Once again, Miami will get ready to celebrate the largest and most comprehensive Festival of Fine Arts: Basel International Art Festival, which will take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from the 1st to the 4th of December.
Around 250 galleries from 31 countries will attend this event which attracts a select audience of renowned gallery owners, artists, collectors and celebrities. They have been invited to explore the diversity and trends of all artistic creations.
Miami has become one of the three capitals of modern and contemporary art, along with Hong Kong and Basel. In Basel, this event was conceived with the aim of connecting the most important galleries in the world and serve as a meeting point for international art.
Art Basel attracted another luxurious showcase: Miami International Design Festival, a similar fair that was launched in Miami in 2004 for the world of design and culture.
Everything surprises for those days of the last month of the year in Miami, with more than 20 satellite fairs and events in which the same local galleries find or have exhibitions, including Fredric Snitzer Gallery and Projects Spinello.
This festival has 500,000 square feet of exhibition areas, distributed in seven halls, galleries and booths; besides it has locations for editing, films and presentations of magazines. The whole area is functionally arranged for visitors to walk at ease and enjoy the experiences at the magnitude of the sample of modern and contemporary art that the organizers have conceived for a public increasingly motivated.
One feature of the fair is its individual galleries sector. In this sector, artists present their engravings, paintings, installations, performances and sculptures, some of them taking place outdoors. It is also possible to see screenings and video art on a wall of seven thousand square feet in the park SoundScape New World Center, designed by Frank Gehry.
With a growing catalog, Miami shows its culture to the world and opens its doors each year to a sui generis exchange among artists, gallery owners and creators.