12 Must-See Gallery and Museum Shows during Art Basel in Miami Beach 2023

FROM THE ARTSY ARTICLE, WRITTEN BY MAXWELL RABB:

 

"'Text/Image,' a group exhibition presented by Pan American Art Projects, is all about words and their role in artworks. Featuring works by 16 artists, the show includes Hander Lara’s Don’t Play With History (2015), a painting that blends typography with popular imagery, and Carolina Sardi’s White Association (Ideograma) (2007), in which painted steel is melded into abstract shapes suggesting linguistic forms.

 

“Text/Image” features artists whose work considers theoretical perspectives on the relationship between language and visual art, exploring semiotics, visual rhetoric, and how symbols and signs contribute to our understanding of the world. Artists like José Manuel Fors and Carlos Gallardo play with the construction or deconstruction of texts and archives. Additionally, Lara’s “Untitled” series from 2018 recontextualizes historical imagery, including Vincent van Gogh’s iconic Self-Portrait (1889) and Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Polish Rider (1655). Throughout, these works test the limits of language and visual creation, ultimately questioning the relationship between text and image in contemporary culture.

 

The exhibition also coincides with the upcoming opening of Pan American Art Projects’s second location in Miami’s Design District."