-scope Miami
art fair featuring Ivana Brenner, Jack Balas, Victoria Campillo, and The Fantastic Nobodies
Curator Lynn del Sol
Run Dates: December 3rd- December 7th 2008
VIP Reception: Wednesday, December 3rd 2008 10-6pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 4th-7th 10-7pm
Location: -scope Miami
Directions: 2951 NE 1st Ave. & NE 30th St. Miami Fl 33127
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Art in the new millennium faces the great challenge of inventing a new mechanism of recycling art theories. The desire to bring "theory to life" or to make practical use of it is inspired by the cultural logic of late capitalism. Logic generally also brings about criticism and many contemporary artists often describe their practice as a kind of social criticism. It is their way of responding, resisting and at times creating great change.
CTS presents a focused exhibition entitled ONWARD art. This exhibition explores the trend in which contemporary artists are engaging in questions about what our world may look like in the future and how art will remain relevant in this new hyper-commercialized attention-deficient world. The works selected highlight the heightened awareness that artists have not only within thier own practices but between that cross-generational germination that influences and contextualizes art into it’s hopeful place in history. Our complex and rich state of our futures may be too ephemeral to be captured.
The exhibition will feature noted figurative American painter Jack Balas, the dizzying almost schizophrenic photographic works by Spaniard Victoria Campillo, the exciting organic sculptures of Argentine Ivana Brenner, and we are proud to introduce performance based collective the Fantastic Nobodies.
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about the gallery: CTS is quality art on the move. Championing provocative content driven work by local and international mid-career, underrepresented, and emerging artists in all media. Our goal is to build an infrastructure that knows no boundaries, one that carries the torch of modernism acting as a vehicle for dreamers, a cultural meeting place for great minds, an international community of interconnectivity and expandability.
about the artfair: 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 look to 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.
Art in the new millennium faces the great challenge of inventing a new mechanism of recycling art theories. The desire to bring "theory to life" or to make practical use of it is inspired by the cultural logic of late capitalism. Logic generally also brings about criticism and many contemporary artists often describe their practice as a kind of social criticism. It is their way of responding, resisting and at times creating great change.
CTS presents a focused exhibition entitled ONWARD art. This exhibition explores the trend in which contemporary artists are engaging in questions about what our world may look like in the future and how art will remain relevant in this new hyper-commercialized attention-deficient world. The works selected highlight the heightened awareness that artists have not only within thier own practices but between that cross-generational germination that influences and contextualizes art into it’s hopeful place in history. Our complex and rich state of our futures may be too ephemeral to be captured.
The exhibition will feature noted figurative American painter Jack Balas, the dizzying almost schizophrenic photographic works by Spaniard Victoria Campillo, the exciting organic sculptures of Argentine Ivana Brenner, and we are proud to introduce performance based collective the Fantastic Nobodies.
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about the gallery: CTS is quality art on the move. Championing provocative content driven work by local and international mid-career, underrepresented, and emerging artists in all media. Our goal is to build an infrastructure that knows no boundaries, one that carries the torch of modernism acting as a vehicle for dreamers, a cultural meeting place for great minds, an international community of interconnectivity and expandability.
about the artfair: 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 look to 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.
Installation View: scope Miami, Miami, Fl. 2008. Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
about the artist: Ivana Brenner was born in 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through out her adolescence, she lived between the city of Buenos Aires and her family’s hometown of Baradero, in the countryside. She received a rigorous traditional education at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, where she graduated with honors from Universidad de Buenos Aires (2004)
about the artist: Jack Balassis an artist working in painting and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media. His goal is to make images that are memorable not only via their stylistic variety, in a sense creating flags that signal a kind of symbolic territory, but also to offer the viewer a kind of map where it is the viewers responsibility to build bridges across the middle ground between images and ideas. He has received his BFA and MFA from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. He has exhibited widely, including at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie and the Tucson Museum of Art, AZ. He received a fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts, Denver and from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. He is represented in the Kent Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
about the artist: Victoria Campillo is a kind of mad scientist, working in a dizzying almost schizophrenic pace creating series of photographs that number in the hundreds. The themes are limitless, countless, immune to repeating yet are based wholly on the idea of repetition. Her work deals greatly with the unconscious science of visual recognition. Establishing the relationship between the eye and the mind ability and its gravity to process categorization and identification on a primordial level.
