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Capucine Safir, French-Born, Miami-Based Artist Brings Her Sculpture To Superfine! Miami 2017 December 6 To 10, 2017

11/19/2017

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by Patrick Ogle

Capucine Safir is a French-born, Miami-based sculptor whose work is to be shown at Superfine! Miami 2017. She is a self-taught sculptor whose career as a professional artist began three years ago.

"Being a self taught sculptor is a luxury. I mean by that I am not constrained by a way of thinking or making art. However, it requires more discipline to stay focused because there is so much to explore, to discover and there is no limit when it comes to creativity," she says. "As for the technical part, the journey of an artist is made of trial and error anyway, this part is not different from someone who went to art school. Sculpture is sometimes close to chemistry, you need to learn the different curing process or the drying time of a material depending of the mass and temperature. I’d say that patience is the key here."

An undefined big change in her life led her to a new career in art and the move to Miami.

"After 4 years in Miami I see the art scene is constantly evolving and Art Basel is the major reason for that. All the art lovers and collectors are focused on Miami in December each year but it also makes the Magic City special all year long." says Safir.

In addition to reaching the ever growing number collectors and art aficionados focused on Miami Safir aims beyond South Florida. She has sold work around the world and hopes to exhibit in both Europe and Asia.  Miami is a great base for achieving this goal.


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The artist's work isn't influenced by location alone; no artist's work ever is.

"It is commonly said that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Well this is what happened few months after my son had been diagnosed with congenital CMV. It transformed my life in many ways and one of them was to reinvent myself,”  she says. "At first, my work was really driven by my present emotions, it was also very physical. I was carving into stone. It sounds cliché but it worked as a therapy."

She says she has moved on from this shock and her inspiration is now more diverse.


"I feel my art maturing, I’m building confidence. When I look at my work from the beginning, I see the evolution of myself as an artist and as a person. It’s been 3 years now that I’m a professional artist, it’s only the beginning of a very exciting journey." says Safir.


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At Superfine Safir will be showing mostly new artwork.

"I made a series of 18 small scale unique pieces called Sweet, from hand carved in plaster. They look like colorful marshmallows. I didn’t show them to a lot of people yet because I want to keep the surprise for the fair but the reactions so far are very positive. I will also show three different Soul pieces ( in pictures). This series is my best seller, people always ask me for new ones.” she says


The piece, L’Evaporation des hommes, was created in 2016 but is being shown for the first time at Superfine. The work is a framed sculpture in mixed media.

"Each piece I make is hand made, hand-carved, so it is unique. This is also what my collectors love about my work." she says.

She says she did well at the fair last year and that the energy, the parties and the general affordability of pieces at Superfine made it a destination fair during Art Week. Safir hopes her work has a specific effect on people who see it at Superfine.


"Art can question, intricate, bother or soothe people. My artwork is more in the last category it is very personal, it reflects my hidden part, the one that is soft, laid-back, free and more optimistic," she says. "People feel that in my sculptures. They always refer to something smooth, calming, soothing and I love to hear that, this is exactly why I do art. I want people to feel good surrounded by my sculptures, I want them to love them, to touch them etc."  


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FORM MIAMI Is A New Material-Based Fair Set To Open In Miami Beach December 6 To 10, 2017

11/15/2017

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Interview With Show Director, Donna Davies

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by Patrick Ogle

FORM MIAMI is a newcomer to Miami's Art Week. There are new fairs in Miami every year and sometimes fairs vanish after a year. Other times they carve out a niche in the crowded field. Form is likely to be among the latter; it is a fair with a unique focus and approach.

"Form Miami is the only art fair during Miami Art Week dedicated to contemporary applied arts. We are a material-based art fair therefore, the galleries exhibiting at Form Miami will have museum-quality, unique works of art in glass, ceramics, fiber, wood, and other material-based work by contemporary artists." says Donna Davies, Show Director and VP of the Art Group at Urban Expositions.


Urban Expositions, based in Georgia with offices in Connecticut, Florida and Illinois, manage 35 different events. Six of these events are art related including: Art Aspen, Art Hamptons, Houston Art Fair, Art Palm Springs and SOFA Chicago. SOFA, another material-based fair, is one of the longest running art fairs in the USA. They've been around for 24 years. That fair is the sister fair of the new Miami effort.

"The artists and galleries are very similar to those you will find in our SOFA CHICAGO fair with the applied arts focus. SOFA Chicago and Form Miami are singular in this focus versus Art Palm Springs and Art Aspen, which are much more focused on two-dimensional artwork with some sculpture exhibited in the fair." says Davies.



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While you will find material-based galleries and artists there is no fair totally dedicated to three dimensional material focused art. That makes this fair a destination for collectors and art aficionados interested in material-based pieces.

The fair's location on Miami Beach is nearby Art Basel Miami, Design Miami and Ink Miami as well as Lincoln Road. In fact the availability of the location is a big part of why FORM came to Miami.


"The location was a key factor in our decision to be in Miami. We had been looking at the market for quite some time but did not want to make a move into Miami unless we had the right venue and location," says Davies. "With our venue being across from Art Basel, steps from Lincoln Road and Collins Avenue, it made perfect sense to be in this highly desirable location."


 The fair is also about education; there is more to fine arts than paintings with a few sculptures tossed in.

"Our hope is that we make collectors who have been attending Miami Art Week and perhaps unaware of material-based work, to learn more and of course, acquire these exciting pieces! Three-dimensional work has such tactile and organic qualities, sculptural qualities that can be quite realistic or amorphous and organic," says Davies. "We hope that what collectors and art patrons who visit Miami that week is to have a fantastic, educational and enlightening experience viewing these exciting works of art in a variety of mediums presented by some of the most prestigious galleries who represent these artists and dedicated programs."

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