Play with David!
- MIAMI, Florida
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- November 30, 2013
Play with David!
Franziska von Aspern
at Miami River Art Fair
Miami River Art Fair 2013: December, 5 - 8
Downtown Miami Convention Center
James L. Knight International Center, 400 SE 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33132
http://www.miamiriverartfair.com
Miami River Art Fair 2013, as US States’s celebrated art exchange with high internationalization degree, will be grandly held from December 5-8 at Downtown Miami Convention Center, continuing the scale as before, presenting domestic and overseas collectors a gorgeous art event in Miami as well. Miami River Art Fair, established in 2012, has been successfully founded by the Director and Curator Nina Torres, who not only bridged the gap between worldwide and Miami, public and art, but also shaped a paradigm for the domestic art fairs during Art Basel Week.
A lifelong fascination with graphics, book editions, installations and photography shapes the work of Franziska von Aspern. The artworks of her series: “Play with David!” will be displayed at booth B1, Gallery Art History Consulting, at Miami River Art Fair. In reviewing her artistic concepts, the Hamburg (Germany) based artist explains the meaning behind “David”: “The Renaissance artist Michelangelo has created the sculpture David. He fixed the figure in movement and shows exactly that moment, just before David is going to throw the stone against the face of the giant Goliath.
So, this is the start of my David Story. Everything is possible. Like in film stills, David has several roles, from the mega star of the High Renaissance to Pop and Contemporary - changing emotions and environments, acting in a Romanian agora or in a Wal Mart supermarket.” Franziska von Aspern is in the search and exploration of David, to find the secret behind his identities. It is an aesthetic journey, rendering the body of David in various images, to be aware that is all a process of construction and reconstruction.
Franziska von Aspern, born in Bonn (Germany), holds a diploma in Fine Arts and Design at the prestigous Art Academy Alsterdamm in Hamburg. Since many years she has been working in the field of advertising and book illustration and has received numerous awards as the prize for "Best Book" by the German Art Book Foundation. Franziska von Aspern is an emerging multi media artist. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of male and female roles and identites drawn from the unlimited supply of images in movies, art history and science-medical literature.
The recent David series features the playful bodies in non-stereotypical roles, that address the experience and representation of the never ending fight between the weak against the strong, beauty against eternity, mental emotions in the context of contemporary obsessions. Who is David today? Your friend or enemy? Play with David!
Fair Location
Downtown Miami Convention Center
James L. Knight International Center
400 SE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33131, USA
VIP Collector’s Preview (VIP Ticket Holders & Press) | December 5, 6 -11 PM
Fair Hours | Fri-Sat, December 6 -7, 12-8 PM | Sunday, December 8, 12-7 PM
Ticketing | General Admission USD 10 | Free with Online Registration
Catalog | USD 20
Special Events | Charity Event - VIP Collectors Lounge - Conversations and Art Talks on the River - Press and Exhibitor Brunch - Meet the Artist - Life Art Performance - Live Classical Concert - Private Shuttle Service.
Gallery | Art History Consulting | Booth B1
http://www.arthistoryconsulting.de
Artist’ Studio Franziska von Aspern
Contact Author /Copyrights PR:
PhD Barbara Aust-Wegemund
Krokusweg 6a
22869 Hamburg-Schenefeld | Germany
Phone +49 -40-84050355
Mobile +49-179-4605679
Email: aust-wegemund@t-online.de
About the Author:
PhD Barbara Aust-Wegemund, born in Zuerich/ Switzerland, is a German Art Historian and Managing Director at Art History Consulting (AHC). She studied Art History at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Germany), University for Foreigners Perugia (Italy) and London Guildhall University (UK).
In 2002 she received her PhD from University of Kiel with a Dissertation on Modern Sculpture: “Sources of Inspiration.The Meaning of Nature in Henry Moore´s Late Work.” Barbara is an art historian who has written widely on modern and contemporary art. Her essays have been featured in monographs, exhibition catalogues, e-zines, journals and the online editorial department of Goethe Institute Inc.
