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IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Fountain MIAMI 2009 – 2505 North Miami Ave Miami FL 33137
Telephone: 917.650.3760
Email: info@fountainexhibit.com
Website: http://fountainexhibit.com
Dates: December 3-6, 2009; 11am-7pm
VIP/Press Preview: Thursday Dec 3, from 11am until 7pm
Reception for the artists: Friday, December 4; 7pm-midnight
Wynwood Arts Tour: Saturday, December 5; 7pm-10pm
Cost: Donation of $5 at the door for all weekend access

New York (July 29, 2009) – Fountain Miami 2009 is building steam as a must see event for Art Basel  Miami Beach this December. Already known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries, this year’s Fountain will be no different as exhibition producers have secured  the same venue as last year. Fountain has also established a partnership with Headley’s Shipping to provide a gracious donation of shipping for participating galleries to and from the event.  This show, our fourth in Miami, will prove to be the largest event yet.

Video Producer Morgan Riles releases her video compilation of the Fountain New York 2009 and can be viewed at the bottom of this release.  Exhibition areas are still available for Miami and interested parties should contact us at once.  Here is the press kit for Fountain – Fountain Press  Kit Highlights and the Fountain Miami application – Fountain Application.

Fountain New York 2009 from Morgan Riles on Vimeo.

Located at 2505 North Miami Ave at the corner of 25th st, Fountain will run from December 3 – 6 concurrent with Art Basel, Pulse, Aqua, Scope and other important art fairs. Fountain is a guerrilla-style art event, dubbed by many as the “Anti Art Fair” for its brash, off-the-wall offerings of non-traditional art exhibitions in the art fair environment.

Fountain’s venue, a 16,000 square-foot complex with both interior and exterior exhibition areas, is adjacent to all the major Miami exhibitions. Exhibiting galleries occupy approximately 500 – 1500 square feet of exhibition space each, so visitors can expect massive installations of contemporary painting, sculpture, performance and new media art.

Fountain Miami 2009 participating galleries will be announced shortly. For exhibitor information, please visit: http://fountainexhibit.com

Fountain was launched in March 2006 in New York in an effort to leverage support for independent galleries overlooked by the larger, corporate-sponsored art fairs. The name “Fountain” is a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s controversial sculpture which shook up the art world when it was rejected by the Society of Artists’ exhibition in 1917. Similarly, in defiant contrast with The Armory Show, Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope and the numerous other international art fairs, Fountain has received wide public support and critical acclaim for its experimental slant. In form and spirit, the artwork exhibited at Fountain reflects the avant-garde attitude of the Dada art movement, while attracting the attention of the international clientele and top collectors who attend the more traditional fairs.

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