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ART BASEL INSPIRATION REVIEW Basel, June 2016
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Art BAselsince 1970, Art Basel’s goal has been to connect the world‘s premier galleries and their patrons, as well serving as a meeting point for the international artworld. Now, over forty years later, its three fairs in Basel, Hong Kong and miami Beach - rank as the premier shows of their kind, presenting 20th and 21st century art with a strong curatorial perspective.
the 2016 show, one of the most successful in Art Basel’s history, brought the international artworld together, with more than 280 of the world‘s leading galleries showing the work of over 4,000 artists. A full program of artworld talks took place each day. Exhibitions and events were also offered by cultural institutions in Basel and the surrounding area, creating an exciting, region-wide art week.
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unlImIted curated by New York-based curator Gianni Jetzer, Unlimited is Art Basel‘s pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art-show stand, including massive sculpture and paintings, video projections, large-scale installations, and live performances.
GAllerIesthe anchor of Art Basel is its Galleries sector, where a selection of the world's leading galleries ofmodern and contemporary art show 20th- and 21st-century artworks. Visitors discover a breadth of works including paintings, drawings, sculpture, installations, prints, photography, video and digital art by more than 4,000 artists.
FeAturethe feature sector emphasizes precisely curated projects that may include solo presentations by an individual artist or juxtapositions and thematic exhibits from artists representing a range of cultures, generations, and artistic approaches.
stAtementsIn this sector, Art Basel presents exciting new solo projects by young, emerging artists. Each year, twooutstanding artists in this sector are awarded the Baloise Art Prize. the Baloise Group also acquiresworks by the award-winning artists which it donates to important European art institutions.
edItIon Leading publishers of editioned works, prints and multiples exhibit the results of their collaboration with renowned artists.
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Jonathan Monk / Site / Specific / Pallet / Rock2014-2015
JonAthAn monkHe replays, recasts and re-examines seminal works of conceptual and minimal art by variously witty, ingenious and irreverent means. through wall paintings, monochromes, ephemeral sculpture and photography he reflects on the tendency of contemporary art to devour references.
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Kader Attia / The Culture of Fear: An Invention of Evil, 2013
kAder AttIAHe takes a poetic and symbolic approach to exploring the wide-ranging repercussions of Western modern cultural hegemony and colonialism on non-Western cultures, investigating identity politics of historical and colonial eras, from tradition to modernity, in the light of our globalised world, of which he creates a genealogy.
for several years, his research focuses on the concept of repair, as a constant in Human Nature, of which the modern Western mind and the traditional extra-occidental thought have always had an opposite vision. from culture to Nature, from gender to architecture, from science to philosophy, any system of life is an infinite process of repair.
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Chiharu Shiota / Accumulation: Searching for Destination2014
chIhAru shIotAJapanese artist chiharu shiota is renowned for her dramatic immersive installations which frequently utilise found objects such as clothing, shoes, old furniture, vintage suitcases and doors and windows from demolished and derelict buildings. such items resonate with personal and emotional if elusive histories. chiharu’s installations alter and energise the physical and architectural space, challenging our perceptions of the immediate environment and embracing the viewer as an integral part of the experience.
dIAloGues In wAlsAllthe suitcases are hung low at one end of the gallery, becoming increasingly higher towards the other end, altering the usual orientation of the space and forcing the viewer to negotiate it in an entirely new way. the redrope connects the sea of suitcases and the stories of their journeys together, creating a visual coherence as well as a stunning theatrical presentation.
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Birdhead / Welcome to Birdhead World Again, Passions Bloom, Ambitions from Vagina 2016
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Nina Cannell / Mothers Tankstation Limited2016
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Marinus Boezem / Show IX – Curtain Room1965
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mArInus BoezemHe is one of the first artists who introduced conceptual art in the Netherlands in the 1960s. He discovered that he could use elusive elements such as air, weather, wind and light as visual materials. He created one of his most famous works of art, when he had a skywriting airplane sign the sky with his name and Boezem also created a lot of works in public space and land art.
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pope.lWilliam Pope.L calls himself “the friendliest Black Artist in America”. He is among the foremost contemporary performance artists, addresses labor, race, and identity in projects both searing and hu-morous. His work, which also includes photographs, sculptures, writings, paintings, drawings, and com-munity projects, aligns with fluxus.
