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FASHION EDITORIAL Star SUSANNE BIRBRAGHER Producer AGUSTINA CASAS SERE-LEGUIZAMON Art Director & Style ANA K. ALFONZO Photography by JUAN PABLO CASTRO Style MARIELA ORTEGA Make Up & Hair ROCIO BECKSCHI Location THE FOUR SEASONS at THE SURF CLUB and GOLDEN BEACH

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

1.

Letter from Editor in Chief Agustina Casas

7.

Anonimo

12.

Ms. Sue Hostetler

2.

Introducing Guest Editor Susanne Birbragher

8.

Atchugarry Art Center

13.

Fashion Designer Jose Lagares

3.

LIAISONS

9.

Valextra

14.

Ursula Salvador

4.

Honoring Ms. Celia Sredni de Birbragher

10. Shun Sudo and Yusuke Ochiai Murals

15.

Juan Pablo Castro

5.

Art Nexus Highlights

11. Mario Testino and Mate Museum

16.

Wanda Icardi

6.

EFG Latin American Art Award

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SUSANNE BIRBRAGHER Art Collector, Philantropist and Luxury PR Susanne Birbragher was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She graduated from Brown University with honors in Computer Science as well as Rhode Island School of Design in Graphic Design. Susanne is the founder and CEO of Liaisons Corporation, a global strategic marketing and consulting agency focused on the art and luxury sectors. In 2001 Susanne co-founded ArtNexus.com, an award winning website that follows ArtNexus Magazine, where she serves as Associate Publisher and Creative Director. She has been working for seventeen years with Art Basel Miami Beach, in which she co-chairs the Junior Host Committee. Among her philanthropic involvements, she supports multiple art organizations as well as causes aimed at helping women and children. Chaired Wine Women and Shoes, for two years, a charity luncheon raising funds for the Miami Children’s Health Foundation. She is on the Board of Advisors for the Wolfsonian – FIU and participates in the leadership committee for Women of Tomorrow Mentorship & Scholarship Program. Susanne’s achievements have been recognized by being honored in “Vogue’s 120 Women” as well as “100 Latinos Miami.”

Susanne’s company LIAISONS, is known for connecting people and ideas to deliver extraordinary experiences. Founded in 2010, Liaisons provides services for various entities including financial institutions, non-profit organizations, fashion, yachting, real state developments, hospitality and leading art events. Liaisons has 17 years of experience in the art world, working on diverse projects and cultural initiatives in over 18 cities, 12 countries and 4 continents.

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ABOUT LIAISONS LIAISONS is known for connecting people and ideas to deliver extraordinary experiences. LIAISONS is a Miami-based, multilingual, multicultural, full service agency that specializes in developing bespoke creative strategies for different industries through events, marketing, strategic alliances, public relations & media campaigns, VIP access, art content & art advising and curated travel. Founded in 2010, Liaisons has 18 years of experience, working on diverse projects and cultural initiatives in over 18 cities, 12 countries and 4 continents.

LIAISONS ART EXPERIENCES: TRAVELING THROUGH THE ARTS

Through their strong relationships and partnerships with the art world, this Miami-based agency has created unique art experiences around the globe for various art organizations and collector groups. Liaisons develops customized international excursions with hand-picked itineraries for museums and institutions, patronage boards, membership clubs and private groups. Their trips usually occur during the most exciting cultural festivals, art biennials, art fairs, and unique cultural events, and some organizations take advantage of these trips for fundraising and development purposes.

Their itineraries usually include private visits to museums and cultural organizations, artists’ studio visits, meetings with local key figures, extraordinary culinary experiences, private parties and cocktail receptions, special guided tours to destinations’ most important landmarks, upscale accommodations, private transportation, art consulting services, and many more.

