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1/12/2008

Bridge Art Fair

Two venues, Miami

Following its enormous critical and commercial successes in 2006 and 2007, Bridge is pleased to announce our third installment in Miami Beach. Held at both the Catalina and Maxine Hotels, Bridge Miami leads the South Beach satellite art market, located a mere two blocks from Art Basel. Visitors can browse nearly 80 rooms of the freshest and most innovative works in international emerging and contemporary art.

Arguably the largest convergence of contemporary art and design takes place during Art Basel Miami in this annual, star-studded, citywide celebration of new art internationalism. Consistently a muscular destination market, Miami shows absolutely no signs of stopping, and continues to astound as far and beyond the top-performing art-fair circuit in the United States.

Building on two highly successful years in Miami Beach, Bridge is pleased to announce our inaugural Bridge Miami Wynwood, offering collectors, art professionals and visitors a boutique-style booth fair easily accessible in the heart of Midtown Miami. Taking place concurrently with Bridge Miami Beach, Bridge Miami Wynwood marks a significant expansion of Bridge’s presence at the global art fair market that converges in Miami every December.

Bridge Miami Wynwood will feature the best in international emerging art, presented in a modular, museum-grade exhibition space, built on a 60,000 square foot development in Miami Midtown at NE 1st Avenue and NW 34th Street, immediately adjacent to Art Miami, Photo Miami and AIPAD, and centrally located between Scope, Pulse and Aqua. In addition to a spectacular booth fair, Bridge Miami Wynwood will also showcase an outdoor sculpture project. Located just off the Julia Tuttle Causeway, Bridge Wynwood will greet visitors crossing the bridge from South Beach at the entryway to Midtown Miami’s art fair circuit and through to the Design District.

A complimentary shared shuttle service between Midtown Miami and the Miami Beach Convention Center (located at 17th St. and Washington Ave) will run December 3-7 during all show hours. The shuttles will provide service between Art Basel Miami Beach and the Miami satellite fairs, with a concentration at Midtown Miami, where sereral parking garages and valet parking services are availalble to the public.

Bridge visual culture components provide more individualized, almost experiential access to enrich the visitor’s understanding of the larger purpose of an artwork. Bridge visual cultural programming incorporates a limitless definition of the field into its curatorial premise, which includes advertising, anthropology, art history, critical theory, cultural studies, the Internet, performance, philosophy, television media and much more. The following programs are part of the visual cultural component at Bridge Miami ’08:

The New York Art Exchange
Media Lounge and Digital Gallery: Bridge Miami Wynwood
The New York Art Exchange (NYAXE) partners with Bridge Art Fair to present a media lounge and digital gallery at Bridge Miami Wynwood. Designed by Greenlab Studios, the sleek lounge features a digital selection featuring NYAXE's art work displayed on high-resolution screens installed throughout the lounge. NYAXE invites fair-goers and media representatives to make use of their public computers to view online galleries, check-email, network, relax, and enjoy a complimentary beverage in the plush surroundings.

Anni Holm: Bridge Miami Beach
NetWorking
NetWorking is an ongoing knitting installation/performance piece originally created by Nyok-Mei Wong (Malaysia) and Anni Holm (Denmark) in 2006. The NetWorking project physically demonstrates how a network is constructed and constantly changing. Viewers are invited to knit with the artist and through dialogue develop their own networks beyond the boundaries of the piece.

Getting My Name Out There
This project was inspired by Anni Holm’s observations of contemporary human behavior and how it is affected by advertising. Dressed in all white clothing, Holm, will stand with large “Anni Holm” sign, mimicking and interrogating the barrage of advertising that confronts us on a daily basis, and our complicit response. (Image Credit: Anni Holm)

Igor Josifov: Missing: Bridge Miami Beach
Coming off his acclaimed Bridge Berlin VERGE ’08 performance, San Francisco–based artist Igor Josifov returns to the Bridge stage. Macedonian-born Josifov will perform Missing using our entire space in the Catalina Hotel. Josifov will focus on his most important and primary medium—his body—to communicate his own experience and comment on the general concept of self. Part of the project will involve an installation of blurred silkscreen faces, enhanced by the echoes of rhythmic corporeal sounds. In the performance segment of the piece, Josifov will shave his head and tattoo a line on his scalp between the two halves of his brain, representing absent memories and loss.

David Miguel: Save as… : Bridge Miami Wynwood
Recognizing that we live in the age of digital communication, Spanish artist David Miguel will arm himself with a giant cotton swab as a means of protecting himself against an excess of information. By evolving in the context of a contemporary art fair, the object will act as a weapon of defense in the face of the multitude of artistic propositions offered. The cotton swab cleanses, channels and filters the information to the performer’s personal satisfaction.

