[1] The Moore Building

Design Miami/

Event Description

This year, Design Miami/ will feature 18 of the world's leading historical and contemporary design galleries, robust satellite exhibitions curated by leading design institutions, and design talks covering the current design culture. Design Miami/ will also present its 2006 Designer of the Year Award to iconic designer Marc Newson.

December 8-10, 2006
Tickets: Adults $15; Students $10

“Art Loves Design” Design Talk

Event Description

Co-sponsored by Art Basel Miami Beach, will take place from 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm and feature Design Miami/ Designer of the Year, Marc Newson, as the honored guest speaker.

Smart Deco

Event Description

Barry Friedman Ltd. and Droog Design present Smart Deco, a period room of the 21st century that represents an authentic expression reflecting the zeitgeist of cutting-edge design, as well as timeless necessity.

Clamor by Allora & Calzadilla

Event Description

Artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have taken up the genre of war music as the basis for a new body of work. Tracing the history of this form of sonic expression back to earliest of military encounters, the exhibition investigates the bodily and physical dimensions of the music of war. A large sculptural form- serving as a hybrid chamber resembling perhapsa bunker, a meteorite, a ruin, a cave and/or a sound booth, will accommodate a group of musicians playing various repertoires of war songs from different geographical territories and historical periods.

Twilight Town videos by Sean Dack

Event Description

Videos by Sean Dack will be presented for the first time in Miami at The Moore Space, an exhibition of five videos by Sean Dack, including three new videos produced in 2006 especially for this exhibition. Through photography, video, and sculpture, artist Sean Dack excavates a decline of the American Landscape and culture. He meticulously researches and documents sites that embody failed enterprises, whether they are a boarded up Burger King, a deserted Christian Evangelist theme park or an evacuated former mining town.

Puppy Love

Event Description

Puppy Love is spreading throughout the creative world as we strive to find a cure for cancer. Proved emotion and powerful design provide the catalyst for Luminaire's newest notable venture, reaching far beyond the element of function, touching upon the roguish creativity of some of the world's most prolific and notable artists and designers. This esteemed collection of artists and designers will venture into the playful world of abstraction, taking on the charitable cause to benefit the University of Miami's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center during Design Miami. As a collaborative effort with Luminaire's Nargis and Nasir Kassamli, Christie's Auction House, and chosen artists and designers, the "Puppy Love" project was born, breathing new life into the race to cure cancer, by evoking the infatuation with pure playfulness found in all of us.

4D

Event Description

4D, an installation of specially commissioned, and site specific pieces from four diverse designers that communicate the essence of good design.

[2] The Mosaic Building

NEW OBJECTS: USA

Event Description

New York design gallery R20th Century has curated a special exhibition that brings together new design from Steuben Glass with a furniture series from designer and artist Wendell Castle. Steuben will present important new work: crystal pieces by the contemporary artist Jeff Zimmerman and crystal and bronze designs by decorative artist Michele Oka Doner. This glass work will be paired with Wendell Castle's “Black Collection,” five seminal pieces from the 1970s, re-editioned for the first time in black auto plastic.

Paula Hayes / Hugo França

Event Description

R20th Century and Salon 94 will present a 2-person satellite exhibition of works by Paula Hayes and Hugo França. Well-known for her use of ephemeral and organic mediums, Paula Hayes questions the idea of living plants as authored artworks with her glass terrariums and biomorphic silicone planter this exhibition will showcase her new glass terrariums, silicone planters as well as an installation of birdhouses from her new Blue Bird Series Working in the same tradition as modernist Brazilian masters such as Jose Zanine and Jorge Zalszupin, Hugo França is best known for his reverential use of raw materials that are characteristically Brazilian. Working only with fallen trees and old abandoned Indian canoes, França's exquisitely sculpted furniture are extremely labor-intensive as he manually crafts each of his works.

The Shooting by Folkert de Jong

Event Description

Folkert de Jong's decadent installations are landscapes of violence, where the implications of moral decay are literalized via monumental styrofoam scultpures. With a masterful hand and a palette of perverse synthetic colors, he creates scenes that appeal to a media- infected society obsessed with the theatricality of violence. Folkert's Bellmer-esque poupee's compose a set that allow the artist to act out grim fantasies of ultimate destructive violence, at once disturbing, confrontational, and somewhat ironic.

[3] The Chatham Building

Out of True

Event Description

Out of True, an architectural term for skewed construction highlights a vision of the contemporary world as one in which reality is no longer in alignment with expectation.

