Photo
Miami
2006
Miami Photo Wynwood Art District
06 - 10 Dec 2006
The International Contemporary Fair of Photo-Based Art, Video,
and New Media
SOHO Building 2136 NW 1st Avenue & NW 21st Street
Miami, Florida 33127
Galerie Caprice Horn Booth 200
What
do nature, the Stasi, Hitler, Louis Vuitton bags and the deadly
sins have in common?
The marriage
of myth and zeitgeist are reflected in the works of the artists
shown at Miami 2006, which include Tim White-Sobieski, Maslen
& Mehra, Lukas Maximilian Hüller, Daniel & Geo
Fuchs, Douglas Busch, Liza Nguyen and Svein Fannar Johannson.
Nothing can be revealed yet – this too constitutes an
aspect of myth - uncertainty. All that can be revealed is
that we will be premiering the latest work of Tim White Sobieski
in a curated show by Paco Barragan. Similarly, new works can
be seen Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Maslen & Mehra and Lukas
Maximilian Hüller.
As Chris
Townsend so succinctly put it: ‘Can you imagine the wonder
with which the first man, cresting a ridge, saw the landscape
laid out below and before him? We know enough to know that
there was no “first man”, that there was not, suddenly,
a conscious being, equipped with language, memory, a sense
of self and a sense of time’. Yet, what pervades British/Australian
duo Maslen and Mehra’s large-format photographs is a
sense of seeing something for the first time. Polished mirrored
silhouettes of urban men are placed or one could say displaced
in different contexts. Is man part or apart of nature? In
their latest work which will we premiered in Miami, we are
confronted with a pair of ibex in gridlock in front of the
Louvre.
The Austrian
artist Lukas Maximilian Hüller rediscovers an entirely
different, yet also seemingly archaic concept: the seven deadly
sins. In his series of panoramic photographs displaying opulent
scenarios realised with the Belgian scenograph Etienne Tombeux,
he confronts us with the question of whether the medieval
canon of sins can be contextualised in a contemporary setting.
Daniel
& Geo Fuchs, in their latest work entitled ‘STASI
– secret rooms’ (recently acquired by the Elton
John Collection), focus on the legacy of the GDR regime. Their
photographs of the machinery and relicts of the former East
German Secret police are beautifully portrayed, oddly, coldly
aesthetic. In their Toy series toys are manipulated and reflect
the political context with sharp irony.
Tim White-Sobieski’s
latest work follows the opening of his solo show at Louis
Vuitton in Paris. ‘Icons’ allowed Sobieski as well
as other artists such as Zaha Hadid and Sylvie Fleury, to
reinterpret the label’s most prominent fashion icons.
FAIR
HOURS:
Opening
Reception (by invitation)
Tuesday, December 5th, 3 - 8pm
Public
Fair Hours
Wednesday, December 6th, 10 - 3pm
Thursday, December 7th, 12 - 7pm
Friday, December 8th, 12 - 7pm
Saturday, December 9th, 12 - 7pm
Sunday, December 10th, 12 - 7pm
