SHOW INFORMATION | TO EXHIBIT | SPOTLIGHT DESIGNERS | PURCHASE “PRE-SALE” TICKETS ART SAN DIEGO 2012 Spotlight Contemporary Furniture Designers Announced Last year we introduced Contemporary Furniture Designers with great success. This year we are building on the success of that program with numerous young designers submitting works to be included in this special section. Two exhibitions will feature the collaborative work of students from San Diego State University Contemporary Furniture Design presenting “Material Matters” and the Woodbury School of Architecture presenting “Optional Features”. Other Spotlight Designers include MANGLE represented by Enrique Guerrero, Michael Leaf, Curtis Micklish, and Marcus Papay.   Galeria Enrique Guerrero Featuring MANGLE: Diego Fernando Álvarez & María Paula Álvarez GALERIA ENRIQUE GUERRERO (MX) MANGLE Mangle, “Vientre (Womb)”, 2007 Okume Wood bended by lamination Edition of 12, 70 x 80 x 51 cm GaleriaEnriqueGuerrero.com MANGLE was founded in 2006 by Diego Fernando Álvarez and María Paula Álvarez born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1978 and 1984 respectively. Since its foundation, MANGLE has been interested in working their way with and through wood. They have been doing intensive research and experimenting with different types to select those kinds of wood that would enable their primary interest in designing with this material—how to compose functional objects by bending and rolling their surfaces, following their inherent growth lines and strength. Therefore, their ‘attitude’ towards their primary sources—not directed towards an incisive intervention or regular cutting construction procedure, but a way of dealing with the malleability—tells us a lot about their aesthetic and creative beliefs. For further comprehending their respectful ways in hearing the ways and needs of the different woods they work with, we should refer to its name: MANGLE (Spanish for Mangrove), a pioneer plant that settles in difficult salty-water terrains, enables all sorts of life to grow around it (generating otherwise unthinkable ecosystems). Characterized by the strength and multiplicity of its branches turned into roots, the ‘mangle’ adapts with ferocious decision to tough environments while composing beautiful and long-withstanding bodies of wood-based life. Optional Features Featuring works by Chris Puzio, Miki Iwasaki and Philipp Bosshart. WOODBURY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (SD) Optional Features Chris Puzio, “Star Cluster / Cell Cluster”, 2011 Aluminum & stainless steel, 13'x6'x6' Architecture.Woodbury.edu This exhibition brings together a collection of works that explore the process of making as an unfolding series of options and creative opportunities engaged by the designer. Traveling beyond stock typologies of sculpture and object design, the work in Optional Features explores the realm of possibilities through an individual study of material, process and technology. These projects combine to offer an experience of work that is occurring right here and now. Physically encountered in real space and real time, each work reinforces the primacy of ‘making’ the constructed object as both a material and cultural feature. This show hopes to sound the increasingly blurred definitions of sculpture, furniture and installation at a time when the critical value of objects is under progressive scrutiny. As part of its push beyond the disciplines of art and design, Optional Features implies connections between work in all mediums and creative disciplines, and reinforces the importance of how the practices featured here can influence our understanding of the built environment. Material Matters Featuring works by Vivian Beer, Erin Dace Behling, Jon Bonser, Forest Dickey, Reuben Foat, Matthew Hebert, Justin Kramer, Vince Robles, Ramon Zarate SDSU CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE DESIGN & WOODWORKING PROGRAM (SD) Material Matters Justin Kramer | Major Tom’s Teeter-Totter SDSUFurniture.com Material Matters presents the work of nine makers involved in both the conception and manufacture of provocative objects. The range of work, completed in a breadth of materials, explores the inextricable nature of the design and making process. In each work, the nature of the materials used directly informs the finished form in such a way that to make the piece in any other material would undermine its power. All artists included in Material Matters have an affiliation with San Diego State University's Furniture Design and Woodworking program, which has a proud history of valuing innovative design, rigorous craft, and artistic expression. MARCUS PAPAY DESIGN STUDIO (SD) Marcus Papay Marcus Papay, “Sinuous floor lamp” Legs: solid Maple fastened by aluminum pivot points. Hand made fiber shade suspended with aluminum cross bars. MarcusPapayDesign.com Marcus Papay is a furniture designer working from his studio shop in San Diego, California. Marcus creates unique works that incorporate the characteristics of furniture design from both the past and the present. His individual style brings in modern aesthetics with processes that embrace traditional design and the hand – made. Today the Marcus Papay Design Studio is introducing the Sinuous line, a fresh new lighting fixture line that embodies design aesthetics from the mid–century and current design. The Sinuous floor lamp can be found in local private collections and has recently received attention from Just Modern Inc that will be featuring the Sinuous products in their brand new showroom in Palm Springs. ART SAN DIEGO 2012 | HOTEL PACKAGE Exclusive Hotel Partners Announced BOOK YOUR ROOM | Special Rates W San Diego RESERVE BY PHONE: (+1) 619 398 3100 Ask for the ART SAN DIEGO 2012 GROUP RATE Layfayette Hotel & Swim Club RESERVE BY PHONE: (+1) 888 272 6343 Ask for the ART SAN DIEGO 2012 GROUP RATE ASD12 HOTEL PACKAGE • (2) VIP Opening Night Tickets • (2) Day Passes • Commemorative Show Catalog • Invitation to VIP events associated with ART SAN DIEGO 2012 NEW ART CITY | Photo: Marcela Quiroz Luna ABOUT ART SAN DIEGO | Contemporary Art Fair The 4th annual ART SAN DIEGO Contemporary Art Fair, presented by UBS Financial Services, will return September 6 through 9, 2012 to Balboa Park – the cultural center of San Diego. Pre-sale tickets are available on our website now for the VIP Opening Night event which will benefit the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD). We are anticipating a sold-out opening night so reserve your tickets early. Your VIP ticket includes early preview of the Fair, hors d'ouevres catered by Giuseppe's Fine Catering, and beverages hosted by St. Petersburg Vodka. In 2012 we anticipate that more than 60 leading galleries from the USA, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia will be taking part. In addition to the gallery booths, special features include: gallery-curated exhibitions, Spotlight Artists featured in solo-artist exhibitions, video-based works featured in “URBAN(E)SCAPES Short Film Program”, “Art Labs” feature special curated projects by 9 leading San Diego-based art institutions, alternative spaces, and universities within the Fair, and the introduction of emerging artists and curators with the LaunchPad Program. The stage for ASD 2012 is Balboa Park, a 1,200-acre cultural and recreational oasis in the heart of San Diego — the largest such urban park in America. Balboa Park features a wide variety of museums, exhibitions, performing arts, world-famous gardens, recreational facilities, restaurants, and other attractions that serve over 12 million visitors annually. With New Art City, ASD aims to insert itself as a key actor in this production, nurturing and strengthening San Diego’s art scene with a dynamic agenda. LOCATION | Balboa Park Activity Center 2145 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA 92101 Map → DATES | Art Fair Hours Gallery Load-In: Wednesday, September 5 Opening Night VIP Event: Thursday, September 6 Open Fair Days: Friday, September 7 – Sunday, September 9 Daily from noon to 7 pm Closing day from noon to 5 pm Schedule →   More information about ART SAN DIEGO Contemporary Art Fair: ArtSanDiego2012.com

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