Among their recent trips include Art Cartagena fair in Cartagena, Colombia for a group of collectors; Mexico City for the VIP Opening ZONA Maco for Faena Rose members; Buenos Aires for the VIP Opening of ArteBA for Faena Rose members; Asia for the VIP opening of Art Basel Hong Kong, followed by Naoshima and Kyoto, and the Setouchi Triennial for a group of collectors; Cuba for the opening of the 12th edition of the Havana Biennial with a group of private collectors; Art Basel Cities Buenos Aires for Faena Rose members; Bogotá for ArtBO with PAMM’s Collectors Council and Museum Director Franklin Sirmans.

They are currently working on a trip to Art Basel Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing in spring 2019, for PAMM’s Collectors Council; and a trip to Art Basel Switzerland and the Venice Biennial for Faena Rose members.

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SUSANNE BIRBRAGHER

SUSANNE BIRBRAGHER Firstly, I would like to thank Bazari’s Editor in Chief, Agustina Casas for inviting me to take part as Guest Editor in Miami’s Art Week special issue. It is an honor to share my personal highlights of Miami’s most exciting week as this annual event is very dear to my heart.

LIAISONS, the company founded 8 years ago, precisely developed from working with Art Basel Miami Beach when its director Sam Keller asked for a Latin Party for the first edition of the art fair in Miami. Seventeen years later, the ArtNexus Party is still a signature event for the art revelers.

In this issue you will find a piece on ArtNexus Magazine, the 42 year Latin American Art publication and its founder, editor and publisher Celia Birbragher, my mother and mentor, who is being honored at Pinta Art Fair this year.

My event picks of the week are the opening of the new Atchugarry Art Center, where the 17th annual ArtNexus Party in benefit of the ArtNexus Foundation will take place, Anónimo Miami- a fundraising initiative by managing director Alejandra Martinez- taking place at Faena hosted by Alan Faena, with an exhibition curated by Ximena Caminos and Zoe Lukov. I personally look forward to it as it is a project I have been involved with since its inception five years ago.

Not to be missed: the new murals in the Design District by Japanese street artists, Shun Sudo and Yusuke Ochiai, the champagne bar and great restaurants La Sireneuse and The Surf Club by Thomas Keller at the new Four Seasons, and the recently opened Valextra store in Bal Harbour Shops. I am fascinated by their design and craftsmanship.

Last but not least, the issue will also share the story behind two of LIAISONS’ most successful and enduring initiatives: the EFG-ArtNexus Latin American Art Award, and Liaisons Art Experiences program.

I can not wait to see you all around Miami’s most exciting week.

Enjoy!

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LIAISONS ART EXPERIENCES ABOUT LIAISONS LIAISONS is known for connecting people and ideas to deliver extraordinary experiences. LIAISONS is a Miami-based, multilingual, multicultural, full service agency that specializes in developing bespoke creative strategies for different industries through events, marketing, strategic alliances, public relations & media campaigns, VIP access, art content & art advising and curated travel. Founded in 2010, Liaisons has 18 years of experience, working on diverse projects and cultural initiatives in over 18 cities, 12 countries and 4 continents.

LIAISONS ART EXPERIENCES: TRAVELING THROUGH THE ARTS Through their strong relationships and partnerships with the art world, this Miamibased agency has created unique art experiences around the globe for various art organizations and collector groups. Liaisons develops customized international excursions with hand-picked itineraries for museums and institutions, patronage boards, membership clubs and private groups. Their trips usually occur during the most exciting cultural festivals, art biennials, art fairs, and unique cultural events, and some organizations take advantage of these trips for fundraising and development purposes.

Their itineraries usually include private visits to museums and cultural organizations, artists’ studio visits, meetings with local key figures, extraordinary culinary experiences, private parties and cocktail receptions, special guided tours to destinations’ most important landmarks, upscale accommodations, private transportation, art consulting services, and many more.

