2024 Programs will be announced next January

DIVERSEartLA is a prominent art platform, a rotating section of museums, art institutions and non-profits annually featured at the LA ART SHOW, Contemporary Art Fair in Los Angeles. By extension, DIVERSEartPB is the first edition of the same program at ART PALM BEACH. Its mission is to engage communities both locally and globally by connecting thought leaders and key figures within the art world to generate innovative ideas and drive social change through art.

The 2023 ART PALM BEACH edition will feature Florida-based non profit organizations, international museums and artists participating for the first time in the fair, including internationally-renowned artist Marcos Lutyens, author of a powerful video art piece named “Particles”. The video installation was created specially for the IMAX Room at the Museum Sol del Niño in Mexico in collaboration with Collective Group Filamento and a collective project by Guillermo Anselmo Vezzosi (Visual Artist/Architect), and Dr. Eric Larour (Scientist V and Group Supervisor for the Sea Level and Ice Group in the Earth Sciences Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory –– JPL/NASA).

The goal of DIVERSEartPB 2023 is to view this sector of art within the show through ecological glasses. The curatorial focus of this first edition is at the heart of a growing number of art narratives, including exhibitions built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and the desire to respond to environmental challenges. This reinforces the value of translating environmental advocacy into art and the ways to better understand its effects on our lives, the environment and the urgent need for action.

One of the most powerful things about art is that it brings people together, and transforms the way we communicate. This is done through immersive experiences and installations that invite visitors to consider potential solutions. Humans are changing the Earth’s natural systems in rapid and unprecedented ways. This has ushered our planet into a new geologic era: the Anthropocene. The questions we must all face: How do we navigate the changes that we have caused? How can we make a positive impact? Where do we find hope?

DIVERSEartPB is curated by Marisa Caichiolo, DIVERSEartLA Curator.

Project “The echo of oblivion”
Presented by 2b Non Profit Organization (Miami)

A collective project by Guillermo Anselmo Vezzosi (Visual Artist/Architect), Dr. Eric Larour
(Scientist V and Group Supervisor for the Sea Level and Ice Group in the Earth Sciences
Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory –– JPL/NASA)
Video project developed with the collaboration of José Luis Bongiovanni (Entrenautas)

What is time other than a succession of events that we inevitably try to control as we begin to forget… As human beings, we are always willing to forget. Our essence is based on it, and we cannot avoid it because our existence also depends on it.The past ––once our present and also as longed for and imagined as our future–– is nothing more than a collection of facts, situations, events and circumstances that shape how we experience our present, which is nothing other than the reality we currently inhabit and a state in which we forget everything that we have already experienced.

Like an echo that momentarily exists in the environment as it tries to prolong its own existence yet ultimately disappears, we witness individual images appearing before us and merging into one as they claim their new essence.Old images from another time and era that have only been preserved due to harmony appear too before us. At a certain moment, and as a result of our presence, balance is lost, and we begin an inevitable, fearful journey towards oblivion.But as that eternal process of catching everything in the shadows of oblivion is being consolidated, we realize that we are simply mere observers, whose passivity has only accelerated a process that should have happened naturally. It is the same process that allows a solid to take on a liquid state and change its shape ––but not its essence. A liquid’s past existence can be conceived as rigid, stable and permanent, but once altered, it is inevitably active.And it is when science claims the present moment that reality takes over and the marriage between art and science can take place.

Scientific data and art merge into a dynamic work that allows for information to be transformed and reach those who have been victims of oblivion. Ultimately, the mere desire to exist pushes through in an attempt to reach the future and trigger the marriage between art and science. This scene comes together through a stable and dynamic melting background that takes on a liquid form and permeates everything around it. A series of lines floating over space evoke another presence. And this is where past, present and future meet.

While the echo is aware that it was born to have a brief existence and that it cannot fight against its own essence, it is our duty to prevent it from being devoured by the silent presence of oblivion.

Project  “ASCENSO”
Artist : Samuel Domínguez
Sound Design: Francisca Bascuñán
Curator : Mahara Martinez (from Vitrina Lab)

Presented by Vitrina Lab / Arts Non Profit
and Tampa Museum

Three-channel 4K animation, stereo sound
Two minutes, loop

The artwork immerses the audience in a digitally-built artificial scenario. The trees, rocks, and fragments of soil are installed in what seems to be a film set, with steel structures (truss) and a chroma-green screen background, a technique used in post production to replace the background in films.

How do we navigate the idea of ‘landscape’ nowadays? How do we understand the territory under the notion of ‘natural’?

The animation shows a setting in which everything or nothing can happen, even a piece of timber floating without any reasonable explanation.

Finally, the music composition was designed by Francisca Bascuñán, by translating the data from the three-dimensional digital objects in the setting into sounds.

Project “PARTICLES”
Artist : Marcos Lutyens
Curated by Marisa Caichiolo
Created for Sala IMAX MUSEUM SOL DEL NINO / GRUPO FILAMENTO – MEXICO

Marcos Lutyens is a British interdisciplinary artist and author based in Los Angeles, California. His artworks seek to disrupt internalized patterns of thinking, associations, and ways of existing in the world through exhibitions and performances Lutyens´ artistic practice targets the psychic and emotional well-being of his audiences by skillfully leading participants in hypnotic exercises that affect the deepest levels of their psyche. His works take form in installations, sculptures, drawings, short films, writings and performances.

In his explorations of consciousness, Lutyens has collaborated with celebrated neuro-scientists V. Ramachandran and Richard Cytowic, as much as studying under shamans from different cultures. From these investigations and research he has worked with visitors´ unconscious states in museums, galleries and biennales around the world.

Lutyens was invited by the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, NY to be keynote artist with the opening performance at Culture Summit 2019. Lutyens has exhibited in many museums and leading art exhibitions around the world, including the Royal Academy of Arts, Centre Pompidou, National Art Museum of China, Documenta, and the Biennials of Venice, Istanbul, Liverpool, São Paulo. In the time of COVID-19, Lutyens created a series of 12 zoom performances to help the healing process of people in various countries around the world, and is currently working on the national scale COVID-19 artwork Rose River Memorial which has been exhibited at various sites around the US including most recently, the Orange County Museum of Art.