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May 30
Lecture
May 30, 2012
Buena Vista Bldg.RSVP: 801projects@gmail.com
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May 24
A painting by Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam, named for an African Yoruba goddess also worshipped in the Caribbean, led Sotheby’s strongest Latin American evening art sale ever on Wednesday night.
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May 23
The Latin American auction sale at Christie’s in NYC completed a few hours ago.
Virgilio Garza, Head of Latin American Paintings at Christie’s commented: “Major records for modern and contemporary Latin American works were set…. The sale was led by Matta’s La révolte des contraires, which realized $5 million, against the high estimate of $2.5 million, and set a world auction record for the artist, a long overdue recognition for one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
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May 18
EVENING AUCTION: MONDAY, 21 MAY, 2012, 7PM
DAY AUCTION: TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2012, 11AM
GENERAL VIEWING: 15 MAY – 21 MAY 2012
LOCATION: Phillips de Pury & Company, 450 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Cuban artists included are:
Carmen Herrera
Agustín Cárdenas
Bedia
Julio Larraz
Ana Mendieta
Jorge Pardo
Luis Cruz Azaceta
Wifredo Lam
Victor Manuel
Amelia Peláez
Mijares
Jorge Luis Varona and others
Apr 16
Prepare to be dazzled by this visually exciting, surreal retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by master puppeteers Pablo Cano and Jim Hammond.
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Mar 29
Cremata Gallery has the pleasure of presenting a lecture by Juan Martinez, Ph.D. Professor at Florida International University, Chairman of the Department of Art and Art History, author of the recently published book, Carlos Enríquez, The Painter of Cuban Ballads, and author of the book, Cuban Art & National Identity: The Vanguardia Painters 1927 – 1950 to accompany the exhibit
Limited seating available.
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Mar 29
Thursday March 29, 2012, from 6 to 9 PM
Saks Fifth AvenueJoin Artists presenting “Manto” a video that captures the large scale performance installation featured at the 12th Prague Quadrennial in 2011.
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Mar 8
Saturday, March 10, 2012
from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (ET)
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
72 NW 25th St Miami, FL 33137
Opening at Hardcore Art Contemporary Space March 10th, 2012: Gladys Triana “Games in the Dark”, Consuelo Castañeda “Homage to Gego”, Manuela Covini “Silence is the Biggest Crime” and Gabriela Morawetz “Narcissus”.
Continuing on view, two Cintas Foundation Fellows, Gladys Triana and Consuelo Castañeda. In Gladys’ own words: “Games in the Dark” has the quality to play within the simplicity of the background and the figures selected, in a kind of illumination that could evoke a game between fantasy and reality”. Consuelo’s multi media monumental installation continues on view with a VJ session on March 10th.
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Mar 8
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue Coral Gables, Florida 33134Saturday March 10
Start: 7:00 pm
Paisajes: metaforas de nuestro tiempo de Dennys Matos constituye un gran aporte para el estudio del arte contemporáneo y sus nuevas condiciones de producción y recepción. La propia hibridez del libro donde se mezclan la autobiografía intelectual, la entrevista, la reseña a una exposición y el ensayo crítico, le hace justicia al carácter heteróclito y heterogéneo de los artistas y las prácticas estudiadas en el mismo. Paisajes constituye uno de los mayores aportes al estudio de la cultura poscomunista y desde ya podemos decir que ocupará un lugar prominente entre los grandes textos producidos por los ensayistas cubanos de su generación.
Mar 2
March 2 – 5, 2012
Saturday, March 3 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Sunday, March 4 12 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Monday, March 5 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive,
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Feb 22
Cremata Gallery is pleased to present at arteamericas an exhibit of the recent paintings of Demi.
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Feb 15
Friday, Feb 17th – Sunday Feb 19th 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Monday Feb 20th 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Art Wynwood Pavilion | Midtown Miami – Wynwood
3101 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL 33137
Exhibiting- Gustavo Acosta, Tomas Esson, Offill Echevarria, Gina Pellon, Tomas Sanchez, Guerra de la Paz and others.
Art Wynwood, the highly anticipated inaugural International Contemporary Art Fair, and sister fair to Art Miami, is pleased to announce several highlights from its upcoming debut. Taking place during President’s Day Weekend, Thursday, Feb. 16, to Monday, Feb. 20, in the spacious 100,000-square-foot Art Miami Pavilion, Art Wynwood has drawn international support and attention for its impressive program of performances, paintings, photography, sculpture, art video and new media, conceptual art and street art by 500 celebrated and emerging artists, as represented by more than 50 galleries from Argentina, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, the Netherlands, Venezuela, United Kingdom and the United States.
