MIAMI BEACH — At Art Basel Miami Beach, the city's biggest contemporary art trade show, the accoutrements of galleries are as significant as the works on display because they contribute to the frame through which we see these wares.
Copenhagen’s Galleri Bo Bjerggaard was one of the rare spaces that brought in a table and chairs designed by an artist they were exhibiting. The table was created and used by artist Poul Gernes as a dining table, while the Arne Jacobsen chairs were painted these colors after the company asked Gernes to select them. The chairs were included in Gernes’s exhibition at the Danish Pavilion in the 1988 Venice Biennale.
MIAMI BEACH — At Art Basel Miami Beach, the city’s biggest contemporary art trade show, the accoutrements of galleries are as significant as the works on display because they contribute to the frame through which we see these wares. Each gallery booth is designed to communicate with a potential buyer and present a specific face to the world. One of the most overlooked aspects of the fair booth is the functional furniture used by dealers and their staff. Chairs and tables are wherefive, six, and seven-figuredeals are made. They are the props arranged on a stage awaiting their wealthy actors. They are the plumes of exotic art birds engaged in a mating ritual that takes place beside a constant stream of people passing by. Who gets invited to sit in these chairs?
At the booth of the Luciana Brito Galeria of São PauloTornabuoni Art of Paris, Florence, and Milan went all whiteTravesia Cuatro gallery of Madrid and Guadalajara went the all-over approachEames chairs at Cheim & ReadNo nonsense at New York’s Bureau galleryCobbled together at New York’s Salon 94At Marian Goodman galleryAt New York’s Ramiken CrucibleAt New York’s Petzel GalleryAt New York’s Hammer GalleriesAt Mary Boone gallery of New YorkAt London’s Stephen Friedman galleryAt Garth Greenan Gallery of NYCA practical set up at Rio de Janeiro’s A Gentil CariocaAt Berlin’s Galerie Guido W. BaudachA Paula Cooper gallery of New YorkA NYC’s Elizabeth Dee galleryAt New York’s WallspaceAt Milan’s ZERO galleryAt San Francisco’s Anthony Meier Fine ArtsAt Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art of New YorkAt Massimo De Carlo of Milan and LondonAt Tokyo’s SCAI The BathhouseAt Galerie Emanuel Layr of ViennaAt Barbara Mathes Gallery of New York
Art Basel Miami Beach continue at the Miami Beach Convention Center (1901 Convention Center Dr, Miami Beach, Florida) until Sunday, November 7.
