“Stairway to Heaven”, a collection of Pepe Lopez’s recent works.
May 30th – July 10th, 2013, Dot Fiftyone Gallery.
Opening Reception | Thursday, May 30th | 7 PM – 10PM
Dot Fiftyone Gallery, in collaboration with Tanya Brillembourg, is honored to present Stairway to Heaven. A solo exhibition of new works by artist Pepe López, in the Wynwood Art District, Miami, this summer, from May 30th through July 13th.
About the show: Stairway to Heaven
In this show we can find a series of tapestry works titled “New York #3” and “Petare desde el Llanito”, made out of a variety of tapes. Rhipsalis, sculptures series created from structures of broken umbrellas collected in the streets of Caracas. A wool tapestry handwoven in India, from the Big, Bang, Boom series is included in the exhibition as well.
López has added to his show intervened images from the series Alto Claro, photographies taken by the artist’s grandfather Luis Reus in 1962 from a house designed by austrian-american architect Richard Neutra.
Stairway to Heaven will be accompanied by the large scale collages named “Caracas Mapa #3 and #4” and “Mapa Boom #4”.
Employing technological methods to study and visualize urban topographies and social and cultural displacements phenomena, López has teamed up for this show with photographer Nicola Rocco intervening some of his images from the series Caracas Cenital.
About the artist :
Pepe López, a Venezuelan born artist, has been producing artwork from 1988 through the present day. His work is based on a vast trajectory of diverse transmutation. López explores aspects of the map of the social spectrum through the translation of aesthetic codes while developing his perception and concepts in a prolific variety of mediums, such as installations, objects, collages, paintings, performances, photography, tapestry, video, sculptures and collective works.
Artist’s Selective past Exhibitions:
La Sexualidad Contaminada (Sala Mendoza, Caracas, 1991)
López Reus Paintings and Sculptures (Sala Mendoza, Caracas, 1995)
Dick, head & roses (Gasworks Gallery and InIVA, London, 1998)
Mondrian Meets Hansaplast (Galerie 13 Sevigné-Baudoin Lebon, Paris, 2005) Oxigone Punk (Galerie 13, Jeannette Mariani, Paris, 2010)
El despertar del amor (2002), Sugarfree (2002), Como en la Tele (2004) and A Sudá Calle (2005), collective projects organized by Pepe López in collaboration with artist Carlos Sosa at Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, The puffin Foundation, New York and Sala Mendoza, Caracas.In 1992, he participates in the VI Eugenio Mendoza’s Award with: Sueño Cosmico, an interactive, penetrable installation.
He has also exhibited at: I Bienal de Mercosur, in Brazil; 8th and 9th Havana Biennale; 2002 Hereford Photography festival and in at international art fairs consecutively such as: ARCO (Madrid), FIAC (Paris), CIRCA (San Juan), Pinta (New York and London). The artist has exhibited his work at Macro museum, (Rosario, Argentina)
In 1998 López was awarded, by Unesco with the Aschberg prize, to work and exhibit in London. López co-edited, for 2 years with Leopoldo Iribarren, the literary magazine Criterion.
Following the opening reception, gallery hours will be Monday-Friday, 11 P.M. to 7 P.M. On Saturdays private viewings will be available by appointment. Dot Fiftyone Gallery is located at 187 NW 27 Street - Wynwood Arts District, Miami FL 33127
Further information and visuals of the exhibition are available by calling (305) 573-9994, via e-mail toisaac@dotfiftyone.com and online at www.dotfiftyone.
NEW ADRESS 187 NW 27th Street - Wynwood Arts District| Miami, FL, 33127
Phone: 1 305573 9994|
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Dot Fiftyone Gallery participating in VOLTA NY 2013, presenting Muro Giaconi’s project: “Ruin is Abstraction”.
VOLTA NY is an invitational show of solo artists’ projects and is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived by art critic and fair director Amanda Coulson 
to continue the original mandate of a tightly-focused, boutique event that is a place for discovery. Both Basel and New York fairs provide a showcase for current art production and relevant contemporary positions regardless of the artist or gallery’s age.
By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair. While many fairs provide a broader overview, with more represented artists in each booth, visitors to VOLTA NY compare the experience to a more focused series of intense studio visits.
