From
December 3, 2005 to February 3, 2006, the Cisneros Fontanals Art
Foundation (CIFO) will celebrate the inauguration of Miami’s
newest art space with two curated exhibitions drawn from the Ella
Fontanals Cisneros Collection. Originally built in 1936, the
warehouse that will be CIFO’s exhibition space, located at 1018
North Miami Avenue in the region’s burgeoning arts and
entertainment district, has been redesigned by Rene Gonzalez
Architect, to humanize the urban landscape of Downtown Miami’s
warehouse district. The CIFO launch will coincide with the latest
chapter of Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the world’s premier
art festivals.
The inaugural exhibitions: Contemporary photography and video art
CIFO’s
program of exhibitions is intended to provide access to art from the
Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, CIFO’s own
artist-in-residence program, as well as emerging contemporary
artists. The exhibitions drawn from its
resources are organized thematically by curators known for their
ongoing work in a variety of disciplines, demonstrating the highest
standards of collecting and curatorial vision.
“Beyond
Delirious: Architecture in Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection”
Curated
by Christopher Phillips, whose background includes curator at the
International Center of Photography, New York, and former Senior
Editor of Art in America.
Varying
in scale from intimate to monumental, and ranging in mood from coolly
objective to poetically expressive, the works included in “Beyond
Delirious” examine architectural spaces as a reflection of the
cultural life of our times. The artists include such established
figures as Edward Ruscha as well as leading younger contemporaries,
Uta Barth, Rochelle Costi, Olafur Eliasson, Carlos Garaicoa, Andreas
Gursky, Candida Höfer, Sabine Hornig, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer,
Ryuji Miyamoto, Atelier Morales, Gabriel Orozco, Thomas Ruff, Doris
Salcedo, Melanie Smith, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Frank Thiel
and Massimo Vitali. Recent acquisitions in photography included in
the show are works by Olivo Barbieri, Stan Douglas, Sze Tsung Leong,
Stephan Pascher, Shi Guorui, Caio Reisewitz, Heidi Specker, Wang
Qingsong, Sharon Ya′ari, Yang Zhenzhong and Tsukasa Yokozawa.
“Indeterminate States: Video in the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection”
Curated
by Michael Rush, Curator of Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA.
For
this exhibition, Rush has selected videos drawn from the Ella
Fontanals Cisneros Collection that are more suggestive than concrete,
in a way more “abstract.” Rush writes that these works
are best understood as ‘indeterminate,’ or mysterious.
The video art included in “Indeterminate States”
represents that sensibility.
Among participating artists are William Kentridge, Ana Mendieta, and
Melanie Smith and Bill Viola. Recent acquisitions in video included
in the show are by, Marina Abramovic, Chantal Akerman, Kutlug Ataman,
Sophie Calle, Julian Rosenfeldt, Song Dong, Fiona Tan, Robert Wilson
and Francesca Woodman.
CIFO invites you to breakfast on Saturday December 3, Sunday December 4
and Monday December 5.
On
Saturday December 3 at 10:30am there will be a guided tour of
Beyond Delirious by curator Christopher Phillips followed by a
panel discussion with participating artists such as Carlos Garaicoa,
Stephan Pascher, Melanie Smith and Shi Guorui.
On
Sunday, December 4 at 10:30am there will be a guided
tour of Indeterminate States by curator Michael Rush followed
by a panel discussion with participating artists such as Marina
Abramovic, Julian Rosefeldt, and Song Dong.
