ART MIAMI 2023

LORIS CECCHINI

Born in Milan in 1969, Loris Cecchini lives and works in Berlin. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in several 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, the Kunstverein in Heidelberg, and Galleria Continua, San Gimignano. Cecchini has also participated in various international art events, including the 49th and 51st 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 participated in several group shows, including exhibitions at the Ludwig Museum of Cologne, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, and Macro Future in Rome.

DANIEL VERBIS

Born in León, Spain in 1968, Verbis studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. Throughout his professional career Verbis has consistently experimented and evolved his language. His work has been exhibited in various galleries, fairs, and art centers such as the MUSAC of León, the CAB of Burgos, the Drawing Center in New York and the DA2 in Salamanca. At the beginning of the nineties his work moved away from painting, to give way to works marked with a more conceptual character. Starting in 2000, Verbis began to introduce unusual materials into his painting (cotton threads, plasticine, canvas, buttons…). Today Verbis’s painting has become more introspective, synthesizing heterogeneous paths. biomorphic abstract painting, as well as action painting are both utilized in his larger works. Additionally, he creates drawings, engravings, photographs, and collages in which a certain sui generis figuration makes an appearance.

ÓMÒ OBA (HRH) ADÉTÒMÍWÁ A. GBADÉBÒ

Ómò Oba (Prince) Adétòmíwá A. Gbadébò is from Abeokuta, Nigeria, and was born into three royal families: the Gbadébò royal family of Egba Kingdom, the Adémilúyì family (Lafogido ruling house) of Ilé-Ifè Kingdom, as well as the Oshodi (Tapa) royal family from Lagos; who originally are from the Nupe kingdom (Now Bida). Òmó Oba (Prince) Gbadébò uses his Yorùbá heritage and life experiences to create pieces based on emotions and the journey that life stitches. He does not associate himself with any artistic movements, for it is with the guidance of Olódùmarè that he executes his messages. As multiple ideas develop in his conscious and unconscious mind, they evolve into languages of spiritual prowess that are guided by Orishas (Yorùbá spiritual ancestors), Olódùmarè (Yorùbá creator of all beings on earth) and Ifá philosophy (Yorùbá religious concept).

FELICE GRODIN

Felice Grodin was born in Bologna, Italy and lives in Miami Beach, Florida. Grodin received a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University. Borrowing from and subverting her training as an architect, Grodin’s work explores drawing techniques that merge physical and mental landscapes. Solo exhibitions include “Felice Grodin: Invasive Species” at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2017-2019), Miami, Florida; “HyperLeak: Past → Present ← Future” at Diana Lowenstein Gallery (2021), Miami, Florida; and “A Fabricated Field” at Locust Projects (2014), Miami, Florida. Group shows include “Draw: Point to Point” at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (2023), Miami, Florida; “Elemental – Terra, Tide & Time” at The Frank Gallery (2022), Pembroke Pines, Florida; and “Spatial Flux: Contemporary Drawings from the Joann Gonzalez Hickey Collection” at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art (2018), Fort Collins, Colorado. Her work is in the collections at Pérez Art Museum Miami (2019), Girls’ Club, Ft Lauderdale, Florida (2013) and The Joann Gonzalez Hickey Collection, New York, New York (2009).

UDO NÖGER

Udo Nöger was born in 1961 in Enger, Germany. He grew up in Bielefeld where he studied painting at the Fachhochschule Bielefelf University from which he graduated in 1983. Across a range of scales, Nöger composes visual sonatas in which organic forms harmonize with geometric structure. He often bisects the canvas into rectangles, one opaque, the other more transparent, to reflect light in contrasting ways and intensify the pieces’ optical allure. Included in public, private, and corporate collections around the world, with critically acclaimed exhibitions in cultural capitals such as Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Milan, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles, Nöger’s works have been acquired into the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Art Institute of Chicago, Margulies Collection (Miami), and Haus der Kunst (Munich), among many others. Currently he maintains studios in Southern California, in Miami, FL and in Geneva, Switzerland.

ALEJANDRA PADILLA

Born in Argentina, Alejandra Padilla continues to live and work there while participating in solo and group exhibitions internationally since 1994. Solo shows include: “20 years with Diana Lowenstein Gallery”(2017), Miami, Florida, “Collages and Drawings” (2015), Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, Florida, as well as “∞” (2013), Praxis Chelsea, New York, New York. Additionally, Padilla has participated in several international art fairs.

DIRK SALZ

Salz was born in 1962 in Bochum, Germany, and studied engineering at RWTH Aachen. Forgoing the figural, the pieces themselves are paradoxically object and reflection. They position the viewer within the work. Salz’s carefully laid resin paintings are a result of a laborious process of pouring, smoothing, masking, and polishing to achieve something that is both built up by hand and machine labor. Yet for all their construction, they create a mirrored veil of the world around them. Surface and depth lie at the heart of Salz’s work; thus, his pieces are created horizontally yet are experienced vertically. Solo Shows include: “Light Poems” (2019) at Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands; “Painting the Absolute” (2018) at Galerie Obrist, Essen, Germany; “Dirk Salz/Loris Cecchini” (2018) at Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, United States, “Novum Spatium” (2017) at Jankossen Contemporary, New York; “RESIN” (2016) at neue arbeiten, Galerie Feurstein, Feldkirch, Austria; and “Unlimited” (2016) at Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany.

SANTIAGO VILLANUEVA

Born in 1965, Madrid Spain, Villanueva’s work is linked to the intimate experience of the body and time. Nothing remains stable, as there is a changing equilibrium through transitions that describe the play of internal forces. His sculptural practice focuses on the one moment within a constant stream of energy. His interest in matter is as a malleable form as imagined within a movement of entropy. Repeated moments within these processes establish a duality between the language of matter, and our senses that perceive (rather than read) them. Villanueva studied and worked with renown Argentine sculptor and architect Abraham Dubckovsky (1930-2004). He has exhibited his work at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, China, as well as numerous exhibitions and fairs.