Bass Museum of Art

Inaugurated in 2008, this project space at the Bass Museum is part of an ongoing dialogue between contemporary art and art from the past. It will showcase a series of projects and single works by artists who are inspired by or respond to the history of art.

A cabinet was one of a number of terms for a private room in the domestic architecture and that of palaces of Early Modern Europe, serving as a study or retreat, usually for a man; the cabinet would be furnished with books and works of art, and sited adjacent to his bedchamber, the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance studiolo. In the Late Medieval period, such newly perceived requirements for privacy had been served by the solar of the English gentry house, and a similar, less secular purpose had been served by a private oratory.

In the cabinet as it evolved in French Baroque architecture, the last in the standardized series of rooms that constituted a Baroque apartment, the walls would be hung with rich textiles as a background for cabinet pictures, those small works, often on copper or wood panel, that required intimate study for appreciation, among which would also be devotional pictures.

The meaning of "cabinet" began to be extended to the contents of the cabinet; thus we see the 16th century cabinet of curiosities, often combined with a library. The sense of cabinet as a piece of furniture is actually older in English than the meaning as a room, but originally meant more a strongbox or jewel chest than a display case.

Notes taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

October 3, 2009 – February 21, 2010
Dzine

Henri and Flore Lesieur Pavilion, Kaiser and Kosh Gallery, Lydia and Burton Harrison Café
From site-specific wall installations to his "pimped-out" Cadillac Fleetwood to shimmering Swarovski Crystals, Dzine’s energetic manifestation of colors, patterns, textures, and sounds fuse into a modern phenomenon that reveals a vibrant mixture of street-art, op-art, and Chicano "Lowrider" culture. A former graffiti artist, Dzine has been able to bolster the semantics of this genre by stretching the boundaries further and bringing never seen before products to the table. His use of precious stones, neon-lights, and motorized machinery has opened up a unique vernacular to contemporary art. At the Bass Museum of Art, Dzine will produce a site-specific project comprising wallpaper, objects and sound socially energizing the café and other areas of the museum.

October 3, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Kent Henricksen: Wayward We Hunt

the Cabinet (click for more info) Inaugurated in 2008, this project space at the Bass Museum is part of an ongoing dialogue between contemporary art and art from the past. It will showcase a series of projects and single works by artists who are inspired by or respond to the history of art. A cabinet was one of a number of terms for a private room in the domestic architecture and that of palaces of Early Modern Europe, serving as a study or retreat, usually for a man; the cabinet would be furnished with books and works of art, and sited adjacent to his bedchamber, the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance studiolo. In the Late Medieval period, such newly perceived requirements for privacy had been served by the solar of the English gentry house, and a similar, less secular purpose had been served by a private oratory. In the cabinet as it evolved in French Baroque architecture, the last in the standardized series of rooms that constituted a Baroque apartment, the walls would be hung with rich textiles as a background for cabinet pictures, those small works, often on copper or wood panel, that required intimate study for appreciation, among which would also be devotional pictures. The meaning of "cabinet" began to be extended to the contents of the cabinet; thus we see the 16th century cabinet of curiosities, often combined with a library. The sense of cabinet as a piece of furniture is actually older in English than the meaning as a room, but originally meant more a strongbox or jewel chest than a display case. Notes taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Artist Kent Henricksen’s new works subtly bring to life his personal examinations of social science by integrating foreign ideals into proverbial western settings. One of his main concerns is the eternal investigation of psychological and physical boundaries that human beings deal with in their every-day lives. He archives figures and landscapes from diverse sources in order to establish dialogues between the past and the present. Furthermore, he uses embroidery both as a means to illustrate imagined narratives, allwoing the viewers to make a simple associations to the subject-matter.

Saturday, November 7, 6:00pm-2:00am
Night Shift

Collins Park
The Bass Museum of Art will once again be the center of activity with during Sleepless Night with "Night Shift," a group of exciting and unexpected site-specific installations and sculptures in Collins Park curated by Jerome Sans. Sans was the founder and co-director of the world-acclaimed Palais de Tokyo, the cutting-edge contemporary art center that opened in Paris in 2002. Currently he is Director of one of the first nonprofit art centers in Beijing, the Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, and is Cultural Curator for Le Meridien Group. He was co-curator of the Paris Nuit Blanche in 2006, and is also a rock musician and DJ - he’ll be providing the live soundtrack for "Night Shift." Participating South Florida artists include Jim Drain and Brooke O-Harra, Christy Gast, Julie Kahn, Nicolas Lobo, Ernesto Oroza & Gean Moreno, Tom Scicluna, and Frances Trombly. A very unique collaborative piece "Viking Funeral" will also be featured, that is a monolithic 30’ Nirvana "t-shirt" that can be explored from the inside out!

December 3, 2009 - March 14, 2010
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex

Gertrude Silverstone Muss Gallery
The Jumex Collection, based in Mexico City, is the largest private collection of international contemporary art in Latin America. The first time this collection is shown in the United States, this exhibition will include a selection of international figures of contemporary art such as Ugo Rondinone, Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, On Kawara, Kelly Walker, Rudolf Stingel, Paul McCarthy, Andy Warhol, Gabriel Orozco and Minerva Cuevas, alongside Mexican conceptual artists: Damian Ortega, and Stephan Bruggeman. Co-curated by Silvia Karman Cubiña and Raphaela Platow, in collaboration with Victor Zamudio Taylor, Curator of the Jumex Collection. This exhibition will later travel to the Cincinnati Art Center.

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