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Stop by Project Fair at Art Basel Miami, Kopeikin Gallery.

VISITOR INFORMATION

The second edition of Miami Project, a contemporary and modern art fair, will return December 3-8, 2013 in Miami’s Midtown Art District. Miami Project will again showcase 65 contemporary and modern art galleries in an exquisite setting.

Located at North 1st Avenue & NE 30th Street, Miami Project is ideally situated in the heart of Miami’s Wynwood Arts District and just two blocks from the Rubell Collection. The fair provides attendees with easy access to parking and is a short distance from excellent Midtown accommodations and dining.

Location
The Miami Project Pavilion is located at NE 29th Street and NE 1st Avenue.

Fair Hours

• Tuesday, Dec. 3th: 4:30PM – 10:00PM  Miami Project Preview
• Wednesday, Dec. 4th: 11:00AM – 5:30PM
• Thursday, Dec. 5th: 11:00AM – 7:00PM

•     Friday, Dec. 6th: 11:00AM – 8:00PM
•     Saturday, Dec. 7th: 11:00AM – 7:00PM
•     Sunday, Dec. 8th: 11:00AM – 6:00PM

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Paci Contemporary is pleased to present a special Group Show,

simultaneously with the exhibition “Enigma” by Eric Rondepierre,

to introduce the summer season.

The opening will be Thursday, July 4, 2013,

starting from 7 pm.

Artists in exhibition: S. Skoglund, M. Macku, J. Uelsmann, L. Krims, A. Tress, T. Hocks, M. Taylor, M. Cravo Neto, L. Gonzalez Palma, L. Nix, M. Xian Qiu, N. Civiero, N. Evangelisti, R. Boonstra, C&P…
www.pacicontemporary.com

Informativa sul trattamento dei dati:
Il titolare del trattamento è Paci contemporary con sede legale in Via Trieste 48 – 25121 Brescia – Italia. Il trattamento dei dati viene svolto nell’ambito dell’adempimento delle funzioni di gestione amministrativa, fiscale, assicurativa, ai fini dell’attività di organizzazione di eventi fieristici, essendo ciò indispensabile per il corretto svolgimento degli obblighi che scaturiscono dal presente contratto, nel rispetto del D. Lgs. N. 196/03, Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali. I dati personali forniti potranno anche essere utilizzati per aggiornarLa, mediante l’invio di materiale informativo e pubblicitario, su attività organizzate da PaciArte Contemporaryl e potranno essere comunicati in Italia e/o all’estero a soggetti promotori di servizi analoghi. I diritti di cui all’ art. 7 d.lgs. 196/03 saranno esercitabili scrivendo a Fullsteam srl, Via Trieste 48 – 25121 Brescia – Italia – tel/fax: +39 030 2906352 – email info@pacicontemporary.com

Ai sensi del D.Lgs. 196/2003 si precisa che le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio sono riservate ed a uso esclusivo del destinatario. Qualora il messaggio in parola Le fosse pervenuto per errore, La invitiamo ad eliminarlo senza copiarlo e a non inoltrarlo a terzi, dandocene gentilmente comunicazione .

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SNAP! Orlando  5.3 – 5.5.13

SNAP! ORLANDO MAY 2013

SNAP! is a 4-day photography celebration showcasing the work of renowned international and national photographers, connected to the Lucie Foundation.

Photo printed on plexiglas by Mei Xian Qiu at Snap! Orlando

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Mei Xian Qiu: “Lascia che mille fiori sboccino”

Inaugurazione Sabato 23 Febbraio 2013 18.30
Via Trieste, 48, 25121 Brescia Province of Brescia, Italy
Tel. +39 030 290 6352

Paci contemporary è lieta di presentare in anteprima europea la serie fotografica Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom di Mei Xian Qiu, giovane artista americana di origini asiatiche. L’aspetto cinematografico pone la fotografia di Mei Xian Qiu su molteplici livelli, accompagnando una visione romantica alla rappresentazione di una feroce realtà che mette in luce temi scottanti. La traduzione contraffatta della serie: Lascia che mille fiori sboccino ispirandosi ad una poesia di Mao e riferendosi a grandi società intende divulgare il concetto di lasciare la possibilità di far gareggiare centinaia di forme artistiche e di scuole di pensiero diverse tra loro.

La Mei rappresenta questo romantico e malinconico desiderio culturale ipotizzando un’invasione pacifica e non aggressiva di un gruppo di asiatici vestiti in divisa militare ma armati solo di petali, lasciando spazio anche alla realtà della globalizzazione nella società multietnica contemporanea.

Per non lasciare nulla al caso, la Mei richiede rigorosamente che i suoi modelli siano studiosi specializzati in cultura cinese nonché artisti americani di origine asiatica. Così come per i costumi si affida ad uno studio di Pechino specializzato nella ricostruzione degli strumenti di propaganda della Rivoluzione Culturale, utilizzando vecchie  uniformi che sono appartenute all’esercito americano e alle Guardie Rosse cinesi.

