SCOPE Art Fair Miami 08 and ART ASIA are proud to announce that they have joined forces to create a dynamic partnership. By doing so, both fairs increase audience attendance, exposure to new collectors, curators and press while expanding their museum quality programming and lecture series. The two fairs will continue to maintain their unique identities with separate pavilions presenting a combined 135 exhibitors from over 36 countries. SCOPE looks forward to a similar relationship with ART ASIA when it makes its debut in Basel, Switzerland on June 10th, 2009.

For a list of exhibitors and program information, please visit scope-art.com and artasiafair.com

SCOPE FOUNDATION - SCOPE's continued mission is to turn viewers into users.  SCOPE International Art Fair is proud to announce the launch of the SCOPE FOUNDATION, whose mandate is to help emerging contemporary artists through grants, awards, and acquisitions.  SCOPE is dedicated to not only supporting the international emerging artist community, but local schools and not-for-profit arts institutions.

In early 2007, the SCOPE FOUNDATION was launched as a non-profit 501(c)(3) to more fully fund various programs, promote awareness outside the marketplace and academia, and involve the communities it visits.

Visit scope-foundation.org for more information

 

Wednesday-Sunday | Dec 3-7 | All day | SCOPE Miami Pavilion

Narrative / Non-Narrative: Contemporary Artists from the CIFO Programs
Presented by The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and the SCOPE FOUNDATION

SCOPE's third edition of Museum Presents focuses on contemporary artists from Latin America who have been nominated for or have been awarded Grants or Commissions from The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, CIFO. The artists in this show- and the many hundreds who have been nominated since 2006- were originally proposed for our programs by an Advisory Committee of renowned curators and artists from around the world.

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, founded in 2002 by Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, is dedicated to the support of emerging and mid-career contemporary multidisciplinary artists from Latin America, who are challenging the established boundaries that define much contemporary art today.

Narrative/Non-Narrative: Contemporary Artists from the CIFO programs presents a wide array of aesthetic and conceptual proposals by artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, México and Venezuela. This show aims to reflect the enormously dynamic, exciting and experimental contemporary art production that is taking place in Latin America today. The exhibition proposes the intersecting of several disciplines, generations and visual experiences in one intimate, concentrated and expansive space.

Featured artists:
Emilia Azcárate (Venezuela), Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck (Venezuela), Johanna Calle (Colombia), Donna Conlon (Costa Rica), Eduardo Costa (Argentina), Eugenio Dittborn (Chile), Danilo Dueñas (Colombia), Matías Duville (Argentina), Darío Escobar (Guatemala), Eugenio Espinoza (Venezuela), León Ferrari (Argentina), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), Gabriel Kuri (Mexico), Suwon Lee (Venezuela), Dora Longo (Brazil), Jarbas Lopes (Brazil), Mateo López (Colombia), Pepe Lopez (Venezuela), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (México), Jorge Macchi (Argentina),  Marco Maggi (Uruguay), María Martínez-Cañas (Cuba), Luis Molina-Pantin (Venezuela), Moris (México), Paulo Nenflidio (Brazil), Juan José Olavarria (Venezuela), José Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia), Nicolás Robbio (Argentina), Luis Fernando Roldán (Colombia), Tomás Saraceno (Argentina), Javier Téllez (Venezuela), Torolab (México).

 

 

Wednesday-Sunday | Dec 3-7 | All day | SCOPE Miami Pavilion
Presented by the SCOPE FOUNDATION

Continuing its "Art Fair as Resource" mandate, SCOPE is proud to present the third Collector Mentorship Auction during SCOPE Miami 08. This unique event is designed to provide invaluable networking and educational opportunities for beginning collectors while promoting the philanthropic mission of the SCOPE Foundation. During this silent auction, young collectors will have the opportunity to bid on an hour of time donated by respected established collectors and prominent art world professionals.

Featured in SCOPE's previous Collector Mentorship Auctions:
Louisa Buck, Melva Bucksbaum, Frank Cohen, Bob Colacello, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Eileen and Richard Ekstract, , John Friedman, Raymond Learsy, Arnold Lehman, Adam Lindemann, Enrique Norten, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dennis Oppenheim, Lowell Pettit, Julia Peyton-Jones, Kay Saatchi, Kenny Schachter, Nancy Seltzer, Terrie Sultan and Rick Wester.

 

 

Introductory Lecture by Jérôme Sans | 2pm
What is the Museum of the 21st century in Asia? | 3pm
The Global Asian Art Market & the Role of the Auction House and Gallery | 5pm

The History and Development of Contemporary Chinese Art | 11am
Whither Contemporary Asian Art? | 1pm
Dawn of the Asian Century? | 3pm
Taking Issue: Critical Reception of Asian Art Today | 5pm

Young Creatives in Asia | 11am
The Taste of Others: Contemporary Art in Central Asia | 1pm
New China, New Art | 3pm

Young Chinese Artists | 1pm

For more information on SCOPE Miami 08's and ART ASIA's Lecture Series, please visit scope-art.com

 

Special Projects Highlights

 

Wednesday-Sunday | Dec 3-7 | All day | SCOPE Miami Pavilion
Presented by the SCOPE FOUNDATION

 

Daniel Alcalá Oasis
SCOPE Miami Pavilion | Presented by arróniz arte contemporáneo
Daniel Alcalá's installation, Oasis, analyzes the uncontrolled and accelerated growth of contemporary cities and the consequent alteration of the natural landscape. The piece presents an increasingly common element in the cityscape; the cellular phone antennas disguised as natural.  This emphasizes the idea of the substitution; the natural landscape is suffering due to other elements of artificial origin.