VIP Preview: February 16, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
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Feb 15
Saturday- February 18, 2012
Where: Most of the studios are located just off Southwest 75th Avenue between 41st and 48th streets. The starting point is at the Aperture Studios, 7360 SW 41st St.
When: 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday.
Cost and Parking: Parking is free, as is a shuttle bus service between galleries.
For more information:www.thebirdroadartdistrict.com or call 305-467-6819.
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Feb 15
Midtown Miami | Wynwood
3101 NE 1st Avenue
Miami, FL 33137
MIAMI, Fla. – Jan. 25, 2012 – Art Miami, LLC. is pleased to announce its confirmed exhibitor list in association with the launch of Art Wynwood, taking place President’s Day Weekend, Feb. 16 – 20, 2012. Held in the spacious 100,000-square-foot Art Miami Pavilion, which attracted more than 55,000 attendees during the 2011 edition of Art Miami, the inaugural five-day International Contemporary Art Fair will showcase a compelling array of cutting-edge, contemporary and modern artwork by both emerging and established artists from more than 50 galleries, including “the flying murals of Wynwood” commissioned by the district’s own Tony Goldman.
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Jan 28
Tampa Museum and the Academy of the Holy Names invite you to:
On February 1, 2012, the Fine Arts Department is honored to welcome AHN alumnus Ricardo Pau-Llosa (B’67) as this year’s visiting artist. The event will be held at the Tampa Museum of Art (120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL 33602). Docent-led tours and a reception will take place from 5:00-6:00 p.m., followed by the artist’s address and Q&A from 6:00-7:00 p.m. Complimentary admission will be available for Academy guests. This year marks our eighth annual Visiting Artist Show.
Jan 27
April 14, 2012
The New Orleans Museum of Art invites you for a special tour of Cuban artist, Luis Cruz Azaceta’s studio, at 11 am on April 14th.
For more information on becoming a member of the “Contemporaries”, contact Miranda Lash at mlash@noma.org or at (504) 658-4138
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Jan 24
January 20 to 23, 2012
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida
http://www.evanluriegallery.com/
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Jan 11
On Thursday January 12, ONE Sotheby’s International Realty and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation will host a special event celebrating the launch the ONE CIFO Project.
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Nov 29
La entrada es libre
En el lanzamiento del libro intervendrán los críticos Alfredo Triff y Jesús Rosado.
Nov 26
From Cuban Art News
With thousands of international collectors in town for Art Basel Miami Beach, gallerist and collector Gary Nader is hosting a major auction of modern, contemporary and Latin American art next Thursday, December 1. The sale includes works by Picasso, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Warhol—and five modern and contemporary Cuban artists.
Since early November, the works to be offered in “Nader’s Latin American, Modern & Contemporary Art Auction” have been on view at Gary Nader Art Centre, the vast 55,000-square-foot gallery and exhibition space in Miami’s Wynwood district. A selection was also on display in Nader’s booth at the recent PINTA New York art fair.
Butinantes, a 1945 canvas by Wifredo Lam, received the highest estimate among works by Cuban artists, at $700,000 to $900,000. A second Lam work, Sans titre (c. 1942), is estimated at $500,000 to $700,000. In all, six works by Lam are being offered, with the lowest estimate at $80,000.
Two 2007 sculptures by Cuban-born contemporary artist Jorge Pardo, Untitled (Melissa) and Untitled (John), are estimated at $100,000 to $150,000 each. Other Cuban artists represented in the sale are José Bedia, Cundo Bermudez, and Enrique Martínez Celaya.
Gary Nader Gallery webpage
Nov 15
LOT 250
OFILL ECHEVARRÍA
(B. 1972)
DESHORAS
signed lower left and titled upper right; also dated Miami, FL Nov. 03 and inscribed Pintado al húmedo en 1 (una) sesión de 33 horas contínuas on the reverse
oil on canvas
37 by 70 2/3 in.
94 by 179.5 cm
Nov 6
LOT 12
WIFREDO LAM
(1902-1982)
BONJOUR MONSIEUR LAM (AU COMMENCEMENT DE LA NUIT)
signed and dated 1959 lower right; also signed, titled, and dated 1959 on the reverse
oil on burlap
29 1/2 by 59 1/4 in.
