Ninth Annual PAMM Corporate Luncheon

Photography by Alejandro Chavarria on September 30th, 2016 in Lifestyle

Jorge M. Pérez

Miami, FL – September 28, 2016 – At the Ninth Annual Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Corporate Luncheon, presented by STARR Events, South Florida’s business community gathered to honor Cricket Taplin and The Sol Taplin Charitable Foundation with PAMM Corporate Honors. Taplin, a renowned philanthropist and art collector involved with numerous arts groups and charitable organizations, has played a fundamental role in the South Florida arts community for over 25 years. In the spirit of philanthropy, powerhouse trial attorney Alan Kluger, whose corporate collection was highlighted at the luncheon, announced a gift of art to the museum’s permanent collection. The newly created work, In The Land where Gold is Black II (2015), by Venezuelan-born artist Tony Vazquez-Figueroa is all about messages and messaging – connecting history, advertising and oil in relation to cultural self-definition in Venezuela. Rendered in crude oil on paper, it is from a series that explored foreign print ads from Venezuela’s oil boom era and how the images and text manufactured by those outside the country created a distorted prism of the country and its people. Kluger’s gracious contribution adds to PAMM’s permanent collection, which features Latin American artists through an art historical lens.

Art&Art Collection Founder and Chairman Juan Carlos Maldonado also announced the long-term loan of Penetrable BBL Blue 2/8 by leading Kinetic and Optical Art Movement artist Jesús Rafael Soto. The large-scale installation, located outside on the museum’s West Portico, allows for visitor interaction, breaking down barriers between artwork, viewer and museum. Hundreds of South Florida’s most influential business leaders attended the highly-anticipated luncheon, which honors the corporate community for its vital support of the arts in South Florida. Attendees enjoyed a delicious lunch reception by STARR Events, explored new exhibitions and viewed a short film highlighting corporations with local art collections including Faena District Miami Beach, Four Seasons Hotel Miami, and Kluger Kaplan Silverman Katzen & Levine P.L. The video showcased each corporation’s unique history with art collecting and the significance of corporate art collections. The PAMM Corporate Luncheon raises funds for the museum’s education programs.

Jorge M. Pérez

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