SAGAMORE IS ART
CATALOGUE
THE SAGAMORE HOTEL
SAGAMORE IS ART INSTALLATION
Sagamore Hotel Miami Beach has been a classic destination for both locals and tourists alike since the Art Deco
District was created in the 1940s. Located at 1671 Collins Avenue in the heart of South Beach, the all-suite
boutique hotel is surrounded by history, culture and the city’s trendiest restaurants, shopping and nightlife, creating
the ultimate setting for the ongoing series #SagamoreisArt.
Dedicated to the advancement of the arts, Sagamore has collaborated with Miami-based Art Advisor Sébastien
Laboureau to produce the hotels art program in partnership with local, national and internationally known
museums, non-profit institutions, galleries and emerging and established talent.
While honoring the Sagamore tradition, new ownership will continue to offer the city and guests a place for
inspiring and innovative experiences that showcase art through different dimensions including visual art, music,
food, fashion and social weekly and monthly events.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
CONTACT: SEBASTIEN LABOUREAU, Art Advisor to Sagamore
786 216 4924 // [email protected]
PHIL MACQUET
Phil Macquet was born in 1967 in Lille, France. After working with
spray paint for years, with the 90s came the development of digital
media. This permitted Phil Macquet to extend his artwork to a
new stencil dimension, abandoning the spray and replacing it with
the pixel as his raw material.
And now with the 21st Century, the advent of mobile technology
allows Phil Macquet to materialize and develop augmented
painting. His avant-garde technique, called Digital Art, uses highdefinition images and digital screens to make art pieces come alive
through a mobile device. A digital application allows the viewer to
discover hidden layers of photos, sounds and videos that illustrate
the particular message of the artwork, and become a participant in
the work sharing the exhilarating experience of creativity.
Title : Miami
Medium : Industrial ink on fabric
Dimensions : 63x47.5in /160x121cm
Phil Macquet, the first time he saw a computer, said, "This thing
was not invented to calculate but to create."
The first augmented reality artwork to ever be shown at
the Sagamore, prepare your ipad and iphone
Download the app from the app store @ Phil Macquet
Title : Mafia
Medium: Industrial ink on fabric
Dimensions: 63x47.5in /160x121 cm
Steven GagnOn
Steven Gagnon is based in Miami Beach but is internationally known
for his paintings, prints, sculptures, and car video installations focusing
on American culture.
His work has been exhibited at such prestigious institutions as the
Naples Museum of Art, the Palm Springs Desert Museum, the Bladen
Memorial Art Museum, the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Art Museum of South Texas, and the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and
Science.
His art has been featured on the Wall Street Journal, Harper’s
Magazine, the Miami NewTimes, Arnet.com, and ArtInfo.com as well as
on billboards in Miami, New Jersey, New York City, and throughout
California.
Gagnon’s work can be found in public and corporate collections
including: the Federal Reserve Board; the Art Museum of South Texas;
The American Bankers Association; American Bank; Congressional
Bank; and UMB Bank. He is currently a resident artist at ArtCenter
South Florida.
Title : Composition in White & Purple, 2015
Medium : Mixed Media
Dimensions : 42.25 x 48 x 5.75 in / 107 x 121 x 15 cm
Edition : Unique
Description : Women’s shoes adhered to wood panel and
painted with automative paint in cut-out aluminium
RICHARD ORLINSKI
Title : Fluo Pink Jeans
Medium : Resin Sculpture
Dimensions : 70 in /180 cm
Edition : Edition of 8
Richard Orlinski is a French artist born in Paris in
1966. Sculpting since 2004, his work is centered
around the concept “Born Wild” comprised of
contemporary materials meant to be viewed by
large groups of people simultaneously. His works
are exhibited at FIAC, on the slopes of
Courchevel and in 90 galleries worldwide. Since
2011, he is ranked in the Top 10 of the best
selling French artists in the world by Art Price.
A pair of legendary jeans, animated with folds,
symbols, and fantasies open on the void and the
absence of a body.
