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3/12/2007

Pulse Miami

SoHo Studios, Miami

Following two highly successful editions in Miami and New York followed by its inaugural London venture this year, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is pleased to announce its third PULSE Miami, which will open at the Soho Studios, its new permanent home in the Wynwood Art District. PULSE Miami 2007 will boast an important array of 80 international galleries from 16 countries and will host Kaikai Kiki's inaugural GEISAI Miami.

PULSE's new venue offers the largest area in the fair's history with over 40,000 square feet of exhibition space, which includes an outdoor lounge and the opportunity for a large amount of cultural programming, such as an exhibition of video art selected by Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection Curator Christopher Eamon. The video program explores the innovation in single-channel video art. PULSE has also commissioned renowned German architect and artist Jürgen Mayer H. to create a site-specific entrance arch entitled beat.wave and the Fair will feature several other ambitious installations by Chris Larson, Duke Riley, Lincoln Schatz and Yoram Wolberger.

PULSE MIAMI 07 EXHIBTORS

Ambrosino Gallery (Miami), Angles Gallery (Santa Monica), artcore/toronto in cooperation with hilger contemporary/Vienna (Toronto), Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York), Galeria Baro Cruz (Sao Paulo), galerie anne barrault (Paris), Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt), bitforms gallery (New York), Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco), BravinLee programs (New York), Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco), Conner Contemporary Art (Washington, D.C.), Vera Cortês Art Agency (Lisbon), Charles Cowles Gallery (New York), DCKT Contemporary (New York), Galerie Volker Diehl/ Diehl Projects (Berlin), Faurschou, Copenhagen & Beijing (Copenhagen and Beijing), Finesilver Gallery (Houston), Freight + Volume (New York), GALERIA FÚCARES (Madrid), Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago), RICHARD HELLER GALLERY (Santa Monica), Galerie Ernst Hilger/ Hilger contemporary (Vienna), KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN (New York), Paul Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles), LaMontagne Gallery (Boston), Nathan Larramendy Gallery (Ojai), Locust Projects (Miami), Walter Maciel Gallery (Los Angeles), Magnan Projects (New York), Robert Mann Gallery (New York), Heather Marx Gallery (San Francisco), nina menocal (Mexico City), Nicholas Metivier Gallery (Toronto), MIZUMA ART GALLERY (Tokyo), moniquemeloche (Chicago), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica), magnus müller (Berlin), Mummery + Schnelle (London), Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv), P.P.O.W (New York), perugi artecontemporanea (Padua), POSTMASTERS Gallery (New York), Max Protetch (New York), Rokeby (London), Galerie Stefan Röpke (Cologne), Rubicon Gallery (Dublin), Julie Saul Gallery (New York), Schroeder Romero (New York), Galerie Michael Schultz (Berlin), galeria SENDA (Barcelona), Jack Shainman Gallery (New York), Shoshana Wayne Gallery (Los Angeles), Springer & Winckler Galerie (Berlin), Keith Talent Gallery (London), Margaret Thatcher Projects (New York), TORCH Gallery (Amsterdam), Union (London), Anne de Villepoix (Paris), Virgil de Voldere Gallery (New York), Winkleman Gallery (New York), Pavel Zoubok Gallery (New York), Galerie Zürcher (Paris)

IMPUSLE MIAMI 07 EXHIBITORS

agenzia04 (Bologna), BANK (Los Angeles), BISCHOFF/WEISS (London), Braverman Gallery (Tel Aviv), Chambers Fine Art (New York), Changing Role (Naples), Davidson Contemporary (New York), galerieKleindienst (Leipzig), LA FABRICA GALERIA (Madrid), Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery (New York), MOGADISHNI (Copenhagen), Galerie Jette Rudolph (Berlin), SALTWORKS (Atlanta), Spinello Gallery (Miami), FREDERIEKE TAYLOR GALLERY (New York), TRAVESIA CUATRO (Madrid), ZENSHI (Tokyo)

PROGRAMS AND INSTALLATIONS

This year PULSE Miami is proud to host an array of exciting and ambitious programs and installations including a curated video program, large scale and site specific installations and the inaugural American debut of KaiKai Kiki's artist based art fair. Six years since the first inception of GEISAI in Japan in the summer of 2001, Kaikai Kiki announces GEISAI Miami, the American debut of a fair that has been a launch pad into the art world for many emerging artists. Hosted by PULSE, GEISAI Miami will premier at the Parliament Building on December 5th.

PULSE PLAY > SHOT, COUNTER-SHOT, CURATED BY CHRISTOPHER EAMON
Sponsored in part by surroundart

The video program for Miami 2007's PULSE PLAY > is both a highly eclectic and selective view of innovation in single-channel video both past and present. It uncovers forgotten landmarks from the seventies and discovers new works in unexpected places, from popular animation and music video to conceptual- and performance-based practices. This eclecticism mirrors the way video is being used across the spectrum as well as the importance of continuing to historicize and contextualize what is happening and what has happened with the form. It is as important now as it was a decade ago to look at changes in current practice alongside a reassessment of the given cannon of video art history.

Jürgen Mayer H.
beat.wave
Courtesy of PULSE, magnus müller and the artist

beat.wave, is an entry gate to PULSE Miami with an undulating arch that is about 11 feet high. Cantilevering, split and sliced, this ambivalent structure offers seating areas as a meeting point and a place for contemplation. The architect, designer and artist Jürgen Mayer H. focuses on works at the intersection of architecture, communication and new technology. From urban planning schemes and buildings to installation work and objects with new materials, the relationship between the human body, technology and nature form the background for a new production of space. In his art work, Mayer strategically chooses to bypass architecture and to use art as an operative platform. In close interaction with our built environment his work highlights the relationship between the human body and the architectural space.

