Category: Art Basel 2013 - Mapanare.us Constantly.Consuming.Culture.

Natalie Kates Projects (New York) Online Gallery Working With Emerging Artists.

1/14/2014

by Swoon

Yeah I was half dead by the time I got to Natalie Kates Projects (New York) so all the images don't have the names for artists or the art. Let's turn it into a game of YOU go to the website and find the artist!

Obviously the piece to the left is by Swoon. Who I thought had already "emerged" but let's not pick nits.

The online gallery does something interesting. Natalie Kates is a consultant of sorts a "style curator." It is a different approach from a traditional gallery. It is about branding an image via art and style.

It all seems very high end and lofty.

Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco) Showed Work By Handiedan And Scott Hove At Scope Miami Beach 2013

1/14/2014

Bollywood Sugar No. 5 by Handiedan

Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco) showed work by Handiedan and Scott Hove at Scope Miami Beach 2013.

Handiedan, a Dutch artist, creates collages using both computer techniques and old school cut and paste. She builds layers and if you look closely you can see all sorts of odds and ends and detritus in the work. Despite how they look on the page the piece below, Counterfeiter No. 4, is actually quite small. More on Handiedan HERE.

Hove's work first inspires thoughts such as; "Wow, I am glad that thing doesn't really exist." But you might, after that initial reaction, find these pieces oddly beautiful. And that seems to be part of Hove's aim; he wants to find the link between the brutal and the beautiful (sounds like a soap opera I might actually watch). He works in decorative media--the sort of media that isn't usually considered appropriate for "fine art." Find out more (especially about Cakeland) HERE.

Counterfeiter No. 4 by Handiedan

Eileen Braziel Fine Arts (Sante Fe, NM) Showed Work At Scope Miami Beach 2013

1/13/2014

Genius that I am I neglected to get the name of this artist. But it was showed by Eileen Braziel Fine Arts (Sante Fe, New Mexico). They are art advisors who represent both artists and artist's agents. They use traveling exhibits and installations in their work.

Conceptual art is the theme here and Braziel herself is in the process of setting up a non-profit foundation, the International Land-Sensitive Art Foundation.

This organization will produce art programs that create sit specific land/art projects.

C. Emerson Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida) Showed Paintings By Jason Snyder At Scope Miami Beach, 2014

1/13/2014

Enhanced Interrogation by Jason Snyder

C. Emerson Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida) showed paintings by Jason Snyder at Scope Miami Beach 2013. The gallery works with an eclectic group of artists and also works extensively selling art online. They also do traveling shows.

Snyder, in each piece, explores one aspect of the human spirit and how this aspect manifests and/or affects others. Snyder studied engineering and turned to art to "escape." Eventually he decided to pursue art professionally. He currently resides in Fort Meyers, Florida.

Privacy is Dead by Jason Snyder

Coup D' Oeil Art Consortium (New Orleans) Showed Work By Blaine Capone And Chris Dennis At Scope Miami Beach 2013

1/13/2014

Zealot by Blaine Capone

Coup d'oeil Art Consortium (New Orleans) showed work by Blaine Capone and Chris Dennis at Scope Miami Beach 2013.

Capone grew up in New Orleans and he self-describes as a person of privilege who looked at the city and its environs as his "wilderness." You can read more about his thoughs on the city and how it influenced his art HERE.

Dennis is a native of England and studied
natural history illustration at Bournemouth and Pool College of Art. After receiving his BA at the University of Wolverhampton he came to the USA and studied at the University of Art in San Francisco where he was awarded an MFA. More on him HERE.

Young Man by Blaine Capone

Evan Lurie Gallery (Carmen, Indiana/Miami) Showed Work by Jorge Santos, Nick Veasey And Alexi Torres At Scope Miami Beach

1/10/2014

Adrift by Jorge Santos

Evan Lurie Gallery showed work by Jorge Santos, Nick Veasey and Alexi Torres at Scope Miami Beach 2013.

Yes, those are actual X-Rays by Veasey. He thinks, quite literally, that beauty is on the inside. The gallery website has other, better, images of his work.

