Fra
pochi giorni si conclude il giro delle grandi fiere d’arte con ArtBasel Miami, quest’anno avrà corso dal 1 al 4 Dicembre 2016.
Molto
ricco il programma di eventi e di proposte per questa che sempre più
sta diventando la fiera di fine anno, surclassando i diversi eventi e
proponendosi come quella più rappresentativa del continente
americano.
Eccovi
alcune delle proposte della rassegna, la sezione Survey, con i
progetti storici, Conversation e Salon, la variegata proposta di
incontri, e Public, con le grandi sculture.
Survey:
14 historical projects in the spotlight at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Now
in its third year, Survey will present artworks created by 14 artists
prior to the year 2000. Curated booths by leading galleries from
North and South America, Europe and Asia will provide insight into
the work of Carmelo Arden Quin, Romare Bearden, Graciela Carnevale,
Ibrahim El-Salahi, Margaret Kilgallen, Giorgio Morandi, Howardena
Pindell, David Reed, George Rickey, Mimmo Rotella, Betye Saar,
Barbara T. Smith, Kishio Suga and Jacques Villeglé. The 15th edition
of Art Basel in Miami Beach, whose Lead Partner is UBS, will take
place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 1 to
December 4, 2016.
Four
of the 14 galleries exhibiting in Survey will participate in the show
for the first time, including Los Angeles’ The Box, which will
present works by the artist Barbara T. Smith (b. 1931). Exploring
intersections between the artist’s long-standing feminist
performance
practice
and her deeply-rooted interest in ritualistic methodologies, The Box
will feature video and sculptures related to her seminal work ‘Field
Piece’ (1968/1971). Also marking its debut at Art Basel in Miami
Beach will be Galleria d’Arte Maggiore G.A.M. from
Bologna,
with a selection of museum-quality works by Giorgio Morandi (b. 1890,
d. 1964). A painter and printmaker best known for his restrained
composition of hard, smooth forms and ambiguous distortions of
perspective, Morandi worked in a range of
media
– painting, drawing, watercolor and etching – all of which will
be included in the gallery’s presentation.
Another
first-time exhibitor will be Vigo Gallery from London, which will
present historic works on paper by Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi
(b. 1930). Produced between 1976 and 1977, the pieces mark a key
period after the artist’s release from jail – an experience
that
was highly influential in his career – and will be paired with rare
early works from the 1950s and 1960s. El-Salahi’s work incorporates
Cubism, Surrealism, Muslim iconography and Arabic calligraphy, and in
2013 he was the first African artist to have a retrospective at Tate
Modern. Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte from Curitiba, Brazil, also
new to the show, will exhibit a set of 16 critically significant
works by the Uruguayan avant-garde artist Carmelo Arden Quin (b.
1913, d. 2010). The works, which were produced in the 1930s, 1940s
and early 1950s, portray this key historical period within Quin’s
career.
Quin
was instrumental within the Latin American vanguards in the 1940s and
co-created the Madi Art Group – a group that inspired other artists
such as Ellsworth Kelly. espaivisor will present ‘El encierro’
(1968) by Graciela Carnevale (b. 1942), one of the most significant
works of sociopolitical art in Latin America from the late 1960s.
Responding to Argentina’s repressive government at the time,
Carnevale’s experimental action locked an unwitting audience in an
empty gallery, from which the only way to exit
was
by breaking through a glass wall. The gallery will present
photographic documentation of the historic performance paired with a
poster display recreated across the booth’s wall.
Maxwell
Davidson Gallery will present rare and early works by George Rickey
(b. 1907, d. 2002). Rickey’s kinetic sculptures will trace the
development of his evolving creative oeuvre in the 1950s and 1960s.
DC Moore Gallery will feature rare photographic works by Romare
Bearden (b. 1911, d. 1988), widely recognized as one of the most
innovative visual artists of the 20th century. Centered on Bearden’s
‘Projections’, a series of photostatic enlargements and collages
from the 1960s, this exhibition will reflect his interest in Cubism,
Dadaism, civil rights, jazz and blues performance, as well as
personal memories of the rural South. Jacques Villeglé’s (b. 1926)
series ‘Painting within Non Painting’, created between the 1950s
and the end of the 1970s, will be on view at Galerie Georges-Philippe
& Nathalie Vallois. The works reflect Villeglé’s skepticism
around ideas of authorship, traditional aesthetics and
pre-determination.
