Meeting Bowls by Spanish collective mmmm... to be presented at Art Basel Miami

News Infurma28/11/2017
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The Cultural Center of Spain in Miami (CCEMiami) in collaboration with Miami Design District, Arlington Cultural Affairs, Arlington, Virginia and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E); present the Meeting Bowls open to the public from November 30th 2017. This innovative public art installation created by the group mmmm... will be located in Miami Design District (Paseo Ponti between 40th and 41Street).

Photo by Yassine El Mansouri for Arlington Cultural Affairs

Eva Salmerón, co-founder of the Spanish group mmmm.... and one of the artists behind the project Meeting Bowls will be in an Artist Talk on December 5th at 7pm at CCEMiami (1490 Biscayne Blvd, Miami FL 33132). There is free admission.

On a typical linear park bench, you could sit beside someone for hours without saying a word. However, the semi-spherical Meeting Bowls, which each stand 5 feet tall and 8 feet in diameter, contain a continuous seating ring inside that encourages dialogue and interaction. The Meeting Bowls gently rock as people enter and exit: a relaxing motion much like a swing.

Designed to help us reimaging how we gather and interact in public places, the Meeting Bowls made their U.S. premiere at New York City's Time's Square in 2011 in a two-month long installation. This year they are coming to Arlington, Virginia through November 1st, previous to the opening at Miami Design District of two blue Meeting Bowls.

Rather than ship completed Meeting Bowls from Spain, mmmm... collective uses computer-aided manufacturing. Digital files of the over 75 parts are emailed to a regional fabricator and made locally. Notably, for this latest iteration, the Meeting Bowls are composed of a new type of colorful and waterproof, medium-density fiberboard (or MDF), rather than standard grey MDF as was the case with earlier versions.

Photo by Arlington Arts

The presentation of the Meeting Bowls in Miami Design District is made possible through a grant from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), an agency that orchestrates public support for the promotion of culture, both in Spain and overseas and the support of CCEMiami.

Source: Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)

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