Miami, FL – November 27, 2015 – To kick off another year of Art Basel, PRIMARY hosted a private preview of Calm Before the Sun, the latest solo exhibition of Magnus Sodamin on view at Wynwood Walls in partnership with Goldman Properties. For this immersive installation, Sodamin has painted the floor and walls of the gallery in its entirety with his trademark kaleidoscopic washes of dayglo paint. Complementing this bright background, a series of contemplative paintings attest to his long-term engagement with abstraction and the natural environment of South Florida. Illuminating the work is an innovative lighting system, in which lights on timers continually shift to reveal unexpected vistas. Calm Before the Sun directs Sodamin‘s attention towards the passage of time, and how environment affects mood, engaging not only the landscape, but visual perceptions and painting itself. How is one supposed to translate nature to canvas, Sodamin asks, especially when it is changing all the time? And, on the other end, how is one supposed to see it, be they outdoors or in a gallery? If you have yet to check it out, the exhibition will be on view through Art Basel Miami Beach until January 31, 2016.

Janet & Jessica Goldman

Bente Sodamin, Craig Kirk, & Magnus Sodamin

Magnus Sodamin, Sophie Hoegh, & Joan Blackman

Marcella Novela & Magnus Sodamin

David Tamargo & Magnus Sodamin

Magnus Sodamin & Lars Hjoerne

Magnus Sodamin & Jessica Goldman

Typoe, Magnus Sodamin, Cristina Gonzalez, & Books Bischof

Books Bischof, Cristina Gonzalez, Janet Goldman, Magnus Sodamin, Jessica Goldman, & Typoe

Chris Carter, Magnus Sodamin, & Toby Stolzer

Magnus Sodamin & Neil Ramsey

Jose Antonio Munoz & Carlos de Varona

Anna Turayeva & Marina Slavina

Ashley Turchin

Karina Melendez, Ashley Turchin, & Tini Courtney

Bianca the Cutter, Otto von Schirach, & Holly Morganelli

Douglas Hoekzema, Ilian Velasco, & Otto von Schirach

Brian Butler, DZA, & Patrick Walsh

Gert Ojeda, Reí Ramirez, & Sharif Salem

Ivan Roque & Tesoro Carolina

Jesse McGinty & Rhea Dummett

Tini Courtney & Alejandro Gonzalez

Robert & Heike Dempster, & Nick Cindric

Santiago Rubino, Jessica & Janet Goldman

Karla Baquedano & Nathaly Charria

Gina Marema, Christopher Causa, Books Bischof, Cristina Gonzalez, & Michele Ramirez

Magnus Sigurdsson, Sophie Hoegh, Joan Blackman, & Anders Hoegh

Natalia Zuluaga, Typoe, & Rodney Zuluaga