74.9 by 150.5 cm
ESTIMATE
600,000 – 800,000 USD
“There could be no doubt that Au Commencement de la Nuit (Bonjour Monsieur Lam) is also a self-portrait. The painting is carefully crafted to reveal in a flash the animal and anthropological forms in the darkness of the night. In Lam’s painting, a beast is depicted walking across the composition. It seems like it has stopped and, like in Courbet, it is turning its bearded head towards the spectator a similar invitation to make us recognize him.While Bonjour Monsieur Courbet is an easier painting to understand because the figures appear in broad day light, Bonjour Monsieur Lam is somehow more difficult to decipher. However, an attentive look at the hybrid creature reveals the fantastic complexity of how Wifredo Lam pictures himself . The first recognizable features are the hoofs of a horse and its elongated head, eyes and mouth. Following the neck on the diagonal, we discover that it is a winged horse. This mythical animal is also a woman : her breasts show distinctly under the wing and a second leg. Further to the right, a geometric second head with two prominent horns, eyes wide open and staring up towards his two arms and hands that close the composition on the right side with a protective gesture. A mysterious long shape with ribs or spines crosses the painting in parallel of the creature’s body : its presence echoes and accentuates the angular and fleshless qualities of the creature’s essential embodiment.”
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Oct 19
Miami, October 17, 2011 – The Arts and Philosophy department at Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Wolfson Campus will host a lecture by visual artist Esteban Blanco as part of its Wolfson Focus on the Humanities series. The event will take place at 11:30 a.m.Thursday, Oct. 20.
Cuban-born Blanco has developed a body of work based on the aesthetic values and social implications of toys. Fashioned in a variety of media, from wood and fiberglass to bronze and paper, these works explore the parallels between the comforting make-believe world of children and the absurdities of the real world.
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Oct 11
Pinta – New York
November 11, 2011
Agustin Fernandez (1928-2006) is recognized as one of the outstanding Cuban artists of his generation. This symposium aims to provide analytical perspectives on the work of this artist and its significance. Each panelist will provide analyses and interpretations of the unique and discerning artistic vision that Fernandez cultivated by bridging his Cuban inheritance and the cosmopolitan influences gleaned from many decades spent abroad. They will also present varying vantage points for appreciating the historical and contemporary significance of Fernandez’s oeuvre with the larger aim of placing Fernandez’s work in dialogue with an international cohort of artists working along similar lines. Finally Professor Edward J. Sullivan, the panel discussant, will comment and extend on the analyses and views presented.
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Oct 5
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: MAMA/RECIPROCAL ENERGY will be the first exhibition that examines this internationally recognized artist’s drawings. Five large-scale, mixed-media drawings, works that the artist created as a means to explore themes central to her practice, such as issues of identity, exile and displacement as a Afro-Cuban artist living in America, will be included. In addition to these works, drawings that address specific performances the artist has presented over the course of her career, one of which is a collaborative work she created with her son, will also be featured. This later body of work is the artist’s attempt at “putting the [performances] in a memory box, [in order to create] the essence of the moment.” The drawings will be accompanied by a three-channel video work that examines questions surrounding the nature of energy from an intriguing perspective.
Born in Matanzas in 1959, Campos-Pons was educated in Cuba at the National School of Art (1976ñ1979) and Instituto Superior de Arte (1980-1985) and graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1988. She is one of the most significant artists to emerge from the Cuban post-revolutionary era. She moved to North America in 1991 and now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband, the composer and performing artist Neil Leonard, and their son.
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Oct 1
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Wednesday, October 5 at 8 PMHard Light: The Work of Emilio Sanchez (Prestel Publishing, $45) byRafael Díazcasas, John Angeline and Rudi C. Bleys, edited by Ann Koll, is the much anticipated and beautifully compiled monograph, the first to bring to light the prolific career and life of this imaginative and spirited twentieth century Cuban American artist.
Sep 16
Bloomingdale’s in Aventura Mall is hosting a unique performance coupling fashion and art featuring Miami-based artist LEBO in The Men’s Store, level 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. this Saturday, September 17.
Titled “Red Hot Soul and Deep, Deep Blues,” the performance art piece is in collaboration with Hudson Jeans and combines LEBO’s right here, right now painting with a state-of-the-art light projection display.
You can also receive a Hudson tote bag customized by LEBO with a Hudson Men’s purchase (one per customer, while supplies last).
For more info on the artist, go to LeboStudios.com.
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Aug 20
The American Pavilion Shanghai Art Fair 2011 is proud to present a curatorial juried exhibition entitled: 10 Artists – 10 Spaces.
Participating artists are Lorna Marsh, Karl Kueffel, Scott Ashley, Yuri Tuma, Grace Wawa Yang, OLEK, Blue McRight, Sergio Garcia, Yovani Bauta and Luy Ken.
“American contemporary art is as diverse as American artists. They come from all around the globe in search of individual identity and the freedom for self-expression,” said Inez Suen, Curator for this international exhibition at Shanghai Mart.
American Pavilion website
Aug 20
Saturday, Aug 20 7:00p to 10:00p
