Untitled, Miami Beach is pleased to present a special collaboration with The Nou Project of a new collection of limited edition sneakers featuring three artists whose work will be on view for the fair's sixth edition, Decemeber 6 - 10, 2017.

This unique collaboration reflects the spirit and quality-focused ethos of the Nou brand, which was in itself inspired by the style and sensibility of art-fair goers. The artists featured include Jamie Felton (Horton Gallery, New York), Nika Fontaine(wildpalms, Berlin), and Eric Yahnker (The Hole, New York). Each sneaker is a limited edition of 55 and will be available at Untitled, Miami Beach, and online at thenouproject.com.

About The Nou Project
The Nou Project handpicks a select group of artists as part of its collection to create inspiring, one-of-a-kind pieces. Bridging the gap between art and footwear, you can now wear a piece of art on your feet.

About Untitled, Art
Untitled, Art is an international, curated art fair founded in 2012 that focuses on balance and integrity across all disciplines of contemporary art. Untitled, Art innovates the standard fair model by selecting a curatorial team to identify, and curate a selection of galleries, artist-run exhibition spaces, and non-profit institutions and organizations, in discussion with a site-specific, architecturally designed venue. The next editions of Untitled will take place on the beach at Ocean Drive and 12th Street in Miami Beach, FL, December 6 - 10, 2017, and the Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon Street in San Francisco, CA, January 12 – 14, 2018.

General Information: 
Untitled, Miami Beach, 2017
On the beach at Ocean Drive and 12th Street
December 6 – 10
Open Wed–Sat: 11am – 7pm
Open Sun: 11am – 5pm

Admission: 
General Admission: $30
Discounted Admission (Seniors and Students): $20
Miami Beach residents: $20
Groups of 15 or more: $20 per person

Leonardo’s Salvator Mundimakes auction history 

The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance master sells for an historic $450,312,500, obliterating the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction

On a historic night at Christie’s in New York, Salvator Mundi, a depiction of Christ as ‘Saviour of the World’ by one of history’s greatest and most renowned artists, sold for $450,312,500 (including buyer’s premium), becoming the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. 

This stunning price reflects the extreme rarity of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci — there are fewer than 20 in existence acknowledged as being from the artist’s own hand, and all apart from Salvator Mundi  are in museum collections.

The global interest in a work that has been hailed as the greatest artistic rediscovery of the last 100 years saw a rapt audience of nearly 1,000 art collectors, dealers, advisors, journalists and onlookers packed into the main auction room at Rockefeller Center, with many thousands more tuning in via a live stream. Since the sale of Salvator Mundi  was announced on 10 October at Christie’s, almost 30,000 people have flocked to Christie’s exhibitions of the ‘Male Mona Lisa’ in Hong Kong, London, San Francisco and New York — the first time the painting had ever been shown to the public in Asia or the Americas.

10 things to know about Hokusai

An essential introduction to one of Japan’s best-known artists — a man who had at least 30 names, and looked forward to old age

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI  (1760-1849) 3,000 - 4,000

UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861)

UTAGAWA YOSHITSUYA (1822-1866)

TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

KOBAYASHI KIYOCHIKA (1847–1915)

YOSHIDA HIROSHI (1876-1950) 6,000 - 6,500

KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

KOBAYAKAWA KIYOSHI (1889-1948)

SUZUKI HARUNOBU (1724-1770)

KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753?–1806)

TORII KIYONAGA (1752-1815)
KATSUKAWA SHUNCHO (act. c. 1780-1800)

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

KAMEDA BOSAI (1754-1826)

KEISAI EISEN (1790-1848)

UTAGAWA HIROSADA (ACTIVE CIRCA1826-1863)

SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891)

Katsushika Hokusai’s exact date of birth is unknown

No one knows for certain, but Katsushika Hokusai is thought to have been born on 30 October 1760 — the 23rd day of the ninth month of the 10th year of Japan’s Hōreki era. His father is believed to have been Nakajima Ise, the official mirror-maker for the country’s Shogun. Hokusai, however, was never accepted as an heir — a fact that has led some art historians to suggest his mother was a concubine. 

He began painting as a young child

Hokusai started young. As an old man, he recalled: ‘From the time I was 6, I was in the habit of sketching things I saw around me.’ His father is thought to have been a formative influence, having made mirrors and painted the detailed designs that ran around their edges. 

By 14, he had become an apprentice wood carver

In 18th-century Japan, reading books made from woodcut blocks became a popular form of entertainment. At 14, Hokusai became an apprentice to a wood carver — later being accepted into the studio of esteemed painter and printmaker Katsukawa Shunsho. Katsukawa was a master of the ukiyo-e genre, which flourished in Japan from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Translated as ‘pictures of the floating world’, ukiyo-e artists made woodblock prints depicting popular subjects — from kabuki actors to sumo wrestlers, female beauties and famous landscapes. 