Tokyo
Gallery + BTAP will present a solo show of Kishio Suga (b. 1944), one
of the central figures of the Mono-ha movement that emerged in Tokyo
during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The installation of Suga’s
cylindrical and fan-shaped 'PROTRUSION’ series will include two
pieces that have never been exhibited. Ratio 3 will feature Margaret
Kilgallen’s (b. 1967, d. 2001) candid representation of the female
figure, including women surfing, smoking, embracing and brawling.
Notably, this will be the first
time
her works will be available on the primary market since her death.
Best
known for his décollages, Mimmo Rotella (b. 1918, d. 2006) was also
a great experimenter who sought to reject the imposition of
traditional artistic ‘languages’. Robilant + Voena’s
presentation of Rotella’s work will focus on four distinct and
important techniques that he pioneered from the 1950s through the
1980s. At Peter Blum Gallery, early and rarely seen paintings by
David Reed (b. 1946) will be paired with a short film that the artist
based on a John Wayne Technicolor VistaVision Western. While film has
played a pivotal role in influencing Reed’s paintings, much of the
public has not known his work as a filmmaker. The gallery’s show
will coincide with the opening of a solo exhibition of David Reed’s
new paintings at the Perez Art Museum in Miami.
Three
monumental paintings – two of which have never been exhibited
previously – by Howardena Pindell (b. 1943) at Garth Greenan
Gallery will draw upon the artist’s first foray into abstraction.
Layered onto unprimed canvases, these works have the appearance of
vast fields from which light emanates. Organized under the unifying
idea of ritual, Betye Saar’s (b. 1926) presentation at Roberts &
Tilton will be centered around her seminal work ‘MTI’ (1973), a
freestanding altarpiece fusing Gypsy, Indian and Voodoo cultural
symbols. Visitors will be invited to participate in the piece by
placing a personal offering at its base. The resulting presentation
aims to renegotiate the aestheticization of ritualized action,
concepts of power and display, and the relationship between
installations and sculpture.
Conversations
and Salon: Art Basel's 2016 program in Miami Beach
Art
Basel’s Conversations and Salon series will bring together
celebrated artists, galleries, art historians, writers, curators,
museum directors and collectors from across the globe, including
Alexandre Arrechea, Wafaa Bilal, Francesco Clemente, Mark Dion, Lady
Bunny, Julio Le Parc, Glenn Ligon, Tony Matelli, Jill Magid, Hans
Ulrich Obrist, Damián Ortega, Bernardo Ortiz, Molly Palmer,
Howardena Pindell, HE Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, Howard Rachofsky and
Sun Xun among others.
Conversations,
Art Basel’s acclaimed talks series, will start on Thursday,
December 1 with the Premiere Artist Talk. The artist Julio Le Parc
(b. 1928) will speak with curator Estrellita B. Brodsky on the
occasion of his major exhibition at the Pérez Art Museum Miami
(PAMM). On Friday, December 2, the program will see a new
Conversations series – Artists' Influencers. Conceived and
moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine
Galleries, London, the talk will feature the artist Glenn Ligon (b.
1960), New York, in conversation with a poet and writer who has had a
great influence on his practice, Claudia Rankine, Frederick Iseman
Professor of Poetry at Yale University, New Haven.
Conversations
will continue with Art Basel’s Public/Private series. The panel
‘Debating Disruption: Has Technology Really Changed the Artworld?’
on Saturday, December 3, will bring together Sebastian Cwilich,
President and COO, Artsy, New York; Laurent Gaveau, Head of the Lab,
Google Cultural Institute, Paris; Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of
Digital Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and artist
Simon Denny (b. 1982), Berlin. The conversation – moderated by
author and cultural consultant András Szántó – will seek to
clarify what is truly new and what digital innovation holds in store
for tomorrow's artworld. On Sunday, December 4, ‘The Artist and the
Gallerist’ will present a conversation about the unique and
fundamental relationship between artist Jill Magid (b. 1973) and her
gallerist Pamela Echeverría, Owner, Labor, Mexico City, moderated by
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Curator of Contemporary Art, Colección
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York/Caracas. Every afternoon from
December 1 through December 4, Art Basel presents Salon, an open
platform for shorter presentations addressing a diverse range of
topics. This year’s series will begin with a panel on ‘The Future
of Buenos Aires’ Cultural Landscape’, which will bring together
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Mayor, Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires;
Diego Radivoy, Director General, Creative Industries of Buenos Aires
City, Buenos Aires; Orly Benzacar, Owner and Director, Ruth Benzacar
Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires; and Alec Oxenford, Collector and
Founder, OLX & Letgo, Buenos Aires; and will be moderated by
András Szántó, author and cultural consultant, New York.