A platform for challenging, often complementary, sometimes competing ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what gives the New York fair its unique character.
http://ny.voltashow.com/index.php
Ruin is ABSTRACTION
Ruin is abstraction is a proposed study of drawing that researches in a confined space (12 square meters) landscape, and space in a poetic state proposing the juxtaposition of two contradictory spatial states: closure and release.
The focus of the project will be framed by a study of drawings that I’m currently developing and are mainly part of the idea of expanded drawing, drawing far from the traditional format, which is projected as a transformer and generator of spaces and thoughts.
In a state of decay, insecurity and tension of the landscape, space, embraces and envelops the viewer to walk or dwell in a place to be aware of the precariousness of the surrounding environment.
From the drawing processes in which the image is built and destroyed from successive layers of drawing and blurring (The drawing is done with graphite, and the blurring is generated from gestural strokes of eraser, electric sander, diluent and different corrosive materials) is constructed, and in turn destroys the image, the representation, the gesture.
PRESS INFO: MOVING FORWARD
Dot Fiftyone gallery proudly announces the moving into its new building .
Dot Fiftyone gallery is a Miami based gallery focused in contemporary emerging art. Founded in 2003 by Alfredo Guzman and Isaac Perelman, the gallery aims to be a production laboratory for contemporary art as well as an exhibition space. Dot Fiftyone¹s objective is to create a conduit between the artists and the community local and global, by generating a flexible and mobile structure accessible to all.
For the past 10 years, the gallery established its reputation as leaders in emerging artists, as well as a pioneer in developing the Wynwood Art District.
The gallery strives to erase the gap between geographically diverse cultures, as the directors believe these boundaries do not exist in the artists’ intentions.
Today, Dot Fiftyone (Perelman and Guzman)Gallery is looking forward to entering a new phase, as we move to a different location, with a novel vision of what Dot Fiftyone represents.
The space is located in the heart of Wynwood (187 NW 27th Street, on the intersection of NW 2nd Street). The gallery now has 3500 square feet of available space, to include a project and video room, with 15 feet high ceilings; in addition, it provides private parking. We will also, be launching our updated website.
Currently, the gallery is limiting its operational abilities to the needs of our loyal collectors and friends,and we are looking forward to be open to the general public in March 2013.
Dot Fiftyone Gallery new address:
187 NW 27th street, Wynwood Arts District - Miami Fl 33127
Further information regarding the new location of Dot Fiftyone Gallery and its artists, is available by calling (305) 573-9994, via e-mail to Isaac@dotfiftyone.com
We are working on the new web of Dot Fiftyone Gallery. This is just a preview’s shot of how it will look. In the upcoming weeks, the new web will be on.
TIPPING POINT
By Nina Dotti
2013
March 14 – April 30, 2013
Opening Reception, Thursday, March 14, 2013.
Nina Dotti (B.1968) is a Venezuelan artist who lives and works in Miami, Florida. She has a Bachelor’s in Museum Studies and Art History from Jose Maria Vargas University in Caracas. Dotti also specialized in photography at Roberto Mata School and went to the Art Student League of NY for sculpture and drawing. Galerie 13 Jeanette Mariani in Paris has represented her since 2006. Exhibitions include Paris, New York, Miami, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Berlin, Basel, and Shanghai among others. Her main focus is performance, installation, video and photography.
Nina’s inspiration derives from social clichés attached to women and female behavior in general. Defined as a new media contemporary artist and a “pluralized woman” by French critic Frederic Charles Baitinger, Nina attempts to evoke through her work, women’s role in the XXI century.
“Tipping Point” is her fourth solo show. This body of work is made up of photographs, sculptural objects and fixtures of golden tones that attempt to convey a statement on the balance between being, feeling, thinking and doing that we all desire to achieve.
Dot Fiftyone Gallery participating in VOLTA NY 2013, presenting Muro Giaconi’s project: “Ruin is Abstraction”.
VOLTA NY is an invitational show of solo artists’ projects and is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived by art critic and fair director Amanda Coulsonto continue the original mandate of a tightly-focused, boutique event that is a place for discovery. Both Basel and New York fairs provide a showcase for current art production and relevant contemporary positions regardless of the artist or gallery’s age.
