For the full press release go here. Some basic information follows:
Public Opening Night, which is free and open to the
public, takes place in Collins Park on Wednesday, December 4, from 8.30pm to
10pm. The Public sector is also free of charge and open to the public from
December 4 to December 8. Collins Park is located between 21st & 22nd
Street, in close proximity of the exhibition halls within the Miami Beach
Convention Center and adjacent to The Bass Museum of Art.
For myself, there are some really interesting sculptors and installation artists this year and I cannot wait to see what they have in store for Miami.
Ursula von Rydingsvard makes massive volumetric sculptures out of red
cedar, where she stacks square cedar posts and then carves them into organic forms. She is 70 years old (!) and one of the few women in the world to work in wood on such a dramatic scale. There is a very well done NPR piece about Ursula and her work here, which includes a taped interview and some great pictures, including the one below.
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| Luba, 2010. Cedar, graphite, bronze. 212" x 139" x 88" |
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| Appearing Rooms, Southbank Centre, London from Wikipedia |
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Box Hill Road River, London 2012
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And last but not least is possibly a soundtrack of sorts for the evening. A new sound installation by Mungo Thomson will be created with four musicians playing different instruments – clarinet, flute, violin and percussion – will imitate the song of crickets.