On
Thursday, December 1, ‘Why is Gender Still an Issue?’ will be
considered by Maura Reilly, Director, National Academy Museum and
School, New York; artist Joan Snyder (b. 1940), New York; Susan
Fisher Sterling, Director, National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington D.C.; and Paul Schimmel, Vice President and Partner,
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles; and moderated by Jillian
Steinhauer, Senior Editor, Hyperallergic, New York. Also on Thursday,
a discussion about ‘Public Museums & Private Partnerships’
will take place between Neal Benezra, Director, San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco; Norah Stone, Trustee, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and Howard Rachofsky, Collector,
Dallas; moderated by Carol Kino, Freelance Journalist, WSJ Magazine,
The New York Times, 1stdibs, Cultured, and others, New York. HE
Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director, Sharjah Art
Foundation, Sharjah and Gabriele Horn, Director, Berlin Biennial for
Contemporary Art, Berlin will be in conversation with Damián Ortega
(b. 1967), Artist, Mexico City, who has participated in both Sharjah
Biennial and Berlin Biennial, for a discussion moderated by the
writer Kate Sutton titled ‘Biennial Commissions: Impact and
Complications’.
Two
talks on Friday, December 2 will focus on the art market. First, a
discussion on the ‘PostElection Art Market’ will feature Heather
Podesta, Founder and CEO, Heather Podesta + Partners, Washington
D.C.; and Daniel H. Sallick, Chairman, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden and Founder and Partner, Subject Matter, Washington D.C.; with
the moderator Josh Baer, Advisor and Publisher, Baer Faxt, New York.
Later that afternoon, ‘The State of the Emerging Art Market’ will
be addressed by Beat Raeber, Co-Owner, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich; Rob
Teeters, Principal, Front Desk Apparatus, New York and Artistic
Director, The Power Station, Dallas; Shelley Fox Aarons M.D.,
Collector and Supporter of Contemporary Art, New York; and Kenny
Schachter, Writer, Dealer and Lecturer, London; with moderator Sarah
Douglas, Editor-in-Chief, ARTnews Magazine, New York.
‘What
is Modern, Really?’ will present a discussion between David Fleiss,
Co-Owner and Director, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris; Niklas Svennung,
Partner and Senior Director, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Ahmed
Alsoudani (b. 1975), Artist, New York; and Hubert Neumann, Collector,
New York; with moderator David Ebony, Contributing Editor, Art in
America, New York. ‘Francesco Clemente: Sleep of Reason’ will
feature artist Francesco Clemente (b. 1952) in conversation with
Bonnie Clearwater, Director and Chief Curator, NSU Art Museum Fort
Lauderdale, Florida.
On
Saturday, December 3, Journalist Jori Finkel will moderate a
discussion on the art scene in Los Angeles with Mary Leigh Cherry,
Co-Owner, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Thao Nguyen, Art,
Architecture and Design Agent, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Los
Angeles; Philipp Kaiser, Independent Curator and Critic, Los Angeles;
and Lita Albuquerque (b. 1946), Artist, Los Angeles. The talks
program will also feature artist Howardena Pindell (b. 1943) in
dialogue with Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Valerie Cassel Oliver,
Senior Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Catherine
Petitgas, Collector and Patron, Chair of the Board of
Gasworks/Triangle Network and Member of the Tate Latin American
Acquisitions Committee, London; and Alexandre Arrechea (b. 1970),
Artist, Havana, will consider ‘Latin American Collaborations’
during a Salon moderated by Ricardo Porrero, Editor-in-Chief, Revista
Código and Founder, Gallery Weekend México, Mexico City.