He was known by at least 30 different names during his lifetime

While it was not uncommon for Japanese artists to change their names, Hokusai did so more often than any other major artist of his era — roughly once every decade, occasionally adopting informal pseudonyms. Born Tokitaro, he published his first series of prints in 1779 under the name Shunro, given by his first master. In later life, he referred to himself as Gakyo rojin manji, or The Old Man Mad About Art. Often linked to changes in his artistic style, Hokusai’s names have been used to identify different periods of production. His predilection for new titles was trumped only by his love of moving house: although he never left the same region, Hokusai lived in more than 90 dwellings during the course of his life.   

 His most famous series is 36 Views of Mount Fuji, which includes his most iconic work

Hokusai didn’t shy away from large-scale, public works that employed unconventional methods. During a festival in Tokyo in 1804, he created a portrait of the Buddhist priest Daruma measuring 180m in length, using a broom and buckets of ink. For a competition at the court of Shogun Tokugawa Ienari (1773-1841), he went one step further, painting a chicken’s feet red before chasing it across a blue curve painted on paper. The resulting work was presented as a depiction of Japan’s Tatsuta River with floating maple leaves — the extravagant display making Hokusai the winner of the competition. 

His youngest daughter became an artist in her own right

Hokusai’s first wife died in the early 1790s, having been married to the artist for a decade. He married again in 1797, but his second wife also died shortly after. Hokusai nevertheless fathered two sons and three daughters, and his youngest daughter, Katsushika Oi, became a celebrated artist in her own right. She was known for her images of beautiful women. 

Hokusai was rejected by the studio that trained him

When Katsukawa Shunsho died in 1793, Hokusai remained at the school he had established, working under Shunsho’s chief disciple, Shunko. It was during this period that Hokusai began to explore other styles of art, influenced by French and Dutch engravings that were smuggled into the country at a time when contact with Western culture was forbidden. His woodblocks began to incorporate elements of the shading, colouring and perspective he had seen in Western works, revolutionising ukiyo-e art. 

Although his exact motivations remain unclear, Shunko expelled Hokusai from the Katsukawa school shortly after. The rejection would prove to be a turning point in the artist’s career, Hokusai later commenting, ‘What really motivated the development of my artistic style was the embarrassment I suffered at Shunko’s hands.’

He made more than 30,000 works during his lifetime

Hokusai is said to have worked with frenetic energy, rising early to paint and continuing until well after dark. Although his studio and much of his work was destroyed in a fire in 1839, the artist is thought to have produced 30,000 works over the course of his lifetime, his prolific output including paintings, sketches, woodblock prints, erotic illustrations and picture books. 

His lifetime

Hokusai is said to have worked with frenetic energy, rising early to paint and continuing until well after dark. Although his studio and much of his work was destroyed in a fire in 1839, the artist is thought to have produced 30,000 works over the course of his lifetime, his prolific output including paintings, sketches, woodblock prints, erotic illustrations and picture books. 

He wasn’t afraid of growing old

Hokusai spent his life anticipating old age. The artist commented: ‘When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs, but all I have done before the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75, I’ll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am 80, you will see real progress. At 90, I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At 100 I shall be a marvellous artist. At 110, everything I create — a dot, a line — will jump to life as never before.’ Hokusai never got to see whether his prediction held true. On 10 May 1849 he died aged 88, apparently exclaiming on his deathbed, ‘If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.’

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) 
Kanagawa oki nami ura (In the well of the great wave off Kanagawa), from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei (The thirty-six views of Mount Fuji)
Signed Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi [Eijudo], blue outline--good impression and color, centerfold, trimmed, tear left edge

ZⓈONAMACO NOMBRA A TANIA RAGASOL COMO DIRECTORA ARTÍSTICA Y A MARISOL BARBOSA COMO DIRECTORA OPERATIVA



NOVIEMBRE 15, 2017




Tania Ragasol


Marisol Barbosa


ZⓈONAMACO anuncia el nombramiento de Tania Ragasol como Directora Artística, sucediendo a Daniel Garza Usabiaga que desempeñó el cargo de 2015 a 2017. De manera simultánea, Marisol Barbosa, toma el cargo de Directora Operativa, tras fungir como Coordinadora de ZⓈONAMACO.

A partir de febrero de 2018, Ragasol y Barbosa fortalecerán las relaciones con expositores, coleccionistas, curadores, críticos y público en general, junto a Zélika García, Directora General y Fundadora de la plataforma de ferias.

Tania Ragasol es curadora independiente, fue Coordinadora Editorial en el Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Ciudad de México, 1998-2000), y Curadora Asociada en el área de arte contemporáneo del Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Ciudad de México, 2001-2003). Ha sido Curadora Asociada de inSite_05x(San Diego/Tijuana 2003-2005), Subdirectora Curatorial del Museo de Arte Moderno (Ciudad de México 2007-2008) y Directora de Casa Vecina (Ciudad de México 2011-2014). Durante 2015 fue Gerente de Artes Visuales para el año Dual UKMX2015 en el British Council, y entre 2016 y 2017 fue Directora de Contenidos en Catapulta, empresa social que trabaja para empoderar a potenciales jóvenes agentes de cambio en México.

