Art Basel Miami Beach

ABMB — Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA.

Booth E9

VIP Days: Wednesday, December 3 & Thursday, December 4, 2025 – 11 am to 7 pm

Public Days: Friday, December 5 to Sunday, December 7, 2025 – 11 am to 6 pm

Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino presents: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Lygia Clark, León Ferrari, Gego, Mercedes Pardo, Fanny Sanín, and Xul Solar.

Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is one of Houston’s premier art galleries, representing Latin American modern masters and established contemporary artists. Active in Houston’s cultural landscape for over thirty years, the gallery has built a reputation for championing historically important artists whose works are part of major museums and private collections worldwide. At Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, the gallery is proud to present a curated selection of significant masters whose contributions have shaped the history of modern and contemporary art in the Americas and beyond.

Artist Highlights

Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923–2019) was a pioneering Venezuelan artist and a central figure in the Kinetic and Op art movements. His lifelong research sought to liberate color from form, exploring it as an autonomous phenomenon unfolding in time and space. Through works such as his Physichromies and Chromosaturations, Cruz-Diez investigated how color interacts with light and with the viewer’s movement, creating ever-changing perceptual experiences.

Lygia Clark (1920–1988), one of Brazil’s most influential artists and co-founder of the Neo-Concrete movement, fundamentally transformed the relationship between artwork and audience. Beginning with geometric abstraction and later developing interactive, sensorial objects, Clark redefined art as a participatory, experiential encounter. Her renowned Bichos (Critters)—sculptures activated by the viewer—broke ground for relational and experiential art practices.

León Ferrari (1920–2013) was a provocative Argentine conceptual artist who used art as a tool for social and political critique. His art fearlessly challenged the abuses of power by both state and religious authorities, especially the Catholic Church's silence on human rights violations during Argentina's military dictatorship. His works often incorporated entangled, illegible calligraphy or text, and "tortured" religious imagery, such as a crucifix on a U.S. fighter jet, which he used to denounce violence and hypocrisy. With the persecution, murder, and disappearances of family members and friends during the Guerra Sucia (Dirty War) in Argentina, Ferrari fled to Brazil, where he remained from 1976 to 1991. There Ferrari experimented with various media, including metal sculptures, mail art, heliography, and photocopies. He continued to receive international acclaim, including the Golden Lion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, for his unwavering commitment to use art to protest against intolerance and war.

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) (1912–1994), a German-Venezuelan artist trained in architecture and engineering, revolutionized the language of line and space. Her sculptures, often made of wire, metal, and found materials, dissolve the boundary between drawing and structure. She is celebrated for her Reticulárea installations and her iconic "drawings without paper,” which investigate transparency, geometry, and spatial perception.

Mercedes Pardo (1921–2005) was a leading Venezuelan abstract artist recognized for her sophisticated command of color and form. Her practice—encompassing painting, printmaking, collage, stained glass, and environmental design—explored chromatic harmony and spatial rhythm. Recipient of Venezuela’s National Prize for Plastic Arts, Pardo remains an essential figure in Latin American abstraction.

Fanny Sanín (b. 1938) is a Colombian-born, New York–based artist known for her precise, hard-edge geometric compositions. Since the 1970s, her work has focused on the rigorous study of color interactions and structural balance. Sanín is internationally recognized for her symmetrical, chromatically rich paintings, which have been exhibited extensively across the United States, Latin America, and Europe.

Xul Solar (1887–1963) was an Argentine visionary whose mystical watercolors and symbolic universes reflect his deep engagement with metaphysics, astrology, and esoteric traditions. A central figure in the Argentine avant-garde, Xul Solar also invented languages, instruments, and conceptual games—including a modified chess system—imagining new possibilities for human communication and spiritual unity.