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Art Basel has invaded Florida in December. The direction of Art Basel in June 2000 signed a multiyear contract with the City of Miami Beach and Miami Beach Convention Center. The event was originally held in 2001. She had been postponed to 2002 after the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001. It has unleashed passions in December. For its first edition, the fair was a smashing success both in attendance and sales.

Why Miami? Miami Beach, with its first-class hotels, excellent restaurants, famous shopping streets and vibrant nightlife, was the perfect place. Bridging Cultures in North America, Latin America and Europe, Miami has indeed a great cultural and economic potential, an airport and an international seaport, a unique architecture, numerous natural wonders and enjoys a pleasant climate. This is particularly the concentration of a single high standard of living, ambitious cultural institutions, an active community of collectors of art and a lively art scene that has played for Florida. The museums of South Florida inaugurated on this occasion shows unusual to enrich the new art fair and to create additional attractions for the international audience. The Higher Committee, founded last year in South Florida, brought together more than a hundred personalities from the worlds of culture, politics and economics. He supported this year Art Basel Miami Beach and is committed to providing exhibitors and guests of the city a warm welcome. The chairman of this committee was assured by the pair of collectors Irma & Norman Braman, the honorary president was the mayor of Miami Beach David Dermer. The stated purpose of the proceedings of the city was to raise Art Basel Miami Beach to the rank of the top events of the cultural and social life of the two Americas. Many prominent American museums have made the journey on that occasion.

We read a headline in The New York Times about the new event: "This is surely the contemporary art fair the hottest U.S.." Samuel Keller, director of Art Basel Miami Beach, added: "And this year will be even more! The renowned contemporary art fair in Basel took up his winter quarters on the beach in Miami (Florida) last December, where thousands converge art lovers, artists and gallery owners. "Almost all the most important galleries of contemporary art were present," said Samuel Keller. It was the first time Art Basel, one of the largest contemporary art fairs in the world, organized a demonstration outside Switzerland. All media (paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photography, publishing, performance, digital art and video) were to see and buy.

Art Basel Miami Beach materialize an innovative concept, the centerpiece of which consisted of a contemporary art fair. 160 galleries for contemporary art (66 of them came from the United States and Canada, 75 from Europe, 10 from Latin America, 3 from Asia and South Africa) are among the leaders market and coming mostly from North America, Latin America and Europe, had been carefully selected.

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They had 5,000 works of art than a thousand artists, considered "the most respected and most interesting" of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. "Prices are starting at a few hundred dollars for young artists and amounted to several million for works worthy of inclusion in a museum," according to organizers. This new event has been organized in close cooperation with museums of art and private collections of South Florida. Cross-Cutting Cultural events involving music, fashion, film, design and architecture, completed the program skillfully. The fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld unveiled in particular, during a parade, his latest creations.

Different interior spaces added to outdoor stands nearby for events and exhibitions, were part of this gigantic stage, while integrating the largely unique Art Deco architecture of Miami Beach. One of the most dramatic outdoor stalls of the new art fair was a few steps away, on the beach itself. Young galleries who had not sufficient means to participate in international art fairs, were offered a formula to be both interesting and economical way to introduce new art ("Art Positions"). Art Basel Miami Beach was developed in partnership with young architects Steinmann & Schmid, mobile exhibition spaces by transforming shipping containers. Gathered in a small village, these spaces have not failed to elicit strong interest from the public.

At Art Basel Miami Beach, the opportunity was given to young artists to be featured in solo exhibitions. Their galleries showed their respective work in "Art Statements", which has for many years, Art Basel precipitate the career of many young talents. "Art Statements" extremely favorable terms offered to present their foals on a platform guaranteeing the maximum attention of collectors, exhibition organizers and media. The selection committee gave preference to artists exhibiting unknown or positions are difficult to communicate. Among the artists selected last year already have been added MR (Tomio Koyama Gallery), Candice Breitz (Galleria Francesca Kaufmann) Elisa Sighicelli (Galleria Giò Marconi), Javier Téllez (Serge Ziegler Gallery) and Alessandro Pessoli (Anton Kern Gallery).

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Of the nineteen artists selected, four were from the United States, two from Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, and South Africa, Brazil, Nigeria, s Spain and Venezuela. Other art projects out-of-common public space in Miami Beach ("Art Projects") were exposed in several places in the Art Deco District. In Collins Park, and more precisely in the rotunda of the Public Library in Miami Beach (just across from the Miami Beach Convention Center), visitors attending video projections and commuting to the video library, which proposed a comprehensive program of video works . The "Art Video Lounge" was installed by the group of American architects vanguard LO / TEK New York. "Art Sculpture Park," "Art Video Lounge" and "Art Projects" were made in collaboration with the famous American conservative James E. Rondeau of the Art Institute.

