Halley, water bottles by Joseph Kosuth, unique sculptures by Margaret Lee, waterbottles and scarves by Raymond Pettibon, shopping bags by Richard Prince, a six-in-one screwdriver by Tom Sachs, a travel wallet by David Shrigley, and building blocks
by Lawrence Weiner.

These artist-made items are perfect for holiday shopping. Purchases can be wrapped with giftwrap designed by Daniel Eatock, commissioned by the Walker, free ofcharge.

Nearby the pop up shop will be a unique opportunity for visitors to the fair to take home an artwork for free. At the Perrier Collect Art Giveaway, the public can enter to win a neon sculpture by San Francisco artist Meryl Pataky.

Miami Project is presented with support from the Wall Street Journal, Luxe magazine, Perrier, the Midtown Doral, Porcelanosa, Perrier, New Amsterdam Vodka, and Shellback Rum.

LOCATION
Miami Project will take place at NE 1st Avenue between NE 29th and 30th Streets.

HOURS
Press Preview: Tuesday, Dec 3, 4:30p to 6p
VIP Preview: Tuesday, Dec 3, 4:30p to 10p
Wednesday, Dec 4, 11a to 5:30p
Thursday, Dec 5, 11a to 7p
Friday, Dec 6, 11a to 8p
Saturday, Dec 7, 11a to 7p
Sunday, Dec 8, 11a to 6p

ADMISSION
1-day ticket: $25, any single day Wed to Sun
Multi-day ticket: $40, all days, Wed to Sun
Preview ticket: $30, Tues only
Preview + Multi-day ticket: $50, all days Tues to Sun

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rtist fin DAC Creates His Urban Aesthetic Starting Nov. 25 at Lord Balfour Hotel Miami

Artist fin DAC Creates His Urban Aesthetic Starting Nov. 25 at Lord Balfour Hotel Miami  

One of 100 People Driving Creativity in Ireland Right Now - Irish Times

November 13, 2013 - Miami Beach, FL.....In his short career, fin DAC has defined and perfected a paint style that ignores the accepted visual language of street art. “I call it Urban Aesthetics – a modern-day take on the 19th century art movement,” says fin DAC, an artist living in London, but born and bred in Cork, Ireland.  Extra! Extra! Read all about it (and see more images) here! 

The Irish Times calls fin DAC “One of 100 people driving creativity in Ireland right now“ and his  work has been hailed by art critics and journalists alike.     Over the last several weeks he has been leaving his unique imprint across the United States with stops in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Palm Springs and Denver.   The culmination of this unofficial tour will be in Miami, as he celebrates Art Basel Miami at the Lord Balfour Hotel.  fin DAC is set to get to work on November 25th when he will paint a hauntingly beautiful image of a truly modern day take on a geisha on the hotel’s interior courtyard, which is very fitting for the hotel’s design aesthetic.  Each guestroom highlights a beautiful tattooed woman and we think Lord Balfour would be pleased with this additional choice from fin DAC.   Balfour was a character, thoroughly vain, totally irreverent and there is no doubt he loved being surrounded by beautiful women – we think he would be pleased with this new beauty.    

Visitors to Miami and guests alike will be able to see fin DAC in action and watch his technique as he creates this one-of-a-kind imprint.   “In every way possible - from my attitude to my approach, from the way I cut stencils, to the way I use a spray can - hopefully everything I do sets me apart from conformity,” says fin DAC, “I know absolutely nothing about the art world or its trends...I find all that excruciatingly boring!"

Watch urban artist fin DAC at work beginning Monday, November 25 at the Lord Balfour Hotel Miami.  Check out fin DAC's beautiful work at http://findac.tumblr.com, the cover of Ibiza Style magazine, the 'Urban in Ibiza' mini festival in Atzaro and showcased on the Mercantile London blog.   He is also Director at the urban/digital artbrand Beautiful Crime.

