Fountain Miami
Calendar
Miami Map
Contacts
List of Galleries:
Ad
Hoc Art
Bipolart
Buenas
Artes
Capla Kesting
Front Room Gallery
Steven Gagnon
Gitana Rosa
Glowlab
Grace
Exhibition Space
Like
The Spice
McCaig-Welles
Miguel
Paredes
VertexList
Yum Yum Factory
The avant-garde has
always laid claim to
history through its challenges and victories over the status quo. In 1917,
at the unjuried Society of Artists exhibition, Marcel Duchamp unveiled
the world’s most famous ready-made art object: “Fountain”.
It is in this spirit of the unexpected that some of Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s
most forward-thinking and cutting-edge galleries have collaborated to
present "Fountain Miami." The exhibition will make its mark
in a massive 5000 square foot wharehouse at: 2841 NW 2nd Avenue
in the Wynwood Gallery District, in close proximity to various
other international art fairs, the Rubell Family Collection and many local
galleries. Fountian Art Fair will run Thursday Dec 6th until Sunday
December 9th with a press brunch preview on Thursday
morning Dec 6th at 9am until 11am and a reception for
the artists on Friday Dec 7th from 7pm until midnight.
"Fountain Miami" is a guerrilla-style art fair - under the radar,
but highly influential. "Fountain" was launched in March 2006
in New York, in an effort to leverage support for independent galleries
largely overlooked by corporate-sponsored art fairs. In defiant contrast
with both Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope and the slew of other International
art fairs, "Fountain" has received wide public support and critical
acclaim for its independent slant. This independent aspect gives Fountain
its edge: young galleries showcasing fresh work without official booth
spaces or selection committee juries. In form and spirit, the artwork
shown truly reflects the avant-garde and in-your-face attitude equated
with the Dada movement.
Fountain Miami
is currently featuring the galleries: Ad Hoc Art, Bipolart, Buenas Artes,
Capla Kesting Fine Art, Front Room Gallery, Steven Gagnon, Gitana Rosa,
Glowlab, Grace Exhibition SpaceLike The Spice, McCaig-Welles Gallery,
Miguel Paredes, VertexList and Yum Yum Factory. Special guests apperances
tom be named later.
Come and experience the unfiltered, uncouth and enterprising excitement
of Fountain. See advanced art as it was meant to be seen – without
blinders, without “taste merchants" – straight from the
source.
Media Contact - David
Kesting 917-650-3760 or John Leo 917-292-8865
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"Fresh and in their faces, a perfect example of avant-energetics" - The Brooklyn Rail A "smaller, independent fair" - The Miami Herald "An 'Alternative Fair,' organized by Williamsburg, Brooklyn dealers, which presents the work of young artists and galleries" - Art in America “Fountain” (after Duchamp's title for his “ready-made” urinal) is the perfect moniker for this independent, experimental, mini art fair with its Duchampian spirit of philosophic irony." - Douglas Kelley Show "A salon des refusés" - Time Out New York "Contemporary art in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp" - Artnet.com "Independent and experimental" - Juxtapoz magazine |
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