Art Basel did not choose Florida to organize an exhibition based on the local market, but an international art event, which attracted galleries and art collectors from all leading North American, Latin America and Europe. The high standard of Art Basel also applied to Art Basel Miami Beach, "or even more," said Samuel Keller, director of the two Fairs. The fair management and the selection committee, composed of the famous art dealers Jane Corkin (Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto), David Judah (Annely Juda Fine Art, London), Dr Ursula Krinzinger (Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna), Lawrence Luhring (Luhring Augustine, New York), Mary-Anne Martin (Mary-Anne Fine Art, New York), Lucy Mitchell-Innes (Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York), Tim Neuger (Neugerriemschneider, Berlin), Shaun Caley Regen (Regen Projects, Los Angeles), Angel Samblancat (Prats / Poligraf, Barcelona), Frederic Snitzer (Fred Snitzer Gallery, Miami), Luisa Strina (Strina Galería Luisa, Sao Paulo) decided by mutual agreement to simplify the process selection.

The galleries selected from the 2001 were automatically eligible to participate this year at Art Basel Miami Beach. 95% of participants last year were again recorded, thus leaving very few spaces available for other galleries candidates. Despite this, a hundred new registrants were added to four hundred filed last year. The management and selection committee have barely increased the number of stands. With the new admissions, the range of participating galleries were even more remarkable than last year. Samuel Keller was commenting on the results of the selection meetings held in early March in New York: "The contemporary art galleries the world's largest are found almost complete at Art Basel Miami Beach. What this new art fair is the best the Americas since its first edition, is amazing. "

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Over 150 galleries from the world's most influential, as Marian Goodman, Barbara Gladstone, Luhring Augustine, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Max Hetzler, Jay Jopling, Yvon Lambert, Donald Young, David Zwirner, Lisson, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Schipper & Krome, 303, Regen Projects, Perrotin, Tanja Bonakdar, Tomio Koyama, Juana de Aizpuru, Victoria Miro and many others, had the greatest artists and most popular of our time. Among the new nominations, the selection committee had selected the following galleries: Taka Ishii Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery Kukje, Claes Nordenhake, Anthony Reynolds, Massimo de Carlo, PPOW Gallery Christian Nagel and Christina Guerra. The illustrious merchant classics of the twentieth century were undoubtedly contained references to the galleries of the rising generation. Thirty of them, including the legendary art dealers Jan Krugier, Richard Gray, Ernst Beyeler, Achim Moeller, Annely Juda, Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Mary-Anne Martin, were represented. Jahr Robert Landau and Leslie Waddington joined them this year. They exposed all works of art of the twentieth century as rare and exceptional circumstances. Were also selected the top ten galleries established in Latin America. Four were from Mexico, four from Brazil, one from Argentina and another in Costa Rica. With galleries in Europe and North America showed that Latin American artists, the art scene in the Caribbean and South America was also represented by dozens of galleries. A puppet representing Hitler doctor rubbed shoulders with Picasso, Keith Haring, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte and Andy Warhol. Among the key works included the Picasso painting of Olga, who had not been shown for ten years!

The concept and offers available at Miami Beach did not, however, a copy of Basel, but further with a specific profile. This is actually the sister of Art Basel. Both events are organized in a common direction, which ensures optimal interaction in promoting mutual events proposed to twice a year. The dates were fixed according to the needs of the international art world and avoid a collision with other art fairs and auctions exist. Both the high season in the metropolis of the art market as the high tourist season in Florida were prevented. The most favorable conditions existed for Art Basel Miami Beach as an event necessary cultural and social player in the American continent. The appointment is now made every winter in Miami for all collectors, gallery owners, artists, curators, critics and art lovers.

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In view of the opening of the ninth iteration of Art Basel Miami Beach, we may well believe that the market for contemporary art and modern rebounded. Major collectors such as Marty Margulies, Norman Braman and Douglas Cramer visited the stands Wednesday. According to the collector Alberto Mugrabi, "the quality is better than ever." Thomas Danziger, a lawyer specializing in the arts, has told ARTINFO: "The atmosphere is good, but not exuberant. Our customers are optimistic. "

At the booth of New York gallery Cheim & Read, Adam Sheffer gallery sales compared to those made at the IFCA. That is to say, instead of the breakneck pace that characterized the opening day at the time of the boom, Sheffer expected to see steady sales throughout the fair. In the early hours, a new wall sculpture by Jack Pierson that spells out the words The Modern is a party to $ 175,000 (134,000 euros). According to Adam Sheffer, Jack Pierson is an artist whose under-valued the sculptures were in demand even in the depths of the recession. Cheim & Read has also sold an abstract painting by Louise Fishman at a price of 100,000 dollars (76,500 euros) and a sculpture of bronze blue flowers zany Donald Baechlor (150,000 dollars or 115,000 euros).

