MIAMI, FL - If you feel like popping over to Florida this weekend you may want to take in the
Miami International Art Fair going on from January 7th through to the 10th at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Galleries are participating from every continent presenting the best in
contemporary art, photography, video, and installation art. The fair
includes a lecture series featuring prominent experts in Latin American
and International Contemporary Art. Other fair highlights include “Next
Generation,” spotlighting artists of the future, the special
exhibition, “Focus Argentina,” and renowned conceptual artist Federico
Uribe’s “Risk,” featuring many pieces from his major “Pencilism” and
“Human Nature” exhibitions. The fair will open with an invitation-only
Collectors’ Preview Party on the evening of January 6th.
The exhibitor line up for 2010 presents engaging and diverse
exhibitions that will both compliment and heighten the existing art
scene in Miami. Pavilions will be created for: Photography, Works on
Paper, Young Gallerists, and Museums & Cultural Art Institutions.
Wynwood Design District Pavilion
celebrates the association of art institutions, museums, galleries,
collections and alternative spaces in the Wynwood Art District area of
Miami.
Joey’s Bar is a local favorite in the district and will add culinary flavor to the Wynwood Pavilion at MIA.
Next Generation:
30 artists under 40 Pavilion will be a curated section of 30 young
artists who are emerging on the global arts scene. The Pavilion will be
complete with a lounge with internet café that will be created from
repurposed materials and designed and built by local emerging artists.
Focus: Argentina
will spotlight 20 contemporary Argentinean art dealers-- many of whom
are members of GALAAC, a galleries association for leading Argentinean
Art Dealers The galleries involved in GALAAC maintain the high quality
standards of Argentinean art and often feature the work of young or
rising artists with various, new, or alternative perspectives.
Going Dutch:
Art & Design from Holland will focus on 10 Dutch dealers. The
exhibition pavilion is in celebration of YR400, a major cultural event
being held in NY this year in celebration of the 400th anniversary of
the Dutch’s arrival in New York and will feature Dutch art + design.
Other features at
Miami International Art Fair
will include: art video installation and special project rooms, and
lecture and collector panel discussions, and a special conference on
“New Media, Social Networking and Twittering” for the art professional.
