Our 2nd day in Miami started a little late than we scheduled. My body was crying and screaming because of the busy schedule from the first day, but the mild weather of Miami beach was soothing and refreshing. No need for jackets or scarfs, just throw a tank-top and dress on you, and you’ll be fine. Awesome, Miami…
First we decided to visit Aqua Wynwood, where two of my travel mates had their art works exhibited.
AQUA ART (http://www.aquaartmiami.com/)
Aqua Art is one of the big art fairs at Art Basel. Participants are 50 galleries from cities like New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Osaka, ans so on. Each gallery gets their own booth to exhibit art works and promote up-and-coming artists.
I headed to Thinkspace, where Brett had his pieces exhibited. Thinkspace is a contemporary art gallery from Los Angeles.
“Waiting #47” by Brett Amory
I love these two pieces. I love they way he uses colors..
Brin also had his works exhibited at Aqua. Brin makes bronze sculpture and designs toys and figures for artists such as Mars-1 and Ron English.
I was also able to meet and talk with Ted Lincoln, who uses sumi-ink in his art works. Since he uses similar ink and method in his creative process, I was interested in his works for a while – I saw his pieces at 111Minna a while ago, and they were so beautiful. He used to live in San Francisco, but now he moved back to his hometown in Florida and owns a larger studio.
As I kept exploring, I found Gallery Edel from Osaka, which was the only one gallery from Japan at Aqua. They had Yayoi Kusama’s piece at the front, obviously caught my attention immediately. The gallerists got their unique “osaka” style humor in the conversation and I enjoyed contemporary Japanese art.
And I kept exploring…
I love this.
Gallary representatives from Edel Gallery, Osaka. おつかれさまです。Now you guys can party!
After spending three hours at Aqua Wynwood, we rented a car near the Miami Airport, and stopped by California Pizza Kitchen for the dinner. Oh no we didn’t plan to go there, we just randomly stumbled upon CPK… I, of course, felt so funny about us having a dinner at CPK although we are in Miami. I remember that all the menus were a little expensive than CPK in California. We didn’t care anything at this point, since this trip has been troublesome for all of us…
“Waiting for my BBQ chicken salad!!”
Fountain (http://www.fountainexhibit.com/)
We drove back to Wynwood area to check out Fountain. The loud sound of the live band performance at the outdoor area induced us to get in, as a flux of people pushed me into the party crowd regardlessly.
Live silkscreening demo. It’s huge!
We got lost on the way back to where we parked, then suddenly we found El Mac’s gigantic mural in a deserted area. Breathtaking. Look at Brin at the bottom – now you can see how big this is.
I wanna do this in Japanese calligraphy version..
Back to South Beach, Beach Paradise Hotel.
This is the last photo of me with my Sony Erricsson phone. At this point, I didn’t know that my phone will be stolen at the beach after this fun conversation with my friend who missed Art Basel…
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Hanging out at the beach all night, everything started to seem like a fairy tale in a well-made dream. Art Basel in a summer-like breeze took me out to a paradise, far, far away from cold rain in San Francisco. With this view, you’ll be speechless; nothing can be more eloquent to describe this moment than just feeling it.
Floating house on the sea water. This was part of installation for Art Basel, which I was not aware of.. With the marmalade sunrise as a background, it’s so beautiful that does not even look like it’s real… it is almost like a painting.
To be continued…