Among their recent trips include Art Cartagena fair in Cartagena, Colombia for a group of collectors; Mexico City for the VIP Opening ZONA Maco for Faena Rose members; Buenos Aires for the VIP Opening of ArteBA for Faena Rose members; Asia for the VIP opening of Art Basel Hong Kong, followed by Naoshima and Kyoto, and the Setouchi Triennial for a group of collectors; Cuba for the opening of the 12th edition of the Havana Biennial with a group of private collectors; Art Basel Cities Buenos Aires for Faena Rose members; Bogotá for ArtBO with PAMM’s Collectors Council and Museum Director Franklin Sirmans.

They are currently working on a trip to Art Basel Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing in spring 2019, for PAMM’s Collectors Council; and a trip to Art Basel Switzerland and the Venice Biennial for Faena Rose members.

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A TRIBUTE TO CELIA SRENDI DE BIRBRAGHER At Pinta Miami 2018 Is one of the most relevant and important fairs in the international and contemporary art scene. This year, it pays tribute to to Colombian director, researcher, critic, and patron of the arts Celia Sredni de Birbragher.

A graduate of The University of The Andes with a degree in Fine Arts, Celia has been recognized for the commitment and dedication she has shown throughout her career with contemporary Latin American art; first, as ArtNexus editor and writer and later, as the creator of that organization’s foundation. A woman without borders, her passion has earned her numerous awards and has helped propagate the projects of emerging artists worldwide.

Highlighting the contributions Ms. Sredni Birbragher has made during her forty year career is more than a pleasure for Pinta - it is a duty. Our team is proud to offer a space to one of the most outstanding collectors in the world of contemporary art.

A figure in the guise and stature of Gertrude Stein, this Colombian patron of the arts has contributed - and is contributing - to the production and visualization of projects by artists from across the region. Her presence not only honors those of us who are part of this new edition of Pinta Miami, but also all those who have the pleasure of contemplating her enormous labor.

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ART NEXUS For more than 42 years, Arte en Colombia/ArtNexus magazine has been the leading publication for art collectors, connoisseurs, galleries, dealers, and scholars involved in Latin American art. Over the years, it has built the world’s largest and most importan network of more than 100: editors, advisors, contributing editors, and foreign correspondents involved in developing content for the magazine. A panel of experts selects the editorial content so only the most valuable information is presented to thereaders. The magazine is published quarterly and offers separate English and Spanish versions. ArtNexus is well design and it is illustrated with of high-quality full-color images, it includes: News Briefs, Monographs, Interviews, Biennials, Individual exhibits, group shows, books and catalogues, Gallery and Museum Listings.

In response to needs created by technological development and the positioning of the Internet, and under the same principles on which the magazine was founded, ArtNexus launches its web site, www. artnexus.com. With each initiative, project, and development, ArtNexus Magazine and ArtNexus.com it isThe Nexus between Latin America and the rest of the Art World. ArtNexus maintains offices in Bogota, Colombia, and in Miami, Florida.

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VALEXTRA Valextra Bal Harbor is a great example of Italian elegance Valextra is a brand for connoisseurs, Valextra in this new stage wants to reach a new connoisseur, how Valextra wants to transmit his Savoir Faire to a new generation eager for luxury products and with the best Italian artisan work as Valextra is?

Valextra is known for its architecture and design inspired world. It translates in modern and sophisticated products with pure and graphic lines, structured forms, and beautiful engineered accessories. Its iconic “martellato” leather and “costa” finishing combined with a selection of 45 unique colors make any Valextra product recognizable at first glance. Beauty and functionality live with equal importance in each product: every detail has a functional reason to exist and every functional element has to embellish.

