Fotografia Colombiana

Place
Miami Beach Convention Center, Hall D

For more information, visit arteaméricas online at: www.arteamericas.com

Video Box: Latin American Cameras
The Inter-American Biennial of Video Art, organized by the Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., is the only video biennial that exists at the hemispheric level, and operates under an open call instead of pre-selected entries and curatorial frameworks. This is an important distinction that has become part of the Biennial’s character. In December of 2010, the Biennial will celebrate its Fifth Edition, and the establishment of a tradition that the IDB Cultural Center hopes will continue for years to come. The current selection of videos has been made from participating videos chosen in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Biennials.

Ricardo Cordova, Courtesy La Galeria
Lima

The fair will feature 47 of the best galleries from Barcelona, Berlin, Boca Raton, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Coral Gables, Cuernavaca, Chicago, Guadalajara, La Paz, Lima, Maracaibo, Miami, México, D.F., Panamá, Petion Ville, Port au Prince, Santiago de Chile and Santo Domingo, who will be exhibiting the works of over 300 artists. The 2010 fair includes the innovative addition of galleries from Haiti and Spain, making arteaméricas not only the Latin American art fair, but the art fair of the Americas.

Haitian Initiative
Led by Edouard Duval-Carrie, the Haitian Art Relief Fund and arteaméricas will directly help artists affected by the devastation of the recent earthquake. Duval-Carrie has invited artists from throughout the world to donate their works to be sold at arteaméricas. In addition, arteaméricas will feature Contemporary Haitian Memory in Motion, presenting Haitian artists whose studios have been destroyed. Several galleries will also participate by showcasing Haitian art in their spaces.

Art Talks: Conversations about Art
Coordinated by Julia Herzberg, Art Talks is a series of four discussion tables aimed at promoting reflection and critical analysis regarding the visual arts and related practices, and at addressing topics pertaining to art, museum architecture, art fairs and the market for present-day art from the point of view of the participating panelists, all of them scholars in their fields of knowledge. Topics include: Architecture and museum design; The art market rebound; The impact of art fairs on the world of Latin American art; and The contemporary art scene. Florida International University professor Juan Martinez will also give a lecture on his new book about Cuban artist Carlos Enriquez.

Barcelona’s Reial Cercle Artistic Pavilion
The Reial Cercle Artistic of Barcelona will feature Pepa Poch (Spanish representative of the London-based International Color Authority), whose exhibit “Pensamiento” represents the passage of time conveyed through the bow of a ship in the process of transition to a different state, evoking the passage from the hyper-textured to the ethereal; Josep Puigmartí will propose an interplay of symbolisms and inspirations based on subjects related to ancestral Central American cultures; Miquel Pujol will feature a subtle installation based on an old fishing net where he hangs his music via interventions on stencils of his own cello, evoking the central role that music plays and the bonds it creates in all Latin cultures. Lastly, there will be a sculpture by the brilliant Salvador Dalí: his exceptional vision of “Man on a Dolphin,” which is the synthesis and leading exponent of the creativity, sensibility and cognitive discernment of Mediterranean culture, from which a message of diversity, plurality and multiplicity is derived. This project is sponsored by the Centro Cultural Español.

Spontaneous Alternatives
MOCA’s Education Outreach programs Women on the Rise! & Art Corps aim to broadcast a new vocabulary of art, empowerment, and pride, created through dissecting and understanding the broad spectrum of issues addressed by contemporary art. MOCA not only facilitates these gender-specific programs to its immediate North Miami community but also offers workshops through all of Miami-Dade County, and trains local artist-instructors to lead each workshop, in hopes to continue expanding locally, and pilot a nationwide effort in cultural institutions that is inclusive of all teen demographics, using contemporary art as its platform to form an improved community, immersed in awareness and with proactive actions concerning issues of social justice.

FACES: 100 Cuban artists
This Miami Dade College project is a photographic documentation of the Cuban artist community that was formed in South Florida in the early sixties, and that continues to incorporate new members arriving constantly in search of artistic freedom of expression. It is composed of 100 portraits of Cuban artists whose work is contributing to define the image of Miami as a center for contemporary art both in the United States and in the international scene. Carlos Manuel Cárdenes’s 100 photographs of the Cuban art Diaspora are re-appropriating cultural icons that raise vital questions about relationships between cultures, about representation of culture and its meaning, and about connections between intention, expectation, and content. Cárdenes’s images, created from faces and portraits, backgrounds and spaces acquired from each artist’s personal landscapes, become pictures with no owner, which may also belong to the world of someone else. Faces is one hundred visual stories, metaphors that tell us about unique artists, immortality and representation. An unparalleled history of unexplored richness of Cuban and American contemporary culture, Cárdenes’s photographs are a tribute to the resilience and vitality of artists from Cuba outside its borders.

Art in the Classroom
Five new artists, selected from their graduating classes, will be presented by three well-respected art academies of Florida: New World School of the Arts / MDC, School of Art & Art History de Florida International University/FIU, and AI/ Miami International University of Art & Design.

arteaméricas is headed by Leslie Pantín, the fair’s President; Emilio Calleja, Vice President; and Dora Valdés-Fauli, fair director, María Nápoles, executive director and Othón Castañeda, associate director.

For more information, visit arteaméricas online at www.arteamericas.com.

Leon Ferrari
Courtesy PanAmerican
Art Projects, Miami

Rafael Rangel
Courtesy GBG Arts,
Caracas