Art Basel Miami Beach and other fairs attract mass collectors

Art Basel Miami Beach, the contemporary art fair largest in the United States, starting on Wednesday its eleventh edition in the city located in the southeastern United States, where he began to wander and gallerists, artists and collectors from around the world in search of its treasures.

While Art Basel is the main temple of this great feast of art, parallel exhibitions are developed 22 "satellites" of furniture design, jewelery and exhibition of murals and graffiti, turning Miami into a large gallery with tastes visited by millionaires avant-garde artists find eager patrons.

"South Florida is temporarily transformed into a mecca of art during Art Basel and we want to give people the opportunity to learn and experience the unique culture of our local artists diaspora," said Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, referring to a parallel sample of African artists to be held in the Art District of the city.

Only Art Basel announces 257 galleries from 31 countries between 5 and 9 December. The main exhibition is held in the Convention Center Miami Beach, but also takes the streets of Art District, a few miles away, which hosts exhibitions of graffiti and exclusive parties.

"This is the time of year when the best of the artistic movement takes place in Miami, with artists and collectors from Milan, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires. 

The 5 begins the Art Basel in Miami

The New Yorker Miguel Paredes, known for his work in street art which uses animated characters, expose their graffiti, sculptures and paintings during Art Basel Miami, the most important art fair in the United States and with the participation of 257 galleries from 31 countries. "The Art Basel Miami is the time of truth, where we teach what we do best and we have five days of people around the world who come looking for who the new great artist," says Walls, who will meet from 5 to 9 December about eighty of his works. Paredes's work, which include versions of Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty or 'lucky cat' of the Chinese, is based in the pop universe, the animated dolls and graffiti culture of Manhattan. This year in Miami, this work shows both in Wynwood Walls Gallery, the neighborhood where a great part of the Miami art world, as in the Red Dot fair. Also exhibited during these key dates for American art industry in the Pop Up Gallery in Miami Beach, while planning a mural in the sophisticated club Caffeine, Wynwood. In this work not only New York's familiar characters but others created by him as' The Magic Flea, "which, he explained, included in almost every work. The Art Basel Miami Beach, which this year celebrates its eleventh edition.