About the Lord Balfour Hotel

The Lord Balfour gives a wink to the Brits, and delivers a distinctive experience and chic vintage style that merges with a thoroughly modern setting. Situated at 350 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, in a neighborhood better known as “SoFi” to the locals, the hotel sits just steps from the beach and Lummus Park.  Located within the heart of the historic Art Deco district the city’s ever growing arts and culture scene takes hold at the hotel’s exhibit pre and during Art Basel Miami 2013.  T: 305 673.0401 www.lordbalfourmiami.com www.facebook.com/lordbalfour

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Light Your Night

HEINEKEN® "LIGHT YOUR NIGHT" ILLUMINATES   MIAMI'S ART BASEL 2013    Electrifying One-of-Kind Series Featuring a Mash-Up of  Digital Technology, Music, Design and Architecture WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., November 19, 2013 - Heineken Light has partnered with the award-winning Tecné Collective to bring Heineken "Light Your Night" to Art Basel Miami. Taking place December 3 to December 7, Heineken "Light Your Night" will serve as a platform for local and international artists to interpret Heineken Light's "Bounce" campaign through the use of light. The creations, by local and internationalsartists, will be showcased in a series of events including a monumental video mapping experience, kinetic light motion installations, and an interactive light show challenge. Heineken Light Your Night will feature video mapping and kinetic motion events designed by award-winning Tecné Collective, a group of technologists and artists featuring Gorka Cortázar (Madrid) and Rodrigo Arcaya (Miami), in collaboration with Wyzton Borrero Peréz of Klang! (Barcelona). The internationally recognized Tecné Collective was awarded "Best Spatial Media Art" by the Media Architecture Biennale, and most recently received the Illumni Infinity Award and the International Association of Lighting Designers' Award of Excellence, among other accolades. "Heineken Light is excited to partner with renowned artists to bring a series of light-inspired events toMiami during one of the most significant art explosions of the year," says Pattie Falch, Brand Director, Heineken Sponsorships.    2013 Heineken Light Art Basel Featured Events Heineken Light Your Night Challenge at the Light Box at Goldman Warehouse On Tuesday, December 3, five South Florida multi-media artists, Yuri Tuma, Juan Carlos Zaldivar, Clifton Childree, Brandon Opalka, and Kevin Arrow, will transform the Light Box at Goldman Warehouse into a maze of light installations. A panel of judges will select one of these talented artists as the winner of the Light Your Night Challenge and award them a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Amsterdam, home of Heineken. Heineken Light Your Night Challenge Exhibit + VIP Launch Event Light Box at Goldman Warehouse Tuesday, December 3, 2013 | 8:30 p.m. 404 NW 26 Street | Miami, FL 33127     ///  RSVP Required to heinekenlight@jl-pr.com by Friday, November 29.    \\\ Must Be 21 or over. Space is limited.             Light :: Flow Kinetic Motion Interactive Experience at Mana Wynwood On Thursday, December 5, at Mana Wynwood, Heineken Light Your Night will showcase Light :: Flow. This interactive kinetic motion installation by Tecné Collective, portrays an abstract representation of human movement, through light and kinetic rhythm. Music by DARKSIDE (Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington) in the Sound Garden. Tickets at artbaselmanawynwood.com.    Light :: Flow at Mana Wynwood Thursday, December 5, 2013 | 10:00 p.m. 318 NW 23 Street | Miami, FL 33132 Live Music by: DARKSIDE (Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington)    ______________________________________________________    Hyperopticks :: Monumental Video Mapping  The Grand Finale   Official Basel Castle After Party On Saturday, December 7, a monumental video mapping installation will transform the façade of Grand Central into an eight-minute show-stopping audiovisual experience. Tecné Collective's Hyperopticks will explore the characteristics of contemporary art movements such as Op-Art, Art Cinetiqué, and Deconstructivism.      Video Installations and Official Basel Castle After Party at Grand Central Saturday, December 12, 2013 | 11:00 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. - 12:15 a.m.  679 N. Miami Avenue | Miami, FL 33136 Presented by: Heineken Light, Overthrow, Embrace & POPLIFE     For more information about Heineken Light Your Night events, follow us on Tumblr.     heinekenlightyournight.tumblr.com    #fineartmagazine           @HeinekenLight      |    #HeinekenLight   Media Contact:   JennyLee Molina jennylee@jl-pr.com (786) 975-9596

ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYA Burning As It Were A Lamp

ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ CELAYA  Burning As It Were A Lamp November 23, 2013 - January 16, 2014 Opening reception Saturday, November 23, 7-9 pm Fredric Snitzer Gallery 2249 NW 1st Place Miami, FL 33127 www.snitzer.com Work in process for Burning As It Were A Lamp, 2013  Today at the tip of so many and perplexing Wandering ears under the varying moon, I ask myself what whim of fate Made me so fearful of a glancing mirror. — Mirrors, Jorge Luis Borges Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition, Enrique Martínez Celaya: Burning As It Were A Lamp.  The exhibition will be the artist’s first at the gallery.   The mirror has been a frequently recurring signifier in Martínez Celaya’s work, functioning as a proxy subject, a site of uncanny reflexivity, and an object of philosophical inquiry.  In Burning As It Were A Lamp, the mirror is again at the center of a dense web of visual, literary and philosophical relationships which investigate issues of identity, memory, and loss through the space of multi-disciplinary installation. The exhibition is a continuation of themes and concepts explored in a recent museum-wide environment at SITE Santa Fe, The Pearl. The exhibition takes as its starting point one sculpture of a bronze boy with circular holes cut from his metal shell. Three of the room's walls are tiled in mirrors so that, although only the back of the boy can be seen initially, the reflection reveals that he is crying into a pool of his own tears. The mirrors also introduce a mid-format vertical painting of a burnt angel crashing into the sea, which hangs on the fourth wall behind the crying boy. As the viewer moves through the installation, the relationship between subject and object is destabilized by the interplay of painted surface, reflected imagery, and sculptural object.  Doubled in the mirror and gazed upon by real and depicted subjects, the works are sources of both spatial ambiguity and self-identification.  Through the activation and reordering of the various affective, symbolic, and structural registers of the installation, Martínez Celaya seeks to both dislocate and affirm the viewer’s relation to the work and, consequently, their own identity. Enrique Martínez Celaya, trained as artist and physicist, works in painting, sculpture, photography, and writing. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The State Hermitage Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig, Germany, among others. Martínez Celaya is a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, was honored as the second Presidential Professor in the history of the University of Nebraska, taught as a tenured professor in the faculty of Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University. He has received the National Artist Award from the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the California Community Foundation Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for Visual Arts, and the Young Talent Award from the Los Angeles County Museum ofArt. In 2013, Ediciones Polígrafa (Spain) published Enrique Martínez Celaya: Working methods/Métodos de trabajo a comprehensive study of Martínez Celaya’s work process. Enrique Martínez Celaya is available for interviews. For more information, please visit the gallery's website. For other inquiries, please contact the gallery at 305.448.8976 or via email at info@snitzer.com Press contact: Dalia Stoniene Susan Grant Lewin Associates 212-947-4557 dalia@susangrantlewin.com

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Maria Pergay

"MARIA PERGAY: THE 1970s" TO GO ON VIEW AT DESIGN MIAMI/ Works By Maria Pergay + Sheila Hicks December 3-8, 2013 Demisch Danant Booth G12 Design Miami/ Meridian Avenue and 19th Street Miami Beach New York, NY...Demisch Danant is pleased to announce Maria Pergay: The 1970s, an exhibition devoted to a pivotal period in the career of the renowned French designer. On view in the gallery's stand (G12) at Design Miami/, the exhibition comprises a selection of Maria Pergay’s most iconic works of the 1970s, set in a Parisian-style domestic environment at the fair and accompanied by early fiber works of the 1970s by esteemed Paris-based American artist Sheila Hicks. In 1968, Maria Pergay presented her first collection of stainless steel furniture at Galerie Maison et Jardin under the direction of decorator Jean Dive. This seminal exhibition established Pergay as one of the most innovative French furniture designers of her time, a visionary who almost single-handedly transformed stainless steel from a commercial industrial material into a principal component of Modern furniture. With such objects as Wave Desk (1968) and Daybed (1968), she domesticated the cold, hard, and geometric effects of steel, sometimes coupling the metal with leather or fur and rendering something altogether new – something with a distinctively elegant and sensual but very daring air. Throughout the ensuing decade, Pergay collaborated with foremost manufacturers and embarked upon significant commissions for Pierre Cardin, The World Trade Center in Brussels, the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, and other significant clients internationally. The work she produced in the 1970s has entered into the canon of design history – Pergay’s Wave Bench (1968) is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, for example – and laid the groundwork for a practice that continues uninterrupted today. At DesignMiami/, Maria Pergay: The 1970s, will provide a context for a presentation at the fair by renowned Italian luxury goods company FENDI, showcasing new objects it has commissioned from Maria Pergay. As a compliment and counterpoint to Pergay’s furniture, Demisch Danant will present several wall works by Sheila Hicks. After studying fine art at Yale under the tutelage of Josef Albers, Nebraska-born Hicks traveled and lived in Mexico and Chile, then settled in Paris in 1964. She soon established herself as one of the most innovative textile artists of the 20th century, sharing with such creators as Pergay an affinity for surprising materials and a deftness at challenging accepted notions about them. She is renowned for her painterly approach to textile design and an ability to craft environments through the unlikely medium of fiber. Hicks has collaborated with prominent architects including Luis Barragan, Ricardo Legorreta, and Skidmore Owings & Merrill, among others. Her work, which resides in major museums around the world, defies categorization, simultaneously addressing several related mediums including painting, sculpture, design, and installation. For additional information please contact: Andrea Schwan Andrea Schwan Inc. info@andreaschwan.com + 1 917 371.5023 #fineartmagazine #MariaPergay

