Dimensions Variable presents an ongoing outdoor special project Standard Custom Logo Bench by Miami based artist Tom Scicluna. This work will be accessible to the public 24/7 outside our building on an ongoing basis. The piece is located next to the double glass door DV entrance in the parking lot. Originally curated by Amanda Sanfilippo for Fringe Projects, DWNTWN Art Days 2013.
Standard Custom Logo Bench is a civic-orientated, participatory-based object/situation. Functioning as a predetermined structure, the blue powder-coated “freedom” bench already exists as a ready-made concept – as advertised, the “freedom” bench is an example template used to illustrate a custom text and logo application for a municipal parks and services company – and as such, the realized object materializes the prescribed advertised design. Situated somewhere between reified thing and civic and participatory form (the piece is a useable/fully functional bench), the work serves as an active and engaged marker with regards to the given situation of Downtown Miami.
Biographies
Tom Scicluna was born in 1974 in London. He lives and works in Miami, Florida. A 2012 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists recipient, selected shows include: New Work Miami 2013, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; The American Donut, NADA Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL; Night Shift, Bass Museum of Art (curated by Jerome Sans), Miami Beach, FL; Rendez-Vous 08, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (in conjunction with the Moore Space European Residency Program), Lyon, France; and The Station (curated by Nate Lowman and Shamim M. Momin), Miami, FL. As a practice, Tom Scicluna utilizes readily available materials and processes to create context informed sculptures and architectonic-based installations. Whether specific in geographic, economic or social reference, or more immediate and improvised in outcome and form, the project-based works refer to the situational nature of objects and spaces with regards to the given conditions of production and display.
Amanda Sanfilippo works with exhibitions, public programming and development for contemporary art institutions and is currently with Locust Projects, one of the nations foremost not-for-profit experimental exhibition spaces located in Miami, FL. She is a regular contributor tot he Miami Rail among other critical contemporary art publications and is the author on several published essays and catalogues. She has worked for Creative Time and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and holds an MA in Contemporary Art History from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.