As in the design world, the product has to last in time both esthetically and from a durability point of view, as an evergreen. The logo and the unique number are hidden in the inside of the product as a proof of authenticity as oppose to a self-celebration of the brand. Today Valextra explains its values thru creative collaborations with some of the most talented and acclaimed designers and architects of the world. Among others, Martino Gamper has collaborated with Valextra on several unique products, in the annual installation in Milan flagship store and in the co-creation of Venice store with his friend Laura Bethan Wood. Bethan has also created the collectible Toothpaste collection for SS18 that sold out in less than 2 months. The Jananese Architect Master Kengo Kuma created this year’s installation in Milan’s flagship store. Canadian designer Philippe Malouin was the designer of London’s store, the Chinese architects Neri&Hu of Chengdu. Many other collaborators include Michael Anastasiades, Bernard Dubois, Snarkitechure, David Adjaye, and many others. Max Lamb has created Valextra’s latest store just opened in Hong Kong and for Miami, Valextra selected the NY duo Aranda Lash. The shops are treated as Valextra’s townhouses around the world where to entertain our guests more than to sell our products: Places where to breath the values of the Valextra brand.

With #nologomylogo Valextra want to take the customization to another level. What is the Leiv Motiv of this initiative?

Valextra is a very graphic and a no logo brand. Its products are evergreen. As most pieces of design, they remain in the brand’s offer for a very long time if not for ever. Every year Valextra also enriches its offering with small collectables editions, very limited in number.

With #NOLOGOMYLOGO, Valextra wanted to celebrate the individuality of each customer and the superior craftmanship of its artisans. Each client has the possibility to co-participate at the creation of their one-of-a-kind bag with their all-over initials pattern. This is Valextra sophisticated alternative at the overwhelming offer of brands’ monogrammed bags currently offered in the luxury market. It is the first time that a Company has offered this service, where a graphic designer creates your unique all-over monogram with the colors and size selected by the customer and each bag is produced one by one by our artisans, as a pure bespoke. It is the celebration of unicity of each individual, of graphic sophisticated esthetics and of craftmanship.

Valextra Bal Harbor is the Flagship Store of the brand in the USA. What’s new for Valextra Bal Harbor this season?

Valextra opened its first store in Miami, the mecca of design, in June of this year. To celebrate this opening, Valextra asked the NY architects duo Aranda Lash to come up with a very distinctive concept for Bal Harbour where the products would be presented in a “gallery” style environment.

The product offering combines the most iconic Valextra products with the collectable Enchanted Forest Collection inspired by Kengo Kuma’s work in Milan. An exclusive release is planned for Miami Basel 2018.

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ANĂ“NIMO A non-profit cultural platform that promotes contemporary Mexican and Latin American A non-profit initiative that promotes the acquisition of art as a free process of preconceived ideas, motivated only by the connection generated by an anonymous piece. In Anonymous, the omission of the author of each exhibited piece is the main element of the discourse. During the exhibition and auction, the name of the artist of each lot is kept hidden, revealing until the piece is sold at the highest bid.

OBJECTIVE Anonymous aims to materialize the discourse on the re-appreciation and re-appreciation of the work of art as an object of intrinsic value vs. object of economic value (face value vs. economic value).

By eliminating the authorship factor, an attempt is made to create an anonymous buying-selling scenario. With the mission that the public manages to initiate conversations with each work, free of preconceived ideas about its author and, therefore, acquire pieces of art with a personal and emotional intention, independent of the economic market of supply / demand.

MISSION With three successful editions in Miami during the art week, Anonymous proposes a different buying and selling scenario that, with each edition, has been raising funds for social and cultural causes by promoting all kinds of collecting.

Thus, with the mission of continuing to generate spaces where the public can engage in fresh and unintimidating conversations with each work, piece or object of art, Anonymous seeks to continue promoting the Mexican and Latin American art industry by expanding its map to Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York.

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EFG LATIN AMERICA ART AWARD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ARTNEXUS The EFG Latin America Art Award in partnership with ArtNexus is an acquisition award, created in 2011 to support Latin American artists.

The artwork is pre-selected through a juried process in five Latin American contemporary art fairs throughout each year. The award aims to promote the production of Latin American visual arts, support emerging artists and increase awareness of regional art fairs among collectors worldwide. After the group of the nominated artists is completed, the winner is selected and announced at Pinta Miami during Art Basel Week.