White Cube Gallery in London has done business during the day, having sold including works by Raqib Shaw, Andreas Gursky, Gary Hume and Damien Hirst. A firm of Hirst's brilliant jewelry at 2.35 million pounds (2.8 million) is subject.

According to several galleries opening of the fair was more relaxed than before. Indeed, this seems to be the result of a new strategy on the part of the leadership of Art Basel: time for the VIP opening was advanced from 12:00 to 11:00, which resulted in a quieter atmosphere for serious collectors. The strategy seems to be successful. At the Richard Gray Gallery (New York and Chicago), Paul Gray sold a landscape by David Hockney in 2006 in the morning at $ 1.8 million (1.38 million). Gray told ARTINFO less hectic atmosphere that allowed him to spend a full hour with the buyer, a new client who perhaps would not decide without enough time to think. Although the gallery has also done well in 2009, Gray added that this year "we are less concerned about the recession" and that therefore the atmosphere is "a little more confident."

The gallery owner Marianne Boesky in New York agrees with that opinion. "I would say that currently there is confidence, not exuberance. And that's what we want. Collectors are committed but thoughtful. " Soon after the opening of the fair, it sold a new large array of Barnaby Furnas at a price of 150,000 dollars (115,000 euros).

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"Last year, we felt that people were here out of obligation," said Edward Tyler Nahem. "This year there is a buying mood." The gallery as Nahem, who have made works in the secondary market at high prices, have made several subject. Booth Christophe van de Weghe, it has provided a diptych from 1977 by Frank Stella at 1.6 million (1.22 million).

Gordon VeneKlasen, director of the Michael Werner Gallery, has sold a painting by Georg Baselitz at the price of just under one million dollars. He said that in general it is Art Basel Miami Beach profitable for works less than 500,000 dollars (383,000 euros). Several works by young artists such as Thomas and Aaron Curry Houseago found a buyer. "People want to buy," said VeneKlasen, who added that there was competition among collectors for various works, with many parts subject.

At the stand of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Lucy Mitchell-Innes has sold a small painting by Keith Noland of 1967 during the first hour of the fair. "People have been more decisive this year," she confided to ARTINFO.

Even in the part of the show dedicated to young artists, Art Positions, where the galleries have the right to present one work each, sales were strong. Ziehe in Smith, the British mega-collector Charles Saatchi has bought a large table of Eddie Martinez at a price of about 100,000 dollars (76,500 euros) and a New York collector has acquired a triptych UNTITLED Phil Wagner in the price than 28,000 dollars (21,400 euros).

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A constellation of modern art lovers, contemporary

For the first edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, some of the greatest collectors in the region offer a handpicked audience to discover their treasures.
Norman and Irma Braman, Martin Z. Margulies, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Donald and Mera Rubell, and Dennis and Debra Scholl are among the great collectors of international repute. Wealthy car dealer Norman Braman (who does not participate in the program of visits) has a collection composed bloated including masterpieces by Giacometti, Miro, Picasso, de Kooning and Kiefer. He probably has the collection of works by Calder largest in private hands. At the last Art Basel, he easily acquired a Tàpies important to Gallery Lelong (Paris) and a spectacular painting by Sam Francis at the booth of the gallery C & M (New York). The latter painting was exhibited at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, in confrontation with Monet's Water Lilies. The real estate mogul Martin Z. Margulies has established a collection starting at the post-war Calder, Rothko and Twombly, and extending to contemporary photography, with a large group of students Becher. Serious collector, he had acquired in particular the Basel Fair cartoon heroes tired Gilles Barbier proposed by Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois (Paris). Little frightened by the facilities, he also bought a sculpture by Ernesto Neto, a network of threads of fragrant spices, presented at the last Venice Biennale. The De la Cruz are in turn primarily interested in contemporary art at the crossroads of North America and Latin America. Gabriel Orozco, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Ana Mendieta are among their favorite artists. These collectors, however, recently acquired four paintings by Takashi Murakami exhibited at the Fondation Cartier (Paris). Joining them are Donald and Mera Rubell, whose fortune is based on the hotel industry, have made an ambitious collection, in the opinion of observers, very cutting edge [in the very tip]. They bought without flinching Takashi Murakami, Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst and Cindy Sherman at the edge of their careers. The website of their collection on public display in an old filing U.S. Customs, proudly recalls a photograph of Cindy Sherman gained twenty years ago for 250 dollars (248 euros), the price would be multiplied by a thousand today! The Scholl, meanwhile, are distributed primarily in Contemporary Photography, Thomas Demand Matthew Barney through Olafur Eliasson. The five pillars of international reputation masks a constellation of local fans more or less active but definitely wealthy.