Title : Red Jeans (crystal clear)
Medium : Epoxy Sculptures
Dimensions : 27 in /95 cm
Edition : Edition of 8
Idan Zareski
Idan Zareski was born in Haifa, Israel, but his life has taken him
through many countries. A fundamental element in his work is the
experiences he derived from traveling and bearing witness to multiple
races and cultures. Idan shapes his creations out of clay, water and
fire, to later set them in bronze. He is still amazed by the fact that
emotions cannot only take shape, but be shared, without a word.
The Babyfoot sculpture by Idan Zareski is heir to his father, the
renowned BigFoot sculpture.
BigFoot achieved worldwide notoriety and has travelled all around
the world. Zareski’s Bigfoot sculpture was born out of his passion for
encouraging cultural awareness and tolerance around the globe,
“Bigfoot’s huge feet are like the roots of our past, our anchor to this
small fragile Earth; reminding us that we are all from the same small
planet.”
Title : Giant Baby Foot Blue
Medium : Resin Sculpture
Dimensions : 88 x 105 x 79 in / 224 x 266 x 201 cm
Edition : Edition of 8
JOEL MOENS
Title : Positive Emotions
Medium : Photography Mosaic
Dimensions : 39 x 39 in / 99 x 99 cm
Edition : Edition of 8
The photo mosaics of Joël Moens de Hase
first began to emerge in 2011.
They rapidly caught the interest of a
national and international viewership. This
digital art form, a contemporary alternative
of pixel art and pointillism, has the ability
to surprise and seduce through the
originality and aesthetics of the concept. It
is a testament to its age. It stems from a
wide range of different sources but
primarily from the liberation of a futuristic
spirit that of this Belgian artist born in
1959. A veritable homage to sensuality, a
symphony of colours which unleashes the
imagination and tantalises the senses.
Title : Deep Blue
Medium : Photography Mosaic
Dimensions : 26 x 43 in / 66 x 109 cm
Edition : Edition of 8
Nadine Debien
For most of her life, Nadine Debien has had a
real passion for art.
She began this love story in high school, and
developed it during her college years by taking
interior design courses. And yet, Nadine
waited for years before making the leap
between pure creation which gratifies every
single day with immense happiness and
considering commercializing her art! As soon
as he started showing them, her humanoids
were immediately successful! These characters
represent a sweet caricature of the world,
allowing for a tender, lucid and amused
perspective on our daily lives as well as on the
humans we encounter.
Title : Le Gomine & Yellow Man
Medium : Resin Sculpture, uniquely painted in acrylic
Dimensions : 165 cm & 180 cm
Edition : Edition of 8
CONNIE MCSILVER
Connie McSilver is an artist with an unusual
and exceptional background. A PHD,
Psychoanalyst, acclaimed social worker,
philanthropist and gifted artist, McSilver has
embodied her professional and personal
experiences and combined them with her
intrinsic sense of humor within her art.
Title : Whoopie in Yellow
Medium : Fiberglass Sculpture
Dimensions : 10 feet / 3m
Edition : Edition of 6
Her vibrant fiberglass relief sculptures,
adorned with automotive paint, evoke a
witty lesson on life’s daily dilemmas: a clever
look at a political quandary; a whimsical
view of interrelations between each other; a
laugh at many civic attitudes; amusement of
our many pastimes; and even some more
intimate moments, creating no subject too
taboo for this artist’s brush.
All her works are sold to benefit a
scholarship trust to help under-privileged
kids to go to college.
SMALLER SCULPTURES
Medium : Fiberglass Sculpture
Dimensions : 24 in / 60 cm
Edition : Edition of 12
Bernard Pras
French artist Bernard Pras creates impressive
installations and assemblages of disparate
objects and waste, which form beautiful
paintings appearing through the principle of
anamorphosis. His ephemeral creations
being visible only from a single point of view,
Bernard Pras uses photography to capture
his anamorphosis, which are often tributes
to famous paintings (like “The Scream” by
Edvard Munch, for example) or
photographs…
Title: Declared Disappeared, 1999
Medium : Mixed Media + BOMB
Dimensions : 49 x 19in / 124 x 124 cm
Edition : Edition of 8
Title: Mao, 1999
Medium : Mixed Media
Dimensions : 51 x 42 in / 130 x 119 cm
Edition : Edition of 8
Description : Photomosaic realized with digital photographies on Aluminium
Kai
Kai is a creative artist born in Los Angeles,
USA. At the young age of 14, he pursued
his passion and the streets of Los Angeles
became his canvas. Four years later, he
accepted an offer to study at California
Institute of the Arts, the leading school in
contemporary art, and L'école des Beaux
Arts in Paris.
