Sponsors the World’s Premier Modern and Contemporary Art Show for the Ninth Consecutive Year
Legendary Artist Tony Oursler Creates a Site-Specific Outdoor Installation to be Unveiled at NetJets Collectors Cocktail Hosted in Conjunction with Lehmann Maupin Gallery
COLUMBUS, OHIO – November 18, 2010 – NetJets Inc., the global leader in private aviation, announced today that the company will continue its longstanding support of Art Basel Miami Beach, North America’s premier modern and contemporary art show. NetJets has proudly partnered with the international fair since 2002. Art Basel Miami Beach will run from December 2-5, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center and will feature more than 2,000 leading artists exhibited by 250 top galleries from across the globe.
“Art Basel Miami Beach has become one of the most important annual art shows in the world, and NetJets is proud to support this prestigious event,” said NetJets North America President of Sales, Marketing & Service Adam Johnson. “Through our partnership with Art Basel Miami Beach, we are not only able to provide NetJets Owners with access to this celebrated art show, but we are also able to bring together two complementary brands – the best in modern and contemporary art, and the best in private aviation.
"We are thrilled to be collaborating with NetJets on their annual Collectors Cocktail. It’s an exciting moment for us to be able to honor Tony Oursler and present this outdoor installation at the Delano during one of the most important weeks in the art world, "said Lehmann Maupin partners, Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin.
In past years, NetJets has honored such artists as Richard Prince, Alex Katz and Jaume Plensa, and art collectors Leonard Lauder and Donald Marron.
NetJets boasts a long-standing commitment to the arts and its most important institutions. NetJets is also a supporter of Art Basel in Switzerland, the sister event of Art Basel Miami Beach, and recently sponsored the opening of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Aspen Art Museum’s artCRUSH. NetJets has also partnered with the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMoMa, the Guggenheim Museum, the New Museum in New York, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Miami Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the SITE Santa Fe.
ABOUT TONY OURSLER
Tony Oursler's work explores the relationship between the individual and mass media systems with humor, irony, and imagination. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 1979. In 2010 Oursler presented Lock 2, 4, 6, an immersive exhibition at the Kusthaus Bregenz in Austria, which took over three floors of the museum and, recently, his retrospective exhibition Dispositifs traveled from the Jeu de Paume in Paris to the DA2 Domus Atrium in Salamanca and the Kunstforeningen in Copenhagen. In the fall of 2010, Oursler will present a solo exhibition curated by Paulo Venancio at the Centro Cultural Oi Futuro in Brazil.
Oursler is the first artist to have an exhibition in the Adobe Museum of Digital Media, which launched in October 2010. In a response to Gustav Courbet’s The Artist’s Studio, Oursler exhibited Studio: Seven Months of My Aesthetic Education (Plus Some), featuring a multimedia installation, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Curator Robert Storr included Oursler’s sculptures in the acclaimed 2004 exhibition Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque at SITE Santa Fe. His work is represented in numerous U.S. museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, as well as the Tate Gallery and the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among other prestigious private collections worldwide. Tony Oursler lives and works in New York.
ABOUT LEHMANN MAUPIN GALLERY
Since opening in October 1996, Lehmann Maupin has organized and curated exhibitions for an array of international contemporary artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, video, and new media from all over the world. These exhibitions examine the work of both emerging and well-established artists whose work impacts contemporary art and culture. The gallery has given important artists their first solo exhibitions in New York, including Tracey Emin, Anya Gallaccio, Shirazeh Houshiary, Do Ho Suh, Juergen Teller, and Adriana Varejão. In addition, the gallery has nurtured emerging talents, such as Mickalene Thomas, Hernan Bas, Angel Otero, Suling Wang and the Japanese artist Mr., through exhibitions at the gallery and participation in select art fairs. The gallery program includes important artists such as Lee Bul, Ashley Bickerton, Gilbert & George,Teresita Fernández, Tony Oursler, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Nari Ward, and Erwin Wurm.
Founded by partners Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin, Lehmann Maupin first opened in SoHo and moved in September 2002 to its present location in Chelsea. A second New York gallery space opened in late 2007 at 201 Chrystie Street in Manhattan's new cultural hub, the Bowery area.
LEHMANN MAUPIN GALLERY CONTACT INFORMATION
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ABOUT NETJETS
NetJets Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the worldwide leader in private aviation and provides the safest and most secure private aviation solutions. NetJets fractional aircraft ownership allows individuals and companies to buy a share of a private business jet at a fraction of the cost of whole aircraft ownership, and guarantees availability 365 days a year with just a few hours’ notice. The NetJets programs worldwide offer the largest and most diversified fleet in private aviation, which includes 13 of the most popular business jet types in the world. The Marquis Jet CardTM by NetJets provides access to the NetJets program through a 25-hour jet card. NetJets Inc. also offers aircraft management, charter management, and on-demand charter services through its subsidiary, Executive JetTM Management. More information on NetJets, the Marquis Jet Card by NetJets, and Executive Jet Management is available at www.netjets.com.
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