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From Art INFO:
Art Basel Miami: Scope Takes Things Outside

by Margery Gordon

MIAMI, Dec. 8, 2006—For its fifth fair in Miami, Scope has made some dramatic and ambitious changes, moving from a boutique hotel on the beach to a spacious temporary structure in Wynwood. The 40,000-square-foot pavilion in Roberto Clemente Park was constructed from shipping containers and tents and designed by Scope founder and president Alexis Hubshman, architect Charles Mallea and Alain Perez of venue design firm Event Star.

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Photography in a range of formats and prices was one of the strengths of this year’s Scope fair. Angelo Musco’s small but eye-catching photographs of pregnant women—surrounded by nudes and set against digitally treated backgrounds—were installed in a honeycomb pattern at Agró/Glickman Step (1). Contrary to typical photo editions, the individual images decline in price with the number purchased and were available for $500 apiece at this writing.

Pregnant women also star in Parthenogenesis, a performance Musco is staging Friday night at the Nikki Beach club at the base of Ocean Drive. Private dealer and curator Rena Glickman said the months Musco spent in the womb informed his exploration of “women’s bodies as a container for life.”

One could argue the same about the shipping containers that frame Scope’s new Miami home. The once hotel-bound fair, too, has grown and emerged renewed.

Images (numbered from top): Agró/Glickman Step (1)