Notes related to Miami

Miami Art Week has just concluded, providing an excellent opportunity to reflect on Miami's evolution as a growing art center and a prominent player in the art market.

Pinta Miami celebrated its 2024 edition from December 5th to 8th, 2024 with more than 16,500 visitors, 45 galleries and 14 countries present. The fair at The Hangar, Coconut Grove led to good sales –where over 90% of the galleries reported sales– and enthusiastic overall attendance providing a true exchange between private, public spheres and opportunities for artists and galleries.

Georgina Valdez is the founder and director of the Argentine gallery The White Lodge, with locations in Córdoba and Buenos Aires. The space is part of the NEXT section of Pinta Miami 2024, with works by artists Sandro Pereira and Nushi Muntaabski. In an interview with Arte al Día, the gallerist reflected on the role of art as an engine of transformation and the place of The White Lodge in the contemporary art scene.

Arte al Día takes a look at the curatorial selection that highlights works by Ibero-American galleries in the NEXT, RADAR and Main sections of Pinta Miami. The curatorial team for the 2024 edition of the fair is integrated by Irene Gelfman -global curator of Pinta and co-curator of FORO and Special Project-, Giuliana Vidarte -curator of NEXT and co-curator of FORO and Special Project- and Angelica Arbelaez -curator of RADAR.

Pinta Miami brings together artists who explore the identity, memory and cultural diversity of Ibero-America. In this 2024 edition, several proposals seek to redefine the Latinx notion from unique and transformative perspectives.

In its third consecutive edition at The Hangar, in Coconut Grove, the Pinta Miami 2024 fair celebrates its eighteenth edition from December 5 to 8 with proposals that make visible the diverse artistic narratives of Latin America. An opportunity for gallerists, artists, curators, collectors and art lovers that seek to explore the region's contemporary discourses.

The Pinta Miami 2024 edition -from December 5 to 8- presents proposals that enhance the Latin American gene. Arte al Día highlights four galleries from four Latin American countries: Petrus Gallery in Puerto Rico, Proyecto H in Spain and Mexico, Salar Gallery in Bolivia and Judas Gallery in Chile.

In the upcoming edition of Pinta Miami –from December 5 to 8, 2024– Angelica Arbelaez will be in charge of the RADAR section. In a dialogue with Arte al Día, she reflects on the role of Latin American art in international artistic discourses and how artists from the region contribute to the construction of a new global artistic narrative for a richer and more inclusive world.

To paint the forest beings is the Special Project of Pinta Miami 2024. Curated by Irene Gelfman and Giuliana Vidarte, it brings together paintings by Shipibo-konibo indigenous artists with representations of the flora, fauna and cosmovision of the Peruvian Amazon to rethink the past, present and future of the planet.

Since its foundation in 2007 in New York, Pinta has established itself as a key event in promoting Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese art. What began as a boutique fair in the Big Apple has evolved into a global concept connecting artists, galleries, and collectors worldwide.

Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, the exhibition at El Espacio 23 explores the entangled, inseparable relationship between the physical and emotional aspects of the body.

The Oolite Arts Board of Directors announced that they have selected national arts leader John Abodeely as the organization’s next president and CEO. He will take on his new role in January 2025.

The 2024-2025 rehang of Craig Robins Collection is titled The Sleep of Reason, based on Francisco de Goya’s El sueño de la razón produce monstruos, part of his major print series, Caprichos.

NSU Art Museum at Miami presents three exhibitions: Rose B. Simpson and Vanessa German: IT INCLUDES EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, ALWAYS; the first solo museum exhibition of artist Cici McMonigle Creatures for the divine; and Vicious Circles, the first exhibition in the United States dedicated to artist Jacqueline de Jong.

Pinta Miami –the international art fair focused on modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American art– celebrates its eighteenth edition from December 5-8, 2024. Through curated sections and a dynamic and contemporary interdisciplinary program, the fair reinforces its commitment to showcasing a plurality of art.

Pérez Art Museum presents the exhibition José Parla: Homecoming. Featuring new works and a site-specific mural exhibition, it marks the artist’s return to painting and Miami.

The exhibition Beyond the Single Image. Spanish Photography from the Foto Colectania Collection, Barcelona, at The Marguiles Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, presents 150 works by 36 artists from the Foto Colectania Collection, that currently comprises more than 3,000 photographs by Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese authors, making it undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive private photography collections in the Iberian Peninsula. 

The Bass is presenting the exhibition asume vivid astro focus – XI, an enveloping installation of patterned wallpaper and decal graphics that spans floor to ceiling in a setting created for works by more than thirty artists. On view from November 13, 2024.

Inspired by the murals of Carl Abrahams lining the departures lounge of Kingston Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport, Hurvin Anderson presents a new, sixteen-panel, monumental painting in his first solo show at Pérez Art Museum Miami.

ICA Miami presents the first US museum exhibition of the late Afro-Brazilian painter Rubem Valentim (b. 1922, Salvador, Brazil; d. 1991, São Paulo). A singular voice in modernist painting and geometric abstraction, Valentim explored the medium’s formal concerns and social resonances across cultures and spiritual practices. This exhibition focuses on works Valentim produced in the 1960s, and the transformation of his work and thinking during this time.

Locust Projects presents Bare Tool (Herramienta desnuda), a new exhibition by artist Alexandre Arrechea that explores the action of a stone skipping across water as a metaphor for “social sculpture” and the resulting ripple effect, which the artist envisions in three acts: “The Tool,” “The Action,” and “The Implications,” unfolding as a large scale, immersive multimedia experience that invites reflection on the power of individual acts.

Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences announces Xavier Cortada: Climate Science Art a solo exhibition at Washington, D.C. featuring Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada's climate change-focused artwork from Miami-Dade County, Florida, and the North and South Poles, spanning from 2007 to the present.

Calida Rawles presents Away with the Tides, an exhibition at Pérez Art Museum (PAMM) featuring all-new, site-specific works alongside a novel large-scale video installation. Marking Rawles’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Away with the Tides reflects aspects of Miami’s diverse communities, natural environments, and rich history.

The exhibition Territorios: Latin American Contemporary Art in the Jorge M. Perez Collection shows a selection of works by more than 50 contemporary Latin American artists at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC). It is curated by Jimena Blázquez Abascal, director of the CAAC.

Xican-a.o.x. Body in Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is the first major exhibition to showcase work by artists who foreground the body as a site of political agency and imagination, artistic investigation, decolonization, and alternative forms of community.

The Cuban-born, Miami-based art collector and philanthropist Rosa de la Cruz’s famous art collection will be sold over a series of auctions starting on May 2024.

Artist Diego Damas presents his solo exhibition "La Testa di Licantropo", inaugurated at IDArtLab. The exhibition, curated by Félix Suazo and under the General Direction of Domingo de Lucía, takes as its starting point the idea of the monument as a model of symbolic authority in which different aspects of human culture intersect, such as power, devotion, and violence.

Spirit in the Land at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is a contemporary art exhibition that examines today’s urgent ecological concerns from a cultural perspective, demonstrating how intricately our identities and natural environments are intertwined.

Pinta Miami’s 2024 edition will be held from December 5 to 8, at The Hangar in Coconut Grove, Miami. Galleries and artistic projects are invited to apply until May 30, 2024.

The great art collector Rosa de la Cruz passed away at the age of 81 at her home in Miami and left a great legacy in the city's art and cultural scene.