The
complex issue of ‘Artists' Resale Royalties in the US’ will be
the subject of a discussion on Sunday, December 4, between Lauren van
Haaften-Schick, Art Historian and Associate Director, The Art &
Law Program, New York; Tony Matelli (b. 1971), Artist, New York; and
Maxwell Graham, Director, Essex Street, New York; moderated by
Franklin Boyd, Founder, Xipsy, New York. David Gryn, Curator of Art
Basel's Film sector and Founder of Daata Editions and Artprojx,
London, will introduce the final artist talk in Salon. ‘The Artist
as Composer’ will feature artists Molly Palmer, London; Susannah
Stark, London; and Rachel Mason, Los Angeles; as well as Kathryn
Mikesell, Founder, The Fountainhead Residency and Studios, Miami;
moderated by William J. Simmons, Lecturer in Art History, City
College of New York, New York.
Public:
20 international artists will exhibit installations in Collins Park
2016
marks the fourth year that Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator
of Public Art Fund, New York, will curate Public at Art Basel in
Miami Beach. The theme ‘Ground Control’ will frame this year’s
selection, which includes over 20 site-specific works by established
and emerging artists spanning 10 countries. Produced in collaboration
with The Bass for the past six years, the sector will transform Miami
Beach’s Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition space with
significant works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, David Adamo, Jean-Marie
Appriou, Eric Baudart, Huma Bhabha, Yoan Capote, Claudia Comte,
Matías Duville, Camille Henrot, Glenn Kaino, Alicja Kwade, Sol
LeWitt, Wagner Malta Tavares, Tony Matelli, William J. O'Brien,
Anthony Pearson, Norbert Prangenberg, Ugo Rondinone, Tony Tasset and
Erwin Wurm.
The
Public sector of Art Basel in Miami Beach, whose Lead Partner is UBS,
will open on Wednesday, November 30 at 8pm with a special evening
performance program featuring Davide Balula, Lady Bunny, Rob Pruitt
and Naama Tsabar. The Public Opening Night is free of charge and open
to the public.
Nicholas
Baume’s curatorial focus for the 2016 show will be ‘Ground
Control’, inspired by David Bowie, who passed away earlier this
year. Under this theme, the Public sector will examine ways in which
artists invent and imagine new kinds of space: physical, social and
psychic. Interpreting ‘Ground Control’ literally, the works will
invite viewers into new relationships with familiar surroundings and
reframe Collins Park into a site for transformational experiences
with contemporary art.
Several
works will challenge how visitors experience their surroundings
through repurposed everyday objects. Eric Baudart’s (b. 1972)
‘Atmosphère’ (2016) will feature a clear tank filled with yellow
peanut oil, in which a fan slowly rotates. The reconfigured
relationship between materials and scale is designed to physically
overwhelm the viewer. David Adamo (b. 1979) will immortalize
miscellaneous objects in a series of small bronze sculptures
depicting such items as citrus fruits, flip flops, styrofoam cups and
a sandwich from La Sandwicherie, the iconic Miami Beach fastfood
stand. Similarly, ‘Malpertuis’ (2016) by multimedia artist Wagner
Malta Tavares (b. 1964) will situate a typical 19th century outdoor
lamp into the park landscape. While it will appear unremarkable
during the day, the lamp will begin to glow as darkness falls,
revealing that the lamp has been created from a light-absorbing
fluorescent resin. Lastly, Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) will dismantle and
reassemble a bicycle to create ‘Reise ohne Ankunft (Mercier)’
(2016), bent to form a perfect circle, suggesting a surreal
never-ending journey.
‘Naturaleza
Urbana’ (2012) by Yoan Capote (b. 1977) addresses urbanization and
the clash between man and nature. The installation will comprise a
large pair of bronze handcuffs and a key that will physically shackle
together the bases of two trees – one large with a handcuff tight
around its trunk, while the other is small enough that the closed
handcuff will circle the base without touching it. The juxtaposition
of the natural and industrial will continue with ‘Arena Parking’
(2016) by Matías Duville (b. 1974), a topographical installation
created from pressed asphalt with a large-scale forged steel ring in
its center. Jean-Marie Appriou’s (b. 1986) installation ‘Mirage’
(2016) will feature four aluminum cast sculptures of camels standing
on their own reflections, as if in a mirage. Measuring nearly 3
meters, each camel will be almost life-size – significantly larger
than previous work by the artist.
Geometric
forms will also feature prominently in this year’s Public sector,
with three large baked-enamel on aluminum structures from Sol
LeWitt’s (b. 1928, d. 2007) series of ‘Incomplete Open Cubes’
(1974/90), as well as ‘156 Triangles and their Demonstration’
(2016), a monumental wall construction covered in bright acrylic
geometric patterns by Claudia Comte (b. 1983).
