Spring Art Shows In The Wynwood Art District, Miami

Ends March 31

Curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff, The Ambiguous Lightness of Being – An Homage to Milan Kundera at the Diana Lowenstein Gallery is a diverse collective of artists from different cultural backgrounds. However, semblance is found through the questioning of the physical and metaphysical concept of light and weight. This being the illusive juxtaposition of materials in a single work or the position of one work strategically installed across from another. Michele Chiossi’s (Italy) Carrara Arabesque, 2015 illuminated in soft pink, neon light appears weightless but is, in fact, made of Carrara marble and stainless steel. Globos, 2010 by Xawery Wolski (Poland/Mexico) is an installation of enlarged droplets made from Alpaca metal wire hung from the ceiling and ‘illuminated’ by a black wall backdrop. Kundera asks, ‘What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?’ To fully understand this exhibition, revisiting the book or the film adaptation is essential.

Participating artists are Apparatus 22, Jonathan Callan, Loris Cecchini, Michele Chiossi, Gye Hoon Park, Marya Kazoun, Jaroslav Kyša, Ronald Morán, Angelo Musco, Beatrice Pediconi, Marisabela Telleria, and Xawery Wolski.

Ends March 31

The Art Design Project at Parmigiani Gallery presents The End of Estrangement Photographs of America and Cubaby husband-and-wife team Formento & Formento (US). The exhibition is a survey of work that addresses contrasts on multiple levels – on first impression, light and dark, contrasting landscapes and environments, and two different societies. The images require much deeper reflection to identify the references to classical paintings and cinema, and then to think about reality versus fantasy. The Formento’s invite the viewer to join them on a journey: ‘Mesmerized by these women’s transformation into heroines or femme fatales we are able to witness a moment of intense emotion and reflection frozen in a world caught between reality and fantasy.’