Auction: 23 May 2013, 4PM

Viewing: 18-23 May, 2013
Monday-Saturday, 10AM- 6PM &
Sunday, 12PM-6PM

Location:
Phillips
450 Park Avenue,
New York, NY, 10022

This is the biggest week end for Art in Miami. More than 1,000 galleries will participate in more than 20 fairs.  There will be a good representation of Cuban American Artists. The biggest and oldest of these fairs is:

Galleries exhibiting Cuban American Artists at Art Basel are:

Lehman Maupin –  Teresita Fernandez

Lisson Gallery- Allora & Calzadilla, Carmen Herrera

Fredric Snitzer – Jose Bedia, Maria Martinez-Cañãs, Cristina Lei-Rodriguez

Lehman Gallery – Ana Mendieta

Rhona Hoffman Gallery- Luis Gispert

LInk:>>Art collecting.com

In Switzerland, nearly $2 billion worth of art from 300 top-tier international galleries is up for sale this week. Richter, Calder, Twombly and Hirst are among the big-names with big price tags lining booths at Art Basel, the world’s biggest and oldest modern and contemporary art fair.

Included in the big-names with big price tags are some artists of Cuban origin exhibited by important galleries from the US and Europe including Ana Mendieta, Teresita Fernandez, Carmen Herrera, and Allora and Calzadilla among others.

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BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art is reinstalling its contemporary art wing, which will open in fall 2012 launching a three-year, comprehensive renovation plan leading up to its 100th Anniversary in 2014. Known for its longtime commitment to collecting and supporting the work of living artists and acquiring works that speak to the events and innovations of our time, the BMA’s contemporary art wing features a significant collection of American art from the last six decades, including major late paintings by Andy Warhol, as well as works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Donald Judd, Glenn Ligon, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Anne Truitt. The museum is also home to a remarkable collection of notable international artists, including Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Hirschhorn, Susan Philipsz, and Franz West.
Several new acquisitions will make their debut in the reinstalled wing, including A Man Screaming is Not a Dancing Bear by the artist collaborative Allora & Calzadilla, Untitled (bicycle shower) by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Live Ball by Nari Ward.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Following the success of the U.S. Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, the 54th International Art Exhibition, the Indianapolis Museum of Art will bring works by the collaborative team Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla to Indianapolis in Spring 2012. The IMA is acquiring Delta (Body in Flight), which will be presented with scheduled performances in the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion March 8, 2012, through April 22, 2012. The artists’ Vieques Series, including Half Mast\Full Mast from the Pavilion, will also be shown in its entirety for the first time as part of the exhibition Allora & Calzadilla: the Vieques Series, on view March 8, 2012, through October 14, 2012, in the Holeman Video Gallery.

Body in Flight (Delta) and Half Mast\Full Mast are among the six commissioned works that comprise the U.S Pavilion exhibition Gloria, on view in Venice, Italy, through November 27, 2011. Organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the exhibition employs a variety of artistic practices including sculpture, performance, video, and sound elements that destabilize existing narratives around national identity, global commerce, international competition, democracy, and militarism. To date, more than 280,000 visitors have seen Gloria at the Venice Biennale since it opened in June, and another 69,000 have viewed the exhibition online.

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

El título de la exposición evoca este gesto liberador, ya sea como un llamado público que incita a la emancipación política o como una expresión del orden de lo privado que manifiesta un sentimiento en particular, como lo recuerda la emblemática pintura expresionista de Edvard Munch. ¿Cómo identificaríamos hoy en día el gesto artístico en una obra de arte, en una exposición? Aquí no se habla del gesto como la marca que identifica la obra de arte de un artista, sino de la forma en que se expresan y estructuran las preocupaciones y emociones en nuestro tiempo.

VENICE—Allora & Calzadilla‘s show for the Venice Biennale‘s United States pavilion has generated a near-deafening amount of buzz since previews began at the international exhibition earlier this week, with its overturned tank-turned-treadmill sculpture outside its entrance emitting a clarion clackety-clack to draw in hundreds of people to wait in line to see what the fuss is all about. This morning, the show — featuring eight professional gymnasts doing routines on replicas of business-class airline seats, an organ/ATM hybrid, and a video filmed on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques — opened to the public with a bang worthy of the buildup: a performance on the tank’s treadmill by Dan O’Brien, the 1996 Summer Olympics decathlon gold medalist once heralded on the cover of Newsweek as “Mr. Olympics.”

More on the works by Allora & Calzadilla:

New York Magazine: Jerry Saltz on the Ugly American at the Venice Biennale

Art Info: “It’s an Art Project, Let’s Keep It at That”: A Q&A With American Diplomat David Mees on the Politics of the U.S. Pavilion

Los Angeles Times: At the Venice Biennale, national artists know no boundaries

The L Magazine: America’s Allora & Calzadilla Crushing Competition at Venice Biennale

Finextra: Musical ATM goes on display at Venice Biennale

The New York Times: Venice Biennale: An Installation Art Contest and Venice Biennale: Money Talks, Make That Sings

The New York Times

Published: May 12, 2011

ON a nondescript street in Long Island City, Queens, is a mysterious gold-painted door with a drawing of a colorful tent and a sign that reads “Circus Warehouse.” Inside is a cavernous space with a flying trapeze, gymnastic rings and ropes, ballet bars and piles of thick practice mats. It was here on a recent spring morning that about a dozen people were gathered around two pairs of strangely familiar objects: identical models of airline business-class seats, impeccably fashioned in wood. One, an American Airlines design, featured a seat in the upright position, beside it a bed with a meticulously carved imitation of a blanket and pillow.

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Art Pulse Magazine

Museum of Modern Art – New York
(December 8, 2010 – January 10, 2011)
Ninth in a series of ongoing live and documented performances presented at the MoMA, Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a prepared piano has been already labeled by many as Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla’s masterpiece. The two artists will represent the United States in the upcoming Venice Biennial and have emerged as one of the most ambitious and interesting voices in the international visual arts scene. Their brand name is usually associated to installations, videos, and performances as emotionally and sensually strong as conceptually and politically loaded. In Calzadilla’s words, “Not making Sense” still remains a top priority on the duo’s agenda, as the playful, absurdist situation created by Stop seems to confirm.