©2016 ESTATE OF HUGH STEERS/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/COURTESY ALEXANDER GRAY ASSOCIATES, NEW YORK
The 15th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach opens Thursday, December 1, with VIP previews beginning today. The 2016 edition of the fair, which runs through Sunday, December 4, will bring 269 galleries from 29 countries to city. Part 2 of the preview looks at the galleries and artists exhibiting in the seven smaller sections of the fair: Positions, for solo presentations; Survey, historical works; Kabinett, “distinct curated projects”; Nova, younger galleries; Edition, for editioned works and prints; Public, which includes public projects throughout Miami and performances; and Film, which is curated by David Gryn and Marian Masone. (Part 1 looks at the exhibitors participating in the main Galleries section of the fair.) Among the highlights are Liliana Porter at Houston’s Sicardi Gallery and Maura Axelrod’s Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back in Film, Ibrahim El-Salahi at London’s Vigo in Survey, and a performance by drag queen Lady Bunny.
Click the photos below to see works on offer at the fair.
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Alexander Gray Associates, New York | Kabinett
Hugh Steers, Hospital Bed, 1993, oil on canvas.
©2016 ESTATE OF HUGH STEERS/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
Sicardi Gallery, Houston | Film
Liliana Porter, Actualidades / Breaking News, 2016.
Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn | Positions
Maggie Lee, The Pool (detail), 2016, Jenny doll, plastic box, and water.
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin and Cologne | Kabinett
Mike Kelley, Paintings in Time (detail), 1994, set of 7 paintings acrylic on wood.
Maura Axelrod Productions | Film
Still showing Maurizio Cattelan in Maura Axelrod's Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back (2016).
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg | Film
Kudzanai Chiurai, Moyo, 2013.
Vigo, London | Survey
Ibrahim El-Salahi, Head II, 1957, oil on wood panel.
Nils Stærk, Copenhagen | Kabinett
Olaf Breuning, Invasion, 2016, ceramic.
Garth Greenan Gallery, New York | Survey
Howardena Pindell, Untitled, 1972–73, acrylic on canvas.
Perfomances
The Lady Bunny.
The Box, Los Angeles | Survey
Barbara T. Smith, Alien Ambassador, Souvenir (Butterfly), 1982, mixed media collage in resin.
FREDRIK NILSEN STUDIO
Altman Siegel, San Francisco | Film
Nate Boyce, Repossesion Sequence II, 2016.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago | Kabinett
Derrick Adams, Floater No. 2, 2016, acrylic paint and collage on paper.
Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong | Film
Samson Young, Notational Tendencies and Performance Processes, 2015, installation view, at Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Germany.
Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris | Survey
Jacques Villeglé, 14 Juillet, 1960, ripped posters mounted on canvas.
David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach | Film
Jillian Mayer, I am Your Grandma, 2011.
Jorge Mara - La Ruche, Buenos Aires | Kabinett
Horacio Coppola, Success, 1934, gelatin silver print on pape.
Polígrafa Obra Gràfica, Barcelona | Edition
Ross Bleckner, September 23rd bis (variant 2) baixa, 2016, lithograph with collage.
Crèvecoeur, Paris | Nova
Xavier Antin, Liquidity, data flows and dirty hands, 2016, ink-jet print on Plexiglas.
Film
Anna Grenman, Irminsul, 2016.