STYLE 1 MEDIA >>> BASS MUSEUM: ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH EXHIBITION
Bass Museum of Art "Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business" Exhibition
2100 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL | 11.30.2011 | by Merry Esparza
More than 4,000 art lovers flocked to Miami's Bass Museum of Art
for the opening of "Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business," an exhibition produced in
collaboration with Dallas Contemporary, and scheduled to coincide with
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. Erwin Wurm, who lives and works in Vienna, Austria,
attended the Museum's VIP reception on November 30th along with Bass Museum Board President,
George Lindemann; Executive Director and Chief Curator, Silvia Karman Cubiná;
Dallas Contemporary Director, Peter Doroshenko; gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac, who represents the artist in Salzburg and Paris; and
Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin, who represent Mr. Wurm in New York.
(left: Erwin Wurm with Lehmann Maupin Gallery Director, Rachel Lehmann)
Internationally-acclaimed artist Erwin Wurm is known for the sense of humor that
infuses much of his his sculpture, photography, and performance work. The Bass Museum of Art exhibition contains a
mix of works that invite interaction from the viewer. The large-scale sculptural works created specifically for the show
are perfect for posing with and meandering through. Smaller-scale "Drinking Sculptures" invite viewers to open and imbibe
from bottles of liquor concealed inside pieces of furniture laid on their sides.
In Wurm’s large wall and smaller sweater piece sculptures, sweaters stretched across surfaces and
wrapped around multimedia structures provide a notion of warmth, as if the covered spaces and forms were human.
"Erwin Wurm: Beauty Business" will be on view at the Bass Museum of Art
through March 4, 2012. It will subsequently be on view at Dallas Contemporary from April 14 through August 19, 2012.
The VIP reception, supported by Artécity was a festive affair.
Guests enjoyed complimentary wine by Rex Goliath, tequila by Alacrán, water by
Perrier, and music by DJ Kolkoz. Notable guests included Bass Museum of Art Board
Members Jose Net and Jud Laird; art collector Cricket Taplin;
author Anthony Haden-Guest; curator Jerome Sans; former Art Basel Miami
Beach Director Sam Keller, and a host of socialites, artists, curators, and art enthusiasts.
Founded in 1963 to house the collection of John and Johanna Bass, Miami Beach's Bass Museum of Art offers a dynamic year-round
calendar of exhibitions exploring the connections between contemporary art and works of art from its permanent collection of Renaissance and
Baroque paintings, sculpture, textiles, Apulian Vessel Gallery and Egyptian Gallery. Artists’ projects, educational programs, lectures, concerts
and free family days complement the works on view.
For more information, please visit: www.bassmuseum.org.