Chris Larson
Spaceship Shack
Courtesy of magnus müller

Chris Larson is best known for his extravagant, wooden and large-sized machineries which remind us of torture devices from the inquisition period. These bizarre constructions from "another time" often take center stage in his videos which - enriched by elements from the mythology, magic, gospel music, farming and neurology - create a "black romantic" stage full of references to art history (Bruegel, Piranesi, Caspar David Friedrich or Barnett Newmann), religious metaphors, fables (Franz Kafka) and sexual allusions. Often there is an actor who conducts the complex apparatus, mixing together different substances while living through a undefinable state of joy and pain. It is left to the viewer's imagination to find out what the real function of the machinery might be and which consequences its operating could have.

Duke Riley
The Voyage of the Acorn
Courtesy of Magnan Projects

Duke Riley's signature style interweaves historical and contemporary events with elements of fiction and myth to create allegorical histories. The Voyage of The Acorn revolves around historical obscurities that took place in New York during the American Revolutionary War. Riley constructed a replica of the first primitive Revolutionary War submarine ("The Turtle") that is propelled by a hand crank and submersible for up to 20 minutes. In 1776 George Washington's Continental Army used this sub to target the British flagship The Eagle. Putting a contemporary spin on this idea, Riley launched his submarine ("The Acorn") while the Queen Mary 2 was docked in the Brooklyn Harbor and documented his voyage as well making a mock documentary of the history of The Acorn.

Lincoln Schatz
Cube
Courtesy of bitforms and Catharine Clark Gallery

Portraiture has historically been a means of immortality for the sitter. Traditionally, portraits are staged, often single moments bound by the time in which the individual modeled for the artist. Lincoln Schatz has created a multi-disciplinary work that combines architecture, sculpture, new media, relational aesthetics, and portraiture in Cube, a 10 x 10 x 8 foot architectural structure. Cube is designed with 24 video cameras mounted at varying heights within the structure-- a one hour session creates a 24 hour visual rendering of the subject, from which a percentage of files are retained in the artist's specially designed software to create a dense, many-layered video portrait. Drawing on the historical tradition of portraiture as biographical, Cube subjects are encouraged to represent their personalities, interests and values in whatever capacity they choose.

Yoram Wolberger
COWBOY 1 (Gunslinger)
Courtesy of Mark Moore Gallery

COWBOY 1 (Gunslinger) from Wolberger's COWBOYS & INDIANS series is appropriated from the childhood plastic molded toys of youth, which when enlarged and life-sized assume an entirely different interpretation. COWBOY 1 (Gunslinger) strikes a subversive chord in the celebration of those objects which parents offer their children as playthings, as toys, as surrogates, as models, and as talismans, and what that means to us all - especially when dealing with images of an indigenous people nearly eradicated from the face the earth. The image of the "classic" American gunslinger of yore continues to inform the present perception of U.S. foreign policy as the embodiment its philosophy (for better or worse).

2006 INSTALLATIONS INCLUDED:

Tom Ellis, Je Ne Regrette Rien, Courtesy of Freight + Volume

Je Ne Regrette Rien is a French phrase commonly used in Britain which means “No Regrets” or “I don’t regret anything”. Ellis thinks of this as a kind of mantra, a statement of intent that connects not only to his art practice but to his personal philosophy.

Ellen Harvey, Beautiful/Ugly Palm Beach, Courtesy of magnus müller, Berlin

“Beautiful/Ugly Palm Beach” is a portrait of a community by a community. Senior citizens in Palm Beach, Florida, were invited to submit two images, one of a beautiful and one of an ugly thing, place or person in Palm Beach to be made into oil paintings. In David Hevel’s world, celebrity gossip provides endless fodder and inspiration for his densely packed, obsessively crafted, and wickedly humorous sculptures. Hevel’s use of synthetic materials suggests the hyper-artificiality of the subject matter itself.

Björn Schülke, Drone # 4, Courtesy of bitforms gallery
Björn Schülke designs objects that playfully transform live spatial energy into active responses in sculptural form. Born from a world of spaceships, unusual scientific instruments and robots, Drone #4 is a sterile white fiberglass construction that probes its surroundings.

Jade Townsend, Untitled, Courtesy of Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Townsend's current work begins with research into a specific historical event, myth, or allegorical tale. He often works with (but is not limited to) symbols inherent to the phenomenon of comfort and apathy or corporate greed and the marginalized and commodified idea of rebellion which reaffirms a desire to introduce a reality that challenges the viewer to question the falsity and fabricated nature of constituents and convention often prevalent in our environment.

Zhang Huan
Buddha Finger (#10), 2006
Courtesy of Galerie Volker Diehl

William Kentridge
Music Box Tondo
Bird Catcher
Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery

David Packer
Flower Power
Courtesy of Lyons Wier Ortt

Media contact:
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T: (212) 675-1800
E: kirsten@bluemedium.com

Preview: december 4, 2007

Soho Studios
2136 NW 1st Avenue (entrance on NW 21st Street) - Wynwood District, Miami

Hours:
Wednesday, December 5: 10am - 4pm
Thursday, December 6: 10am - 6pm
Friday, December 7: 10am - 6pm
Saturday, December 8: 10am - 6pm
Sunday, December 9: 10am - 5pm

Admission:
General Admission
Discount Admission (for seniors & students)
No advance purchase necessary. Ticket purchase includes admission to GEISAI Miami.

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