Mary Ellen Scherl: Mamorial: Bridge Miami Wynwood
Using art as a vehicle for awareness in the eradication of breast cancer, New Jersey–based sculptor Mary Ellen Scherl creates life-size casts of breasts and bodies to form a collaborative, global project. Cancer survivors around the world use mold-making kits to create their piece of this dynamic installation. Mamorial will become a permanent traveling art installation, with the namesake of its non-profit advocacy and support organization.

Erik Fabian
Silver Ticket Project: Sweeten the Deal
Bridge Miami Beach, twice daily performances

Each day artist Erik Fabian will perform ritualistic performance-responses to works by emerging artists in the Orleans Street Gallery at the Catalina hotel. These value-adding performances will critically and playfully respond to selected works at the Orleans Street Gallery to redirect visitor attention that might have otherwise been misallocated due to the recent credit bubble.

Don't Panic
Bridge Miami Wynwood, December 5, 5-7pm
To relieve some of the anxiety art patrons may be facing during the current economic crisis, artist Erik Fabian wants to offer a reminder of what credit feels like. Art fair visitors are invited, one-at-a-time, to hold a wad of 1000 one-dollar bills with Erik that have been borrowed from his credit card. Erik is not giving the money away...please don't attempt to steal it, tax it, or deflate its value.

Help Wanted
Bridge Miami Beach
Flying in the face of soaring unemployment, artist Erik Fabian is hiring. Keep an eye out in the lobbies of the Catalina and Wynwood locations of the Bridge fair where Erik will hire a small group of assistants to help him create and deliver a performance. Together with Erik, you will claim the hotel lobby as a social space for business and old-time deal-making and help consider the value of artistic labor in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis.

FOCUS :: LATIN AMERICA

Bridge Focus debuted at Bridge New York '08 with focus Asia. Following that success, many editions of Bridge Art Fair now include a geocultural focus—which is composed of approximately 15–20% of the final exposition. Centering on a specific area allows Bridge to express the cultural mindset and artistic output of that region. Bridge focus components are organized in collaboration with participating galleries, local artists and curators and partner institutions. We are proud of Focus Latin America in our Miami Wynwood fair, which will feature Antena, Chandra Cerritto, Galeria 13, Aldo Castillo, and many other Latin American galleries and artists. A select list includes:

Aldo Castillo Gallery
Curator Aldo Castillo, who specializes in Latin American Art, will present a group show supporting well-established Miami artists such as Adriana Carlvalho (Brazil), Sergio Garcia and Antuan (Cuba), Lili(ana) (Venezuela) and Carolina Sardi (Argentina), among others. The exhibition will also include ceramics by Wifredo Lam (Cuba).

Sergio Garval
Mexican artist Sergio Garval's critically acclaimed mixed-media works present apocalyptic visions of decadence and environmental destruction, with occasional jibes at the priesthood. Mexican critics consider Garval’s forthright depiction of nudity an important milestone in that nation’s evolution of contemporary art. Garval has been awarded 17 major prizes in prestigious Mexican competitions. His eight first-place awards include the Rafael Cauduro First Biennial of Drawings Competition of the Americas in Tijuana.

Mateo Arguelles Pitt
Award-winning Argentinean artist Mateo Arguelles Pitt will exhibits his life-size sculptures and paintings, courtesy of the Virginia Miller Gallery. Working from a predetermined theme, Pitt allows his subconscious to take over a painting, working in a manner that he equates with Abstract Expressionism. Pitt’s unique series of life-size sculptures lend to a new form of expression that complement his paintings.

Mexico Tourism Board
The Mexico Tourism Board (MTB) partners with Bridge Miami Wywnood to promote Latin American artists and Mexico’s important art centers and cultural destinations. MTB brings together the resources of federal and state governments, municipalities and private companies to promote Mexico’s tourism attractions and destinations internationally. Created in 1999, the MTB is Mexico’s tourism promotion agency, and its participants include members of both the private and public sectors.

Media contact
For more information or for interviews, contact Brenda Schumacher at (312) 421-2227 (office), (847) 691-2301 (cell), or e-mail at bschumacher@bridgeartfair.com

Venues and preview:
The Catalina and Maxine Hotels
1732 Collins Avenue -Miami
December 4-7
December 4 11am–6pm VIP first look preview

Art Midtown
NE 1st Avenue and NW 34th Street
December 2-7
December 2 11am–6pm VIP first look preview

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