The five nominees are selected by Celia Birbragher, Editor and Publisher of ArtNexus, accompanied by a personality of the art world.

The Latin American art fairs where the artists are nominated from are the following: SP Arte, São Paulo Art Lima, Lima arteBA, Buenos Aires Ch.ACO, Santiago de Chile ArtBo, Bogotá Previous winners: 2011 Miler Lagos 2012 Manuel Calderón 2013 Carlos Garaicoa 2014 José Dávila 2015 Diana Fonseca 2016 José Angel Vincench 2017 Edwin Monsalve

Miler Lagos, Tree Rings Dating, 2010

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Carlos Garaicoa, Para transformar la palabra politica em hecho finalmente II (IV), 2009

Jose Davila, untitled, 2014

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PIERO ATCHUGARRY GALLERY For the opening of its second location in the North of the Design District in Miami, the Piero Atchugarry Gallery is very please to present the group show “Tension and Dynamism.”

Presenting artworks by Pablo Atchugarry, Riccardo de Marchi, Artur Lescher, Tulio Pinto, Arcangelo Sassolino and Veronica Vazquez. The exhibition will take over the 9,000 square feet exhibition space and offer a unique and immersive experience into the gallery aesthetic.

Since its opening in 2013 the gallery has developed and put together a precise artistic vision bringing together post-minimalism and conceptual sensibilities, and it is now proud to work with an international team of contemporary artists. “Tension and Dynamism” will focus on each artist’s exclusive use of materials, their search for reduced and essential forms, and the artworks dynamic dialogue with the exceptional space of the gallery.

Riccardo de Marchi (born in 1964) and Arcangelo Sassolino (born in 1967) are both working and living in Northern Italy, yet each have developed an uncommon artistic practice. De Marchi investigates the qualities of aluminum, stainless steel and plexiglass through tension created by the absence or presence of the material. His code, a universal language or alphabet, propels the viewer into a new spatial universe. Sassolino’s sculptures and installations explore mechanical behavior as well as the mechanical and physical properties of force. In his works the tension anticipation and awareness of risk are combined with a powerful aesthetic, directed toward the viewer’s experience.

Three Uruguayan artists, whose artistic practices are each influenced by the legacy of Joaquin Torres-Garcia, will be presented. Pablo Atchugarry (born in 1954), the world renown marble sculptor, has been ceaselessly creating biomorphic abstractions and pushing the material to its very limits over the last forty years. The imposing yet delicate pieces weaved together light and shadow through the hand-carved multiple folds. Marco Maggi (born in 1957) approaches paper and aluminum on a macro level, thus inviting the viewer to get closer in order to observe the artwork. The multitude of tiny objects arranged together deploy a topographic map of detail linked to daily life, transporting the viewer both in a microscopic visual world and in an intellectual and contemplative one. Veronica Vazquez (born in 1970) combines found materials such as iron, fabric, cardboard, paper and wire in a visual dialogue which unprecedented rhythm guides the viewer eyes and heart. Decaying materials poetically adjusted together face the viewer with matter and memory, and ultimately toward a confrontation with his own mortality.

Finally two sculptors from Brazil namely Artur Lescher and Tulio Pinto will present installations with glass, metal, wood and felt; exploring the contrast between machinelike and natural materials. Artur Lescher (born in 1962) makes constant references to natural elements in his perfect industrially fabricated works. While testing the physical qualities and objective characteristics of material, he reaches new aesthetics peaks combining strength and instability, balance and movement, tension and silence. Tulio Pinto (born in 1974) explores the subtle balance between weight and matter through glass, iron and soil.

His works activate the material, the space it inhabits and the viewer, to create metaphors on the unstable equilibrium of human interactions catalyzing a place of experience and reflection for the viewer.