 

 

Derick Melander Flesh of My Flesh
SCOPE Miami Pavilion | Presented by ada gallery and the SCOPE FOUNDATION

 

 

Fernando Mastrangelo Avarice
SCOPE Miami Pavilion Entrance | Presented by RHYS/MENDES
With Avarice, artist Fernando Mastrangelo continues his now signature practice of coupling the conceptual message of his work with its material execution. The piece advances a critical comment on the overproduction of maize by a highly subsidized agricultural sector in United States in anticipation of an ethanol boom; corporate proponents of this overproduction keep much of Mexico's fertile soil 'parked' and unavailable to the use of hunger-troubled local populations.

 

 

Fun House
SCOPE Miami VIP Lounge | Presented by FriendsWithYou and the SCOPE FOUNDATION
SCOPE Art Fair Miami 08 is proud to announce a forthcoming commission by Miami art collaborative FriendsWithYou (aka Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III): a bountiful beacon of benign beings, bounce houses and balloons for the lounge of SCOPE MIAMI 2008.

Expanding upon their recent Wish Come True projects that focus on the manifestation of dreams through play, FriendsWithYou will create an immersive exhibition entitled "Fun House" featuring a among other numinous counterparts a giant bounce house. Sitting on a expansive carpet of Astro-turf within the fairs lounge, the bounce house will be the center piece in a vast array of interactive works that will stimulate visitors inner children through mystical wisdom, uncommon transparency and interplay with cosmic creature creations- designer furniture and zany sounds will further reinforce the centralized theme.

Unlike the Skywalkers balloon parade of Art Basel Miami Beach 06 which remained essentially a spectator event, the experience within SCOPE Miami 08 will engage all aspects of the body and mind with a euphoric art experience.
 

 

The Girl Project
SCOPE Miami Pavilion Entrance | Presented by The Girl Project and the SCOPE FOUNDATION

The Girl Project (TGP) is a national initiative that explores the lives of American teenage girls and empowers them to communicate through documentary photography. 5,000 girls ages 13-18, from across the country, of all backgrounds, are being invited to participate by stepping behind the camera to document themselves and their environments.

Engelbrecht has sent disposable cameras to 400 girls from 20 states. A recent contribution from Kodak has enabled her to purchase 5,000 Kodak HQ disposable cameras at a significantly reduced rate. Nearly 150 images from The Girl Project will be shown at SCOPE Miami this year.  This is the first public showing of the work.

For more information about the project, please visit thegirlproject.org

 

Invisible Heroes Without You Baby, There Ain't No Us
SCOPE Miami Pavilion | Presented by the Invisible Heroes and the SCOPE FOUNDATION
Get in touch with Elvis Presley, Obama, a reporter hit by a plane, Knight Rider, King Kong, The Dare 2 Eyeballs.  And many more interesting people!

 

 

Julia Fullerton-Batten Teenage Stories
SCOPE Miami Pavilion | Presented by Jenkins Johnson Gallery

 

Julia Fullerton-Batten's series Teenage Stories depicts pre-teenage girls in everyday activities; lounging in a yard or walking down a road, yet something in each seems amiss. The scenes are quiet and serene, still and just slightly tense as the girls dominate a miniature landscape. Fullerton-Batten took her subjects (all not professional models) to model villages in the UK and Belgium. The series explores girls in contrast to their surroundings, an echo of growth and unfamiliarity with one's own body and with one's environment and society during puberty. Fullerton-Batten captures this ambiguity with a skillful, graceful attention to composition, balance, color, and especially the language of her models.

 

 

Martin C. Herbst Judith
SCOPE Miami Pavilion | Presented by Jacob Karpio Galeria and the SCOPE FOUNDATION
Judith is the fulfillment of a childhood dream

The story of Judith and Holofernes is Biblical. The beautiful Jewish widow Judith seduces and beheads the Babylonian military leader Holofernes and saves her people in times of war.  But in Judith, I changed one important detail:  Judith is not carrying the head of Holofernes anymore, but her own head.
The modification separates Judith from the original theoretical background-  the female's physical attractiveness which threatens the sex driven male. This disconnects from its original purpose in connection with Jewish/Catholic propaganda and gives - what is more important for me - the painting a different, more personal meaning. To put it into simple words: Judith defeats herself by defeating her enemy.

-Martin C. Herbst, Sept. 20th 2008

 

 

Matthew Porter Startled Birds
SCOPE Miami Pavilion Entrance | Presented by Matthew Porter and the SCOPE FOUNDATION

Matthew Porter presents twelve photographs, clustered together on one wall. While the subject matter varies, some of these images portray not so much decisive moments, but a preceding causality or its result. Like a film still from a poster, they may not be crucial to the plot but provide vivid and unforgettable iconography.

 

 

Russell Young's Cocaine  Performed Live
Wednesday | Dec 3 | 2pm
Saturday      | Dec 6 | 2pm
Booth 330 | SCOPE Miami pavilion | Presented by Keszler Gallery

Russell Young creates LIVE silkscreens:  Pablo Escobar's "Gun" pulled in the artist's blood, Kate Moss, Pamela Anderson "Blow," and "Scarface." Stephan Keszler announces that the gallery's featured artist Russell Young will be performing live at the Keszler Gallery booth at SCOPE Miami. 

"I love doing live shows, I hand pull screen prints on the floor," says Young. "I get a buzz out of the performance aspect, the interaction with the audience, putting myself out there, the spontaneity and the sense that anything could happen at any moment. At the live show, I will be hand pulling an image of Pablo Escobar's Gun. Given I use my own blood as ink, it's obviously a very limited edition."

 

 

Shuttle buses run to the SCOPE pavilion from 10:30am-7pm, December 3-7. Take the North Loop Shuttle in front of the Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater on the NW corner of Washington Avenue and 17th Street, one block from the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Visit scope-art.com for more detailed visitor information.

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