Kai is recognized for his ability to convey a
powerful message through any medium.
His unique style and social commentary
continues to set him apart from other
street artists, and has been featured on
covers of newspapers and magazines
worldwide in recognition of his work.
Title: Lost Value
Medium : Mixed Media
Dimensions : 34 x 38 in / 86 x 96 cm
Edition : Unique
Title: It’s Lonely on Top
Medium : Mixed Media + mirror
Dimensions : 200 x 160 cm
Edition : Unique
YOM DE SAINT PHALLE
Yom de Saint-Phalle was born in Paris in 1970.Very
Early he learns modeling and painting, then studies
political science and journalism. At the age of 24, he
stops painting and get enrolled in the Legion Etrangere.
In 2001, after more than 6 years in combat units all
over the world, from Africa to the Balkans, he leaves
the Legion Etrangere.
Back in France, his aunt, Niki de Saint-Phalle, invites him
to come to California with her and perfect his artistic
training.He enters into the world of sculpture as a
welder; later on he shows an interest for mosaic, and
finally composite materials. After the death of Niki de
Saint-Phalle, he dedicates himself to his own creativity
and pursue his training with Raymond Hains in Paris
from 2002 to 2005.
Deeply impacted by the absurdity of the war, Yom
develops an original approach of sculpture that
emphasizes the absence of material more than the
material itself.
Title: Egg
Medium : Fiber glass sculpture
Dimensions : 70 in / 180 cm
Edition : Unique
BOUDRO
Born in Sept-Iles, Québec, now living and working in Montreal,
BOUDRO is however a true New Yorker at heart. Energetic,
vibrant and full of primary colors his works reflect the agitated
lifestyle and feverish atmosphere that is found in the Big Apple:
an urban ballet under the crushing weight of advertising.
Boudro is a pop artist through and through, counting among his
influences Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein. His
style artfully marries his pop roots to the surrealist through the
use of unexpected juxtapositions and dreamlike composition.
Art critics and collectors find the fantasy and humor
complementary to the exuberant and vitalized graphic of
brilliant colors of his works.
His latest inspiration came from one of the most ubiquitous
things: the post STAMP. For many years art masterpieces where
used for illustrating the stamps. Now under BOUDRO’s
masterful brushstrokes the STAMP becomes a work of art on
its own. The disproportion of the elements and perspectives
found in his STAMPS provokes in the observer's mind the
impression of being totally involved in the dynamism and vitality
of the city BOUDRO so much loves.
BANKSY
Banksy is an England-based street artist,
political activist and film director of
unverified identity. His satirical street art
and subversive epigrams combine dark
humor with graffiti executed in a
distinctive stenciling technique.
His works of political and social
commentary have been featured on
streets, walls, and bridges of cities
throughout the world. Banksy's work
grew out of the Bristol underground
scene, which involved collaborations
between artists and musicians.
Observers have noted that his style is
similar to Blek le Rat, who began to
work with stencils in 1981 in Paris.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible
surfaces such as walls and self-built
physical prop pieces.
MR BRAINWASH
Mr. Brainwash (often written MBW) is a name used by
French-born, Los Angeles-based street artist Thierry Guetta.
According to the 2010 Banksy-directed film Exit Through
the Gift Shop, Guetta was a proprietor of a used clothing
store, where he began as a security guard, and amateur
videographer who was first introduced to street art by his
cousin, the street artist Invader, and who filmed street artists
through the 2000s and "evolved" into an artist in his own
right in a matter of weeks after an off-hand suggestion from
Banksy.