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ATCHUGARRY ART CENTER Opening: December 3, 2018 - 6:pm 5520 NE 4th Avenue, Miami

FUNDACIÓN PABLO ARCHUGARRY José Pedro Costigliolo - La vida de las Formas Curated by Enrique Aguerre

Piero Atchugarry Gallery

Tension and Dynamism Atchugarry, De Marchi, Lescher, Maggi, Pinto, Sassolino, Vásquez, Essay by Domenico de Chirico

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ONISHI GALLERY Onishi Gallery is pleased to celebrate the debut of two new murals for Miami Design District Public Art by Shun Sudo and Yusuke Ochiai.

Shun Sudo and Yusuke Ochiai, established their fame as Tokyo Street Artists within Japan’s emerging artistic landscape. Their mural arts are lively yet delicate, sophisticated with a touch of “Tokyo chic.” The production and exhibition of these artists highlight an important cross-cultural dialogue to strengthen US – Japan relations through art.

On the occasion of introducing their artwork to US art market for the first time during Art Basel Miami Beach, Onishi Gallery organized exciting public art projects in New York and Miami. In New York, Ochiai and Sudo’s murals are on view at the High Line in Chelsea at 510 W 27th Street since November 27th. In Miami, by collaborating with Craig Robins, the murals by Ochiai and Sudo will be realized within the Miami Design District and will be on view from December 4th to greet audiences from all over the world.

Shun Sudo INNOCENT FOREST 07, 2018

Acrylic on canvas h. 63 x w. 158 in. (160 x 401 cm) Set of two

Onishi Gallery is also honored to participate in Art Miami 2018, with works of Yusuke Ochiai and Shun Sudo in their booth at Art Miami (#AM102), alongside works of NAOYA. This slate of artists will transport viewers across cultural, physical, and metaphysical geographies with their eye-popping, innovative artistic achievements.

Since its opening in 2005, Onishi Gallery has featured contemporary Japanese artists who work in a range of media, including ceramics, metalwork, lacquer, glass, sculpture and painting. These artists are united in their common embrace for tradition in the creative process, and they are distinct in their exquisite and diverse modes of expression. Onishi Gallery merges the past with the present through the presentation of historically rich explorations of traditional art forms and ambitious experimentations in new formats in the center of the international contemporary art scene in Chelsea, New York City.

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Yusuke Ochiai

Happiness, 2015

Acrylic on canvas h.48 x w.96 in.(122 x 243.8 cm)

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MARIO TESTINO

MARIO TESTINO Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer Widely regarded as one of the most influential fashion and portrait photographers, Testino is responsible for the creation of emblematic images for the main brands and fashion publications of our time. His photography stands out for transmitting emotion and energy in an open and intimate way.

Testino’s work has been exhibited in museums around the world, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo. More than seventeen books of his photography have been published, including MaRIO DE JANEIRO Testino, Kate Moss by Mario Testino, Alta Moda and Fina Estampa.

Testino is a dedicated philanthropist, and has supported social aid projects in Peru and in some of the various places where he has worked. He was awarded the Legion of Honour of France in 2017, the Order of the British Empire in 2013, and the Order of the Sun in the Grand Cross of Peru.

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MATE Founded by Mario Testino in 2012 MATE is a not-for- profit with a vision to create a vibrant, prosperous environment for individual expression, to celebrate Peru’s contribution to arts and culture in the world, and to stimulate the creative industry in the country.

MATE facilitates this lively exchange through a dynamic programme of exhibitions, residencies, and events, alongside a permanent display of work by Mario Testino. All funds raised are destined to financing the museum’s educational and cultural programs, carried out in favor of the development and promotion of the arts in Peru, among an increasingly wider public.

MATE is responsible for the restoration of the 19th Century Barranco district mansion it now inhabits.

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BODEGA MATE 42 designers, 9 Latin American countries.

