ONE | CIFO

THE ONE | CIFO PROJECT

ONE CIFO Project is a collaborative fundraising initiative between the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and ONE Sotheby's International Realty, the leading luxury real estate firm throughout South Florida. CIFO is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting contemporary artists from Latin America via an annual grants program.


CIFO Project

The ONE | CIFO gallery in Miami Beach

The presentation in this space features a sampling of works by artists that have been nominated for a CIFO Grant by the foundation's Honorary Advisory Committee of internationally recognized curators, artists and art professionals. This rotating exhibition program is designed to garner more exposure for these contemporary artists from Latin America as well as to raise funds for the foundation.

All proceeds from the sale of the art will benefit the artists contributing to this effort as well as CIFO's Endowment Fund, which was created to ensure the perpetuity and continuity of the foundation's mission and accompanying programs.

About the CIFO artists

Glexis Novoa

b. 1964, Cuba

Glexis Novoa is a visual artist and cultural activist. Since the late eighties he has produced art in many different media including painting, performance, installation, and most recently, graphite drawings: the material that would become his trademark. Novoa has attained international recognition for his site-specific wall drawings, which exist on the border between ephemeral art and architecture. His work repeatedly turns to the architecture of power and politics as its main subject.

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Emilia Azcárate

b. 1964, Venezuela

Emilia Azcárate is a Venezuelan artist based in Madrid, Spain. Her work often deals with pushing the limits of painting to the three-dimensional plane and vice versa. The presence of circular forms and repeated geometric patterns recall mandalic symbols of perfection and unity and mantric rituals which demonstrate her interest in the spiritual process in the conception of art.

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Amalia Caputo

b. 1964, Venezuela

Amalia Caputo is a Miami-based artist working in photography and video. She addresses various subjects in her work but the body often becomes the core of her pieces. She concentrates on exploring the medium itself, along with the presence of the corporeal or its absence, in ways that it can be related to a variety of concepts such as time, art history, memory, narrative, theatricality, and ultimately, as an archive of ideas.

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Jorge Pedro Nuñez

b. 1976, Venezuela

Based in Paris, Jorge Pedro Nuñez is a contemporary artist whose work proposes a different reading of art history. By recycling a visual vocabulary, which he appropriates from geometric abstract art and popular culture, he produces new readings of art objects based on memory.

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Eugenio Espinoza

b. 1950, Venezuela

Eugenio Espinoza belongs to a generation of Venezuelan artists that emerged after the dominance of Kinetic and Geometric Abstract Art in Latin America. He is considered one of the pioneers of conceptualist practices in Latin America. In his more recent work, Espinoza explores the process as the concept of his pieces and re-reads his own history through contemporary compositions.

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