[4] Collins Building

French Modern Sources

Event Description

The Georges Pompidou Art & Culture Foundation will present French Modern Sources, an exhibition of more than forty-five pieces by pioneers of French modern design from the collection of the Centre Pompidou (Musée national d'art moderne, Paris) never before seen in the U.S. French Modern Sources focuses on the work of members of the French Union of Modern Artists (U.A.M.), a group formed in the late 1920s in reaction to the prevailing conservative design aesthetic. Celebrated architects and designers such as: Le Corbusier, Pierre Chareau, Jean Prouvé, Eileen Gray, and Charlotte Perriand are represented by furniture, models, drawings, and photographs. Curated by Frédéric Migayrou, head of the Architecture and Design department at Centre Pompidou.

[5] The Newton Building

Modus R: Russian Formalism Today

Event Description

Today's Russian art has turned again to Modernist practice, revealing an interest towards formalist searches and experiments in the realm of visual language and logic of artistic form. The principle “Art as a Method”, formulized by one of the founders of Russian Formalism Viktor Shklovsky, has gained new life. The new generation of Russian artists addresses an avant-garde tradition that has already been freed from aesthetic clichés and ideological connotations, employs advanced technologies and a wide spectrum of forms ranging from architectural projects to industrial sculpture, from collages to multimedia installations.

[6] Buick Building

The PAPER $99 Art Store

Event Description

PAPER Magazine will curate a “cultural shop” filled with inexpensive (99¢, $9.99 and under $99) goods from sneakers, surf and skateboards, to jewelry, CDs dinner plates, and mouse pads. All items for sale will represent collaborations between artists endorsed by Deitch Projects and manufactured name brands, such as Marc Jacobs, Adidas, Target and Kid Robot.

Limited

Event Description

Established & Sons, winner of the inaugural Design Miami/ Basel Designer of the Future Award, is a British-based furniture design and manufacturing company, featuring both limited-edition and production pieces from emerging and established UK designers. The company acts as a high-profile platform on which to promote good design internationally and re-affirm belief in British manufacturing. Barber Osgerby, Future Systems, Zaha Hadid, Jasper Morrison, Alexander Taylor, Sebastian Wrong and Michael Young have all designed for Established & Sons.

[7] Buena Vista Building

“Live! From Our Studios”

Event Description

Moss Gallery New York presents, “Live! From Our Studios”, an installation of specially commissioned, monumental pieces from seven key contemporary designers, drawing directly from one-off or limited-edition studio work. “Live! From Our Studios” will feature the work of: Studio Job (Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel), Belgium; Hella Jongerius, the Netherlands; Maarten Baas, the Netherlands; Tord Boontje, France; Fernando and Humberto Campana, Brazil; Constantin Boym, USA; and Massimiliano Adami, Italy.

with love

Event Description

“with love” is curated by GallerySKE, Bangalore and sponsored by Jack Tilton, New York. “with love” is a gesture that showcases the varied art practices of five artists that work in India. Participating artists are Avinash Veeraraghavan, Anup Mathew Thomas, Sheela Gowda, Bharti Kher.

Pause

Event Description

An exhibition where the approach includes cut and paste architecture, collage strategies, reconfiguration, and unspecific dates of completion. The Artists works paraphrase and articulate through use of materials from drawing, painting, sculpture and video, their engagement in dialogue with the built environment and structural design that cannot be directly observed. The artists in “Pause” mine and reflect these different metaphors, which give, rise to irrepressible questions, and contradictions, encouraging viewers to “Pause” and consider these artists propositions.

Intergalatic Installations

Event Description

The three suspended sculptural installations, Stealth, Black Hole and Red Streak synthesize the history of Cold War technology, the design aesthetics of NASA prototypes, and a post-feminist super-woman discourse to suggest the potency of that which is elusive, obscured or mysterious.

Metropolis View: 25 Years Behind the Lens

Event Description

Metropolis Magazine examines contemporary life through design-architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, craft, planning, and preservation. Subjects range from the sprawling urban environment to intimate living spaces to small objects of everyday use. This exhibition presents the work of photographers who have collaborated with Metropolis over the past 25 years and whose work, as a group, provides a visual representation of the global metropolis.