His work sold for five-figure sums at his self-financed debut
exhibit Life is Beautiful, due, it is thought, to a mixture of an
overheated and hyped street art market and – according to
Banksy and Shepard Fairey as seen in Exit – his misuse of
endorsements from Banksy and Fairey. The exhibit was held
in Los Angeles, California, on June 18, 2008, and was a
popular and critical success. In 2009, Madonna paid Guetta
to design the cover art for her Celebration album.
SHEPARD FAIREY
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an
American contemporary street artist, graphic designer,
activist, illustrator and founder of OBEY Clothing who
emerged from the skateboarding scene.
He first became known for his "Andre the Giant Has a
Posse" (…OBEY…) sticker campaign while attending the
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), which appropriated
images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly
World News.
He became widely known during the 2008 U.S.
presidential election for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one
of today's best known and most influential street artists.
His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian,
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of
Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego, the National Portrait
Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London.
KEITH HARING
Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading,
Pennsylvania, and was raised in nearby Kutztown,
Pennsylvania. He developed a love for drawing at a very
early age, learning basic cartooning skills from his father
and from the popular culture around him, such as Dr.
Seuss and Walt Disney.
During a brief but intense career that spanned the 1980s,
Haring’s work was featured in over 100 solo and group
exhibitions. In 1986 alone, he was the subject of more
than 40 newspaper and magazine articles. He was highly
sought after to participate in collaborative projects ,and
worked with artists and performers as diverse as
Madonna, Grace Jones, Bill T. Jones, William Burroughs,
Timothy Leary, Jenny Holzer, Yoko Ono and Andy
Warhol. By expressing universal concepts of birth, death,
love, sex and war, using a primacy of line and directness
of message, Haring was able to attract a wide audience
and assure the accessibility and staying power of his
imagery, which has become a universally recognized
visual language of the 20th century.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist. He first
achieved notoriety as part of SAMO, an informal
graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the
cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of
Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop,
post-punk, and street art movements had
coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neoexpressionist paintings in galleries and museums
internationally. The Whitney Museum of American
Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22,
1960, in Brooklyn, New York. He first attracted
attention for his graffiti under the name "SAMO" in
New York City. He sold sweatshirts and postcards
featuring his artwork on the streets before his
painting career took off. He collaborated with Andy
Warhol in the mid-1980s, which resulted in a show
of their work. Basquiat died on August 12, 1988, in
New York City.
SPEEDY GRAPHITO
Olivier Rizzo, aka SPEEDY GRAPHITO, was born in Paris
in 1961, and he is one of the pioneers of the French Street
art movement. By imposing a powerful, innovative style in
the early 1980s, Speedy left his mark on the memory of a
generation. He hasn’t stopped evolving, always in step with
the times, by inventing pictorial languages and codes that
are iconoclastic and satirical of society.
Though his work has evolved considerably over the past
few decades, he has become known and revered for his
exploration of commercialism and references to pop
cultural images and icons. Particularly inspired by the
iconography of animated characters from movies and
television, Speedy aims to re-interpret the visual landscape
that has become so commonplace.
For the past three years, Speedy has developed a strong
presence in the U.S., beginning with his first U.S. solo
exhibition, Freeway, in Fall 2011 at the Fabien Castanier
Gallery. His impact on new generations of artists and the
current cultural landscape is unparalleled. Speedy Graphito
lives and works in Paris.
JONONE
Though raised in New York, JonOne has lived in Paris since
the mid 1980’s where he has established himself as an artist,
building a career that has spanned over 20 years. From his
early days as a youth, tagging the streets of Harlem, JonOne
has always emphasized a painterly approach, bringing brushes
instead of spray cans to tag subway trains. Drawing from the
energy and freedom of painting in an urban landscape, he
translates his roots as a graffiti artist into paintings that are a
completely unique form of abstract expressionism. Akin to
Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, JonOne’s pieces
exhibit an enormous sense of movement and color. His
compositions combine freestyle, precise strokes, repetition
and texture for a uniquely balanced yet dynamic visual
experience. JonOne’s paintings represent a new era of
contemporary artists who have moved beyond their roots as
graffiti writers to establish themselves as painters. Recognized
internationally for his urban contemporary paintings, JonOne
has stayed true to his artistic vision. From Paris to Shanghai,
Casablanca to Hong-Kong, he has exhibited in galleries and art
fairs around the world, resulting in a tremendous response
from both the public and collectors as well as at auction.