François Monchâtre

François Monchâtre Les Plaisirs démoniaques (Bibliothèque), 2013, bois découpé peint, plexiglas. 40 x 59 x 7 cm Les plaisirs démoniaques The devil down from the tree of knowledge, huge worm that carries with it the glowing fruit of knowledge forbidden jewel of the Garden of Eden ... and landed surprised with books under the impassive gaze morons library . François MONCHATRE always loved libraries, Mecca strolling imagination. As today 85 years , we can say that he spent most of his life in a world where not existed the information superhighway . If it was another generation , perhaps the devil gush it in 3D burned by the Promethean fire of a computer screen. Note that the iconography remains : only the medium changes . In his multifaceted work, self- maboules , dreamachines imbued idiots of themselves clinging to their briefcases , books have always been a special place. One volume, one, another there , wink and point spread against the house of the poet to the lair of the writer , small bibliothèquerosse the large library of humor ... it flows from source that exposure should be devoted to them before they go to the washing machine ever. Lelia Mordoch Please note: to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, the securities are of François Monchatre  (translated from french to english using google) Opening Wednesday, November 27, 2013 from 18h to 21h Exhibition from 28 November 2013 to 1 February 2014 #fineartmagazine

Old Florida Celebration of the Arts Join Us at the 50th Annual Spring Arts Festival in Cedar Key, FL

     

Old Florida Celebration of the Arts

Join Us at the 50th Annual Spring Arts Festival
in Cedar Key, FL

    

  

 

Call to Artists

What:  50th Old Florida Celebration of the Arts

  

Where: Historic Second Street, 60 miles SW of Gainesville, FL, at the end of SR 24 

  

When: April 12-13, 2014, 10 AM - 5 PM

NOTEWORTHY:

• 120 Fine Artists and Craftsman showcase their work on 2nd Street  
• $14,000 in Prizes and Purchase Awards
• Annual event draws over 20,000 visitors each year
• Complimentary full breakfast on Saturday and continental breakfast on Sunday
• Artists' Reception and Awards Ceremony with food & beverages SaturdayEvening
• $32 Entry Fee (waved for previous year's winners)
• $165 Booth Fee (10' deep by 12' wide) - double spaces available
• Great, local food served by non-profit organizations in Cedar Key's City Park on the Gulf: including famous Cedar Key steamed clams, fried oysters, homemade crab cakes and desserts, freshly squeezed lemonade, & more. Music and children's art activities make this an event to remember.

The town of Cedar Key sits on one of several islands in the Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge. This historic fishing village has long been a haven for artists and nature lovers. You can experience the magic of our community on April 12 & 13, while also connecting with two larger festivals in NW Florida on the weekend before (Santa Fe Spring Arts Festival, Gainesville) & the weekend after (Mainsail Arts Festival, Tampa/St Pete).

Experience the tranquil beauty of Florida's Nature Coast and the unmatchable hospitality of Cedar Key's historic community of artists, fisherman, and creative, eclectic people.

Now Accepting Applications via

www.zapplicaton.org

 

Application Deadline - December 1, 2013 Notifications Emailed - January 1, 2014 Acceptance of Invitation and Booth Fees Due - February 1, 2014

 

Website:

www.cedarkeyartsfestival.com 

Phone: 352-543-5400

Email: cedarkeyartsfestival@gmail.com

 
 
