Wet at the Rubell Collection

Wet at Rubell Collection in the Phidon Book Store

Yesterday I went to the Rubell collection here in Miami to see the current show called Red Eye-L.A. Artists and was happily surprised when I saw the catalog Wet produced by Charo Oquet with one of my paintings on the cover right by the check out machine. The show was like always humbling for someone in my position.

see ramdom images of the show on flikr here
pdf of the show here
32 images of the show here
buy the catalog here

Boat Ride Adventure

Boat Ride

Last Sunday Benny invited me to ride on his little cool boat to Jimbo’s in the Miami Bay. It was cool, we listened to live music, talked to friends, ate smoked salmon and drank cheap beers, and on the way home we lost our motor engine. From that point on it became a Boat Ride adventure. I was steering and did not notice a shallow area and the engine just flew on the air and felt on the water, we got off the boat to look for the engine and we found it, we put it back on the boat but it did not start again so we rowed for four hours, we received a boat lift from one of Benny’s friends who was kind enough to come help us on a Sunday evening. We were lucky and here is a little video I shot just before it happened, there are also pics on my flickr.

Artland

Artland

Once again in the hd bliss of Voom – Gallery HD’s new series Artland: USA, two hosts skip New York and L.A. (Miami is not even in their map), pile into a big RV, and drive across the country in search of art.

They make their way through big and small towns, from private museums to roadside attractions, this road documentary looks like a different type of show and it is. I found it to be not as fun as Artstar but I can look at it. go>

Grand Celeste

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If you ever come by Paris, please don’t miss Le Cirque du Grand Celeste. This cirque is a contradiction to all the great circus productions of the world. It is small but it is magnificent in its creativity and solution to space and scale. I found myself reflecting on scale of artworks; as artists these days are doing more and more super produced/sponsored artworks, I find this approach of the simple and smart to work better and to be at human scale that can relate better to the spectator. Some of you who might have being fascinated by some scenes of the circus in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire might enjoy this place as well.

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