Context Miami Art Show 2025 - Gallery Flecha Booth A7
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This week with the start of Art Week in Miami we have come across an amazing artist off the beaten path. I have linked all the photos and her name to her instagram account to make it easier for you to become her fan. She is located at Context Art Miami Gallery Flecha booth A7.
When Madrid meets the Adriatic: Maribel García Benito at Art Miami and our own Puglian awakening
There’s something quietly powerful about discovering an artist whose visual language speaks to the same sensibilities that drew us to @casapuglia in Puglia Italy. That’s exactly the feeling we had when we learned that Maribel García Benito — the Spanish painter whose work transforms everyday spaces into poetic, memory-laden environments — is showing at Art Miami this year.
Who is Maribel García Benito
Born in Madrid in 1968 and raised in nature-rich San Lorenzo del Escorial, Maribel originally studied Interior Architecture — a fact that immediately resonated with us, building as we do both home accessories and hospitality spaces designed around material, texture, light, and ambience. Espai Cavallers+2bernabohomegallery.it+2
Though largely self-taught as a painter, she refined her craft with respected Spanish ateliers and in 2015 established her own studio in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid). Espai Cavallers+1
Her work has since travelled across Spain and Europe — group and solo exhibitions, contemporary art fairs in Amsterdam, Bologna, Berlin, Montpellier, Lisbon, Madrid and beyond. bernabohomegallery.it+1
The poetic world she conjures: absence, memory, interior space
What distinguishes García Benito’s work — and what speaks so deeply to us now — is her preoccupation with spaces: not necessarily grand landscapes, but intimate interiors or imagined rooms, imbued with absence, memory and emotional weight. She writes that through art, “the everyday can be disrupted, revealing new perspectives… spaces we inhabit, real or imagined, are filled with memory, absence and intimate emotions.” Espai Cavallers+1
In pieces from her “Bloom” series and more recent mixed-media works, she often evokes domestic spaces, silent rooms, objects that suggest human presence even when no figures are depicted. Implicit in these works is a strong autobiographical and symbolic charge — a sense that interiors are repositories of memory, longing, perhaps even loss. bernabohomegallery.it+1
Why this resonates with our Puglian journey
As you know, our move and new life in Puglia has been more than a change of location — it’s an embrace of light, landscape, local materials (Puglian stone, Murano-type glass, Mediterranean color palettes), and above all, reverence for the poetry of place. We are constantly translating memories — of Italy, of Miami, of our brand’s origin — into tangible pieces: lights, surfaces, textures, and atmospheres.
In that sense, García Benito’s art feels like a kindred spirit. Her exploration of space, of what lingers when people leave, echoes what we do: creating atmospheres that are not just seen, but felt. In Puglia, every door handle, every stone threshold, every subtle glass gradient we choose carries memory: of a sunrise over the Adriatic, of childhood stories, of our past lives in cities far away.
Her paintings — silent rooms charged with emotion, open windows of interior memory — feel like a visual echo of our own creative philosophy.
What it means to see her at Context - Art Miami
With Art Miami being a crossroads of global art, design, and cultural exchange, García Benito’s presence there feels significant. It’s not just a recognition of her growing international profile, but a subtle reaffirmation that intimate, memory-laden, emotionally rich visual languages still matter in the global art world.
For us — creatives bridging continents, cultures, and materials — her showing at Art Miami acts as a reminder: that the everyday, when seen with care and poetry, becomes art. And that the spaces we inhabit — whether in Madrid, Miami, or Puglia — carry weight, history, and potential for transformation.
Invitation: how her art inspires our next Puglia-inspired collection
Seeing García Benito’s work at Art Miami inspires a thoughtful pause: as we curate materials and design new collections, we want to carry forward that sensibility — to treat each piece not just as a “product,” but as a vessel of memory and place. Perhaps our next melamine line, Murano-glass lighting, or upholstery fabric palette can reflect that subtle emotional layering: stone warmed by golden light, glass that captures dusk’s fading glow, surfaces that feel lived-in, yet timeless.
We envision a small series — maybe “Interni Pugliesi” — where every object, like her rooms, speaks of absence and presence, of past and present, of memory made tangible.
Thomas Fuchs Plates featured in AD Spain
She is located at Context Art Miami Gallery Flecha booth A7.
Instagram: @mgarciabenito
Have a gerat Art Week in Miami,
MICHOU
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