Margulies Collection The Warehouse Goes Bigger
Last autumn, the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse – created almost twenty years ago by art collector Martin Z. Margulies in Miami – just expanded with an addition of 5,000 square feet of exhibition space. The new displays, on view during Art Basel Miami Beach and through April 2019, include large-scale installations by Cate Giordano, Ibrahim Mahama and Olaf Metzel, among others.
Alongside the De La Cruz Collection, opened ten years ago in the Buena Vista district, and the Rubell Family Collection, which is planning to launch its new 100,000-square-foot space designed by Selldorf Architects in late 2019, the Margulies Collection is one of the top art destinations in Miami. Hosted in a retrofitted warehouse in the Wynwood Arts District, the private museum – founded in 1999 by Martin Z. Margulies, who has been repeatedly listed by ARTnews among the 200 leading art collectors in the world – has recently opened with an additional 5,000 square feet of exhibition space, expanding the facility to a total of 50,000. “The new addition gives us the ability to exhibit works of up to 20 feet in height,” Mr. Margulies remarks. “This is a great enhancement to our collection since we have several works we can take out of storage.” Those include new large-scale installations by Cate Giordano, showing a multimedia environment resulting from a four-year project (After the fire is gone, 2017); Olaf Metzel, featured with one of his twisted metal wall reliefs made out of aluminum (Dermaßen regiert zu werden, 2015); and Ibrahim Mahama, whose Anima Mundi (2014-16) consists of 39 color-field acrylic works painted on synthetic paper.
On view through April, there is also an exhibition of sculptures by Kishio Suga, the Japanese artist and co-founder of the Mono-ha movement in the late 1960s. Renowned for his minimal installations created by juxtaposing natural and industrial materials like stone, glass, wood, steel and paper, his works – ten of which are on view at the Warehouse – explore the relationships and associations that arise from combinations of objects, in an attempt to “re-conceptualize” what appears as familiar in our everyday life. The permanent displays are also not to be missed, including seminal works by John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Tony Smith and Franz West, among others.
Gilles Barbier, Peter Buggenhout, Cate Giordano, Imi Knoebel, Ibrahim Mahama, Olaf Metzel, Paola Pivi, and Kishio Suga.
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami. Through April 27, 2019.