The ninth edition of the Arteamericas Latin America Art Fair will present the latest trends in painting, sculpturing and multimedia by both contemporary artists and renowned masters this weekend (Fri. 25 to Sun. 28) at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
The finest galleries from all around Latin America, the U.S., the Caribbean, Canada and Europe will take part in the fair for a grand total of 53 institutions. Compared to previous editions, this time around the event will focus on the work of local artists and a new breed of Central American creators who have documented violence in the region, let alone a vast array of lectures and roundtables to choose from.
For the first time, Arteamericas is having a guest nation (Mexico) with a representation of prestigious galleries like Arvil, from the Federal District, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary with an exhibit of great masters of Mexican painting: Diego Rivera, Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco, Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. In all, over fifty Mexican artists will take up the 500-square-meter surface of the Miami Beach Convention Center.
From Miami, such art galleries as Cernuda Arte, Pan American Art Projects, Art Space/Virginia Miller, Cremata Gallery, and more recent locales like Cristina Chacón Gallery, in Coconut Grove, will attend. The Spain Pavilion, sponsored by the Spanish Cultural Center, will be curated by Nina Torres.
The public areas will harbor an installation by Mexican sculptor Emilio Garcia, in representation of the Talento Arte gallery from Mexico, while Y, D’Olian’t Art Project, from Coral Gables, will be delivering a one-man show of Cuban painter Carlos Quintana.*
The lectures and roundtable discussions, organized and moderated by curator Julia P. Herzberg, will home in on collections, the significance of biennials, artistic diversity and the current contemporary art scene. As part of the new projects, the Miami Art Museum will expose New Art, featuring new artists from Miami, while the Art Museum in Ft. Lauderdale, will showcase Tracing Their Roots: The Three Marias, dealing with the work of Cuban-American artists Maria Brito, Maria Martinez Cañas and Maria Magdalena Campos Pons. And curated by Miami University Prof. Joel Hollander, West Encounters East explored the work of Japanese-origin Argentine artists.
* Search on this web page the text entitle Nibbling at Buddha’s Ear penned by art critic Orlando Hernandez: Arte por Excelencias magazine, year II, issue 8, 2010, pages 8-16.
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