STPI Gallery returns to Art Basel Miami Beach with works from a select group of international artists created in collaboration with STPI through its artist residency programme in Singapore. The gallery is the only representative from Singapore participating in the fair.
Haegue Yang's Edibles (2019)
To coincide with the artist's exhibition at The Bass Museum, Miami, STPI Gallery will present a series of new, unique prints by Haegue Yang.
The series is a set of unique prints titled Edibles (2019), which utilises everyday herbs and salad leaves collected from supermarkets and street markets around Singapore. These leaves are carefully arranged before being pressed into paper to create vibrant, colourful patterns - the pigments in the leaves replacing traditional ink in the printing process. Because the leaves can only be used once, Edibles is comprised solely of unique, non-edition prints.
Yang sensitively records the various details of the leaves and their respective forms of packaging, utilising them in subtle yet creative ways. The grammage of each packet informs the dimensions of the paper, and the differences between grocery store and street market displays and browsing experiences also feed into distinct qualities of each consequent print.
An undercurrent in the series is the idea of value systems, where correlations of freshness and cost, sealed and exposed, processed and organic serve to inform the mode of ornamentation that Yang employs towards the mesmerising compositions on paper.
Other artists and works include:
Do Ho Suh—STPI will present a series of the latest Thread Drawings by South Korean artist Do Ho Suh. Intricately stitched thread sculptures are embedded in paper through a technique developed by the artist during his collaboration with STPI over the last decade. They made their debut earlier this year at Frieze London.
For the artist, 'Thread' directly references the core material in his seminal fabric installations, while "Drawings" signifies the intimate, personal medium that Suh employs in his sketchbook - an idea board for technical or hurried pictures that develop into his larger works.
Through his more than ten-year collaborative relationship with STPI—Creative Workshop & Gallery, Do Ho Suh's Thread Drawings have become more complex, more colourful and larger in scale—demonstrating a clear development in his practice and confidence within the medium.
Aaron Curry—Curry's print series Fragments (2017) retains the artist's distinctive visual language found in his oeuvre. Fusing Pop Art, Cubism and Surrealism, Curry presents biomorphic shapes in bright, monotone hues.
Jason Martin—British artist Jason Martin explores a range of techniques in the works realised during his residency with STPI. Works and series such as First in last and Pas de deux, the artist uses sweeping, continuous lines in drypoint on paper; while drip-like smatterings in Untitled I, II evoke a different visceral energy, achieved through the process of spit-bite aquatint. The lyrical marks found in these series seem to follow the treatment of line utilised in Tachism, a Post-War style of abstract painting characterised by spontaneous brushwork, drips and scribble-like marks.
Martin demonstrates his distinct treatment of colour in his series of pulp paintings and paper castings, particularly the dominant use of monochrome. Historically rooted in modernist traditions, it is reinvigorated through Martin's manipulation of material as 'a kind of sculpture within the language of painting'. The use of concentrated pigments combined with paper pulp moulded by hand, gives rise to different results in both volume and form. Particularly in his pulp paintings, a range of textural complexities are created by the ephemeral properties of pulp, on which forces of action and time drastically transform the appearance of each work.
Venue
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Opening Hours
Meridians Opening (by invitation only)
Tuesday, December 3 2019
4pm to 7pm
Private Day (by invitation only)
Wednesday, December 4 2019
11am to 8pm
Vernissage (by invitation only)
Thursday, December 5 2019
11am to 3pm
Public Days
Thursday, December 5 2019
3pm to 8pm
Friday, December 6 2019
12 noon to 8pm
Saturday, December 7 2019
12 noon to 8pm
Sunday, December 8, 2019
12 noon to 6pm