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Galerie Leila Mordoch

François Monchâtre Les Plaisirs démoniaques (Bibliothèque), 2013, bois découpé peint, plexiglas. 40 x 59 x 7 cm Les plaisirs démoniaques Le diable descend de l’arbre de la connaissance, ver immense qui porte en lui les fruits incandescents du savoir, joyaux interdits du jardin d’Eden et… atterrit tout surpris au milieu des livres sous le regard impavide des crétins de bibliothèque. François Monchâtre a toujours aimé les bibliothèques, haut lieu de flânerie de l’imaginaire. Comme il a aujourd’hui 85 ans, on peut affirmer qu’il a passé la majeure partie de son existence dans un monde où n’existaient pas les autoroutes de l’information. S’il était d’une autre génération, peut-être le diable jaillirait-il en 3D brûlé par le feu prométhéen d’un écran d’ordinateur. Notons que l’iconographie reste : seul le support change. Dans son oeuvre protéiforme, auto-maboules, machines à rêver, crétins imbus d’eux-mêmes accrochés à leurs attachés-cases, les livres ont toujours occupé une place privilégiée. Un volume, par ci, un autre par là, clin d’oeil et contre-point d’humour dispersés de la maison du poète à l’antre de l’écrivain, de la petite bibliothèquerosse à la grande bibliothèque… il coule de source qu’une exposition devait leur être consacrée avant qu’ils ne passent à la machine à laver les siècles.  Lélia Mordoch Nota Bene : pour rendre à César ce qui est à César, les titres sont de François Monchâtre. Vernissage le mercredi 27 novembre 2013 de 18h à 21h Exposition du 28 novembre 2013 au 1 février 2014 #fineartmagazine

Artists Space Exhibitions Opening: This Saturday, November 23, 6 - 8pm

Opening: This Saturday, November 23, 6 - 8pm
November 24, 2013 – February 23, 2014 Closed Thursday, November 28 – Sunday, December 1 for Thanksgiving holiday Artists Space Exhibitions 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street New York NY 10013 T 212 226 3970 Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault is an exhibition of works selected and extended from the collection of Julie Ault. As a founding member of the artists’ collaborative Group Material (1979–1996), and as artist, curator, writer and editor, Ault’s dense practice and its roots in long-standing engagements with artists are reflected in the unique nature of her collection. Its multiplicity is indicative of an organic process of accumulation, foregrounding the ways in which the gifting and exchange of artworks cements both intellectual and emotional affinities. Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault navigates the movement of the collection from Ault’s domestic contexts to the public realm. Works that have great personal resonance are placed into a context of communal engagement – the exhibition has been organized by a team of individuals, itself reflecting numerous existing relationships and histories of collaboration, including Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Nikola Dietrich, Heinz Peter Knes, Jason Simon, Scott Cameron Weaver, and Danh Vo. While the exhibition encompasses and indexes a range of scales and localities of engagement, it is notable in how it emanates from a body of experiences shared in part by a New York-based group of artists, and shaped by the social ruptures that impacted on the Downtown scene in the 1980s and 90s. The cultural climate of this time, when various crises of representation were being addressed head on, exists as a telling bridge between art and politics, a mode of address that courses through Ault’s collection and her affinities with other artists up to the present day. Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault features work by Vikky Alexander, Martin Beck, James Benning, Sadie Benning, Nayland Blake, Jennifer Bolande, Robert Bordo, Alejandro Cesarco, John Currin, Edward S. Curtis, Moyra Davey, Jeanne Dunning, Thomas Eggerer, Andrea Evans, Steven Evans, Tony Feher, Rev. Howard Finster, Mike Glier, Leon Golub, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Group Material, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Peter Hujar, Michael Jenkins, Sister Corita Kent, Carole Kim, Robert Kinmont, Heinz Peter Knes, Louise Lawler, Mary Lum, Donald Moffett, Stephan Pascher, George Platt-Lynes, Forrest Prince, Rasmus Røhling, Tim Rollins & K.O.S, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Jason Simon, Nancy Spero, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martha Townsend, Danh Vo, Carrie Mae Weems, Martin Wong, and Cerith Wyn Evans. This exhibition is supported by the Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie AultExhibition Supporters Circle: Philip Aarons & Shelley Fox Aarons, Carolyn Alexander & Ted Bonin, Daniel Buchholz & Christopher Müller, Chantal Crousel & Niklas Svennung, Marian Goodman, Jerry Gorovoy, Hauser & Wirth, Xavier Hufkens, José Kuri & Mónica Manzutto, Galerie Lelong, Penny Pilkington & Wendy Olsoff, Andrea Rosen, and Thea Westreich & Ethan Wagner, and Friends of Artists Space. With additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. This exhibition is dedicated to the loving memory of Karin Higa. #fineartmagazine