Miami Art Fairs, Art Basel Miami Beach, Aqua, Art Miami, Bridge, Pulse, Red Dot, Scope, Rubell Collection
Already posted:
FAIR WEATHER: Deal or No Deal
FAIR WEATHER: Prologue
FAIR WEATHER: Art Basel
FAIR WEATHER: The Containers
FAIR WEATHER: Art Miami
FAIR WEATHER: Art Imitates Art
FAIR WEATHER: Pulse
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Animals
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Cut Paper
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Looms with a View
FAIR WEATHER: Aqua Hotel
FAIR WEATHER: Aqua Wynwood
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Stacks and Bales
Already posted:
FAIR WEATHER: Deal or No Deal
FAIR WEATHER: Prologue
FAIR WEATHER: Art Basel
FAIR WEATHER: The Containers
FAIR WEATHER: Art Miami
FAIR WEATHER: Art Imitates Art
FAIR WEATHER: Pulse
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Animals
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Cut Paper
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Looms with a View
FAIR WEATHER: Aqua Hotel
FAIR WEATHER: Aqua Wynwood
FAIR WEATHER: Trends and Coincidences-Stacks and Bales
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This section of Wynwood was cheek-by-jowl with fairs: Scope, Art Asia, Photo Miami, Art Miami, the Green Fair and, just up the street, Red Dot and Bridge
By the time I got to Scope, fair fatigue had set in. The symptoms? Inability to concentrate, distraction, irritability, achy knees, and a disconcerting tendency to cover the same ground two and three times--i.e. going in circles--all wrapped in a mantle of hunger and exhaustion. So you'll understand when I tell you that I wasn't sure I was seeing what came next.
First I came upon a mirrored car parked outside the entrance to the fair. Then I saw a maiden asleep alone in the in the grass (at least I think she was alone). And then I saw a superhero, perhaps 20 feet tall, rising out of the ground, wearing a blue jersey with a large red S on his chest.
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The mirrored car . . .
. . . the sleeping maiden
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. . . and the superhero rising out of the ground
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(This image from The Obama Art Report )
And then back to reality, which in this case was a long, light filled entrance with the image of a sumptuously dressed Renaissance (?) woman. Here are some installation images, followed by a few particulars. You've seen additional work from Scope in the Trends and Coincidences posts, and will see more in additional thematic posts.
And a few shots, below, to give you a sense of the space
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Bryan Rojsuontikul installation at Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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Ted Larsen installation at Pan American Art Projects, Dallas and Miami
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Some work was selling very well, including these small watercolors by Dawn Black (not sure at which gallery), at $250 each
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