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5/12/2006

Scope Miami

Roberto Clemente Park, Miami

International art Fair

Scope, Miami's first alternative art fair, returns for a fifth straight year to continue its mandate of challenging passive viewing by giving visitors a view of the contemporary art world available nowhere else. Scope Miami 2006 is poised to redefine the conventions of an art fair with its new 40,000-square-foot, artist-designed pavilion located in Roberto Clemente Park in the heart of Miami's Wynwood Art District.

Just blocks from the Rubell Family Art Collection, the Margulies Collection, and Miami's leading galleries, Scope Miami's ninety international exhibitors uphold Scope's unique tradition of one-person and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events.

Scope Miami's new monumental pavilion-comprising shipping containers, tents, and art projects-was conceived, designed, and constructed by Scope founder and president Alexis Hubshman, architect Charles Mallea, and expert tentmaker and owner of Event Star, Alain Perez. The experience of the fair begins outside the pavilion where visitors are reduced to a childlike scale by Agustina Wood-Gate's Where the Wild Things Grow, a large-scale urban garden of 1,000 waterproof, handmade, green fabric cones. This veritable meadow of six-foot-tall blades of grass leads to the Sanchez Brothers' Between Life and Death: inside of a real crashed bus, holographic projections of celestial visions recreate passengers' near-death experiences.Visitors then enter the pavilion and interact with [PAM], The Perpetual Art Machine, a video exhibition organized by Lee Wells, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski, and Aaron Miller. Fairgoers can choose which videos to project on cinema-sized screens in the main foyer from over 600 videos from sixty countries, effectively becoming part of the curatorial process. The [PAM] exhibition leads to Tomas Rivas's Unobtrusive, a peeling and crumbling semi-circular facade made of sheetrock and wallpaper. The piece exposes how art fairs, the dominant form of exhibiting contemporary art, are, by nature, temporary and transitory, and serves as a fitting final step of the initiation into the fair.

In addition to its ninety exhibitors from fourteen countries, Scope Miami 2006 presents more than twenty-five special projects including performances and screenings. Fairgoers can relax and indulge at the Queen Bee Snake Bar and Tea Room, a Vietnamese-style bar located next to the cafe' and VIP Lounge, enjoy a Grolsch SwingTop, or listen to Scope-Sound, an original sound installation by Derek Cote' sponsored by Land Rover.

Highlights of Scope Miami 2006 include:

Scope Shuttle
The Scope Shuttle provides service from the TownHouse Hotel and Art Basel Miami Beach to Scope Miami and the Flamingo Sculpture Garden every half hour for the duration of the fair. Pickup from the TownHouse Hotel, located at 150 20th Street in South Beach every half hour.

Scope Collection and Silent Auction
Scope is proud to present the Scope Collection and the Silent Auction in the lobby of the TownHouse Hotel. Artwork donated by exhibitors, invited curators, and artists affords new and established collectors a chance to build their collections. Proceeds from the Silent Auction help to support the Scope Foundation. The TownHouse Hotel is located at 150 20th Street in South Beach.

Flamingo Sculpture Garden
In conjunction with the Flamingo South Beach, Scope is proud to present the Flamingo Sculpture Garden. The Flamingo Sculpture Garden is devoted to showing large-scale sculpture that explores humanitarian, political, and environmental issues. It is located in the courtyard of the Flamingo South Beach at 1504 Bay Road in South Beach.

Free View, Wednesday December 6th, 10 PM - 5 PM

Collector Preview. The fair will open to the public all day free of charge.

Roberto Clemente Park
101 NW 34th Street - Miami
The fair opens daily at 10 AM
Admission is 10 dollars.

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