Distinguished for its quality, depth, and diversity, Design Miami 2022 has concluded, giving worldwide collectors and locals the best in contemporary and emerging art and design. Kicking off at the end of November and running through the first week of December, this event ran alongside the annual Art Basel Miami Beach. The ultimate international art fair ranged from interactive installations to art exhibitions by promising up-and-comers to 20th-century masterworks, including Daniel Arsham and Andrés Reisinger, and Stefano Boeri. Also during this event, MetaMundo has presented their Top 50 Creators of the Metaverse - a hand-picked collection of some of the world’s best 3D artists.
For this edition, The Miami Design District has awarded Miami-based architect and designer Germane Barnes and commissioned a multifaceted installation that honors the city's polyethnic culture. Along with other relevant architectural installations during the Miami Art Week, the following selection includes work by Leandro Erlich at Perez Art Museum Miami and Pilar Zeta.
Discover below 7 relevant architectural installations at the Miami Art Week 2022 and Art Basel Miami.
Rock | Roll / Germane Barnes
2022 Miami Design District Commission
Barnes’ installation, Rock | Roll, is a multifaceted installation that draws on the vibrancy of Miami Carnival to honor the BIPOC communities that contribute to Miami’s polyethnic culture. The installation is a series of massive, whimsical capsules that rock back and forth when users activate and feature vibrant colors reminiscent of Carnival’s feathered costumes and the city’s water-friendly lifestyle. Fabricated by ALT BLD, there will also be a free-floating dome reminiscent of a giant disco ball. Suspended overhead and animated by light and sound, the structure will serve as an anchor to a communal and lively commission.
Esculturas brancas/ Ascânio MMM
The sculpture series takes rational geometry to the limits of surprise and sensory using wooden slats to stack them at gradually more acute angles calculated around vertical axes, thus emanating possible associations with harmonious ratios enshrined as the undulation of sound waves, the golden mean of Le Modulor by Le Corbusier, and the volute associated with Baroque. These associations demonstrate the extent to which Ascânio’s poetics of calculation reaches such exuberance in its suggestion of spatial motion is on the verge of sublimating its logical simplicity. The sculpture belongs to the Casa Triangulo Gallery collection, a place.
Galateo. A journey into conviviality/ Stefano Boeri Interiors and Buccellati
Stefano Boeri Interiors debuted at Miami Art Basel with an indoor reinterpretation of the installation created as the setting for Buccellati's exhibition "Galateo. A Journey into Conviviality" - presented for the first time on the top floor of the iconic building designed by Piero Portaluppi during Milan Design Week 2022. This time, reflective surfaces and broken shapes put the Gala Dinner table at the center as the symbol par excellence of conviviality while increasing the perception of space and transforming the Edition Hotel in Miami into a new, experiential, and flexible space.
Liminal/ Leandro Erlich
Selected and arranged by New York-based guest curator Dan Cameron, the exhibition presents sixteen works spanning over two decades of Erlich’s production. Arranged throughout PAMM’s special exhibition galleries, the exhibition has been designed to suggest an underlying narrative storyline, inviting visitors to a series of encounters that act cumulatively to introduce doubt about their own sensorial input about the spaces around them.
Metamundo/ Daniel Arsham and Andrés Reisinger
The world’s first 3D marketplace opened during Art Basel. Dubbed MetaMundo, the marketplace that makes it very easy for architects and designers to publish their models and sell them to metaverse users and builders. Not far from Art Basel itself, MetaMundo is presenting their Top 50 Creators of the Metaverse - a hand-picked collection of some of the world’s best 3D artists, including architects, interior designers, furniture designers, artists, and 3D modelers such as "Zaha Hadid, Decent Architecture and for the first time in the metaverse the furniture designer Sara Hayat".
Future Transmutation/ Pilar Zeta and Miranda Makaroff
"Future Transmutation" is a new site-specific, large-scale interactive sculptural garden and pathway that engages mathematics, astronomy, and occult philosophies as creative devices. The installation is an altar for changing visitors' energy into a higher state, connecting with the present and transitioning seamlessly to the ideal future self.
Tunnel IV, Edition of 3/ Chul Hyun Ahn
Through the interplay of mirrors and light, Baltimore-based artist Chul-Hyun Ahn makes mind-bending sculptures that conjure illusions of infinite space. Drawing from op art and light and space traditions, as well as theories of the subconscious, Ahn explores the immersive, illusory possibilities of reflection. He creates his light boxes by combining one-way mirrors and LED lights; the resulting objects look like portals extending deep into uncharted spaces, defined only by glowing geometric forms and fluorescent fractals.
Shaped By Air / Reddymade
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami
A public installation for Lexus is compounded by abstracted mesh forms inspired by the curves and lines of the car, enveloped in mist and light to create a three-dimensional illusion of the vehicle moving through nature. The site-specific installation is also accompanied by eco-terrazzo benches inspired by the shapes of the vehicle, providing areas for rest and relaxation, as well as wireless charging stations activated by a solar-charged battery.
