A: Is for Arteaméricas!

For the sixth consecutive year, Merrill Lynch presents arteaméricas a Latin American art exhibition featuring more than 400 renowned and up-and-coming artists from 78 of the most prestigious art galleries. Arteaméricas has become one of the world’s most important and most prestigious fairs of Latin American art. Seventy of the best galleries from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, the United States and Venezuela will be in attendance this year. New York is represented by A. Cueto, Gómez Fine Art, Latitude Art Project and Museo del Barrio. Arteaméricas brings together the cultural highlights of the Americas to Miami. internationally celebrated artists, including Fernando Botero, Lygia Clark, Wifredo Lam, Armando Reverón, Jesús Soto, Rufino Tamayo and Joaquín Torres-García. Vanguard contemporary artists including José Bedía, Tony Bechara, José Pedro Costigliolo, Eduardo Chapela, Bastón Díaz, León Ferrari, Carmen Herrera, Kcho and Hugo Zapata will also be represented at the 2008 edition. The exhibition include paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and videos from great masters and young artists and included a section dedicated to contemporary art trends. The economic and social reality will show the link between Latin American and Caribbean artworks selected by curator and director Felix Angel of the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center (IDB) collection. Talents from Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, might well be responsible for developing the most lucid portrayal. The works of these young artists focuses on creative exploration aimed at highlighting and strengthening the fields of video art, drawing and the re-interpretation of technological languages. The work of twenty Miami based artists that interpret the spirit of contemporary times and prove their accomplishment through diverse approaches to post-contemporary art, including installation, digital photography and performance. Arteamericas will be the stage for many young artists from three Miami art schools to showcase their work to the world. Two panel discussions will take place every day in arteamericas, with renowned members of the art community, such as curators Julia Herzberg and Pedro Querejazu , art collectors Dennis Scholl and Ignacio Oberto and Sotheby’s director for Latin America, Axel Stein, among others.

Art lives everywhere in the world around us and that is a creative F.A.C.T.