Here’s a hot event that those who live in So. California:
the LA Art Show that Opens on 2/15/2023!!
LA ART SHOW RETURNS FEBRUARY 15 WITH A BOLD GLOBAL LINEUP AND AMBITIOUS CLIMATE AGENDA
LA’s Largest and Longest-Running Art Fair Will Inspire Important Social Conversations and Thrill
Visitors With Exhibitions From Around the World
February 15–19, 2023
Los Angeles Convention Center (West Hall)
1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
The LA Art Show, LA’s largest and longest-running art fair, will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center on February 15–19
to kick off the city’s 2023 art season.
This year’s ART SHOW announces a focus on the global climate crisis via its educational platform, DIVERSEartLA.
As a cultural anchor for LA Art Show, DIVERSEartLA will continue its curatorial focus on the global climate crisis
through thought-provoking installations and immersive experiences.
The 2023 edition will feature eight participating interdisciplinary projects: incl. video installations, augmented reality,
and community-oriented projects, examining not just how the environment is represented in art but how humanity’s place in
the world is depicted.
Guided by the leadership of LA Art Show producer and director Kassandra Voyagis, the 28th edition will have a
larger global presence and more ambitious programming than ever before. This year’s show will seek to celebrate art
—globally and locally—and inspire important dialogue. LA Art Show will donate 15% of all ticket proceeds to support
the life-saving work of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.
“We’re back with a bang,” said Voyagis. “I’m blown away by the scope of work represented at this
year’s show and incredibly honored to help bring it all together. We’re welcoming an extraordinary
group of diverse global artists and galleries, learning from each other, and sparking important
conversations.
Programming to Provoke Important Conversations
This year’s fair has a variety of programming intended to inspire important dialogue:
● DIVERSEartLA 2023, which began in 2015 and is curated by Marisa Caichiolo, connects important art
institutions to generate thoughtful dialogue through art and will encourage visitors to confront the complex challenges
of our global climate crisis and imagine potential solutions. Marisa Caichiolo expresses:
“Humans are changing the Earth’s natural systems in rapid and unprecedented ways.
This has propelled our planet into a new geologic era: the Anthropocene. Contextualizing the issues
through immersive experiences and installations seeks to deepen our understanding and inspire solutions.”
DIVERSEartLA is the only educational project of its kind in the United States and featuring in 2023 are
both first-timers and important returning museums like the MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art and
Art Museum of the Americas (AMA).
Two of DIVERSEartLA’s 2023 participating institutions that we are currently highlighting are:
The Washington D.C.-based Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) returns with a curatorial proposal
from Fabian Goncalves who will present an immersive experience, featuring one of Mexico’s most prominent
contemporary conceptual photographers, Alfredo De Stefano. Often employing ice, fire, and light, De Stefano
creates enigmatic installations with both natural and man-made objects in an ethereal desert setting. With his
evocative figures wrapped in blood-red cloth, long shadows under a hot sun, and scorched shrubbery, De Stefano’s work
seems to argue, through fantastic visions that foretell Earth’s transformation into a desert planet, that this is the result
of man-made global warming and widespread drought.
● TRANSformation by MRG Fine Art in partnership with Zero Two 20 promises to be a
thought-provoking exhibition, creating an open platform for emerging and established talent of diverse backgrounds.
The exhibition proposes that foundational transformation is inherent in the evolutionary process of both artists and
society alike and encourages us to glimpse our future through the window of contemporary art.
“The House of Pilar” by popular non-binary artist, Luis Cobelo. Presented by Santa Monica-based Building Bridges Art Exchange,
this immersive experience focuses on the life of the transgender character Pilar. The work is an homage to the
renowned artist’s unborn sister and presents a possible vision of who she may have been.
Attendees will experience the formal setting of her living room and a performance of Pilar by the artist.
Cobelo was born in Venezuela and works independently across borders.
A Bold and Diverse Global Lineup
The LA Art Show 2023 includes
–the exciting return of the European Pavilion,
–the debut of the Japanese Pavilion featuring 6 galleries from Japan;
–and more South Korean artists and galleries than ever before in testament to the country’s thriving arts scene.
The South Korean presence includes:
● Gallery Chaman highlights Sori Choi, an internationally-recognized Korean percussionist known for performing traditional
Korean music styles and contemporary music!
–Choi will show his artwork for the first time in Los Angeles at the LA Art Show.
–Choi works on copper plates, aluminum and other metals, visually expressing his music using dance-like movements
to paint, fire to transform color, and objects like drumsticks to create indentations based on the idea that every
object and energy has its own sound.
Featured institutions and artists are:
The Washington D.C.-based Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) returns with a curatorial proposal from
who will present an immersive experience, featuring one of Mexico’s most prominent contemporary conceptual
photographers, Alfredo De Stefano. Employing ice, fire, and light, De Stefano creates enigmatic installations with
both natural and man-made objects in an ethereal desert setting. With his evocative figures wrapped in blood-red cloth,
long shadows under a hot sun and scorched shrubbery, De Stefano’s work seems to argue, through fantastic visions that
foretell Earth’s transformation into a desert planet, that this is the result of man-made global warming and widespread drought.
The Italian Cultural Institute is participating for the first time. A collaboration between
Italian artists Pietro Ruffo and Elia Pellegrini along with creative production studio Noruwei.
“Il Giardino Planetario” will be an immersive experience and video installation that is an allegory of the planet as a garden.
Don’t miss this great event! There is so much to see at the LA ART SHOW! It’s an amazing array of artwork and you can
learn more about the Art Museum of the Americas and the Italian Cultural Institute!
Stevie Wilson,
LA-Story.com
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