Art Basel Miami Beach Review: The fair, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, features thoughtful work but shies away from pushing boundaries
The artist/Night Gallery, L.A./Photo: Nik MasseyThe Miami area has always been known to push boundaries. It gave us genre- and game-changing personalities like Gloria Estefan and Antonio Brown. It serves as a financial gateway to the Americas and dared to put the Key lime into a pie. It arguably invented the hurricane party and had no small role in America’s 1980s cocaine habit. Which makes the risk-averse nature of 2022’s Art Basel Miami Beach especially surprising.
This year’s edition of the sometimes notorious, always well-attended art fair marks the event’s 20th anniversary and is its largest iteration to date, filling the Miami Beach Convention Center with 282 exhibitors from 38 countries and territories.
Finding a coherent message across dozens—if not hundreds—of different exhibitors at an art fair is difficult even at the most zeitgeisty of times, and this isn’t one of those. That said, a focus on our physical form recurs across several displays.
But the most exciting work in Miami is three-dimensional. The sand-encrusted totems of Oren Pinhassi at Edel Assanti’s booth greet us like Brancusis that have just been on a long journey through the desert. At Travesía Cuatro, a rough-hewn chunk of clay sprouts elegant orange fronds as if some sort of extraterrestrial fungi in Teresa Solar’s “Tunnel Boring Machine.
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