I just visited the Miami Art Fair in December 2024. While I found some pretty amazing art there, a lot of it was nonsense but this dichotomy and contrast make the art fairs so interesting. It’s incredibly expensive for art galleries to present contemporary art at such fairs, and only a few can do so year after year. I saw many of the “same” artists there but it doesn’t mean that their art wasn’t good or boring. I think overall, the show has more strange or nonsense “art” this year, which is disappointing for me, a classically-inspired artist. Almost everything presented is huge enough to fit a large wall space in a multi-million house. Such shows attract a specific group of people and I guess that’s how it’s supposed to be.
During the preview hours, I met one of the artists, Clarita Brinkerhoff, from the Aldo Castillo Gallery. She makes sparkly peacock sculptures in metal and Swarovski Stellux Crystals with real peacock feathers. We stand in front of Metis Atash’s Buddha Swarowski crystal sculpture.
The most stunning piece I saw at the ART MIAMI Fair, 2024 was a huge bronze bust of Athena/Minerva titled Bronze Eroded Rome Deified, 2023 by Daniel Arsham. There is something powerful about this sculpture when you see it in person. Perfect. Big. Emotional. I must say that it’s not quite the original creation of the artist because it closely resembles the original one standing in the Louvre, Paris. Here is the Greco-Roman sculpture below.
You can view more from these incredible, realist contemporary artists here: https://veronicasart.com/the-art-worlds-enigma-highlights-from-context-art-miami-2023/
