Photo JAMIE ELLIN FORBES
Pink Flamingos at the San Diego Zoo
Hooo, What, Where and When…
Little Owl
www.FineArtmagazine.com Installation at Art Basel, Miami by Benjamin Moreau and Samuel Boutruche
Fine A r t Magazine’s re f re s h i n g l y unbiased coverage brings our observations and featured updates about art, artists, events, and fairs through our multimedia platform for your review. You can find our current and back issues at: FineartmagazineBlog. blogspot.com, Youtube.com/Fineartmagazine Fineartmagazine.com, Fineartmagazine.org, and issuu.com/fineartmagazine where we keep you updated with in depth features as well as daily news. The above Owl and the Flamingos were images I captured while covering events. When I am mobile I frequently see only the best and most glamorous of life. The creatures pictured here remind me that we share a planet with others not the same as ourselves. Like viewing an abstract painting or the differences in stated cultural observations, artists push the envelope further to play an integral role in shaping our views. For me, nature and the environment, goes hand-in-hand with art and creativity. Exhibitions like “Artists for Peace and the Environment” as featured at Woodstock ’99 and recently exhibited at the New York City Contemporar y Art Fair (page 8), underscores Fine Art Magazine’s commitment to encompassing relevant movements and subject matter with topics like graffiti and outsider elements working at home and abroad,
even in war zones (page 36). Our published book “The Sweetest Way Home” resonates with nature and spirit. Scratch the surface of all the current art fairs at Miami this year and you will find artists, organizations and non-profits reaching out beyond the mainstream striving to make a difference (see Gilda Oliver, page 20). Retrospectively, Fine Art magazine’s coverage has included Christo’s environmental works of art, and the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin. Today at Art Basel Miami 2013 the French art duo Benjamin Moreau and S amuel Boutr uche, who make up Kolkoz, will continue conceptual impact art with an environmental paradox installation to explore the impact of the rising seawaters. “We have taken this idea of an invader exploring a foreign land and applied it to the snow-covered chalet that has set off on a journey and arrived in the middle of a maritime stadium in the hot Florida sun,” Kolkoz said. This year, Art San Diego was unique and different. Ann Berchtold drew upon the depth of cross-cultural currents between Mexico and California using ArtLabs, Contemporary Designers, Salon Projects, as well as solo artist and galleries to offer a sophisticated platform for those in attendance. Only at Art Basel, Art Miami, the Hamptons, NYC, and Armory have I seen such density of crowd (page 41). – Jamie Ellin Forbes, Publisher
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