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Tonight’s reading: @tmagazine Holiday issue

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December 7, 2014

Jonah Freeman + Justin Lowe Performance – The Miami Beach EDITION

One of the highlights of Art Basel Miami Beach happened this past Thursday, December 4^t^h, when Marlborough Chelsea presented Shadow Pool: A Natural History of the San San International, a performance by Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe featuring Black Bananas, at The Miami Beach EDITION

Amanda Efthimiou & Moenen_Erbuer (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Arielle Lewin, Sarah Schulman, & Gabe Schulman (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Carolina Pasci, Bill Powers, & Tom Eccles (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Carol Han & Melissa Elliott (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Eugene Jang, Paul Efstathiou, Devin Troy Strother, Urbyn Yates Michaels, & Jonathan Le (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Glen O'Brien & Leo Fitzpatrick (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Ryan Mcginley, Rory Cucciniello, & Teddy Liouliaki (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Thomas Richter, Keren Richter, George Switzer, & Franklin Melendez (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Vera Neykov, Bill Powers, Ryan Mcginley, & Teddy Liouliaki (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Veronica Fernandez & Sheikh Mohammed R Al-Thani (Courtesy of World Red Eye)

Guests included Ryan McGinley, Bill Powers, Waris Ahluwalia, Marilyn Minter, Jordan Wolfson, Devin Troy Strother, Leo Fizpatrick, Will Cotton, Glenn O’Brien, Nick Jonas, Daniel Heidkamp, Jules de Balincourt, Lucy Chadwick, Tripoli Patterson, Carter Cleveland, Alban de Pury, Sebastian Errazuruiz, David Zwirner, Laurence Chandler, Anne Huntington, Nathalie Karg, Pierre Levai, Capucine Milliot, Shamim Momin, Darren Romanelli.

Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe create immersive environmental installations that play on ideas of drug culture, psychedelia, architecture and film. Shadow Pool employs a mix of theatrical genres ranging from the slide lecture, the fashion show, the sculptural display, and the live musical act as a means to illustrate the fictional parallel world of the San San International, a “hallucinatory mega-convention of staggering proportions”. Conceived in 2008, this multisensory extravaganza has traveled to sites ranging from MOCA Los Angeles to Ballroom Marfa.

Freeman and Lowe’s exhibition Floating Chain (High-Res Toni) is currently on view at Marlborough Chelsea through December 20^th, 2014.

December 6, 2014

Bedtime reading: PIN-UP Magazine

#DesignMiami #Architecture #Design
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December 6, 2014

Make sure you see Miami Project 2014 from @artmarketproductions this weekend as it hosts the best in contemporary and modern art from 67 of the world’s top galleries ⭐⭐⭐

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December 6, 2014

PERRIER-JOUËT PRESENTS ‘‘EPHEMERĀ’’ BY MISCHER’TRAXLER

Perrier-Jouët’s latest commissioned design work, Ephemerā’ by mischer’traxler, premiered this week at Design Miami 2014. Exploring traditional craftsmanship, modern technology, the ephemerality of nature, and the Art Nouveau movement, mischer’traxler has captured the very essence of Perrier-Jouët with its own unique interpretation.

As Perrier-Jouët’s latest press release reveals:

‘Ephemerā’ is the opening work of a new, year-long artistic residency with the Vienna-based duo and the historic champagne house, entitled ‘Small Discoveries’. The collaboration has been designed to stimulate curiosity, exploring the magical dialogue between Mankind and Nature. Small Discoveries, an innovative series of original works to be revealed throughout 2015 with exclusive limited editions.

‘Ephemerā’ stands out at Design Miami/2014 owing to its unique combination of playfulness and sincerity. It sparks curiosity and enchants the audience with a delicate game of hide-and-seek, played out through a mechanical ornamental garden. Comprising a room with a large oak table and two mirrors, the elegant furniture pieces come alive with colourful metal plants and insects that represent current, extinct and rediscovered species. Representing nature’s lively, deferential relationship with mankind, plants rise up and move to their own choreography, if they ‘feel’ they are not being watched. When someone approaches, they ‘hide’ and fold back into the table, reinventing a kinetic form of traditional marquetry. Similarly, digital leaves grow across the mirrors extending into 3D forms, but only as long as people are not too close. Otherwise they retract, leaving just a normal, reflective mirror.

This is the third year that Perrier-Jouët has revealed an original commission first at Design Miami/. A continuation of the brand’s support of young designers, these partnerships demonstrate the brand’s belief in infusing art in the everyday experience. Each new commission joins the Perrier-Jouët collection at The Maison Belle Epoque, which hosts the world’s largest private collection of original French Art Nouveau pieces. In its role as a patron of design art, Perrier-Jouët is carefully adding new pieces to sit alongside its beautiful heritage pieces and ‘Ephemerā’ ultimately will join this collection.

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