about the artist: Fantastic Nobodies What began 10 years ago as party antics and costume wearing became, in the course of a decade, via relentless Bush Era disillusionment, a highly developed and unique artistic language, if not a cult of urban legend. The Fantastic Nobodies are a cast of performance characters who have collaborated together to create remarkable fusions of art and life. This is achieved through a common understanding in the group and the subsequent improvisation in the nature and definition of THE MOMENT. Acting as reflective mirrors for each other’s creativity, the collective has fostered great breadth of production including: performance, infiltrations, social sculptures, situations, happenings, road-trips, cooking, photography, installations, video, music, poetry, painting, and drawing. These creative actions were consciously honed in an independent, self-made, punk-rock-inspired, and reclusive way while sometimes being documented through video and photography.The six founding artists are Marc Grubstein, Brock Enright, Steve Johnson, Daniel Joseph, Chad Spicer and David Henry Brown Jr.
about the artist: Jack Balassis an artist working in painting and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media. His goal is to make images that are memorable not only via their stylistic variety, in a sense creating flags that signal a kind of symbolic territory, but also to offer the viewer a kind of map where it is the viewers responsibility to build bridges across the middle ground between images and ideas. He has received his BFA and MFA from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. He has exhibited widely, including at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ; University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie and the Tucson Museum of Art, AZ. He received a fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts, Denver and from the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. He is represented in the Kent Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
about the artist: Victoria Campillo is a kind of mad scientist, working in a dizzying almost schizophrenic pace creating series of photographs that number in the hundreds. The themes are limitless, countless, immune to repeating yet are based wholly on the idea of repetition. Her work deals greatly with the unconscious science of visual recognition. Establishing the relationship between the eye and the mind ability and its gravity to process categorization and identification on a primordial level.
about the artist: Fantastic Nobodies What began 10 years ago as party antics and costume wearing became, in the course of a decade, via relentless Bush Era disillusionment, a highly developed and unique artistic language, if not a cult of urban legend. The Fantastic Nobodies are a cast of performance characters who have collaborated together to create remarkable fusions of art and life. This is achieved through a common understanding in the group and the subsequent improvisation in the nature and definition of THE MOMENT. Acting as reflective mirrors for each other’s creativity, the collective has fostered great breadth of production including: performance, infiltrations, social sculptures, situations, happenings, road-trips, cooking, photography, installations, video, music, poetry, painting, and drawing. These creative actions were consciously honed in an independent, self-made, punk-rock-inspired, and reclusive way while sometimes being documented through video and photography.The six founding artists are Marc Grubstein, Brock Enright, Steve Johnson, Daniel Joseph, Chad Spicer and David Henry Brown Jr.
Installation View: scope Miami, Miami, Fl. 2008. Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Installation View: scope Miami, Miami, Fl. 2008. Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Installation View: scope Miami, Miami, Fl. 2008. Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Jack Balas, Home Run, 2008, oil on canvas, 40x48in (102x122cm)
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Jack Balas, The Long History, 2008, oil, enamel, and ink on canvas, 40x48in, (102x122cm)Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
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Jack Balas, Lichtenstein Girls (MUSE Museum), 2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm) Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
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Victoria Campillo, Series Intimacy (094 Robert Mapplethorpe), 2006, lambda print, edition of 3, 19x24in (48x60cm)
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Victoria Campillo, Series Intimacy (024 Francis Bacon), 2006, lambda print, edition of 3, 19x24in (48x60cm)
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Victoria Campillo, Series Intimacy (073 Gilbert George), 2006, lambda print, edition of 3, 19x24in (48x60cm)Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
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Fantastic Nobodies, Operation Shitstorm (Untitled 12) 2008, archival digital print suite, total of 25 images in box set, edition of 10, 11x14in (28x36cm)
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Fantastic Nobodies, Operation Shitstorm (Untitled 19) 2008, archival digital print suite, total of 25 images in box set, edition of 10, 11x14in (28x36cm)
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Fantastic Nobodies, Operation Shitstorm (Untitled 6) 2008, archival digital print suite, total of 25 images in box set, edition of 10, 11x14in (28x36cm)
Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Ivana Brenner, Sin Titulo 2008, Solidified paint on acrylic laser-cut base, install size approx. 95x120x3in. (250x305x8cm) Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
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Ivana Brenner, Sin Titulo (planta), 2008, solidified paint on acrylic laser-cut base, 30x16x2in (78x42x5cm) Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
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Guerra de la Paz, Ho, 2003, mix media sculpture with found materials, 28x8x8in (71x20x20cm) Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York
Guerra de la Paz, Untitled (magenta flower), 2003, mix media sculpture with assorted clothing, approx. 48x36x20in
Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, New York