Next stop was the public art component of Art Basel Miami. Located in Collins Park, adjacent to the Bass Museum, Christine Kim, Assoc. Curator of Contemporary Art from LACMA curated this site-specific exhibition of outdoor sculpture, installation, video and performance art. It was terrific and here are some highlights.
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| Lourival Cuquinha of Brasil has stretched a clothes line across the park in a statement of socio -geographic empowerment. |
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| In his work "Declaration," Dave McKenzie has hired an airplane banner service to fly over Collins Park to propose marriage. The names are intentionally unisex. McKenzie intends to point out the social acceptabiity of certain private lives to enter into the public sphere while others are denied entry. "Will you marry me" becomes "Can you marry me? |
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| "Poets in Miami" by Jaume Plensa are inspired by philosophers who contemplated humanity and preached to crowds seated atop pillars during the Byzantine Empire. These works are also illuminated at night. |
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| Teresa Margolles' Untitled is composed of six cement benches cast with water used in the washing of bodies of murdered people in the Guadalajara morgue. Honestly, it was so hot and humid, Karen and I were quite possibly close to death ourselves at that moment and were happy for the cool cement to rest on. |
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| Love Stream #2 by Randy Polumbo is an incredible experimental wonderland, part amusement park attraction and part psychoanalytic intervention. The environment speaks to a world of pleasure and sensuality, emersing the viewer in an exotic and lurid Garden of Eden of voluptuous hand-blown glass flora sprouting from every surface. As fantastic as it was in the day, it must be amazing at night! |
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