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Jefe aka Johnny Chiba 2009 Art Basel Experiential
(click thumbnails for big pics, animations and links
for short vids
culled from ipod nano)
Shepard Fairey
mural presented on shipping containers in empty lot of Wynwood Art District.
click for cryptic triptych of photos - youtube making of
c/o Country Club
Gallery, Los Angeles
The
Public Works: A New Mural Project by Shepard Fairey
in partnership with the Miami Art Museum and The Fountainhead Residency.
Miami
Beach Convention Center
Art Basel Miami Beach is organized by Art
Basel, a division of the MCH Group Ltd.
Switzerland's leading fair and convention company
Fred
Tomaselli
talks and signs super-duper new book at Art/Salon
Shepard Fairey
homage to Burma's #1 Political Prisoner Aung
San Suu Kyi
c/o el fantastico Deitch
Projects NYC - guiding the infamous good Shepard to
megabuck-ular Obama-picture-stealing
rebel superstar heights! Obey
Giant Jeffrey!
Deitch also reps...
Barry McGee
hangin low
c/o Stuart
Shave/Modern Art London
Raqib Shaw
c/o White
Cube Gallery London
I was a Raqib fan since his MoMA and Deitch
Project shows, the Calcutta, India-born artist
continues to astound with his surreal yet beautific colorful and sometimes
horrific creations.
The Art Basel piece above sold for $180K; yep, he's reached that stratosphere.
below are found internet images of Raqib's work
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upon close examination of the colorful cacaphony, you find sexual and religious themes flitting about..fun!
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White Cube also reps the deviantly delightful
half-skullular...
Damien Hirst
is that David Bowie?
Anish Kapoor's concave mirror-pieces were in
abundance. Very interesting close-up! who's that man?
c/o Lisson
Gallery London
Thomas
Houseago
interesting Clay Study for Figure (Headless)
c/o Xavier Hufkens
Brussels
X/H also re-presenting
Nathaniel
Mellors
"Giantbum" installation of animatronic heads amused
c/o Lombard-Freid Projects
NYC
Egill Sæbjornsson
video cubes click!
very cool!
c/o i8
Gallery Reykjavík Iceland
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Wangechi Mutu
c/o Suzanne
Vielmetter Gallery LA,
Berlin
more fantastical
beautiful Mutu art
from gallery site...
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colorful building video on 3 tv tubes, animated at right
c/o Luciana Brito Galeria São Paulo Brazil
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c/o 303 Gallery NYC
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space-age art from the master
c/o Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Paris
Thomas Hirschhorn
c/o Galerie
Susanna Kulli
Zurich
tortured animated look
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ultra-realistic giant heads - click 4 animated view
c/o Sperone Westwater Gallery NYC
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c/o Regen Projects Los Angeles
Regan also showed fine collage by
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giant asian face bust
click to see exaggerated size referential
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c/o Barbara Mathes Gallery NYC
and
Galerie Haas & Fuchs Berlin
Joan Miró
I had never seen a Miró with actual characters before...
not sure which gallery this was, could have been
c/o Acquavella
Galleries NYC
Alexander Calder well represented
c/o Helly Nahmad
Gallery NYC
click to see expansive photolateral galleria setup
Richard
Woods
designed the best floor at Art Basel (it sold for $30K. I'm floored!)
c/o Perry Rubenstein
Gallery NYC
also repping the mighty Faile
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Vik Muniz
c/o Sikkema
Jenkins & Co. NYC
Fred
Tomaselli
has his third eye on you!
c/o James
Cohan Gallery NYC
...also repping
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latina music album covers redesigned with thread
c/o Lucia de la Puente Lima
also found on Lucia de la Puente website, this way cute sculpture
Margarita Checa
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c/o Daniel
Reich Gallery NYC
also repping:
Futoshi MIyagi
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c/o Take Ninagawa Tokyo
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c/o The Box Los Angeles
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Nathalie
Djurberg
a phenomenal stop-motion animator and storyteller; her new video
was on display at Zach Feuer Gallery booth,
along with crystal-esque set used in above animation. As artist does not allow
her videos to be shown on youtube
or online, this
created an interesting discussion amongst other video artists, who understood
not wanting their work
shown online in low resolution. This exclusivity also makes video more valuable
from sales point, but then, no one
can see the videos unless they go to gallery, art fair or buy a numbered copy
outright for thousands of dollars.
