Dot Fiftyone Gallery

The New YAA

Through an extraordinary public/private partnership with Broward County, Young At Art Museum is proud to present its new 55,000 square-foot, Gold LEED-certified permanent facility. The new YAA is a project of social inventiveness for families. The new museum has been envisioned as the first art museum experience for children – nurturing the child from birth through teens and into adulthood – creating a no-fail, arts-based learning environment that will transform the way children embrace the arts, become tomorrow’s patrons of the arts and develop into future advocates and supporters of the arts.

Years of extensive planning have gone into the visualization of the new Young At Art Museum. Experts from some of the nation’s finest museums including The Getty, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Noguchi Museum, Museum for African Art, Chicago Children’s Museum and Brooklyn Museum of Art convened in a symposium to inform the content and context of our Exhibit Master Plan. Parents, educators, artists, cultural groups, children and teens from across South Florida contributed their insights as well. A nationwide search for architects and exhibit designers resulted in the selection of an exceptional design team – AECOM of Miami and Glavovic Studios of Fort Lauderdale as architects; Architecture Is Fun of Chicago as exhibit designer; Redbox Workshop of Chicago as exhibit fabricator.

The new YAA is a place where families can gather; where children can build a sense of identity through art, architecture, history and culture; where artists can teach their aesthetics; where teachers can develop new art-integrated classroom skills; and where teens can expand their potential, whether through CD production in our Teen Center’s recording studio or through volunteer opportunities throughout the museum.

The new YAA embraces art reflective of the cultural diversity of South Florida, enabling children and adults of diverse ethnicities to build bridges of understanding. Through art children will discover themselves and their role in society.

Above all, children and teens, adults and seniors, teachers and students will have fun – exploring, experiencing, discovering and learning by creating art that explores our diverse and complicated world and helps us understand the broad range of human experience.

El YAA (por sus siglas en inglés) tiene cuatro galerías permanentes: ArtScapes, CultureScapes, GreenScapes y WonderScapes. La primera sala es una aventura a través de los más de 5,000 años de creación visual. La segunda, CultureScapes, está dedicada a celebrar la diversidad cultural. Aquí el público tiene la oportunidad de experimentar e incursionar en los magníficos universos creados por artistas de disímiles procedencias culturales. Son ellos Edouard Duval Carrié (Haití), Leonel Matheu (Cuba), Chisseko Kondowe (África), Kenichi Yokono (Japón) y Pedro Zepeda (artista seminole).

La sala creada por Leonel Matheu se basa en la idea errante de la nación cubana. Las estaciones y las estrellas sirven como referencia a la búsqueda de asideros -de hecho, los niños pueden hurgar en las puertas y gavetas que encierran cada uno de los paisajes. Lo mismo ocurre con el personaje central, una media cabeza que a modo de iglú, descansa en el suelo. Una vez dentro, los niños pueden descubrir toda la imaginación y los recuerdos que atesora el personaje en su interior.

Por su lado, la intervención de Edouard Duval Carrié se basa en el imaginario haitiano, creando interesantes calados de juegos de luz y sombra con personajes propios de la cultura popular creole.

Jul 03

Jun 26

current exhibtion: “Discourse of the Non-representational”

Jose Luis Landet, Eduardo Capilla, Bruno Dubner, Omar Barquet, Raquel Schwartz,Mauro Giaconi and Hernan Cedola.

Interview to Jorge Miño about his participation in MadridFoto with Dot Fiftyone presenting his project “The Future is now” curated by Janet Batet

Interview done by “Xtrart” during Dot Fiftyone Gallery participation at Madrid Foto

May 26

Dot Fiftyone gallery participating of MADRID FOTO 2012 - 4th Edition

Dot Fiftyone Gallery presents Jorge Miño´s photo project: “The Future is today” curated by Janet Batet at the fourth edition of Madrid Foto. June 7 - 10, 2012 - Madrid, Spain http://madridfoto.es/

From the 7th to the 10th of June, Matadero Madrid will host the 4th edition of MADRIDFOTO, the only international fair specialized in Contemporary Photography in Spain. Madrid’s Old Slaughterhouse, Matadero Madrid, is a living, changing space that is constantly supporting innovative for creative processes, participatory artistic practices and dialogue between the arts.

MADRIDFOTO will occupy hall 16, space with almost 6.000 sq. m., integrated in what is known for being the city’s biggest centre for contemporary creation and a leading international space dedicated to present daily creations. Following the change of space, MADRIDFOTO aims to become an even more exclusive fair, maintaining the high quality exhibited but in a warmer environment. MADRIDFOTO will offer a unique experience while discovering new talents within the contemporary photography scene.

Given its location, Matadero Madrid extends the Recoletos-Prado cultural axis to Legazpi Square, moving the centre of Madrid further out towards the vicinity of the River Manzanares. Matadero Madrid is an initiative by Madrid Council’s Department of the Arts, in collaboration with other public and private entities.

Jorge Miño (Corrientes, Argentina, 1973) es conocido por su peculiar acercamiento a la fotografía, donde la arquitectura deviene sino y signo de lo transitorio y lo impersonal en tanto rasgos definitorios del sujeto contemporáneo. Miño asume el acto fotográfico como herramienta de indagación que propone una reinterpretación crítica del referente. Sus escenas están siempre cargadas de esa atmósfera enrarecida donde el humano es retratado a partir de su ausencia.

La serie El futuro es hoy, alude a una de las problemáticas más acuciantes de las urbes contemporáneas: la decadencia de las grandes utopías sociales enarboladas por la modernidad.

En muchas ciudades, la tipología del Matadero, devino uno de los grandes símbolos de la creciente ciudad moderna. Imponentes moles arquitectónicas de escala colosal que preconizaban el avance arrollador del progreso, se erigían por doquier. Con el paso del tiempo muchas de estas florecientes urbes terminaron por desmantelarse quedando, en medio de estos pueblos fantasmas, el matadero como símbolo de una época extinta.

Apr 12

Dot Fiftyone gallery participating of ArteBA 2012 - 21st Edition

Dot Fiftyone Gallery announces its participation in ArteBA 21st edition from May 17 - 22, 2012 in Buenos Aires - Argentina.

Ever since its formation 21 years ago, the arteBA has become one of the Latin America’s most important contemporary art fair promoting Argentine and Latin American art, with the goal of positioning that art in the world market. The drawing power of arteBA, as attested to in recent years by record attendances of over 120,000 visitors in its five-day span, has made it clear that the fair, always held in the City of Buenos Aires, has become an essential date on the cultural calendar. Each year curators, collectors, professionals in various cultural fields, and visitors from all over the world come to take in the fair and also enjoy one of South America’s most exciting cosmopolitan cities. Buenos Aires presents them with the architectural beauty of its sumptuous past, a vibrant night-life, and a vast range of cultural offerings.

Dot Fiftyone Gallery

Aug 10

Jul 05

Leonel Matheu at the YAA Museum

The New YAA

Jul 03

Jun 26

current exhibtion: “Discourse of the Non-representational”

May 26