Los nombramientos de Ragasol y Barbosa permitirán a ZⓈONAMACO reafirmarse como la plataforma líder de ferias de arte en Latinoamérica, así como potencializar su labor en la construcción del ecosistema del arte y diseño a través de sus cuatro eventos anuales: ZⓈONAMACO México Arte Contemporáneo, ZⓈONAMACO Diseño, ZⓈONAMACO FOTO y ZⓈONAMACO Salón del Anticuario.

En su nombramiento como Directora Artística, Ragasol comenta: “Desde el inicio de mi formación profesional he combinado la curaduría, la edición, la producción y la gestión en proyectos multidisciplinarios. Me entusiasma unirme al equipo de trabajo de ZⓈONAMACO pues creo que esta experiencia como Directora Artística me permitirá enriquecer mi práctica, a la vez que aportar mi experiencia y conocimientos a un proyecto ya establecido y en perfecto funcionamiento, pero que sigue creciendo y aportando a la escena cultural de nuestro país.”

Sobre su nueva posición, Barbosa menciona: "Me siento honrada de tomar el cargo como Directora Operativa. He trabajado en ZⓈONAMACO durante los últimos seis años, lo que me ha ayudado a entender las necesidades de nuestros expositores. Estoy muy satisfecha de trabajar de la mano de Tania, pues juntas lograremos el mejor desempeño de todo el equipo rumbo a nuestra edición número quince”.

En palabras de Garza Usabiaga: "Agradezco la oportunidad que ZⓈONAMACO me ofreció durante estos años. Este proyecto ha sido de gran importancia para mi carrera profesional y un referente para mi labor que ahora continúo como curador independiente. Seguiré trabajando con la feria y con su equipo durante este proceso de transición".

Zélika García, Directora General y Fundadora de ZⓈONAMACO, opina: “Me da mucho gusto contar con Tania en el equipo pues en su carrera ha logrado establecer una red de alianzas confiables con instituciones y profesionistas del arte. Su trabajo siempre es llevado a cabo con total compromiso y el mayor respeto al concebir e implementar alianzas efectivas.

Por su parte, Marisol es una figura clave en nuestro equipo de trabajo. Sus habilidades y experiencia han traducido las estrategias de las ferias en hechos accionables y con este nuevo cargo estoy convencida de que afinaremos nuestros esfuerzos aún más.

Agradezco el rol que Daniel Garza Usabiaga desempeñó en ZⓈONAMACO; sin duda su gran experiencia y su extensa red de colaboraciones a través de todos los niveles del panorama cultural, fueron factores de gran importancia para el crecimiento de ZⓈONAMACO”.

Cantú X Cantú

Exposición TV Educativa 15 Agosto 15 Octubre 2017

Ciudad de México

Colección Cantú Y de Teresa

Una exposición que narra durante un breve recorrido la trascendencia

De una familia de artista a lo largo de tres generaciones

ZⓈONAMACO FOTO and ZⓈONAMACO Salón del Anticuario

ZⓈONAMACO FOTO ZⓈONAMACO SALÓN DEL ANTICUARIO  SEPT 20-24, 2017 | CENTRO CITIBANAMEX, SALA A / HALL A   Ciudad de México, jueves 21 de septiembre, 2017   ZⓈONAMACO FOTO y ZⓈONAMACO Salón del Anticuario posponen su programa de actividades paralelas y programa de conferencias hasta nuevo aviso (eventos en el marco de las ferias).   En compromiso con nuestros galeristas y la comunidad artística participante, ambas ferias continúan abiertas de 12pm a 9pm con un centro de acopio habilitado en la Sala A del Centro Citibanamex. Los productos serán entregados a la Cruz Roja Mexicana, a la Fundación Origen AC y a Distrito Films.    Las ganancias resultantes de las ventas del booth dedicado a los grandes maestros del arte popular chiapaneco serán destinadas en su totalidad a las comunidades del estado de Chiapas que resultaron afectadas por los sismos.    El boletaje de los días miércoles, jueves, viernes, sábado y domingo será donado a los afectados en la CDMX, Morelos, Chiapas, Oaxaca y Puebla.    Para apoyo internacional, por favor consideren donar a Brigada de Rescate Topos Tlatelolco A.C., una organización que busca y rescata a víctimas de terremotos. Paypal: donativos@brigada-rescate-topos.org ZⓈONAMACO     Mexico City, Thursday, September 21st, 2017   ZⓈONAMACO FOTO and ZⓈONAMACO Salón del Anticuario postpone their parallel activities program and conference program until further notice (events within the framework of the fairs).   In commitment with our galleries and participating artistic community, both fairs continue open from 12PM to 9PM with a donation center enabled at Centro Citibanamex, Hall A. The products will be delivered to Cruz Roja Mexicana, Fundación Origen AC and Distrito Films.   All profits gathered from the sales of the booth dedicated to the great masters of popular art from Chiapas will be entirely allocated to the communities in the state of Chiapas that have been affected by the earthquakes.    Ticket sales of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be donated to those affected in Mexico City, Morelos, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Puebla.    For international support, please consider making donations to Brigada de Rescate Topos Tlatelolco A.C., an organization that searches for and rescues victims from earthquake. Paypal: donativos@brigada-rescate-topos.org    ZⓈONAMACO

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