Bodega MATE is an encounter with the best of Peruvian and Latin American design. A selection of brands, under the curatorship of Venezuelan designer Mรณnica Sordo, characterized by putting special value on popular culture, ancestral techniques and the traditional aesthetics of the region.

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SUE HOSTETLER Is a magazine editor and writer She is the Editor in Chief of Art Basel Magazine, which covers the venerable annual art fairs in Miami, Switzerland and Hong Kong and the world’s top curators, collectors, galleries and artists that attend. Her annual Women in the Art’s luncheon, honoring the most influential women working in contemporary art, is one of the premiere events during the fair in Miami.

As the former national arts editor for all Niche Media magazines, Sue produced and wrote profiles about contemporary art, architecture, interior design and personalities for titles Gotham, Aspen Peak, Hamptons, Los Angeles Confidential, Ocean Drive, Capitol File, Michigan Avenue, Vegas and Boston Common.

From 2008-2009 Sue was the host of PLUM HOMES WITH SUE HOSTETLER on Plum Television, a network of lifestyle programming in upscale destination communities. The show featured extraordinary real estate all over the country and intimate interviews with the owners, often bold-faced names. An episode about a Miami homeowner won a 2008 Suncoast Emmy Award in Arts/Entertainment on December 6, 2008.

Sue is the author of three books: MAJESTIC METROPOLITAN LIVING (Random House 2009) chronicles our move from a suburban culture to an urban one and features 20 of the largest and most inspirational big city homes and their owners. HIP HOLLYWOOD HOMES (Random House, 2006) profiles 20 of the most influential style makers and trendsetters in Los Angeles that live in architecturally significant and historically important homes, with an introduction by Courtney Cox Arquette. OCEANS (Rizzoli, 2002) featured images of the ocean by 80 of the most celebrated contemporary photographers: Minor White, Harry Callahan, Brett Weston, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andreas Gursky and Moriko Mori, among many others. Robert Redford wrote the introduction; JeanMichel Cousteau wrote the foreward; and the New York Times and www.baszari.com

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SUE HOSTETLER

Vanity Fair photo critic Vicki Goldberg contributed an essay about the photographs. Charitable auctions at Sotheby’s in New York and Butterfield’s in San Francisco (organized by Sue in conjunction with publication) benefited the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In 2005 and 2006, Sue served as the executive editor on a book compiled by the not-for-profit media foundation World Heritage Project on the UN-designated World Heritage Sites in India, working with world-renowned photographers such as Mary Ellen Mark, Sally Mann, Jim Natchwey, Steve McCurry, Lynn Davis, Michel Comte and Antonin Kratochvil. Other projects have included “Individuals: Portraits from the Gap Collection” (Melcher Media, 2006), “American Beauties” (DK Melcher Media, 2005), “The Lucky (Magazine) Shopping Manual” (Gotham Books, 2003), “100 Years of Harley -Davidson” (Bulfinch, 2002), “Fifty Years of TV Guide” (Crown, 2002) and a custom made, limited edition book for Rolex Watches (2004).

She sits on the board of several institutions and charitable organizations, including Ballroom Marfa in Marfa, Texas, the Anderson Ranch Art Center in Aspen, Colorado where she is Chair of the Board, The Aspen Country Day School and is a former member of the International Center of Photography in New York City. She is also a member of the Institute of International Education’s New Leaders Group, the UN organization that administers the Fulbright Program, as well as a member of the Aspen Institute’s Society of Fellows.

All three Art Basel fairs- Switzerland, Miami Beach and Hong Kong— have their own distinct vibe and crowd. Miami, in my opinion, is the most vibrant, daring, ambitious..and frankly, fun! This year I’m most looking forward to work by artists formerly considered outsider or on the margins...many of whom are self-taught. This work, being shown at the main fair at the convention center, as well as at the MOCA AfriCOBA exhibition, is redefining and expanding the parameters of the contemporary art world. Also of immense interest is the feminist icon Judy Chicago’s retrospective at the ICA. And always one of my favorite stops is the Rubell Family Collection, which this year is including the work of Viennese artist Rudolf Polanzsky. Also don’t miss the Haas Brothers show at the Bass Museum and the celebration around the 35th anniversary of Jeanne-Claude and Christo’s epic “Surrounded Islands” exhibition at PAMM. This week always reminds me how much art, in every form and discipline, elevates and enriches our lives.

