This year at Art Basel Miami Beach Goodman Gallery and A Gentil Carioca join forces to reprise a successfulpartnership at the fair with a shared stand - each with distinct presentations - showcasing the best of theGlobal South and beyond.
Goodman Gallery highlights include new and recent works by William Kentridge, Naama Tsabar, El Anatsuiand Kapwani Kiwanga (among others) under the broad theme of displacement and colonised landscapes.Two drawings for Kentridge's Colonial Landscape series (featured in the artist's new episodic Self-Portraitas a Coffee Pot, 2022) are at the centre of Goodman Gallery's presentation: Drawing for Self-Portrait as aCoffee Pot (Waterfall) critiques the carving up of the African continent and Drawing for Self-Portrait as aCoffee Pot (Tondo IV) catalogues African liberation figures. Both explore themes at the heart of Kentridge'smost ambitious performance project to date, The Head & the Load, which is to be performed for the firsttime in the US during Miami Art Week at Adrienne Arsht Centre (1-3 December). Other highlights includerecent work by Anatsui, brought to US audiences for the first time, alongside signature sisal pieces byKiwanga (following the artist's critically acclaimed solo show at the New Museum this year) as well asnew work by Tsabar (following her major exhibition at Miami's Bass Museum) whose solo exhibition at theHamburger Bahnhof in 2023 has just been announced.
'It is exciting to be partnering once more with A Gentil Carioca at ABMB - another gallery platformingartists who are shaping art history from the Global South, bringing key voices to the art centres. It is anatural extension of the South South initiative for galleries hailing from countries like South Africa and Brazilto come together at these costly moments and bring our artists into dialogue' – Liza Essers, Owner & Director Goodman Gallery
A Gentil Carioca, specially for A_rt B_asel Miami 2022, will present new artworks of a critical, aesthetic, playful,social and political character, relevant to the current world context represented in the recent productionscope of our artists. Between our highlights are the works by the artists Aleta Valente, Arjan Martins,Denilson Baniwa, Marcela Cantuária and Vinicius Gerheim.
The painting Guadalupe Campanur Tapia, 2021, by Marcela Cantuária, is the centre of our presentation and is entitled in honour to an advocate for trees against eco mafia and illegal logging in Mexico, South America.The artist is currently developing a project at the Fountainhead Residency, Miami. In 2023 she opens her first solo show in the United States, at Pérez Art Museum Miami - PAMM.
For the first time in Art Basel Miami, the indigenous artist Denilson Baniwa shows Brasil, Terra Indígena, 2022, part of a project in partnership with Jaider Esbell. In order to finance the arrival of more indigenous artists to the Southeast, the duo set up paper poster workshops in São Paulo, selling works and gathering efforts. The posters traveled throughout Brazil, culminating in the panel presented in 2019 at the Bienal do Barro, Caruaru. This series demarcates urban places as indigenous lands in a kind of contemporary fiction.
'It is a great pleasure to be partnering with Goodman Gallery for the second consecutive year, the word continuity is very relevant to art and culture in our countries. It is really important to have two galleries that connect the global south, Brazil and South Africa; and that represent artists who are keys to the current social and political discussion, who strengthen Afro-Brazilian roots. This is the 20th year of Art Basel Miami, so this partnership is also a celebration!' – Marcio Botner, Founder Director of A Gentil Carioca
Location
Miami Beach Convention Center1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139