Two
large sculptures in bronze, iron and copper by Camille Henrot (b.
1978) – ‘Contrology’ (2016) and ‘Dropping the Ball’ (2016)
– will combine both figurative and abstract elements. Part of an
ongoing series by the artist, the sculptures reflect the emotional
and intellectual state of the first day of the week, Monday, when the
mind may be both melancholic and hopeful. The human form will reoccur
throughout the sector, including Glenn Kaino’s (b. 1972) ‘Invisible
Man’ (2016), a figure standing on a pedestal with his hands raised.
The cast aluminum form will prompt viewers to consider how racial
identity and race relations intersect with cultural hegemony,
architecture and public art. Tony Matelli’s (b. 1971) ‘Jesus’
(2016) will present a familiar figure cast in concrete, adorned with
several painted bronze avocados. In ‘10 Standing Figures’ (2000)
by Magdalena Abakanowicz (b. 1930), a group of ten imposing, cast
bronze figures will be arranged in rows to occupy a space on the lawn
of Collins Park.
Public
will debut William J. O’Brien’s (b. 1975) first-ever outdoor
sculpture, ‘Untitled (The Protectors)’ (2016), which references
Mahakala, a wrathful deity in Tibetan Buddhism. Huma Bhabha (b. 1962)
will present another totemic figure, ‘Friend’ (2015), a
large-scale bronze sculpture cast from styrofoam, that stands more
than two meters tall. Anthony Pearson (b. 1969) envisions his work as
drawings in space. Created by transposing a sketch into a photograph
and then into a sculpture, Pearson’s monumental ‘Untitled
(Transmission)’ (2016) series is comprised of steel-cut sandblasted
white Portland cement forms that are covered with a steel patina.
The
inclusion of Norbert Prangenberg’s (b. 1949, d. 2002) large-scale
outdoor glazed ceramic sculpture ‘Figur’ (1999) in this year’s
show represents a defining moment for the sculptor as it is the first
time his monumental sculpture is exhibited outside of Europe. Tony
Tasset’s (b. 1960) monumental ‘Arrow Sculpture’ (2016) will
depict a pair of larger than life arrows, one pointing up and the
other pointing down. The largest piece from Tasset’s ongoing
series, the arrows will be painted in bright, contrasting colors
meant to reference the art market and changing tastes. Erwin Wurm's
‘Big Disobedience’ (2016), inspired by Henry David Thoreau, will
be another larger than life work. This piece will feature two figures
that utilize clothing in place of the body to question societal
obedience to political and social correctness.
Recently
rebranded as The Bass, Miami Beach’s contemporary art museum will
present a towering work by Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964). Consisting of
five brightly painted boulders stacked in the form of a contemporary
cairn, ‘Miami Mountain’ (2016) finds its geological inspiration
from ‘hoodos’, rock formations of North American badlands that
have endured time and nature.
The
opening night performances will likewise extend themes from Baume’s
curatorial premise. Davide Balula’s (b. 1978) interactive
performance will incorporate the preparation and distribution of a
garlic infused beverage. Musicians, who will join guests in drinking
the cocktail throughout the evening, will be positioned in the crowd
with brass instruments to randomly create human-like sounds.
Elsewhere in the park, Naama Tsabar (b. 1982) will stage a new
iteration of her ongoing Composition series. The coordinated actions
of a sculptural-live field of musicians will create a dense yet not
entirely cacophonous musical sound field. Legendary drag performer,
DJ and founder of Wigstock Lady Bunny (b. 1962) will transform
Collins Park Rotunda into a theatrical spaceship-disco tribute to
David Bowie, while Rob Pruitt (b. 1964) will convert a vintage car
into an all-in-one barbecue bar and lounge.
The
exhibition in Collins Park will last through Sunday, December 4,
2016, although a selection of artworks will remain installed until
March 15, 2017 as part of 'The Bass Projects'. Tours will be offered
daily at 2pm starting from the On-site Info Point (no reservation
required). Private, group and school-group tours will be offered by
reservation.
2016
Public artworks:
Magdalena
Abakanowicz, 10 Standing Figures, 2000, Marlborough Gallery
David
Adamo, Untitled, 2016, Peter Freeman, Inc.