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We must be prepared. The event of the year, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Born December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn USA, the Rimbaud of the painting would soon be fifty years if death - following a drugs overdose - had not mowed August 12, 1988 in New York. He was 27.

The Musée d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris will spend October 15, 2010 January 30, 2011 in a retrospective memorial to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his birth.

This exhibition will feature one hundred major works (paintings, drawings, objects) from many museums and private collections worldwide. It will trace the chronological order of this artist - close to Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Francisco Clemente ... - which profoundly marks the 80s and more deeply the history of Western art.

This exhibition has been designed in partnership with the Fondation Beyeler in which it is presented, in Riehen, near Basel, until 5 September. The curators of this exhibition have received loans breathtaking. It comes from the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Museum National d'Art Moderne de Paris - Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Broad Art Foudation Santa Monica, the Brant Foundation Collection, Switzerland Daros, succession JM Basquiat in New York, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, the Bruno Bischofberger Gallery in Zurich, the gallery Enrico Navarra, Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York, Gagosian Gallery in New York, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont Paris, Lio Malca collections in New York, Fred Hoffman, Enrico Navarra Collection, Steven and Alexandra Cohen Collections Mugrabi, Irma and Norman Braman, Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann, Laurence Graff, John McEnroe ... (1)

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While waiting to go to Basel and the Museum of Modern Art in the City of Paris, or after having been there, read the beautiful book, richly illustrated (and modest: 19, 90 €) that publishes editions Flammarion. Advantage: it is written in French. The book, whose foreword is written by Arnold L. Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum, is headed by Marc Mayer. The first of the texts he proposes is a historical perspective of the work of Basquiat "will appear, probably longer," he said, as the modern incarnation of the genius and passion juveniles. . Franklin Sirmans entered him, Basquiat, "In the cipher," putting his painting in relation to the hip-hop culture. Fred Hoffman, meanwhile, analyzes the Five masterpieces that mark with his idea "The years" of the artist. Kellie Jones questioned the Conservatives (it is conservative), specifying that she met Basquiat in 1987 on a dance floor at a party thrown by Spike Lee.

(1) The exhibition catalog, published in German and English by Hatje Cantz Stuttgart, in a layout Marie Lusa, contains texts by Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Robert Storr, Michiko Kono an interview with Basquiat by Becky Johnson and Tamra Davis (release of a video in 1985) and a chronology by Franklin Sirmans. 244 pages, 334 illustrations. (I have neither received nor read)

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The Fondation Beyeler is devoting a large retrospective at the famous American painter and illustrator Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). Organized on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of this artist who died of an overdose at age 27, this exhibition is the first of this scale to be introduced in Europe. With over one hundred paintings, objects and works on paper from major museums and collections worldwide par-ticularly prominent, it brings together major works by Basquiat and traces his artistic career.

Born in New York, Brooklyn, Jean-Michel Basquiat was the son of a Haitian immigrant and a mother of Puerto Rican descent. He made his debut in the New York underground graffiti artist as a musician and actor before devoting himself to painting also from 19. We find in his pictorial compositions intensity and energy that marked his short life. In the space of just eight years, during which he co-oped especially with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Francesco Clemente and Debbie Harry, he created a work of great magnitude, including a thousand paintings and more than two thousand drawings. He thus succeeded in imposing next to conceptual art and Minimal Art, so dominant, new figurative and expressive. His works populated by personages who seem out of comics, skeletal figures, everyday objects-dians bizarre and poetic slogans are striking for their strength and the splendor of their colors. Combining motifs from pop culture and cultural history - more par-ticularly in the world of music and sports - as well as political and social themes, they are engaging in criticism and ironic comments on society consumption and social injustice, by wearing a particular focus on racism.

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In the late 1970s - he was 16 years - began to bulge Basquiat graffiti on the walls of Manhattan's downtown with Al Diaz, under the pseudonym SAMO ©. When this collaboration ended, he began selling collages as postcards and photocopied drawings and T-shirts he painted himself. For a time he played the clarinet and synthesizer in the band Gray, which he founded with Michael Holman, Shannon Dawson and Vincent Gallo. It is this period that his ties with directors, musicians and artists who frequented the nightclubs in Downtown Manhattan's fashionable, the Mudd Club, Club 57, CBGB's, Hurrah's and Tier 3 - he became well Patti Astor's friend, David Byrne, Blondie, Madonna, John Lurie and Diego Cortez. Basquiat also began painting on everyday objects such as refrigerators, doors and windows. Homeless for an extended period, he would often take to support his furniture creations of those who gave him hospitality. These painted objects are found regularly thereafter in the creation of Basquiat. In 1980/1981, he played the lead role in the film Downtown 81 (which was only released in 2000), performing mostly his own character on the real backdrop of the artistic and musical-wedge Downtown.

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