Art Basel Miami Beach | Booth A54
6–10 December 2023
Miami Beach Convention Center
Peter Freeman, Inc. is pleased to present a selection of works by gallery artists that together illustrate the range of our program for the 2023 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach.
At the entrance to the booth, two powerful works by Thomas Schütte—Mann im Wind I, a colossal bronze figure that subverts traditional models of public sculpture, and a large-scale, colorful woodcut of a brick building exterior—explore the functionality of entryways and the historic models for organizing such liminal public spaces. Newly represented gallery artists investigate other architectural elements nearby with Suspended Window by Roman Ondak, in which sections of a window frame loosely connected by string hang from the ceiling, and Flatiron by Robert Moskowitz, a pared-down silhouette of the famous New York City building.
Flood Tide (1969), an important early work by Jan Dibbets, illustrates the progression of an incoming tide as a visual marker of time with ten photographs arranged side-by-side in a continuous horizontal line. Dove Allouche’s Repeint_14 depicts an enlarged slice of pigment sampled from an early Italian Madonna and Child, literally and figuratively capturing the cross section between art history, photography, and technological advancement. Elsewhere, Matt Mullican presents a very different examination of a collapsing, deconstructed picture plane in an expansive, vibrantly colored oil stick rubbing and a related group of drawings, all from his recent body of work based on a Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip originally published in the New York Herald on Sunday, August 9, 1908.
Text-based works by Mel Bochner are also on view, including the seminal Language is Not Transparent first conceived in 1970. The work must be remade each time it is presented as it is painted directly on a white gallery wall, a process that embodies Bochner’s interest in how our language is shaped by context and associations, how situations can transform its meaning.
Other highlights include works by gallery artists Fernanda Gomes, Hendl Helen Mirra, and Catherine Murphy, as well as several characteristically scaled-down sculptural works by Charles LeDray, who has produced a collection of new works for his latest solo exhibition, Shiner, currently on view at Peter Freeman, Inc. in New York until 6 January 2024.
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