Faena Art: Jim Denevan & Outstanding in the Field make art and culinary magic
SOLD OUT The last time Miami hosted the traveling culinary feast, Outstanding in the Field, I was fortunate to attend with some friends. On a gorgeous afternoon, a long wooden table was set in an arc on the beach in front of the Faena while we dined on creative appetizers and a gourmet dinner.
For Art Basel 2019, OITF founder and both artist and culinary impresario, Jim Denevan, returns to not only host an Outstanding In The Field dinner on Friday, December 6th, at 3 pm, but also to create a new kind of temporary earth sculpture in the sand.
Denevan's art is transitory. His land drawings on seashores, desert floors and frozen lakes disappear with wind, weather and the rising of the tide. His work has been exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Vancouver Sculpture Biennial 2010, MoMA/PS1, The Museum of Arts and Design, and Parrish Art.
The dinner table will be a perfect circle that seats 300+ people around it but may also move and be rearranged to take the form of an arc or of half of an infinity sign. The forms of the table highlight archetypal symbols of transformation and the cyclical form of life and death and rebirth. The table will play host to a number of guest chefs as well as artist/chef collaborations and other culinary moments that highlight the relationship between food and ritual, communion, feasting and fasting, the multiple ways that we can convene and congregate around the act of breaking bread and sharing a meal.
It promises to be an extraordinary feast for both the palate and for the eyes.
The art itself will be free to the public as part of the Faena Festival (Dec. 2-8) during Miami Art Week.
To reserve a seat at the table, folks can go here for more info and tickets.
3201 Collins Ave,
Miami Beach, FL 33140