Questa commistione tra una visione romantica della cultura e denuncia della realtà permette alla fotografia della Mei di divenire un potente  simbolo dei bisogni della società odierna.

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das PaarFor Immediate Release: Los Angeles Art Association proudly presents das Paar, an all-media group exhibition juried by Thomas Volkmann and Silvia Sonnenschmidt of Contemporary Art Ruhr (CAR) at Gallery 825 on Friday, January 25, 6 to 9p. In addition to das Paar, artist James Peterson will be featured in a solo exhibition.das Paar is a unique cross-cultural exhibition pairing contemporary artists from Los Angeles and Europe. Featured artists include: Nicholas Coroneos, Moshe Elimelech, Stephan Geisler, Steven Hautemaniere, Helen Hodgkinson, Melanie Hubner, Stacey Kalkowski, Tony Kelly, Laura Larson, MEGAH3RTZ: Valentina Boneva & Steffen Muller, Michael Meise, Adele Mills, Sebastian Molleken, Margaret Ouchida, Billy Pacak, Ji Hyun Park, D Punkt, Mei Xian Qiu, Paul Raas, Dennis Ruble, Diana Scheunemann, Susanna Schoenberg, Philipp Schumacher, Sala Seddiki, Lee Tonks, Ariel Vargassal, Art Weeks, and Elyse Wyman. James Peterson‘s ambitious installation Sessilanoid (a sum of all parts) is comprised of plastic formed cells that interconnect, creating dynamic patterns over the gallery walls, ceiling and floor. This compelling piece hypothesizes what happens as synthetic lifeforms take the place of the organic. Peterson’s convincing use of lighting, technology and nature inspired forms create a potent context for his exploration of pollution and sustainability. Sessilanoid approximates growth of synthetic barnacles over the gallery. SPECIFICS Exhibition dates: January 25 to February 15, 2013 Reception: Friday, January 25, 2013, 6 to 9p Location: Gallery 825, 825 North La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069
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What Can I Say About Mei?

Move over David Lachapelle and Pierre et Gilles. Get back Wang Qingsong.

Here comes Mei Xian Qui. Eastern themes of post Chairman Mao politics enliven a bizarre dialog in Mei’s highly original, super sexy, uber-feminine photography. Mei is a quintessential Los Angeles artist, whipping up images in which Asian and Western themes implode in a delightful mélange of post modern sensibility.

LET A THOUSAND FLOWERS BLOOM, HOLLYWOODLAND (2010)

Mei’s photographs take me into a world I’ve never seen before. Many allude to classic western tableaux, a nod to her painterly background. But then Mei infuses her work with a dramatic narrative. She catches her models in moments filled with expectancy and anticipation. She poses her characters, which are often gender ambiguous, as if they are in a play. Her actors often allude to a sexual back story, and seem to promise a big surprise at the end, after they have left her stage.

Mei Xian Qiu was born in the town of Pekalongan, on the island of Java, Indonesia, to a third generation Chinese minority family. She has lived all over Europe, is based in Los Angeles and makes frequent trips back to China. “I feel 100% Chinese Indonesian, and 100% American. I am a part of a kind of floating culture. My sense of individual identity becomes linked to something ever shifting and transient.”

I first met the Mei Xian Qui through the Los Angeles Art Association – we are both artist members. Peter Mays, the association’s director thrilled to promote her work, was quite proud that his Gallery 825 could provide a launch pad for her stratospheric career trajectory. Mei is blowing up big. At their Photo LA booth, her photographs sold handsomely. Then the L.A. Art Association took the artist to Basel Switzerland, where she sold every work she showed and took orders for five additional pieces. Peter was delighted and plans to take Mei to Art Basel Miami Beach in December. “I love her work; it’s timely, contemporary and challenging.”

I have watched Mei’s photography mature and marry her diverse inspirations to their current incarnation, which she renders in Plexiglas. Mei prints onto the Plexiglas itself allowing a gentle backlight to infuse her imagery. Against a delicate palette of tropical birds and pink flowers, this soft kiss of backlight lays down a gossamer femininity and lightness that leaves me gender intrigued and scratching my head in delight wondering what is really going on in her photographs. The artist, sweet-natured and quick-smiled,
cultivates an air of purposeful mystery.

Rex Bruce, director of LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, who showed the artist a few months ago, told me, “Mei Xian Qui is an artist with the perfect balance of humor, politics, multiculturalism and visual pleasure. Her images are exquisite and irresistible—her peculiar combinations of gay love, Chinese takeover, and L.A. pop sensibility illicit a sense of surprise in the onlooker.”

How gay is Mei? Can the work of an Asian woman on Plexiglas really evoke gay anyway? And what is gay today? In her post-modern world of ethnic diversity, can’t we all be gay for a day? Half the fun in Mei’s work is trying to decode the artist’s campy, sometimes zany, quasi-political iconography.

Mei Xian Qui is about process-melding her Asian and Los Angeles identities to constantly collide in clever, amusing and surprising ways. Her work is adorable, campy art that has both pith and ash. Who could ask for more? Resistance is futile. I’m wanting a piece to hang on my living room wall.

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