This Year's ART Santa Fe International Art Fair Starts July 7th

Written by Ingrid Moorcock Sunday, 26 June 2011 23:32

Santa Fe, NM.- Experience Matters, and for the 11th installment of the acclaimed international art fair ART Santa Fe, this phrase means an exciting week-end in the country’s second largest art market. ART Santa Fe runs from July 7-10, 2011. It all starts with the excitement of the cork-popping Gruet champagne Gala and Vernissage, 5-8pm on July 7, with proceeds benefitting the New Mexico Museum of Art. The fair is located in the heart of Santa Fe, a UNESCO world heritage city, at the eco-smart building, the Santa Fe Convention Center. Santa Fe, with its unique mix of modern and ancient, haute cuisine, pioneer spirit, and high culture, is known as “The City Different” and is home to this boutique fair.

Visitors to ART Santa Fe have the opportunity to engage with art, galleries, and artists in a setting that simultaneously allows for variety and quality. In addition to gallery exhibitions ASF offers three fascinating installations this year: Dreamteam, by German artist Regine Schumann and photographer Alberto Frei, and the participatory Footprints by Peter Weber. Weber’s piece will be placed strategically on the venue floor, so that visitors will leave their footprints behind them. At the end of the fair, Weber will ceremonially un-fold his piece, revealing the surprising results. Hugo Garcia Urrutia, from Juarez, Mexico, presents a viscerally arresting piece called "The Mexican Tsunami". Standing at 16 by 12 feet, a wall of over a thousand yellow sandbags heaves up off the floor and looms over the viewer, curling at the top like a wave that is about to fall. This piece is a tribute to Urrutia’s brother, a victim of the rising tide of violence sweeping across Mexico.

Once again, ART Santa Fe features How Things Are Made. Fine-art glass-makers Bullseye Glass Company will demonstrate their process of kiln-fired glass-making techniques. New this year will be paper-making demos by Korean artist, Yu-Ra Lee. How Things Are Made gives visitors a rare opportunity to peak behind-the-scenes and see the inner-workings of what goes on in the creation of a work of art. Friday, July 8th, 2:00-3:30pm, there will be a panel discussion, sponsored by David Richard Contemporary, titled, Southern California Painting, 1970s: Painting Per Se, led by Peter Frank, with Artists Judy Chicago, Tony DeLap, Maxwell Hendler, Jerrold Burchman, and others.

ART Santa Fe Presents lecture series hosts keynote speaker, Lawrence Weschler, Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of over a dozen books and countless articles on art, culture, politics and their intersections. The evening’s program is titled, “Toward a Unified Field Theory of Cultural Transmission (Seriously!) By Way of a Typology of Convergences.” With galleries from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, ART Santa Fe gathers together the very best of what the contemporary art world has to offer, once again proving that – Experience matters. Visit the fair's website at ... http://www.artsantafe.com

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