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Art Basel Miami. Connecting America with the world art
14February

Art Basel Miami. Connecting America with the world art

ART BY EXCELENCIAS WAS SHOWED IN ART BASEL WITH ITS NUMBER 21 AND WAS DELIVERED TO VARIOUS EXHIBITORS, CRITICS AND PARTICIPATING ARTISTS, WHILE RENOWNED CUBAN ARTISTS GOT PROMOTED IN ITS PAGES

Art Basel is from the seventies, one of the most important events for visual arts at the highest levels. La Feria extended its actions toward Miami since 2002, with the intention of connecting to the American continent with international art of premium rating to participate in this great event.

To the call of La Florida the most important artists, collectors, curators, critics and art institutions in the world participate. It is an event for connoisseurs, in which large numbers of visitors from the United States and Latin America participate, motivated to update themselves on what happens in contemporary art: one of the most expensive fairs, where sales soaring figures are run. Official data confirm that more than seventy-three thousand people visited the last edition held in the first week of December.

The agenda of the thirteenth edition of Art Basel Miami focused primarily on the Miami Beach Convention Center fairgrounds, where proposals of 267 galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia were exhibited. The aesthetic and formal diversity distinguished the exhibition, which stressed the plurality of discourses of contemporary art, and how this versatility offers opportunity for both public institutions and private collectors and casual shoppers.

Historically the Fair has included and legitimized the new artistic expressions, and has adapted its management to be confirmed as an appropriate setting for all art interests. Since 2004 the space for conversations has enabled debate with key actors of the art world: critics, curators, artists and collectors who have addressed different issues of creation and of the art market. As usual, the space devoted to the stands of specialized publications remained, where were exhibited many of the most important international art magazines, mainly North and Latin America, in a number that exceeded the two dozen.

There was a novelty at the Fair this year: the Survey sector, which met thirteen historical art projects, through which could be seen many valuable works never before exhibited in the context of this nature. The exhibition Impulso, razon, sentidos, conflicto was also inaugurated. Abstract art of the collection Ella Fontanals Cisneros, at the headquarters of the CIFO Foundation. Its host is one of the most remarkable actresses of Latin American collectors and in recent years, of the Cuban.

This thirteenth edition has been rated as one of the most complete and intense that has had the event, the impact of art that attended and allowed to explore the diverse pictorial expressions, meaningful representation of the possibilities of photography, a wide range of installations and videos, perfomative and interactive art with the public, kinetic expressions, design and graphics and multiple editing works.

Among the prestigious galleries of over thirty countries, the participation of Spain and several Latin American representatives stood out, although the Latin American art also participated through galleries from other European countries and the United States, mainly in New York and Miami.

Galleries like Villa Manuela --- of Uneac ---, The Acacia and Collage Habana --- the Cuban Fund of Cultural Assets ---, or the Panamerican Art Project and Cernuda Art, presented a broad representation of Cuban artists, from very young artists to the enshrined of the called Cuban vanguard.

It is worth to note that while this edition highlighted the strong commercial purpose of the Fair, the event has many other implications for the city. The call is also a strong pretext to present other fairs on the same date and for similar purposes, among them Pinta, Context, Miami Project and Red Bod. The art that comes together in this city, from all latitudes, gives another appearance in Miami, it provides a remarkable cultural, economic and participatory movement, and allows all those who gather at the Fair, or those that walk eventually by the Downtown, to meet a broad representation of art in the world, within whose multiplicity Latin America and in particular, the Cuban is present.

Therefore, an impressive flow of visitors remained in an intense activity the headquarters of Art Basel Miami, and there are several experts who say the Swiss Fair was one of the events that contributed most to contribute to the growth and recognition of the potential present and future of Miami as a great city.

Art Basel Miami has provided that during its days this city becomes an important square of art, and generates quite a popular cultural movement: it transcends the fact of being on the international art map and attracts foreign visitors --- which is very beneficial--- to summon all citizens to look to the visual arts.