Artist goes off the rails

The New York-based artist Marianne Vitale made a flying visit to Miami Beach to install 60 tons of rusty steel from a Pennsylvania railyard to create Ace of Spades (2015). Her monumental work has been stopping visitors in their tracks in Collins Park, as part of the fair’s Public sector (until 6 December). The savvy sculptor has borrowed the steel rather than buying it. “It’s a kind of rental agreement,” she tells us. Vitale’s more portable sculptures, also made from recycled railroad, are being snapped up by collectors at Contemporary Fine Arts (M2); ten had sold as we went to press. The artist is heading west in the New Year, for a show at Venus over Los Angeles (16 January-2 February 2016).