Santos is a self-taught artist who spent his childhood in colonial Angola, the in Lisbon and finally in the 80s he came to the USA. His paintings are sharp and realistic when it comes to the individual forms (or components) of the work. But the whole is dream-like.

Picasso by Alexi Torres

Dubner Moderne (Lausanne) Showed Work By Manuel Müller At Scope Miami Beach 2014

1/10/2014

Mandragore Relief by Manuel Müller

Dubner Moderne (Lausanne) showed pieces by Manuel Müller at Scope Miami Beach 2014.

The work included the woodcuts below and the three-dimensional wood and bronze piece, Mandragore Relief.

Müller comes from (to put it mildly) an artistic family. His father, Robert, is a noted sculptor and his brother, Grégoire, is a painter. He is a native of Paris and currently lives in Lausanne.

Find out more about the artist at www.manuelmuller.com.

The gallery opened its doors in 2009 and is the brainchild of Vernon Dubner. They work with contemporary artists in a number of media--painting, sculpture, photography and limited edition prints. Artists represented by the gallery have pieces in some of the world's greatest museums ;MoMA (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, ,Today Museum (Beijing), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).

Chou Brun

Sans Titre

Rare Gallery (New York) Showed Work By Maya Brodsky, Dionisios Fragias And Yayoi Kusama At Scope Miami Beach 2013

1/9/2014

by Yayoi Kusama

Rare Gallery (New York) showed work by an eclectic collection of artists including Maya Brodsky and Dionisios Fragias.

I like art that has more concept than technique. I like it when an artist draws a smiley face on a piece of notebook paper, freezes it in liquid nitrogen and shoots it with a high powered rifle (or something along those lines). But there is something about an artist whose beautiful, realistic technique manages to capture the essence of humanity. The work of Maya Brodsky is precisely this sort of work. She paints people or scenes without people but even in the latter case there are artifacts of human beings there; plastic bags full of stuff, rumpled sheets or rumpled washcloths.

When she paints people they are average folks but she brings out their beauty--perhaps melancholic beauty but beauty nonetheless. She is a special artist and one who might seem a bit outside the fashion today--but being outside of what is in fashion is usually a sign, in any artistic endeavor, that you are doing something right. Her work is oil painted on mylar mounted on board. See more of her work HERE.

Fragias work are unique pieces--oil painted on aluminum. They may be of the sea, or a city scape in the shape of a razorblade. Again there is realism in the works but where and how the images are painted distort this into something else, something unreal. In advance of Art Week I was supposed to interview Fragias but ran out of time. See more of his work HERE.

by Dionisios Fragias

Holden Green by Maya Brodsky

Kashya Hildebrand (Zurich) Showed Works By Reza Derakshani, Babak Kezemi And Tianbing Li At Scope Miami Beach 2013

1/9/2014

Mentality by Reza Derakshani

Kashya Hildebrand (Zurich) showed work by Reza Derakshani, Babak Kezemi and Tianbing Li at Scope Miami Beach 2013. The artists all work in Asia--Iran, the United Arab Emirates and China respectively.

What the pieces have in common is their fairly large scale. They also all have an almost mythological weight (which I felt even before reading the descriptions and the meaning of each piece).

Without going into all of these, Farhad and Shirin, is an Iranian story about a stone mason trying to win the hand of a princess by completing an impossible task. The task proves less impossible than imagined but there is still no happy ending.

Kashya Hildebrand, currently in Zurich, is in the process of moving to London. Find out more HERE.

The Exit of Farhad and Shirin by Babak Kezemi

Goncalo Mabunda's Work Was Shown By Ethan Cohen Fine Arts (New York) At Scope Miami Beach 2013

1/9/2014

Untitled Mask 4

Goncalo Mabunda's pieces--various untitled masks and War Throne--are made of metal and recycled weapons. The work was shown by Ethan Cohen Fine Arts (New York).

Mabunda, from Mozambique, has made a name for himself making art and furniture from discarded implements of war. He may not be beating these into plowshares but pretty close.

He is channeling the collective memory of his nation in his work. Art transforms. Mabunda shows that quite literally. His work has been exhibited all over the world. To find out more about him go HERE.

War Throne