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JOSÉ LAGARDES Designer, Marketer and CEO of Fashion A Young man who discovered his passion for design when he was 17 years old whilst working at the sewing studio of his father Cristian Lagares.

Here he became aware of how the pieces were made and the design process. After studying Marketing at the Universidad Iberoamericana UNIBE and obtaining a Masters degree in Fashion Product Management and Management at the Instituto Europeo di design (IED) in Madrid, he learned fashion techniques from distinguished Fashion houses such as Loewe and Adolfo Domínguez.

Today these experiences are being applied in their new collections so they will have a more international approach. His innate talent in 2008 made him create his first collection and runway show called “Escencia Tropical” in which it was the first time that the brand Cristian Lagares chose to have feminine designs. There Jose Cristian began his career as a designer under the line of his father, thus creating and presenting collections and participating in the fashion weeks in the Dominican Republic.

What inspires you?

Traveling is my biggest source of inspiration, this is why I’m constantly on the go! Seeing every country and it’s culture always fills me up with new ideas How do you proyect JCL in a future?

JCL will be an international men’s and women’s brand with a vast variety of products, being carried by exclusive boutiques and creating garments from out Ateliers in different fashion capitals of the world. But most importantly JCL will always be caracterized by its innovations, elegant appeal, sexiness and the garments high quality.

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Miami International Hub for Art Lovers I’m absolutely happy to collaborate and be coproducer of Baszari Magazine. Every edition we learn something new. New trends, influencers, destinations and artists!

I would like to welcome Jet Set Private Planes as our partners. A great and comfy way to travel.

As Art Basel is coming up and Miami is such an international hub for art collectors and art lovers, I also wanted to welcome everyone and invite you all to come to Pinta Art Fair at Mana Wynwood which will be open from December 6th– 9th from 12-8 pm. This year I will be participating in USC Gallery with Bibiana Domit and many more artists.

Bibiana Domit is a renowned Mexican artist based in Miami. With her murals and her unique style of painting, in which she transmits values of love and inner light. I exhibited her work in Art Marbella, Art Beirut, and now Pinta. Next year we have many exhibitions coming up in amazing places like Los Angeles and Morocco.

She was interview by award winning American TV Host Larry King and her work belongs to the best private art collections in the World.

I invite you to come and support her and all the artists at Pinta Art Fair this year!

Ursula Salvador | Art Gallerist www.uscgallery-miami.com

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JUAN PABLO CASTRO The Photographer When it comes to fashion and Art, Juan Pablo Castro doesn’t hesitate to push the envelope, always bringing new ideas to the table. He loves working in a collaborative space, learning from other artists and generating results.

His images are able to transform everyday life into a different reality. Photos that project the future. Colombian photographer Juan Pablo Castro presents the unexpected with a modern proposal.

Castro’s avant-garde vision is reflected in deconstructed images which are influenced by industrial, eccentric and futuristic ideas. His life is surrounded by art which puts him in a constant creative space where he’s able to create a new world of his own.

Being an industrial designer made him interested in shape and color.

He enjoy creating stories through his unique lens with rich characters and situations that make the ordinary, extraordinary. Each picture a masterpiece of its own.

Bio Credit: Juan Danilo Zamora & Edda Isabel Leon Suarez Portrait Photo Credit: Photographer: Gerardo Arias Fashion Credits: Blossom Models. Maddy Hayes & Gabreil Fulton Agency. Next Models Stylist: Lavinia Graham Make up & Hair: Paola Carman Art Credit: Nombre de la obra: Luke 2:11

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