RERO
RERO’s work, while instantly recognizable from his distinctive
visual style, contains within it an inherent fluidity as he
explores myriad social concepts, from technology and
consumerism to language and obsolescence. He continually
stretches the boundaries of his artistic mediums, often
choosing to forego traditional surfaces on which to plant his
minimalist statements. RERO’s text, always in the same
Verdana font and stripped of any flourish beyond a bold
strike-through line, become embedded within the medium,
acting as a literal and material addition while simultaneously a
marker for deconstruction. At the very core of his work are
these concepts – the confrontation, the aesthetics of
destruction and the idea of appropriation. His pieces began as
site specific urban “interventions,” text placed on dilapidated
and abandoned buildings. Translated from the exterior to the
interior, RERO’s most ambitious pieces are large-scale
installations that make use of the art gallery or museum venue
to explore notions of context and perceptions of space.
MARK JENKINS
Mark Jenkins is a sculptor and installation artist whose work focuses on a variety of
urban and social themes, re-defining the limits of sculpture both in the public
sphere, where many of his pieces have been found, to the more intimate realm of
the “White Cube.” The foundation of his artwork is in the artist’s specific technique,
casting objects as well as his own body (and those of others) using conventional
packing tape and plastic wrap. Encompassing the actual form of these subjects with
his method, he has materialized a range of characters, from translucent ducks, dogs
and babies, to his most well-known clothed hyper-realistic figures. Jenkins’
sculptures, whether placed in the street or in the gallery, alter perceptions of the
ordinary and create surreal settings that infallibly elicit an alternative experience. The
placement of his artwork always creates a new form of discourse central to space
and audience. For the pieces he situates in the urban environment, the artist
intentionally leaves the sculptures unattended to fulfill their life cycles to whatever
end, may it be natural deterioration or confiscation. The viewer’s reaction to his
pieces becomes part of the sculptures, turning the street into a stage. The
theatricality of Mark Jenkins’ work remains a central theme, and in this solo
exhibition he uses the gallery space as the performance platform, incorporating the
viewers not only as spectators but as actors themselves.
BAMBI
Bambi is a mystery female street artist. A St. Martin’s
Art College graduate, she has been active as a graffiti
artist around Islington (London) for many years .
Many of her street pieces are still visible at different
locations and she has received wide praise for her
public murals of figures such as Prince William and
Kate Middleton, the Queen, and a full portrait of Amy
Winehouse.
Perhaps her most famous piece, Bambi’s tribute to the
legendary singer in Camden was famously
whitewashed and repainted later in a slightly different
version with Amy wearing a yellow dress instead of
the original red. This mural is protected by Perspex
and considered a metropolitan cultural milestone.
LILIANA BOTERO
Liliana Botero is a Colombian artist inspired by the
“Kuna” culture of North Colombia. As a current
resident in Miami, Lili is also the niece of the famous
artistic master Fernando Botero who created
“Figurative Integralism.” Lili discovered her unique style
of optical surrealism and practices her vision of forms
and permanent topics, melding the 21st century.
This style combines abstract art with figurative art. The
purpose is to achieve a visual relationship between the
viewer and the painting. The work of art interacts with
the person by projecting an image that produces a
sense of mystery and riddle that is to be decoded
within a labyrinth of subtle lines and volumes. At the
end, the spectator realizes that this is a mental game
that leads to the discovery of a beautiful work of art
with two visions: one in group and one in detail with a
focal point out of the ordinary.
ABSTRK
ABSTRK is a Cuban American born and raised in
Miami, Florida. His family immigrated to America
during Operation Pedro Pan in the early 1960s
and on the Freedom Flights from Cuba.
ABSTRK’s work is known to capture your
attention with his use of movement and color.
With a background in graffiti art, his work
consists of forms pulled out of outlines, letter
structures, and traditional fine art. ABSTRK can
be diverse in subject matter, but at the same
time always true to his unique style and shapes.
His art can be found on canvas and walls in
cities throughout the United States and the
Caribbean.