By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair. While many fairs provide a broader overview, with more represented artists in each booth, visitors to VOLTA NY compare the experience to a more focused series of intense studio visits.
A platform for challenging, often complementary, sometimes competing ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what gives the New York fair its unique character.
http://ny.voltashow.com/index.php
Ruin is ABSTRACTION
Ruin is abstraction is a proposed study of drawing that researches in a confined space (12 square meters) landscape, and space in a poetic state proposing the juxtaposition of two contradictory spatial states: closure and release.
The focus of the project will be framed by a study of drawings that I’m currently developing and are mainly part of the idea of expanded drawing, drawing far from the traditional format, which is projected as a transformer and generator of spaces and thoughts.
In a state of decay, insecurity and tension of the landscape, space, embraces and envelops the viewer to walk or dwell in a place to be aware of the precariousness of the surrounding environment.
From the drawing processes in which the image is built and destroyed from successive layers of drawing and blurring (The drawing is done with graphite, and the blurring is generated from gestural strokes of eraser, electric sander, diluent and different corrosive materials) is constructed, and in turn destroys the image, the representation, the gesture.
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Dot Fiftyone Gallery participating in Art Miami 2012, December 4- 9, 2012
Known as Miami’s premier anchor fair, Art Miami kicks off the opening day of Art Week — the first week of December when thousands of collectors, dealers, curators, and artists descend upon Miami. World-famous for its stylish gallery-like decor, its outstanding quality and extraordinary variety, Art Miami showcases the best in modern and contemporary art from more than 125 international art galleries.
Art Miami maintains a preeminent position in America’s contemporary art fair market. With a rich history, it is the original and longest-running contemporary art fair in Miami and continues to receive praise for the variety of unparalleled art that it offers. It is the “can’t miss” event for all serious collectors, curators, museum directors, and interior designers providing an intimate look at some of the most important work at the forefront of the international contemporary art movement.
Location: The Art Miami Pavilion / Midtown | Wynwood Arts District / 3101 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, FL 33137. http://www.art-miami.com
Dot Fiftyone Gallery is pleased to announce the special exhibition to celebrate Miami’s International Art Fairs Week. This is a group show of selected gallery artists presenting paintings, photographs, videos and installations.
Artists in the exhibition include Mauro Giaconi, Omar Barquet, Jose Luis Landet, Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Raquel Schwartz, Leonel Matheu, Liliane Eberle, Jorge Miño, Leslie Gabaldon, Paz Juristo, Gustavo Blanco Uribe, Yanina Szalkowicz and Hernan Cedola.
Opening reception to the public:Monday, December 3, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Dot Fiftyone Gallery will be participating also in Art Miami 2012 (December 4 – 9, 2012, The Art Miami Pavilion Midtown - Wynwood Arts District), Booth E-13
Dot Fiftyone gallery is participating again in PINTA NY 2012, (The Modern and Contemporary Latin American Show) November 15 - 18, 2012, presenting a solo exhibition by Jose Luis Landet.
About Jose Luis Landet:
The works by Landet are characterized by their simplicity and masterful use of color, simple forms that the artist breaks down and rebuilds in an act of creation and destruction that functions as an analogy for memory and oblivion. Notions such as cutting, fragmenting, recomposing, serializing, and reiterating are some of the core concepts Landet employed in his inquiry into the intricacies of memory. His works are reconstructed canvases. Once the artist finishes his work, he then proceeds to cut the canvas into identical portions; these will be combined with fragments from other canvases to create an entirely new work. Once reconstructed on the wall as a result of meticulous recomposition, this new piece emerges as a sort of visual grid of graceful and alternating rhythms.
About Pinta NY:
PINTA is a unique event exhibiting annually for sale through the participating galleries the best of Latin American art, coinciding with Christie¹s and Sotheby¹s Latin American art auctions and with important exhibitions in museums and cultural institutions in New York City. The fair organizers have invited the most prestigious galleries from the United States, Latin America and Europe to participate in this event. Thus, PINTA will be an exclusive fair which will include the participation of fifty select art galleries showing museum-quality works representative of abstract, concrete, neo-concrete, kinetic and conceptual art, as well as of other contemporary art movements.
