Pascale Guinet

Opening reception Saturday November 27th 7:30-11:00 pm

Art Basel hours: Dec. 1st - 6th 9:00am to 5:00pm
Dec 2^nd: 9.00am-12.00 noon Special Wynwood Breakfast, There will be trolleys available to visitors, to and from the Miami Beach Convention Center to the District and 20 mini buses will be traveling throughout the Wynwood Art District

Maps of the Wynwood district will be available at each location, on the buses and at the Rubell Family Collection entrance, together with promotional materials for participating venues. Each participating venue will display an enlarged version of the map on their entrance façade

The opening reception will on November 27^th with an other great night on December 4^th coinciding Wynwood Art District Gallery Walk and Art Love Design in Miami Design District.
This show will be the first gathering in Miami of international and local south Floridian artists working on inflatable sculptures and projects.

Air is everywhere in our life, surrounding us at any moment and is needed for almost any kind of life on earth. Designers, architects, industry (car, space...), sciences (meteorology, medicine...) have been using inflatable structures since over half a century and artists as well, like Andy Warhol, 1966.

But today, more then ever, artists are experimenting and using this medium to create new forms of expression that receive more and more respect and appreciation within the artistic world and market as well as in the general public. This show will be an unique opportunity for the public of Basel Art Fair and for Miami to discover a new generation of artists and a new trend in contemporary art.

"the inflatable can effectively embody utopia because of its underlying suggestion of mobility flexibility movement and change.There is a notion of wanting to beak out from behind the bars,of alienation of stepping out off line ". Jean Louis Violeau

The group of artists showing this December chose "Air" as their motif for several works and interventions. They explore the potential of the frivolous, playful and disposable inflated plastic to create monumental art structures. Inflated PVC is rarely taken seriously as an art material. Its cheapness, fragility and the mass dissemination of a "made in china" production into the dollar stores, re-enforce the notion of the non value of those objects. Spread all around us like air, inflated PVC has also played major rolls in life saving products, or in outer-space technology and military operations. Hiding beneath the playful realm of space hoppers and rubber-rings is a diverse range of further applications for air filled forms, some of which are challenging and deceptive.

 In the same way many abstract concepts, dreams, and thoughts are often represented inside a bubble as a way to give physical form to the intangible, the inflated sculptures presented by these artists attempt to embody utopia by appropriating the notion of continuous flux, mobility and displacement inherent to the materials.