Martin Margulies, Founder, Margulies Collection at the Warehouse Contemporary Sculpture: Seeing it Better
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
10901 Old Cutler Road
Coral Gables, FL
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Admission is free for Fairchild Members and children 5 and under.
Non-members: $25 for adults, $18 for seniors 65 and up and $12 for children 6-17.
Martin Margulies will speak on the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, one of the most important contemporary art collections in the world today. Margulies is a man with a passion for art, a fact that influences every facet of his life. A graduate of the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania, and a successful developer of South Florida luxury real estate projects for the past 35 years, he began collecting in 1976 with the purchase of a work by Isamu Noguchi, and has gone on to build one of the major collections of contemporary American and European art in the world today.
Drawing on his extensive experience in the contemporary art world with artists, critics, dealers and other collectors, he will present a lively, down-to-earth narrative outlining the running history of post war sculpture. Showing images of some of the great seminal works of sculpture in his collection, Margulies will touch on the major historical categories including Modernism, Constructivism, Abstraction, Pop, Minimalism, Earth Art and 21st century Installation. Margulies, in his decades long pursuit of art, draws the audience into the wonderfully creative process of contemporary sculpture and helps us get a real look at what is happening in the world of art.
Join us at Fairchild each Thursday evening from January through April 2012.
Thursday Nights at Fairchild features enriching lectures led by Fairchild’s team of experts plus special guests on topics including art, gardening, conservation and much more, as well as moonlight tours of the Garden and the work of our featured artist, Will Ryman, plus free yoga classes by Rina Yoga and star-gazing with the Southern Cross Astronomical Society.
