Scope Miami 2006
Roberto Clemente Park
101 NW 34th St (at NW 2nd Avenue)
December 6-10
Booth No. 6 / Wall A-2
www.scope-art.com

At ScopeMiami DOUZ & MILLE will present three artists in very different points of their careers.

Tomás Rivas, the recipient of the Scope Emerging Artist Grant, will expose with a site-specific installation titled “Unobtrusive” the current trend of art fairs that have come to dominate as commercial institutions and even become temporary temples of art.

At booth No. 6 the Venezuelan Eugenio Espinoza, will stamp his opinion on Institutional Art or Art in Institutions with the installation Negativa Moderna in contrast to Tomás Rivas’ self-effacing yet revealing Carvings.

Negativa Moderna in Eugenio Espinoza’s words:

"... for centuries art has strived to exalt the viewer's presence... The Impenetrable vindicates the space of the work of art,quarantines it - to give it purity and neutrality - thus positioning the viewers beyond their established role."

For the Chilean Tomás Rivas, process is fundamental. Taking a systematic approach with traditional means Tomás Rivas wants to expose the dangerous allure of aesthetic enchantment and the anachronism of using aesthetic canons established in antiquity as the contemporary social and political emblems.

“It is a grave consequence of our heavy dependence on history to interpret our reality with conceptual systems created elsewhere,on past times and based on totally displaced social processes.”

Finally, at Wall A-2 the very young American born Kevin Fey, an undergraduate at Cooper Union School of Art, will exhibit his new paintings:

“I find my practice is grounded in, but not limited by, the investigation of techniques and pursuit of various surfaces, marks and desires.”

DOUZ & MILLE has been dedicated to present curated exhibitions at art fairs.