Unrealism
dal 1/12/2015 al 5/12/2015
Segnalato da
1/12/2015
Unrealism
The Moore Building, Miami
Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch collaborate to present an exhibition of new figurative painting and sculpture in the Miami Design District. The exhibition features the work of more than fifty of the most original and compelling artists.
Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch Collaborate to Present an Exhibition of New Figurative Painting and Sculpture in the Miami Design District.
UNREALISM celebrates the recent revival of interest in figurative painting and sculpture. The exhibition features the work of more than fifty of the most original and compelling artists working in figuration from the 1980s to the present. The title points to the challenge of portraying contemporary reality where the real is often confused with the unreal.
The exhibition focuses on an emergent wave of painters and sculptors who are exploring new approaches to figurative imagery. In doing so, they are also generating renewed interest in innovative precursors.
Figuration is one of the oldest art forms, but it is continually evolving, reflecting contemporary concepts of human identity. Figurative art responds to technical innovations like printing, photography and digital reproduction, but the ancient craft of rendering the figure renews itself with each subsequent generation. The artists featured in UNREALISM work within the figurative canon without becoming academic. They are able to make a venerable tradition in art completely of our time.
UNREALISM will take place over four floors around the atrium of The Moore Building, a 1921 Art Deco-style, former furniture showroom that is also the current home of the ICA Miami.
Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch have been colleagues since 1979 and have worked with many of the same artists. UNREALISM is their first collaboration. In October of this year, Gagosian Gallery opened its fifteenth location in Mayfair, London. Jeffrey Deitch’s most recent curatorial project is “The Extreme Present,” one of the inaugural exhibitions for the new Aishti Foundation in Beirut.
The exhibition preview will take place on December 1 from 5–8pm, along with the celebration of GARAGE Magazine No. 9. King of Arms, a procession and performance by Rashaad Newsome, will pass through the Design District from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.
King of Arms Krew (Miami Chapter) Mass Processional Performance will include members of the Miami Bike Life Crew, who will perform ambitious stunts on ATVs, dirt bikes, and sport bikes; the Florida Memorial marching band, which will play an original score by Newsome; The King of Arms Vogue Knights, Newsome’s New York-based vogue troop; the King of Arms Float; and a troop of locals who share Newsome’s reverence for custom car culture.
GARAGE Magazine No. 9 features a cover designed by Rem Koolhaas, the architect of the recently inaugurated permanent home of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. The issue also includes texts on celebrated artists such as Alexander Calder and Bridget Riley, panel discussions featuring the likes of David Adjaye, Shane Smith and Marc Newson, and an array of dynamic augmentations with the GARAGE App: readers can experience the movement of Calder’s sculptures from the printed page, play Japanese collective Chim Pom’s specially designed arcade game or activate their Super Rat, and enter the sonic world of cyborg artist Neil Harbisson.
The Miami Design District, developed by Craig Robins in partnership with L Real Estate, is a neighborhood dedicated to innovative fashion, design, art, architecture and dining. It features distinctive architectural projects by Sou Fujimoto, Aranda/Lasch, Johnson Marklee and other leading young architects; and public commissions of art and design by John Baldessari, Buckminster Fuller, Zaha Hadid and Marc Newson.
Image: John Currin, Rachel in the Garden, 2003, oil on canvas, 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm) © John Currin
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