During Design Miami 2012, the Tai Ping Carpets x Rita Motta Perez installation at Inventory 03: Experience of a City showed that rugs can be elevated to art. A vibrant purple creation that captured the essense of effervescing bubbles, it was truly an amazing piece to behold.
Special thanks to Tai Ping’s fabulous Digital Marketing Manager Lauryn Soden for guiding me through this beautiful exhibition.
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This year the Miami Design District hosted a week of satellite events in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami. The Miami Design District 2012 Exhibition brought together the worlds of art, culture, design and fashion. I was very fortunate to be invited to take tour of the District during the week long fair festivities.
Thanks to our fabulous hosts from Camron, Judith and Marisa, for guiding us through the art+culture+design+fashion+luxury fair highlights of this ever-evolving sophisticated, uber-luxe neighborhood.
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PULSE Miami 2012 delivered a dynamic art fair full of amazing contemporary works from artists from all over the globe. They pretty much covered every aspect of international contemporary art. Looking for the best in emerging artists, they had IMPULSE – a section of the fair dedicated to galleries showing solo exhibits from emerging artists. Looking for innovative videos, they had PULSE PLAY, the fair’s ongoing video lounge series. Looking for large installations, they had PULSE Projects. The entire venue at the Ice Palace Studios was fully utilized, each section holding delights.
So, it came as no surprise to me that the post show press release announced PULSE Miami 2012’s success:
“PULSE Miami 2012, held from December 6-9th at the Ice Palace Studios in Miami, closed with a record number of visitors, up almost 20% from last year.Nearly 4,000 visitors passed through in the opening hours of the fair and the crowds steadily increased through Sunday. There was an overall buzz of excitement and vibrancy as multiple galleries reported significant sales on the opening day. The active selling was non-stop with particular interest from major international and U.S. museums and foundations.
Looking forward now PULSE New York 2013 !
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During this year’s Design Miami Week, I had the opportunity to see the fabulous ORCHID The Show located in the Luis Pons‘ designed Pleasure Garden site in the Miami Design District. ORCHID is a combination Cirque du Soleil, Moulin Rouge, Las Vegas and Burlesque extravaganza complete with phenomenal acts and showstopping numbers.
The Pleasure Garden also includes a sensational food and beverage program by the James Beard award winning chef, Michelle Bernstein. I must say that they made me the best cosmopolitan I have had in South Florida !
ORCHID is a limited run engagement, so see it before it ends on January 6th !
Design Miami 2012 was a happy confluence of outstanding design galleries, glorious collaborations, rousing conversations and amazing, highly collectible pieces.
As the latest press release states:
“The eighth edition of Design Miami saw record attendance and robust sales throughout its six-day run in Miami, Florida from December 4-9, 2012. Thirty-six of the world’s leading galleries presented contemporary and historic design, which sold well among the 31,000 design collectors and enthusiasts who attended the fair.”
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The results are in – Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 is a mega success ! This year’s event had a record attendance of over 70,000 visitors, including 130 museum and institution groups from across the world, returning renowned private collectors from the Americas, Europe and emerging markets, and a significant number of new collectors.
“As Art Basel marked its second decade in Miami Beach, more than 250 leading galleries from 31 countries from North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia presented the highest quality of work at the show, underlining its seriousness. Given a particularly strong representation of Modern material at the show, as well as the entry of a dynamic selection of younger galleries – including nine that were newly accepted to the fair from NADA– visitors explored 11 decades and over 110 years of art history within the Miami Beach Convention Center. Additionally, collaborations with local and international partners ensured a diverse and deep program of art events, from Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon to Art Public, Art Video and Art Film, making this edition a celebration of the artists and their galleries.”
So while most social media coverage focused on the parties, the serious business of art sales turned up a notch. Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 proves that 10 years after it’s launch, Art Basel Miami Beach plays harder and works harder that any art fair out there.
Last Thursday, I was up early to attend the Bisazza press breakfast for Arik Levy‘s presentation of his permanent commission for the Bisazza Foundation, “Experimental Growth”, including it’s interactive video installation, “Virtual Truth”, at their flagship store in Miami’s Design District.
Marie Cristina Didero, Director of the Foundation, was there to introduce this incredible multi-disciplinary artist and to announce the Foundation’s activities for 2013. As she states:
“We are delighted to be part of Design Miami this year by bringing, with the Virtual Truth video, an abstract of the Experimental Growth design installation created by Arik Levy for the Bisazza Foundation in Vicenza, Italy. Experimental Growth is our first project dedicated to contemporary design, entirely produced by the Bisazza Foundation. Arik Levy has conceived an imposing and impressive installation for us, a work of great scope that will enhance the foundation’s Permanent Collection.”“Experimental Growth” consists of the significantly-sized RockChamber, which is covered in black mosaic tiles designed to look like a meteorite that has crashed to earth. Once inside the visitor has no visual cues to refer to thus separating them from any formal relationship with architecture. “Virtual Truth” invites the visitor to take a step further by interacting with moving images, changing their perception about space.
Also among the invitees was Lorrenda Newman Sherrer, the amazing Publisher of Modern Magazine along with her equally amazing Editor-in-Chief, Beth Dunlop and the fantastic Jenny Palmer of the innovative, next-level Alarm Press.
A great event to start my Design Miami Day !
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