[8] The Loft Building

Zero Hero: John Bock Installation

Event Description

John Bock creates his own interpretation of this peculiar life in the form of a man who appears in the world and with the help of others, passes through different stations, in the form of sculptural objects of one grand installation. This is a man who comes out of a cave, learns how to walk, to talk and to escape his previous life. John Bock's Kasper Hauser is not defeated by his devastating past; instead, he is the one who finally takes over power and becomes self confident. This story takes place in a scenario typical for John Bock with lots of props and hilarious situations.

[9] The Lidia Building

Rising Stars: North Latin Americans

Event Description

nmprojects presents rising artists originally from Mexico, Cuba, Miami and who geographically and culturally are North American to demonstrate the thin line that differentiates them from other Latin American artists from the south of the continent. Daniela Wolf aims to highlight this rare subtle nuance that differentiates the North Latin American and gives them a sui generis identity.

[10] The Marcy Building

Artectonics: New Age Creativity

Event Description

Contrasts Gallery has commissioned a number of international designers to create works in conjunction with traditional Chinese craftsmen, merging contemporary vision with a unique openness and ability to make things materialize. Contrasts will introduce the design collaborative, Wokmedia, to Miami for the first time. Contrasts commissioned these artists, who worked in collaboration with Chinese craftsmen, to create an installation of broken porcelain eggs. When encountered, each egg presents the viewer with a moment of discovery, confronting him/her with something unexpected. The installation gives a modern and hip shape to a traditional medium.

[11] The Madonna Building

“The Protectors” and “Animal Powers”

Event Description

Peter Seidler exhibits an ecstatic presentation of militarized beings, manufactured objects internalize the pre-industrial order and present material instantiations of immaterial systems. The seed vocabulary for this work connects several systems of language, iconography, and technology in a new turbulence: the language of twenty-first-century science fiction fantasy, the wrathful deities of the Himalayas, contemporary weapon systems, and classical statuary. The wrathful deity statues of earlier eras sought to depict enlightened or uplifted forms of aggression in warrior cultures.

Outdoor Installation

Transitio: Video Installation by Solange Fabião

Event Description

New York-based Brazilian artist Solange Fabião is in the midst of an ambitious and migratory public art series she calls “Transitio.” Fabião has traveled to cities around the world documenting everyday life. Her large-scale video projections are presented in an outdoor space featuring video clippings from the cities she has visited.

Galleries

Solange Rabello

Bas Fisher Invitational

The View From Here by Jessica Dickinson

Iran Issa-Khan Studio

Diaspora Vibe Gallery

Ritual, Perception and Visualization

ArtFormz

it's unFair

Steve Martin Studio

Healing Symbols: New Orleans Best of the Best

Etra Fine Art

Highlights 2006

European Art Gallery

Art Fusion Galleries

Lurie Gallery

L'Oriano Galloni and John LaHuis

Barbara Gillman Gallery

New Space, New Work, SURPRISE!

MASH Curated by David Hunt

Produced by Cottelston Advisors / Michael Sellinger

Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

Matriarchs by Hung Liu, Warrior Pit no.5 by Wanxin Zing and Timely Response, a group exhibition

Showrooms

Holly Hunt Miami

Viewing reception

Adriana Hoyos

Exhibition of Latin artists

HausScape

Luminaire

Puppy Love presented by Luminaire and Christie's Auction House. Proceeds to benefit UM's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Kartell

A special event featuring exciting introductions, surprises and more

Poltrona Frau

Designs by Jean Marie Massaud

ÄKTA

Raul Carrasco — Miami

Venini Art, Glass and Lighting

Pelusium Boutique

Designs by Nektar de Stagni

Soli

Genius Jones

Friends With You: Book Signing

Glottman

art loves materialise.mgx

Advanced Trading Inc.

40Northeast

Design Benedict

Laure de Mazieres

Works by Colombian artist Ofelia Rodriquez

Directions

Haubepeinture, by Tanya Flingsby

Now, a Style Store

Odegard

Featured artist Russel Sharon + Wallpaper and handmade lamps by Alpha Worshops

Susane R. Lifestyle Boutique

Abstract Expressionist A. Dale Nally

Windsor Art

Mobitare - Vitra - Driade

Featuring designs by Greg Lynn, Hella Jongerius, and Frank Ghery.

Bloom

Design exhibition

NiBa Home

Exhibition of Dimitar Lukanov

Haveli

Interversions

Model Q

salon de quartier

Ecoist: Presenting artwork and fashion accessories made from recycled materials

Restaurants

Garden Lounge

Elements

Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant

W Wine Bistro

Charcuterie

A-Organic Restaurant

Amendment XXI Lounge