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Art Basel: ecoartspace presents Cortada at Verge Art Fair

December 3, 2009 @ 8:00 am - December 6, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

12/3/2009 to 12/6/2009
When: Opening preview: Thursday, 3 December from 6 to 10 pm, reception to follow
Friday & Saturday, 4 – 5 December, Noon to 8 pm and Sunday, 6 December, Noon to 6 pm
Where: Verge Art Fair
Catalina Hotel
1732 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach,, Florida  33139
Contact: Amy Lipton, ecoartspace
amy@ecoartspace.org

 

ecoartspace presents Cortada’s

Native Flags at Verge Art Fair

 

As the Arctic sea ice melts, nations clamor to raise their flags over newly open waters to claim the natural resources that lie beneath them – oil, manganese, diamonds, fish – and to control shipping lanes.  Meanwhile, rising sea levels threaten the world below.
On June 29th, 2008, Miami artist Xavier Cortada arrived at the North Pole and planted a green flag to “reclaim it for nature.”
Cortada created this NYFA sponsored artist project to engage people globally to help slow the polar thaw: Participants plant a native tree next to a green flag at home and ask their neighbors to do the same.
Reforestation reduces the greenhouse gases that cause global climate change. During December 3-6, 2009, ecoartspace is presenting Native Flags at the Verge Art Fair in Miami Beach, Florida.

 

 

VERGE EXHIBITORS
Anonymous Gallery, New York, New York, ANTIDOTE, Brooklyn, New York, The Atmosphere 23 Group, Chicago, Illinois, Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, Kansas City, Kansas, Carl van Brunt, Beacon, New York, ecoartspace, New York, New York, Factory Fresh/Skeweville, Brooklyn, New York, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, Galerie CP: Angela Cerny & Ronald Puff, Wiesbaden, Germany, Gitana Rosa, Brooklyn, New York, MANIAC, Los Angeles, California, MS Projects, Brooklyn, New York, Nroom Artspace, Tokyo, Japan,Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes, Rush Arts, New York, New York, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, New York, Tsatsis Projects/Artforum, Thessaloniki, Greece,Vagabond Gallery, New York, New York, Vinyl Contemporary, Brooklyn, New York, Chasmus/Wild Feasties, New York, New York, Xinfu Gallery, Shanghai, China and Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia

VERGE SELECTION COMMITTEE
Richard Feigen, Richard L. Feigen & Co.
Carrie Springer, Curator
Dan Cameron, Founder and Artistic Director of Prospect New Orleans and Director of Visual Art, Center for Contemporary Arts (CAC), New Orleans
James Yood, Critic, Artforum International
Beth Rudin Dewoody, Collector
Samuel Messer, Associate Dean, Yale School of Art and Director, Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk
Edouard Steinhauer, Artistic Director, Verge

ABOUT VERGE
Verge is an international platform for the most exciting and interesting in new and emerging art. Verge exists to establish boundaries of the extraordinary as a counter to the natural compulsion towards stagnation in the way art is evaluated and delivered to the public. Staying true to this necessary state for the advancement of art requires a sustained focus on the best new ideas and practices of those marginal or newly emerging to international art audiences. The satisfaction of this fixed requirement for a healthy and competitive artistic culture is at the core of Verge as an international exposition of the highest quality artistic production and the galleries, museums and audiences who sustain it.

VERGE ART FAIR
The Catalina Hotel & Beach Club
1732 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, USA

www.vergeartfair.com

Tel: +1-312-612-2270

PUBLIC HOURS:
Friday & Saturday, 4 – 5 December, Noon to 8 pm
Sunday, 6 December, Noon to 6 pm

Details

Start:
December 3, 2009 @ 8:00 am
End:
December 6, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

Organizer

Amy Lipton, ecoartspace

Venue

Verge Art Fair
Catalina Hotel 1732 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139 United States + Google Map