ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2024
December 6-8
Miami Beach Convention Center
Booth D4
FERRARI . FERNÁNDEZ-MURO . GRILO . HLITO . SACERDOTE . SAKAI . STUPÍA
For the 2024 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, Jorge Mara • La Ruche will present a selection of works by León Ferrari, José Antonio Fernández-Muro, Sarah Grilo, Ana Sacerdote, Kazuya Sakai, and Eduardo Stupía—major figures in Modern and contemporary Abstract painting from Argentina and Latin America. The presentation will focus on aspects of their work that transpose and transform other artistic languages into the pictorial realm.
We will showcase a comprehensive selection of Sarah Grilo’s works, focusing primarily on pieces produced during the 1960s and 1970s in New York, where the artist settled in 1962. In New York, Grilo began incorporating urban references from her surroundings: graffiti running rampant across the city’s walls, traces of letters, numbers, and symbols in varied fonts and typefaces peeling from posters plastered throughout the streets, along with text sourced from U.S. mass media.
These works will be displayed in dialogue with those of her then-husband José Antonio Fernández-Muro, created while they lived together in New York during the 1960s, revealing how the urban landscape differently impacted and transformed their artistic output.
We will also present works by Ana Sacerdote, an original artist active within the geometric abstraction movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Our selection includes canvases and gouaches on paper produced by Sacerdote during this period, which explore the pictorial realm in relation to musical systems by translating sounds into rhythmical visual scores of shapes and colors.
From Kazuya Sakai, we will display a selection of canvases alongside a series of ink drawings on paper from the 1960s, after his return to Argentina from Japan. These works are imbued with the lyricism of Japanese calligraphy, illustrating his fascination with signs, traces, and pictorial ideograms.
Our 2024 booth presentation will also feature a dialogue among works by León Ferrari, Sarah Grilo, and Eduardo Stupía—three Argentine artists whose practices revolve around the expressive and poetic possibilities of calligraphic abstraction.
Kabinett 2024: Alfredo Hlito (Buenos Aires 1923 – 1993)
Works on Paper from the 1950s to the 1980s
Alfredo Hlito, a pivotal figure in Latin American Concrete art and co-founder of the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención in 1944, is renowned for his geometric precision and clean lines. His works from the early 1950s reflect Concrete art principles through flat colors and exacting
geometry. By the late 1960s, Hlito began exploring dynamic geometric abstraction, adding movement and depth to his work. His Simulacros and Efigies series from the 1970s and 1980s delve into light, shadow, and color contrasts, introducing depth and dynamism. Hlito’s later works continued to innovate with new techniques.
The Kabinett presentation,, will also feature designs from the Buen Diseño para la Industria group, to which Hlito belonged, known for integrating Modernist art with industrial design.