What is art, where does art come from, who is art for, wherefore art thou?
c/o Zach Feuer Gallery
NYC
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stills from Natalie Djurberg videos c/o Zach Feuer website
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designed the palapas (tropical pavilion) for Neuger Riemschneider, who offer
a 1-year bi-monthly subscription of original lamps made by Señor Pardo
c/o Neuger Riemschneider Gallery Berlin
Joana Vasconcelos
adorned taxidermy
c/o Galeria Horrach Moya
Palma de Mallorca
Brent Green
interesting stop-motion animation videos, creepy and cool
c/o Andrew
Edlin Gallery NYC
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"eveyone loves Avinash"
c/o Gallery SKE Bangalore
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Emmanuel
Barcilon
something somber, delicate and haunting in Monsieur Barcilon's mind
c/o Mike
Weiss Gallery NYC
Taschen
Books booth featured titanic tomes of art, films etc
this year's fantastic find was Zaha
Hadid - complete works 1979-2009
truly architecture as art, from her techno blueprints on vellore paper, to
the finished photographs, it is all beautifully-conceived art that comes to
life.
a limited edition of 200, signed with clamshell cover goes for $1000... wish
list!
met at Scope entrance
by
The Riot Temple
"a visceral experience of worship and violence" complete with police
shields and gamelotron gong-bangin'
met loverly sculptress/artist/musician Liz
McGrath (aka Miss
Derringer)
her hole-y deer sculpture was right behind us (oh dear!)
c/o Sloan
Fine Art NYC
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two guys wearing cool masks, "painting" on a large white wall using a form of video brush,
musicians cum performance artists from NYC, getting the word/video out for the first time at Scope
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of self-immolating bloody nativity scenerio
Roberto Feleo & Lirio Salvador, presented respectfully
c/o The Drawing Room Gallery Philippines
who produced best show brochure at Fair... very yellow!
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Lirio
Salvador - heavy metal instruments |
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girls gone wilding? odd and sexy, but i like it
c/o Aureus Contemporary Providence Rhode Island
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greeted us with tall christmassy sculpture of colorful beheading, quite unlike AJ's animalistic busts
c/o the great Jonathan Levine Gallery NYC
360 view
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Kenno
Apatrida - art as graffiti as art? |
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phenomenal use of cardboard yields mini realism |
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c/o Wilde Gallery Berlin
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c/o New Image Art Gallery Los Angeles
New Image showed up at Scope this year, repping the fine Judith Supine and humongo wall installation.
...recently at Aqua Art Fest Miami, New Image reps great artists Swoon, Neck Face y los amazing Date Farmers
apart of - a part of Scope
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c/o Moon Gallery Hong Kong
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c/o RCM Gallery Nanjing China
Sui Jianguo
colorful t-rexes (rexi?)
c/o Ullens
Center for Contemporary Art Beijing
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c/o Galerie Kashya Hildebrand Zurich
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part of the Truly Truthful curated series
NADA
Art Fair took place at the posh Deauville Beach Resort, Miami Beach
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bloody good stuff...although there is no unpainted wood, it certainly looks that way,
giving an unfinished trompe l'oeil woody ambiance, reminded me a tad of Mike Diana's work
c/o Horton Gallery (SUNDAY L.E.S.) NYC
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her interesting drawings are foreboding and whimsical
c/o Galerie Rupert pfab Dusseldorf
Ron Van Der Ende
from Der Netherlands
creates incredibly realistic art using only reclaimed wood
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Susan Lee-Chun
reinvents herself at every show... superhero fashion!
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Jennie Ottinger
appearing at her first fair, made an immediate
splash, so many red dots!
according to Johansson
projects booth madam, everything sold out at 10:30AM when fair opened.
More sales were being made via excellent use of Iphone/Flicker application,
so easily brought up here
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c/o Baer Ridgway Gallery San Francisco
how do these fine homage to spirals look animated? click!
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OTHER FINE FLORIDIAN EXPERIENTIALS
Fifi's Place
(69th St/Collins Ave, Miami)
fresh Hog Snapper, shot by deep-sea divers that morning, immense meal included
complimentary rice/beans, fresh baked bread, and delish dessert of flan &
mango moose
divine defining dining, on our way to NADA
the strangest plant I've
ever seen hosted giant seeds... that's nuts!
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the cutest niece in the universe!
most Art Basel pics/video c/o Jefe aka Johnny Chiba (jefe
@ testpress (dot) net)
and Skowmon Hastanan
otherwise culled from artist/gallery websites
pics, animations happily removed upon request of unhappy artist/gallery/owner
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