Miami Art Week during Art Basel can be daunting. It's a lot to digest -- the noise, the art, the people, it's a non-stop week that is a lot for the senses. Most of the art begins to look the same after a bit, there is a lot of pop art and a lot of classic, there are sculptures as well as collages and paintings and they all get jumbled together, but this year, one art style and one artist stuck out to me. Literally. That's Max Zorn, Tape Artist, shown here.
Max's work appears to be photographs, but the whole image is made from brown masking tape on acrylic glass sheets with a light behind them! As I passed by his booth at the Spectrum Art Fair, I noticed that there was tape on one of the images he was working on, I couldn't figure out what was going on at first, I thought he was putting tape on various areas of a photograph, then it dawned on me that the whole image was made from masking tape!
Max got the idea one night when he put tape on top of a street light, he then stared playing with the tape and as he added more layers, it changed coloring, getting darker as he added tape on top of tape. And his Tape Art was born from that.
"The European tape is different than American tape and I find it interesting and challenging at first when I change tapes in the different countries. The thickness is different," said Max, who lives in Amsterdam and shows his work around the world.
One big tipping point for Max was when the famed artist Bansky shared a video of Max on his social media sites. The video went viral. It shows Max using the masking tape and a scalpel to create his art, as shown below. He calls it "street art," but to me it is fine art that belongs in galleries. Max will be at the Spectrum Art Show all weekend, until December 6, which is at 1700 NE 2nd Avenue (new location this year, along with the Red Dot Fair). There is parking across the street, it's easy to get to and park.
A gallery of Max's art can be seen here at his website.
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