[Many thanks to Teo Freytes for bringing this item to our attention.] Alfredo Triff’s assortment of essays Miami Picadillo: Recipes for Modern Artwork 2009-2023 was launched on October 28, 2022, at LnS Gallery in Miami, Florida.
Charo Oquet (interdisciplinary artist and curator) says, “Picadillo is a well timed and considerate guide on exhibitions of Miami artists drawn from in depth expertise and analysis. Triff attracts on his data of artwork, artwork historical past, and native historical past. Anybody curious about studying in regards to the arts in Miami ought to positively learn these essays.”
Nina Johnson (Nina Johnson Gallery) writes “Alfredo Triff is among the few articulate voices serving to contextualize and historicize exhibitions in our metropolis. His writing is considerate, world, and constant, and his presence inside the group is with out parallel.”
Description: Alfredo Triff’s “Miami Picadillo” is a guide about artwork criticism in probably the most vibrant cities for up to date artwork in the US. With easy and accessible lingo, Triff presents Miami’s reveals, rising artists, museums, galleries, and various areas.
Triff defends criticism as a regular for the authenticity of artwork at a second when up to date artwork is turning into each large and trivial. Whereas up to date artwork is positioned to current and replicate on decisive points in our tradition, genuine criticism disappears underneath the burden of promoting and the blandness of social media. Triff factors out dangerous features of latest artwork, such because the homogenization of “art-fair artwork,” the curator’s ubiquitous “artspeak,” over-the-top publicity, and the disappearance of craft by outsourced labor.
Alfredo Triff has labored as an artwork critic for Miami publications, akin to The Miami New Instances, The Miami Solar Put up, The Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald. Triff is a lecturer within the Historical past of design on the College of Miami and a blogger @miami.bourbaki.
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