Happy Basel to all! Another amazing event during Art Basel 2017 was the Inaugural Edition of Fair.
Fair. a new alternative and non-commercial contemporary art fair featuring public works and surprise performances by some of the world’s most iconic and trailblazing women artists – debuted on December 7th, 2017 in Miami Beach.
Fair. and Influential People
Guests streamed into the 5,000 square-foot raw storefront space located in Brickell City Centre (BCC) – Miami’s newest urban shopping epicenter designed by Peruvian architect Bernardo Fort-Brescia – to preview the fair, that included works by Yoko Ono, Guerrilla Girls, Pia Camil, Jillian Mayer, Ruby Rumié, Juana Valdes and Micol Hebron, to name a few.
Made possible by Swire Properties Inc, Fair. and will run concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, December 7–10 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Guests were treated to a performance by Suzi Analogue, Tara Long (POOR GRRRL) & Virgo.
An intimate dinner celebration was held in honor of the artists at Casa Tua Cucina, the legendary Miky Grendene’s not-yet-open restaurant located at Brickell City Centre.
Guests included Fair. curators Zoe Lukov and Anthony Spinello, Fair. artists Agustina Woodgate, Anna Garner, Antonia Wright, Cara Despain, Jen DeNike, Jillian Mayer, Jill Weisberg, Juana Valdez, Katya Grokhovsky, Micol Hebron, Nathalie Alfonso, Paloma Teppa, Pia Camil, Radioee.net, Reed Van Brunschot, Taja Lindley & Zoila Darton and Swire Properties’ president Kieran Bowers with Jorge & Darlene Pérez, Albert “Aldo” Bensadoun, Creative Time’s Alyssa Nitchum, Alyson Cafiero, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Enrico Marone Cinzano, Douglas Bensadoun, Eddie de Vita, Emanuel Sebag, Guillermo Rozenblum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lady Liliana Cavendish, Lara Shriftman, Lucrezia Buccellati, Lorenzo Kappa, Lisa Cortes, Madison Ibargüen, Maggio Cipriani, Maria Buccellati, Natalie Kovacs, Polina Proshkina, Piero Lissoni, Pierre Falempin, Scott Drevnig, Ugo Colombo, Valerio Morabito, Virginia Maksymowicz and Ximena Caminos.
Photo Credit by: David Prutting/BFA.com & Samuel Rivas/World Red Eye