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Photo Miami will feature cutting-edge images
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Ground zero for all things photographic and multimedia
this week is a tented lot in Wynwood, where Photo Miami and the
AIPAD Photography Show Miami satellite art fairs hope to ride
the wave of Art Basel Miami Beach.
Photo Miami is
back in town for the second year, promising to be bigger and
better with a 40,000-square-foot tent at its new location
adjacent to the Shops at Midtown Miami.
“It’s a
brilliant location,” said Photo Miami Director Tim Fleming. “I’m
thrilled with the new spot and the access from the street.”
The Association
of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD, show is in a
slightly smaller tent and shares a common covered dining area
with Photo Miami.
“It’s going to
be a major destination,” Fleming said.
While Photo
Miami focuses on cutting-edge “photo-based art, video and new
media” from the last 10 years, the AIPAD tent features
“19th-century, modern and contemporary masters.”
“We wanted art
galleries with strong media-based programs, galleries that were
very intrigued about working in this niche and progressive in
working in time and light,” Fleming said.
Photo Miami,
which is run by Los Angeles-based Artfairs Inc., represents 60
galleries from around the world, including Philadelphia-based
artist Matthew Suib and multimedia artist Janet Biggs.
Suib is known
for using rear-projected
Hollywood
fire film clips to create the illusion of a real building
engulfed in flames. For Photo Miami, Suib used the same process
to make a cargo van appear as if it’s on fire.
“We thought
he’d be the forefront of what Photo Miami is,” Fleming said.
A mixed-media
performance by Biggs, sponsored by the Claire Oliver Gallery in
New York, will feature a live horse and rider along with a piano
and player interacting with a variety of media. Enemy of the
Good — Biggs’ “new work exploring control, obsession and
man’s relentless pursuit of perfection” — takes place Dec. 7 at
7 p.m.
“It will be
large and impressive,” Fleming said.
The AIPAD
Photography Show Miami features more than 40 fine art
photography galleries. AIPAD, known for its photography show at
the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan in April, is exhibiting in
Miami for the first time.
“We are
delighted to announce this new fair in Miami that will further
highlight the tremendous collective knowledge, scholarship and
expertise of AIPAD dealers,” said Robert Klein, president of
AIPAD and Robert Klein Gallery in Boston. “More and more
collectors are adding Miami in December to their calendars. As a
result, we were getting calls from photography collectors asking
us to come to Miami so that they could have access there to a
focused exhibition of the most important photographic works
available on the market.”
Many of the
artists on display at the AIPAD show are household names — Chuck
Close, David Lachapelle, Bruce Weber, Diane Arbus, Robert
Doisneau, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Herb
Ritts and many more, living and gone.
One highlight
of the show will be a book signing by legendary musician and
photographer Lou Reed. The book, Lou Reed’s New York,
contains more than 100 photographs.
“Two years and
many cameras and lenses later, these images are the result of a
small attempt to share the beauty that has bedazzled the
consciousness of this viewer standing on the edge of the river
with a box in hand,” Reed said of the photo book.
Portraiture
will play a big role at the AIPAD show. Of political
significance are two photographs of American soldiers injured in
Iraq. The artist, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, took the photos as
part of a series for an HBO documentary special, Alive Day
Memories: Home From Iraq, produced by James Gandolfini.
Said
Greenfield-Sanders, “I think we need to see this.”
Photo
Miami
and the AIPAD Photography Show Miami run through Dec. 9 at
Northwest 31st Street and North Miami Avenue, adjacent to the
Shops at Midtown. The fairs will be open Wednesday, Dec. 5, from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Thursday, Dec. 6 to Saturday, Dec. 8, from
10 a.m.
to 7
p.m.;
and Sunday, Dec. 9, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tickets are $15
for the full run of both fairs. For more information, visit
www.artfairsinc.com/photomiami/2007 and www.aipad.com/photoshow. |
