Sep 5
September 5 – October 15, 2015
Aluna Art Foundation
1393 SW 1st Street
Miami FL 33135
The exhibition features works by the artists Alex Yuzdon, Guo Jian, and Rubén Torres LLorca. Curated by Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos, the show brings images of fraternity from China (Guo Jian), the celluloid Hollywood heroines and heroes by the Cuban Ruben Torres Llorca; and the deconstruction of epic stories coming from Soviet Union (Alex Yudzon).
The exhibition goes around questions related to XXI century History, pointing out History itself as a severe source of critics related to utopias.
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Apr 22
April 18th to June 27th, 2015
Aluna Art Foundation
1393 S.W. 1st. Street
Miami Fl. 33135
Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective
Aluna Art Foundation inaugurates a new headquarter in Little Havana, Miami, on April 18th of 2015, conceived as a space for art and culture to generate new dynamics in the sector and in the city.
Delgado incorporates sculptures and drawings from the last decade, with media such as soaps, trays or sheets derived from the practices of survival from prison. It also presents serigraphs inspired by an alphabet invented then and large paintings about forms of oppression in a dizzying and globalized world but corroded social indifference. This show will take place with the release of several exhibitions dedicated to the concept of Parrhesia, a term which in ancient Greek meant “speak the truth,”- and the contradictions between censorship and the exercise of freedom of thought in artistic creation and literary.
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Apr 11
April 15, 2015 – May 10, 2015
Opening reception: April 15 6 – 9 pm
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus
10975 SW 17th Street
Miami, FL 33199
The Honors College at FIU presents Aesthetics & Values, its annual student organized and curated exhibition. This year’s exhibition features works in a wide variety of media by nine South Florida based artists: Julie Davidow, Christian Duran, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Aramis Gutierrez, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Ruben Torres Llorca, Pepe Mar, Yolanda Sanchez, and Robert Thiele. This exhibition is the culmination of the Honors College seminar; in which student from all disciplines examine the role that visual arts play in the social and cultural dialogue of contemporary issues. Come see this dynamic collaboration between artists and students at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. The opening reception is free and open to the public.
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Nov 15
Thursday, 16 October, 2014 to Saturday, 22 November, 2014
JUAN RUIZ GALERÍA
301 NW 28th Street
Miami, Florida 33127
Painting on Canvas is Cuban artist’s Glexis Novoa’s first solo exhibition at Juan Ruiz Gallery, specifically noteworthy for the following two aspects: the artist’s revisiting of an early period interrupted by exile in the mid 1990s and the context in which the work was created, Havana, where the artist recently set up a studio after a twenty-year hiatus. Novoa’s return to the formal qualities of the Etapa Práctica [the Practical Stage] and to the specificity of the Cuban context reveals poignant aspects of contemporary Cuban art today and the artist’s place in it.
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Nov 15
By Ricardo Mor
10/23/2014
From Miami Herald
The early works of one of the great artistic talents to emerge from Miami in the past few years are the subject of a new solo exhibition at YoungArts, “New Perfumes, Larger Blossoms, Pleasures Untasted: Hernan Bas and the Natural World.”
Bas, a YoungArts graduate in Visual Arts, was one of the first artists to gain international recognition from the recent arts renaissance in Miami. Working predominantly in painting, he became known for his depictions of adolescence inspired by classical imagery and literary movements.
He maintains residences in Miami and Detroit. “I spend a good deal of time in Detroit, but I have a studio in Miami as well,” he wrote. “Detroit offered affordable spaces that are increasingly hard to come by in Miami, and it’s nice to get away from the craziness that living here can stir up.”
Early in his career, the artist caught the attention of major gallerists and collectors, including Donald and Mera Rubell, who have since acquired a large body of his work and staged shows drawing from their collection — including the one at YoungArts.
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Aug 7
August 8, 2014 – January 11, 2015
Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Avenue,
Miami Beach, FL 33139
In 1961 the conceptual artist Piero Manzoni rattled the art world by canning his own feces and making them available for sale, pricing the cans by their weight in exchange for the current value of gold. The following year, in which the Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe dies, Andy Warhol screened the image of the starlet over painted canvases, including golden ones, immortalizing Monroe and establishing her image as one of the most recognized artworks in the world. In 1964, the cult classic film Goldfinger was released and became one of the most iconic James Bond films ever made. The movie unambiguously associated gold with power, glamour but also danger. In parallel, archeological gold was also finding its way into the culture of the masses: from 1961 to 1981 Tutankhamen Treasures and The Treasures of Tutankhamun toured North America and the western hemisphere for the first time, becoming some of the most attended museum exhibits to this day.
Presented in conjunction with the Bass Museum of Art’s 50th anniversary GOLD includes painting, sculpture, video, photography, and installation.
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