GONZALO FUENMAYOR AWARDED TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP FROM THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Colombian artist residing in Miami, has been awarded a Traveling Fellowship by The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A jury comprised of Ambreen Butt, Boston-based artist; Katherine French, Director of the Danforth Museum of Art and Anthony Greaney, gallery owner, awarded 10 fellowships from a pool of 134 alumni applicants.
Throughout its long and distinguished history, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), has been fortunate to be the beneficiary of bequests designed to support student work. None has been as important or as enduring as the Traveling Fellowships, which were created in 1894 to encourage post-graduate work and travel. While the selection criteria have changed through the years, the awards have consistently provided support to launch individual careers through independent work, travel and exhibition opportunities.
Fuenmayor’s proposal featured Leticia, Colombia, as his destination. The city is located in the epicenter of the Amazon, making it an enticing and exciting place to further explore ideas of dislocation, exoticism and hybridity, which have been paramount in his current work.
The 10 recipients have approximately one year to complete their travels. At the conclusion of those travels, their works will be reviewed again and one artist from this distinguished group will be selected for a solo presentation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to be held in the spring of 2015.
Complementing this unique opportunity, Fuenmayor has also been selected as an Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska for 2014. 723 artists from around the world applied for just 18 spaces. The Bemis Center provides a private live/work studio, a monthly stipend and 3 months to concentrate on artist’s creative practice. More info at www.bemiscenter.org
About the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Founded in 1876 and accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), is one of only three art schools in the country affiliated with a major museum—the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Our mission is to provide an education in the fine arts—for undergraduate and graduate artists—that is interdisciplinary and self-directed. This education values cultural, artistic and intellectual diversity; it embraces a wide range of media; it stresses the development of individual vision and its relation to culture in general; it values equally the knowledge gained by thinking and doing; it is deeply engaged with the world as a whole. If the mission is constant, its practice is always transforming. For more information about our programs and partnerships, visit www.smfa.edu.
Dot Fiftyone Gallery participating of MADA New Media Festival ‘12.
Featuring Art Videos by Guillermo Riveros, Rhonda Mitrani and RPM Project.
Opening Saturday October 13th, 2012
Dot Fiftyone Gallery proudly announces its participation in Art Platform Los Angeles 2012, presenting recents works by Mauro Giaconi, Omar Barquet and Hernan Cedola. Booth 502.
SEPT 28 - SEPT 30, 2012 / Opening Preview Thursday, September 27
The Barker Hangar / Santa Monica.
Art Platform – Los Angeles, the modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles, will debut its second edition at the historic Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, just minutes from the beach and the Santa Monica Pier. The move to the Barker Hangar emphasizes Art Platform – Los Angeles’ commitment to greater Los Angeles as an international art capital, and to the growth of the fair as an essential event in the ever expanding art world. As the premier art fair in Southern California, Art Platform – Los Angeles seeks to capture the very essence of this great city – light, space, innovation, and recreation. 
The 2012 edition of Art Platform – Los Angeles will bring together both local and international artists, dealers, collectors, museums and art enthusiasts, to engage in a vibrant exchange of art and culture. Art Platform – Los Angeles will continue to provide unprecedented access to the artists, institutions and collections that define the Los Angeles art scene through its outstanding selection of innovative galleries, extensive VIP program, stimulating Open Platform speaker series, and special programming.
Omar Barquet’s artwork to be exhibited at Art Platform
Art Platform - Los Angeles art fair demonstrates the rich and diverse cultural landscape of Southern California and underscores Los Angeles’ influential position within the contemporary art world.
Bringing together both local and international artists, dealers, collectors, museums and art enthusiasts that play important roles in the vibrant Southern California art community, Art Platform - Los Angelesemphasizes the increased recognition of greater Los Angeles as an international art capital.
Mauro Giaconi’s artwork to be exhibited at Art Platform
Hernan Cedola’s artwork to be exhibited at Art Platform
In pursuit of such emphasis, Art Platform - Los Angeles 2012 will both continue to provide unprecedented access to the art, galleries, institutions and collections that define the Los Angeles art scene, and to contextualize them within a broader, international framework.
Art Platform - Los Angeles will serve as a platform to encourage and deepen the dialogue between the talent of greater Los Angeles and that of the international art community around the globe.