Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Unveils New Exhibitions During Miami Art Week 2024
Mark your calendar for ICA Miami’s Opening Night presented by W Magazine during Miami Art Week 2024! Celebrating five special exhibitions: Lucy Bull, “The Garden of Forking Paths” and Marguerite Humeau “\*sk\*/ey-” on our third floor; Keiichi Tanaami, “Memory Collage” on our second; “Ding Shilun: Janus” and “Crossroads: Rubem Valentim’s 1960s” on the Ground Floor.
Lucy Bull, Most Attractive, 2019. Oil on linen, 50 x 60 ⅛ x 1 ½ inches (127 x 152.7 x 3.8 cm) Photo: Copyright The Artist. Courtesy of the Artist.
Lucy Bull’s first U.S. museum exhibition, “The Garden of Forking Paths” uses a dynamic application of paint to choreograph energetic gestures into eruptive fields of pictorial activity. Bull’s dynamic practice explores the formal and experiential concerns of the medium with exuberant colors and elusive forms, reference to atmosphere, density and transparency. In parallel to the exhibition, Bull created the next stairwell commission at ICA Miami, which will be on view through September 2025.
Preparatory sketch for \*sk\*/ey-, © Marguerite Humeau
ICA Miami presents “\*sk\*/ey-,” a major solo exhibition for artist Marguerite Humeau comprising newly commissioned sculptures and video. The immersive installation marks Humeau’s first large-scale institutional presentation in the U.S. and sees the artist experiment with form through the abstract narratives of alternative worlds. Informed by the menace of climate change, these new sculptures pollinate, blossom, and armor, proposing a potentially inevitable mode of living, a post-human existence in which nomadic beings live in the air and are in perpetual motion.
Ding Shilun, “Smile Reveal,” 2024. Oil on linen. 190 x 180 cm. 74 ¾ x 70 ⅞ in. Courtesy of the artist and Bernheim Gallery. Photo credit: Eva Herzog.
“Ding Shilun: Janus” debuts a group of newly commissioned paintings and a site-specific installation in the artist’s first solo US museum exhibition. Shilun’s ethereal and at times ominous works feature idiosyncratic mythologies inspired by his everyday life. Each painting acts as an individual vignette, depicting self-contained and often ambiguous scenes that utilize figuration to convey rousing emotion and simple anecdotes rather than elaborate narratives. Shilun’s paintings draw from a wide range of reference images, traditions, and techniques.
Rubem Valentim, Pintura 2, 1964. Tempera on canvas, 70 x 50 cm.
ICA Miami presents the first US museum exhibition of the late Afro-Brazilian painter Rubem Valentim. A singular voice in modernist painting and geometric abstraction, Valentim explored the medium’s formal concerns and social resonances across cultures and spiritual practices. This exhibition focuses on works Valentim produced in the 1960s and the transformation of his work and thinking during this time.
Keiichi Tanaami, Untitled (Collagebook 7_60), circa 1971. Marker pen, ink, magazine, scrap collagen on drawing paper, 39 x 45 cm. Private Collection, UK. Courtesy of Karma International.
ICA Miami, presents “Keiichi Tanaami: Memory Collage,” the artist’s first U.S. solo museum exhibition. Keiichi Tanaami (1936-2024, Tokyo) has been a pioneering figure in Japanese and global Pop art for seven decades, creating magnificently immersive works across media in order to consider American and Japanese culture in the post-war period. Tanaami anticipated the crossover of popular culture and fine art, and through his connections to design has taken a radical and critical approach to how images of desire and violence transform society. The works included in “Keiichi Tanaami: Memory Collage,” from 1965 to the present, track the artist’s use of collage to express the complex media landscape of our time.
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