“When people use the word activism today, it sounds like after-ism… the space I create in my work for others is more formalist, like ‘change the world’.”
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Christopher Martin / Untitled2016
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Joseph Kosuth / Titled (Art as Idea as Idea)1968
Joseph kosuthJoseph Kosuth is one of the pioneers of conceptual art and installation art, initiating language-based works and appropriation strategies in the 1960s. His work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art.
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Vlassis Caniaris / In Praise1993
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Adam Pendleton / A Victim of American Democracy, 2016
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Tim Rollins And K.O.S. / Dark Water VI2016
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El Anatsui / Gli (Wall)2010
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James Rosenquist / Four New Clear Women1982
JAmes rosenquIstLeading Pop artist James rosenquist—who came to prominence among New York school figures like roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, robert rauschenberg, and Willem de Kooning—is well known for his large- scale, fragmented works that bring the visual language of commercial painting onto canvas. In his use of mass-produced goods and vernacular culture rendered in an anonymous style, rosenquist‘s work recalls that of Andy Warhol, while his seemingly irrational, mysterious pictorial combinations owe a debt to surrealism.
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Ding Yi / Appearance of Crosses 2016-B102016
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Ciprian Muresan / Palimpsest2016
cIprIAn muresAnciprian muresan’s allegorical artwork reflects on post-soviet life and questions artistic production. While best known for short, darkly humorous videos, muresan works across various media to communicate a sardonic world view shaped by coming of age during romania’s revolution and the political disarray that followed.
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Sol LeWitt / Irregular Tower1999
Peter Halley / Weak Force2016
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Paul McCarthy / Tomato Head (Green)1994
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Robert Grosvenor / Untitled ( yellow)2016
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James Turrell / Coconino, from the Tall Glass series2016
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Pedro Cabrita Reis / South Wing2015
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pedro cABrItA reIs‘south Wing is about exclusion, rejection, being outcast. It’s a fragile, precarious construction no longer inhabitated. It might have been constructed by someone alone or by a group, we will never know. materials from places formerly inhabitated were used for its construction. they could be from a prison, an asylum or social housing. that is what south Wing is about’ .
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Rayyane Tabet / The Dead Sea In Three Parts2013
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Jacqueline Humphries / Untitled2015
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Tony Oursler / Template_variant_friend_stranger2014
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tony ourslerA pioneer of new-media art since the mid-1970s, tony oursler is best known for his video projections and installation works that explore technology‘s effects on the human mind. Honing in on much of humanity‘s compulsive relationship with computers and virtual networks, oursler orchestrates microcosmic scenes, tableaus, and interventions that convey the obsession, escapism, isolation and sexual fetish that cause or grow out of technological dependence.
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William Kentridge / Notes Towards a Model Opera2015
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Gretchen Bender / Total Recall1987
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Haegue Yang / Sol LeWitt Upside Down - Structure with Three Towers, Expanded 23 Times2015
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Gerwald Rockenschaub / bend it (remodeled)2015
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Alan Charlton / Wall of 8 greys2016
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Anish Kapoor / Dragon1992
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Hans Op de Beeck / The Collector’s House2016
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zoom pAvIlIonZoom Pavilion is a panoptic audiovisual installation that features 12 computerised surveillance cameras trained on the public. the piece uses facial recognition algorithms to detect visitors and record their spatial relationships within the exhibition space. A live archive of recordings is shown to make evident the data-gathering mechanisms in use.
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trAcey emInA prominent member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Emin works in a wide range of mediums, including film, painting, neon, embroidery, drawing, installation and sculpture. Her work is intensely personal, revealing intimate details of her life with brutal honesty and poetic humor.
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Tracey Emin /The more of you the more I love you2016
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Tunga / Me, you and the moon2014
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John McCracken / Six Columns2006
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FrAnk stellA “What you see is what you see,” a statement that became the unofficial credo of Minimalist practice.
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Amalia Pica / Memorial for intersections #18 2016
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Elmgreen & Dragset / Dawn2016
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Tom Burr / Other People’s Pants2010
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Jaume Plensa / White Forest (Lou)2015
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Anna Oppermann / Portrait of Mr. S1969-1989
Sofia Hultén / Speculative Fiction2016
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