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Scoop at Scope- the highlights, Art Basel Miami 2010.

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Across the hall is My Art Space, an online community that is changing the face and opportunities of contemporary art. With over 50,000 members (artists, collectors, students, teachers, gallerists, curators, critics and art appreciators) myartspace.com is a growing fixture in the art community. Originally a social networking site in which members are able to evaluate their peer’s work, myartspace.com is starting to branch out into developing an e-commerce site for the sales and distribution of their members work. SCOPE and myartspace.com partnered up to offer undergraduate and graduate students a chance to present at the fair, thus the artists represented at Art Basel were winners of this years competition.

One winner, Edie Nadelhaft simply used mixed media to create a pill titled WTF (What the F*ck). Along with competitions to exhibit at galleries, myartspace.com also provides 16,000 dollars worth of scholarships to student artists annually. With over 1 million images and 200 countries represented on the website, these upcoming artists and winners are sure to make an impact in the contemporary art world soon.

Between the feather rhinoceros head and the skull vomiting paint chips, the Mauger Modern Art gallery had one single booth space at the SCOPE Miami Art Show International Contemporary Art exhibit and it used the space to highlight two fascinating artist that have captured the world and it’s inhabitants in a form of movement and reality. Jeffery Robb and Manolo Chreiten’s works existed among each other as Nudes & Noses, and the images placed on the walls of the space encompassed the theme to a tee. British Jeffery Robb’s nudes jump out of their frames as their hologram effect allows for the pale folded bodies on a shaded background to stop connoisseurs in their tracks as the color composition and use of spatial effects are outstandingly brilliant. Manolo Chreiten uses his fascination with metal objects to reveal the necessity of items such as cars, planes, and trains in daily activity through photography of the objects humanistic features. With his innovative technique of printing the images on aluminum, he creates a new metal object in which he considers “are the prism of human ambition and the mirrors of our illusions.”

From the unknown artists McDonald‘s box purest quality cocaine to Joseph K. Libansky’s “On the Move” the exhibit vehemently recognized emerging and present artists in all forms of work. Walking past an inflatable blue donkey in a compromising situation and a man waiting for us to throw tennis balls dipped in paint at his jumpsuit covered body created what art should, endless questions with limitless answers combined with underlying messages and it was somewhat revealed at SCOPE Miami’s International Contemporary Art Exhibit.


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