On December 2 in Miami Beach, Florida, a night of performances and the unveiling of 27 large-scale public artworks will mark the opening of the Art Basel Miami Beach Public sector, curated by Nicholas Baume, director and chief curator of New York’s Public Art Fund.
Located just outside the Bass Museum, the outdoor exhibition will feature works from both emerging and established artists.
This year, Baume’s theme is “Metaforms,” which is meant to explore the process of transformation that makes the creation of art possible. The show examines the ways in which artists take familiar objects and symbols and imbue them with new meanings, uncovering important truths about our world.
“The idea of Metaforms captures the way many works of art draw on the familiar forms of everyday life and through manipulations of scale, material, texture, and content become something else,” explained Baume to artnet News. “That resulting work of art manages to evoke the form at its source while adding new layers of formal complexity and meaning.”
The Public Sector pieces will be on display starting 2nd December and will remain on view through February 1, 2016.
The 2015 Public artworks are:
Olaf Breuning, I Can Not Take It Anymore, 2015, Metro Pictures
James Capper, Mountaineer Prototype, 2015, Paul Kasmin Gallery
Tony Cragg, Mixed Feelings, 2012, Marian Goodman Gallery
Melvin Edwards, Ukpo.Edo, 1993/1996, Alexander Gray Associates,Stephen Friedman Gallery
Sam Falls, Untitled (Healing pavilion…), 2015, Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Sylvie Fleury, Eternity Now, 2015, Bass Museum of Art
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2012, Galerie König, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Matt Johnson, Twisted Jersey Barrier, 2015, 303 Gallery, Blum & Poe
Jacob Kassay, Untitled, 2012-2015, 303 Gallery
Kris Martin, Altar, 2014, Sies + Höke
Rubén Ortiz Torres, Collector’s Backyard Boogie, 2015, OMR
Athena Papadopoulos, Two Serious(ly) (young) Women, (Hubba Hubba Trouba and Ouchy Waa Waa Mama’), 2015, Supportico Lopez
Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Paraíso, 2015, Revolver Galería
Sterling Ruby, Big Yellow Mama, 2013, and Lips, 2014, Gagosian Gallery
Michael Sailstorfer, Voilà (Dubai) 1, 2011, and Voilà (Dubai) 3, 2011, Galerie König
Tomás Saraceno, One Module Cloud with Interior Net, 2015, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Tony Tasset, Deer, 2015, Kavi Gupta
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2015 (don’t shoot the messenger), 2015, Gavin Brown’s enterprise
Francisco Ugarte, Sunlight I, 2015, Arredondo\Arozarena
Timm Ulrichs, Von null bis unendlich (from here to eternity), 1986, Wentrup
Marianne Vitale, Ace of Spades, 2015, Contemporary Fine Arts
Ursula von Rydingsvard, Bent Lace, 2014, Galerie Lelong
Hank Willis Thomas, Ernest and Ruth, 2015, Jack Shainman Gallery
Robert Wilson, Einstein Chair, from Einstein on the Beach, 1976 (produced 2002), Paula Cooper Gallery
Yan Xing, L’amour l’après-midi, 2015, Galerie Urs Meile
Xiao Yu, Elevation No.2, 2013, Beijing Art Now Gallery
Public opening night performances:
Xavier Cha, supreme ultimate exercise, 2015, 47 Canal
Ryan Gander, Ernest Hawker, 2015, Lisson Gallery (A Performa commission curated by Mark Beasley for Performa 15)
Pope.L, The Beautiful, 2015, Mitchell-Innes & Nash
Yan Xing, L’amour l’après-midi, 2015, Galerie Urs Meile
Art Basel in Miami Beach’s Public sector will open Wednesday, December 2, 7:oo p.m.–9:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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