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Michigan Avenue - 2015 - Issue 7 - November - Duncan Keith

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photography by Daniel Mansur, Courtesy of bergaMin & goMiDe (Sem TiTulo); Courtesy of beijing art now gallery (glory and dream); Courtesy of noga gallery (installation view) 74  michiganavemag.com Culture Art Full top left: Sem Titulo (1953) by Roberto Burle Marx will be exhibited by Bergamin & Gomide in the Survey sector at this year's Art Basel in Miami Beach. above: Wang Jinsong's Glory and Dream (1993) will be shown by Beijing Art Now Gallery as part of Survey. bottom left: Black Wheel, Bouquet, and Tim Buckley by Keren Cytter, as seen in her 2015 Siren video installation at MCA Chicago. Cytter is represented by Noga Gallery, and her work will be exhibited in the Nova sector. also creating new opportunities for galleries and their artists, not only in Miami Beach but also throughout Art Basel's global activities." Marc Spiegler, the director of Art Basel, is enthusiastic about what Horowitz will contribute to the fair. "Noah has demonstrated a deep under- standing of the art world, especially in the United States and Latin America," Spiegler says. "With him on board, Art Basel will be able to engage even more with emerging and established collectors, as well as our galleries throughout the Americas." Art Basel is well known for bringing artists and works from some of the world's most venerable galleries to its fairs. Less well known is how much effort the organization puts into presenting small independent galleries and the new artists they rep- resent, as well as established artists who may be familiar to art-world insiders but who lack expo- sure in the marketplace. "We have introduced sectors that are specif- cally designed for younger galleries and that are subsidized by the fair," Spiegler explains. "In addition, we also have sectors that are dedicated to single-project booths, giving new and younger artists and galleries the opportunity to participate in the show. These sectors are designed to be more experimental than the main Galleries sector. We created the Survey sector in Miami Beach last year, as we noticed that there was a real interest in looking back at more historical positions, artists who had been overlooked by the market but that other artists and connoisseurs kept returning to. And then, of course, there is the continued surge of so-called 'digital native' artists, who now have really come into their own." What is Horowitz most looking forward to at his frst Art Basel in Miami Beach? "I'm very excited about Nova, which provides younger gal- leries with a platform to present new work by up to three artists," he says. "We have several frst- time exhibitors, including Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo from Buenos Aires, presenting work by Nicolás Bacal, Tomás Espina, and Jorge Pedro Nuñez, and Essex Street in New York, with Park McArthur and Cameron Rowland. There are also some excellent new galleries in Positions, which is our other young sector focusing on single- artist presentations. I'm also looking forward to the second year of Survey, whose inaugural edi- tion was spectacular. This year's iteration features 12 exhibitions of historically informed works, including Castelli Gallery's presentation of iconic sculptures from the 1960s American artist Keith Sonnier, and the frst US survey of Brazilian artist Roberto Burle Marx at Galeria Bergamin. Finally, Public is always a major highlight of the Miami Beach show and will be curated again this year by Nicholas Baume of the Public Art Fund." MA

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