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SOFA
PARTNERS WITH IFAE TO PRODUCE
At SOFA NEW YORK 2004 in June, Mark Lyman, President and Founder of Expressions of Culture, Inc., producer of SOFA NEW YORK and CHICAGO, and Mark Carr, Executive Vice President, Art and Antiques, dmg world media, announced that SOFA will partner with International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) to produce PalmBeach3 January 13 - 17, 2005. International Fine Art Expositions, a dmg world media business, annually produces the Palm Beach Classic International Fine Art and Antique Fair, and Palm Beach Contemporary--to be relaunched as Palm Beach3--in West Palm Beach, Fl. dmg world media is an international exhibition and publishing company based in London, United Kingdom, which produces 100 regional arts & antiques fairs in the United States, United Kingdom and France, as well as over 300 public shows and trade exhibitions in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. dmg world media owns The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, as well as numerous newspapers throughout the United Kingdom.
Palm Beach3 will be launched by IFAE and SOFA on January 13-17, 2005 at the new state-of-the-art Palm Beach County Convention Center. This unique art event will integrate in one location three complementary fairs: Palm Beach3Contemporary, presenting galleries exhibiting paintings, sculptures, works on paper, video, installation and photography; the new Palm Beach3Photography, featuring galleries exhibiting classical and contemporary photography including fashion and documentary work; and the new sector, Palm Beach3SOFA, galleries bridging contemporary decorative and fine art.
NEW YORK ART COLLECTORS FIND SOFA
Serious sales, especially in the ceramic sector, combined with an upsurge in sophisticated collectors attending the show, made for the strongest SOFA NEW YORK fair ever. Mark Lyman, President of SOFA said, “The New York art collectors found SOFA this year. It seems the attendance was up. The show floor was full but not hectic.”
Joan Mirviss of Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd., New York, exhibiting for the second year in SOFA NEW YORK, said, “The show went very well. It felt to me like we had more sophisticated clientele this year. Sales were very good.” Mirviss was especially pleased with the sale of Wada Morihiro’s Large Vessel in Rectangular Form, 1999 stoneware with slip overglaze, one of a very few pieces created with a representational design of stylized roses by Japan’s foremost abstract, polychrome decorative surface clay artist. Mirviss said, “I wanted something really wonderful to bring to SOFA, and was thrilled when the artist offered this piece from his personal collection. Several important curators and ceramic artists said it was best piece in the show.”
Garth Clark of Garth Clark Gallery, New York, said, “The caliber of collectors attending SOFA NEW YORK are on a par with New York’s ADAA’s (Art Dealers Association of Americas) Art Show. The event feels quite the same, similar traffic on the floor. Even the crowds today (Saturday) are serious buyers. I was also impressed by the number of collectors who had traveled from many parts of the country to attend the show. And every piece we sold, we sold to new clients whom we would not have sold to in the gallery.”
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ARTFUL EVENING: SOFA NEW YORK 2004
SOFA NEW YORK 2004 kicked off last night with a festive Opening Night Preview Gala, A Benefit for the Museum of Arts & Design, drawing over 1,000 art enthusiasts for an elegant evening of cultural and artistic inspiration. Mark Lyman, President and Founder of SOFA expositions in Chicago and New York said, “Opening Night was a great success. It is always a wonderful time for dealers, collectors and artists to reconnect. Last night seemed especially jovial, and dealers reported solid sales.”
SOFA Opening Night was also the kick-off event for Contemporary Decorative Arts Week in New York City, a citywide celebration of New York’s vibrant contemporary decorative and design arts, organized by SOFA and the Museum of Arts & Design (MAD). Susan Chin, Deputy Commissioner for Capital Projects for New York Ciy’s Department of Cultural Affairs presented a Proclamation from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg officially designating Contemporary Decorative Arts Week in New York City, June 2 - 8. View CDAW schedule of events.
SOFA
NEW YORK 2004: NEW EXPRESSIONS,
The 7th annual SOFA NEW YORK 2004, June 3-6 at the prestigious Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue, will assemble fifty of the world’s finest galleries and dealers presenting works of art bridging the decorative and fine arts. The Opening Night Preview Gala, June 2 at the Armory, will again benefit the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, with its like-minded mission to celebrate expressive objects that transcend the boundaries of craft, art and design. Holly Hotchner, Director of MAD calls SOFA expositions in New York and Chicago “the gold standard.”
Showcasing the rich visual heritage of the decorative arts alongside new, innovative expressions, this year’s exposition will again feature prominent galleries whose offerings bridge historical periods, art movements and cultures, including Barry Friedman, Ltd., Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd., and Garth Clark Gallery of New York, and Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia.
TRANSFORMING
AN INHERITANCEi:
Key exhibitors in the Seventh Annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art: SOFA NEW YORK 2004, June 3-6 at New York’s Seventh Regiment Armory, will present masterworks that bridge traditional and contemporary practice. From the inspiration of rare historical vessel forms by seminal French studio glass artist, Maurice Marinot (1882-1960), whose jewel-like, intricately carved surfaces decorated with oxides greatly influenced the contemporary glass and metal sculptures of Michael Glancy; to the elegant ceramic glaze and surface decorations that beautifully reflect the Kyoto heritage behind Hiroaki Taimei Morino’s bold, contemporary forms; to the Keisho (Continuation) line of furniture design by Mira Nakashima, daughter of George Nakashima (1905-1990), which strives to achieve the same harmonious relationship between aesthetics and function espoused by the Arts and Crafts Movement, as well as Asian philosophies embraced by her legendary father.
SOFA
NEW YORK 2004:
SOFA NEW YORK 2004 will again spotlight ceramic sculpture, with its special focus on the volumetric presence of form. Central to the emphasis on the sculptural potential of ceramics, is a Special Exhibit at SOFA NEW YORK, Carlo Zauli (1926-2002) and Contemporary European Ceramics: A Survey, presented in conjunction with the Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy, and Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY, an exhibitor at SOFA NEW YORK 2004.
This Special Exhibit will present the US with its first survey of Carlo Zauli’s sculptural genius. Considered to be one of the greater ceramics sculptors of the twentieth century, Zauli comes from an Italian ceramic lineage that began with abstractions of Lucio Fontana and Leonardi Leoncillo.
Critic and ceramic art historian, Garth Clark writes: “Carlo Zauli’s approach to art was a dialogue between structure, material, geometry and nature. There is no sign of the hand on his work and he was careful to ensure that the work appeared not “hand-made” but more as the result of an organic process, like rocks formed in shapes by water over thousands of years yet miraculously leaving the water’s foam alive on the surface. To advance this idea he developed a glaze (Zauli white). It was not his only glaze but it was his favorite and it became his visual signature. From a distance the surface is soft and bubbly, but when examined more closely it has a toughness and a white surface shot with steely grey and hard black. Zauli began as a potter in the 1950’s but soon moved onto sculptural form that stressed the plastic energy of the clay.”
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more information on SOFA NEW YORK 2004, June 3-6 at the Seventh
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For editorial support, contact Barbara Smythe-Jones at 800.357.SOFA
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For assistance downloading hi-res images of artwork for sale
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