ART MIAMI

December 3 - 8, 2024

Artists Participating:

JOSE BECHARA

Jose Bechara’s (Brazil) paintings paradoxically embrace and subvert a genre of Minimalism. Interlocking stripes offset one another, by materials and tone. As opposed to monochromatic colorations, he deploys lines of saturated pigments alternating with steel oxidation. Each painting is constructed using the fabric of old tarps instead of new canvas. Bechara plays with these histories, both sacred and profane, injecting a re- reading of the genre of minimal geometry. Bechara was selected for the 25th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil, and has exhibited his works at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal, Patio Herreriano Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español de Valladolid, Spain and the MAM RIO Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2004), in addition to many others.

LORIS CECCHINI

Born in Milan in 1969, Loris Cecchini lives and works in Berlin. One of the most prominent Italian artists on the international scene in the last decade, he has shown his work around the world, with solo shows at prestigious museums and galleries.

He has exhibited his works in solo and group shows in prestigious museums and galleries including; Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, MOMA PS1 in New York, Shanghai Duolun MoMA in Shanghai, the Kunstverein in Heidelberg, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. Cecchini has also participated in various international art events, including the 49th and 51th Venice Biennale, the 6th and 9th Shanghai Biennale, the 13th and the 15th Rome Quadriennale, the Taipei Biennial (Taiwan), the Valencia Biennial and the 12th International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara. He has also contributed to many group shows, including the Ludwig Museum of Cologne, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice and Macro Future in Rome.

DANIEL DOMIG

Daniel Domig was Born 1983 in Vancouver, Canada. He studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, from 2001-2006 and currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

He has exhibited widely in both Europe and North America over the past decade. Amongst his solo and group shows: Das Stille Nachwort, Städtisches Museum Engen, Engen, Germany; Matter of a BurningBody, unttld contemporary, Vienna, Austria; The Heart is a prideful Beast, Warburton Gallery,Edinburgh, Scotland, al l solo shows from 2015; All words Were once Animals, 33 Orchard, NEW YORK,NYC (solo) HINTERLAND, Kunstverein Mistelbach, Austria (group), 2014; FÜNF RÄUME, Austrian Cultural Forum, NY, 2011; Triennale LINZ 1.0 , Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, 2010; With all the Things we Build and Make, Thrust Projects, New York (solo), 2008; GENUINE HAPPINESS, Galerie Amer Abbas, Kunstbuero, Vienna, Austria, 2006.

DIRK SALZ

Born 1962 in Bochum, Germany. After High School Graduation Salz studied engineering at RWTH Aachen. From 1979 to 1981 Salz got private lessons in painting, drawing and history of art. Since then he was continuously guided and educated by various artists. He started his own career as an artist in 2002. Solo Shows (Selection) 2016 ‚RESIN’ neue arbeiten, Galerie Feurstein, Feldkirch (A) -Unlimited’, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf - Malerei – Zeichnung – Objekt, Galerie Kautsch, Michelstadt (D)- Galerie Schmalfuß (mit Bodo Korsig und Jürgen Paas), Marburg (D) 2015 ‚Out-Look’ Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover - Zwischen den Zeilen’ Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Wien (A) - Perception’ Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami/FL (US) - ‚In Situ’, Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg 'RESIN' Galerie Obrist, Essen

SANTIAGO VILLANUEVA

Born in 1965, Madrid Spain Art linked to the intimate experience of the body and time, to the search for an interior portrait with beauty as the essential interlocutor. As Barthes would say, "a slight fold in which the page of life, the silk of language, has been pinched." Nothing remains stable, there is a changing equilibrium, transitions that describe the play of internal forces and advocate what is about to happen. Actions captured in the process of transformation, and that suggests an inherent inertia to development, will or encouragement. Actions that can only be interpreted by the senses. The work is not intended to provoke simple visual pleasure or tactile experience. Its reason is to stimulate desire, seduce us until we penetrate sensually into the object and perceive the emotion it proposes from a more intimate, more subjective place. From the duality provided by the language of the senses and the language of matter, the work is defined and constructed. An industrial skin epidermis as a materialization of internal organic emotions is the paradox chosen as a narrative tool.

JOSE YAQUE

José Eduardo Yaque Llorente was born in Manzanillo, Cuba and currently lives and works between Havana, Cuba and Madrid, Spain. He studied at Carlos Enríquez Professional Academy of Fine Arts in Manzanillo and the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in Havana. In 2010 he participated in the first Biennial of Contemporary Art in Portugal, as well as exhibiting at Wasps Artist’s Studios in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2012 he was awarded a residence in Warsaw, where he exhibited in the Zacheta Project Room of the National Gallery of Art. In 2017 he took part in the collective exhibition of the Cuban Pavilion in Palazzo Loredan, at the 57th Venice Biennale. He has since exhibition internationally at Galleria Continue, Rome, Italy; Colegio de Arquitectos in Havana, Cuba; Villa Pacchiani Exhibition Centre, Santa Croce sull´Arno, Pisa, Italy; and David Gill Gallery, London, England, among others.