Enjoy Concept Art Fair, 'The Waterfront Fair in the Round', During Art Basel Week in Miami November 30 - December 4, 2016.

CONCEPT FAIR, November 30 through December 4, 2016 will coincide with Miami’s Art Basel fair week. The new “waterfront fair in the round” focusing on modern and contemporary works will be held in a spectacular waterfront fair venue in the heart of downtown Miami’s Arts, Museum and Entertainment District during America’s largest international fair week. Just steps from world renowned restaurant dinning, five star hotels and luxury shopping the fair offers abundant parking and shuttle service.

Attendees and guests will enjoy a juried section for “fresh to market” of today’s newest international artists artworks. Selection process by the fair’s Curatorial and Dealer Selection Committee will offer collectors new and intriguing works each year incorporating new media, video, art performances, urban art and public sculpture. 

Public Art: Bare Sky, Installation by Antuan Rodriguez

The fair's Reimagining Public Sculpture Exhibition is an outdoor exhibition space offered to Art Concept exhibitors to display public monumental sculptures, installation projects and Urban Art by today’s most renown graffiti artists adjoining nine acres of Bayfront Park lush green tropical landscaped gardens. Bayfront’s adjacent Tina Hills Pavilion will allow invited artists state of the art stage environment for art performances. This unique setting will allow collectors to enjoy a full schedule of art experiences only at Art Concept and not available at other satellite art fairs. 

Public Art: Stainless steel installation by Miguel Prypchan

Concept Art Fair is operated by Next Level Fairs, owned by Lee Ann and David Lester. Since 1990, the Lesters have organized more than 110 major international fairs in Miami, Palm Beach, Naples, Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and Greenwich. Many of their fairs have been acquired by major media companies. Art Miami was purchased in 1998 by Advanstar Communications and the Palm Beach International Art & Antique Fair, ArtPalmBeach, Palm Beach Town and Country, and the Texas International Fine Art Fair were purchased in 2001 by DMG World Media. IFAE later reacquired ArtPalmBeach and the Palm Beach International Art & Antique Fair. 

Long known as innovators in the fair industry, the Lesters established their most ambitious art fair venture, SeaFair - The Megayacht Venue, in 2007. Expoships’ $40M specially designed and constructed art exhibition vessel, offers art dealers and luxury lifestyle purveyors access to many affluent communities along the US East Coast in a unique, smaller, club-like fair format. The Lesters will continue Art Concept November 30 - December 4, 2016 at Bayfront Park during Miami Art Week, Art Palm Beach January 18 - 22, 2017 and Art Boca Raton March 15-19, 2017.

Art Concept Nov.30-Dec.4, 2016 Lecture Series Info - Enjoy Outstanding Events & Programming at Concept Fair

Concept Art Fair

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Lecture Series

November 30 - December 4, 2016

During Art Basel Week in Miami

Richard Meier: The Architect as Artist
Gary Lichtenstein, Master Printmaker, Gary Lichtenstein Editions

Richard Meier, Pritzker Prize winning architect is known for his international body of work, acclaimed for its timeless, classical, iconic design. Throughout his career Meier has contributed consistently to another, important portfolio- one that is composed of collages, paintings and sculptures. Lichtenstein’s presentation will discuss their five year collaboration in printing making and his experiences working with a world renown architect as an artist. Collectors are invited to enjoy this lively discussion and media presentation of Meier’s master prints.

Join us for a discussion that explores the artwork of Richard Meier and Meier’s history as an artist. 

Gary Lichtenstein is a publisher and printer of limited fine art silkscreen editions. Over the course of his remarkable 45-year career, Gary Lichtenstein has published a wide range of silkscreen editions with artists including Carole Feuerman, Joanne Greenbaum, Bob Gruen, Gerard Hemsworth, Charles Hinman, Robert Indiana, Eugene Lemay, Rebecca Miller, John Newsom, Yigal Ozeri, Gary Panter, Shelter Serra and Jessica Stockholder. He has printed for industry legends including Marina Abramovic, Karl Benjamin, Robert Cottingham, Alex Katz and Ken Price.

Pritzker Prize winning architect, Richard Meier is known for his international body of work, acclaimed for its timeless, classical, iconic design. The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Rome’s Jubilee Church, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Hans Arp Museum in Germany are to name just a few. Meier’s newest project includes the remodeling and expansion of Miami Beach’s iconic Surf Club. 

Throughout his career Meier has contributed consistently to another, important creative portfolio – one that is composed of collages, paintings and sculptures. Meier’s collage work is what brought Lichtenstein into the picture five years ago and since then, the two have been fierce collaborators.

The Cuatrecasas Discovery
Peter Hastings Falk, Art Historian, Author, Editor, Rediscovered Masters 

Mr. Falk is the founder of Rediscovered Masters (known as redM), which is both an illustrated biographical encyclopedia as well as a curatorial enterprise for presenting significant artists who have, for fascinating reasons, slipped through the cracks of art history. All artists are vetted by its Art Advisory Board. At Concept Fair, redM is presenting The Cuatrecasas Discovery.

This exhibition serves as a perfect example of the complexities surrounding proper valuation —particularly since this artist’s estate collection was buried for 40 years and is only now being unveiled for the first time at Art Concept Falk’s principles and common sense approach appeals to all levels art collecting. And it applies to young emerging artists to mid and late career to deceased.

Mr. Falk is a pioneer in the publishing of art auction indices and was the founding Editor-in- Chief of ArtNet in New York. Since 2000 he has been the U.S. Editor of Artprice.com. He is author and publisher of numerous art reference books, including the national award-winning three-volume biographical dictionary, Who Was Who in American Art. As an expert appraiser he is most noted for having valued the Andy Warhol estate collection as well as Nazi-looted art.

 Sebastien Laboureau

How to buy art in an art fair? The Golden Rules in Collecting Art.
Sebastien Laboureau, CEO MoonStar Fine Art Advisors, Paris & Miami

Sebastien Laboureau will give a presentation on the current trends in collecting and in the art market, outlining the market structure and its dynamics. He will address various topics including the golden rules of purchasing artworks and the advantages of purchasing at art fairs. An experienced investment banker, collector and art advisor, Laboureau shares his professional views on developing collections in the twenty-first century. His presentation will include fair highlights and scheduled collector tours of Concept Art Fair.

Sebastien Laboureau holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Paris and a Master of Science in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. He benefits from an international experience in Management control (at AXA Group) and Investment Banking (Mergers and Acquisitions at Goldman Sachs). Long-time, art enthusiast and experienced art collector, he is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MoonStar Fine Arts Advisors, an independent art consulting agency located both in Miami and Paris, with partners in Latin America and Asia, trusted advisor of private collectors, and various institutions all over the world. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arts and Business Council in Miami and sits on the Creative and Design committee of the Beacon Council in Miami. He is the Strategic Art Advisor of Institut Van Gogh, in Auvers-sur-Oise, of ACCOR Group, and of BARNES Luxury Real Estate.