Jean-Marie
Appriou, Mirage, 2016, Clearing
Eric
Baudart, Atmosphère, 2016, Edouard Malingue Gallery
Huma
Bhabha, Friend, 2015, Salon 94
Yoan
Capote, Naturaleza Urbana, 2012, Jack Shainman Gallery
Claudia
Comte, 156 Triangles and their Demonstration, 2016, König Galerie,
Gladstone
Gallery
Matías
Duville, Arena Parking, 2016, Revolver Galería
Camille
Henrot, Contrology and Dropping the Ball, 2016, Metro Pictures, kamel
mennour,
König Galerie
Glenn
Kaino, Invisible Man, 2016, Kavi Gupta
Alicja
Kwade, Reise ohne Ankunft (Mercier), 2016, König Galerie
Sol
LeWitt, Incomplete Open Cube 8/9, 1974; Incomplete Open Cube 5/1,
1974;
Incomplete
Open Cube 8/5, 1974, Paula Cooper Gallery
Wagner
Malta Tavares, Malpertuis, 2016, Galeria Marilia Razuk
Tony
Matelli, Jesus, 2016, Marlborough Gallery
William
J. O'Brien, Untitled (The Protectors), 2016, Marianne Boesky Gallery
Anthony
Pearson, Untitled (Transmission), 2016, Marianne Boesky Gallery
Norbert
Prangenberg, Figur, 1999, Garth Greenan Gallery
Ugo
Rondinone, Miami Mountain, 2016, The Bass
Tony
Tasset, Arrow Sculpture, 2016, Kavi Gupta
Erwin
Wurm, Big Disobedience, 2016, Lehmann Maupin
Public
opening night performances:
Davide
Balula, Interrupting Words with Burp Sounds, 2014-2016, rodolphe
janssen,
galerie
frank elbaz, Gagosian Gallery, François Ghebaly Gallery
Lady
Bunny, Lady Bunny's Intergalactic Disco
Rob
Pruitt, Stretch, Grill and Chill, 2016, Gavin Brown's enterprise,
Massimo De Carlo
Naama
Tsabar, Composition 18, 2016, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Spinello Projects
Public
is produced in collaboration with The Bass and supported by MGM
Resorts Art &
Culture.
More information on the sector is available at
artbasel.com/miami-beach/public.
Kabinett:
Art Basel announces 29 precisely curated exhibitions at Art Basel in
Miami Beach
A
much-loved and highly praised sector of the Miami Beach show, in
which galleries display carefully curated exhibitions within their
booths, Kabinett will feature 29 projects this year. Exhibitors from
North and South America, Europe and Asia will present work by Derrick
Adams, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Carlos Amorales,
Dieter Appelt, Stefan Bertalan, Anna Blume, Bernhard Blume, Armin
Boehm, Olaf Breuning, Marcel Broodthaers, Horacio Coppola, Jerónimo
Elespe, Manuel Espinosa, Andy Goldsworthy, Irena Haiduk, Howard
Hodgkin, Asger Jorn, Martha Jungwirth, Mike Kelley, Jürgen Klauke,
Jorge Macchi, João Modé, Matt Mullican, Yang Mushi, Robert Natkin,
Floris Neusüss, Man Ray, Klaus Rinke, Tom Sachs, Hugh Steers, Hedda
Sterne, Alfredo Volpi, Stanley Whitney, Rose Wylie and Sun Xun. Art
Basel, whose Lead Partner is UBS, takes place at the Miami Beach
Convention Center from December 1 to December 4, 2016.
Among
the many highlights this year, Kavi Gupta’s booth will feature an
installation by Irena Haiduk (b. 1982) of a candy store selling
authentic Balkan confections. Since 1911, Kraš Candies has produced
sweets for every successive political regime, from the
Austro-Hungarian Empire to communist Yugoslavia to post-war
transitional capitalism. Haiduk’s installation will offer candies
reflecting the diverse confections favored by each regime’s
ideology.
A
Gentil Carioca will present a cross-generational pairing of Brazilian
artists Alfredo Volpi (b. 1896, d. 1988) and João Modé (b. 1961).
Juxtaposed and in dialogue with one another will be, Volpi’s
historic flags and façades, which utilize geometric shapes and
chromatic changes, and Modé’s commonplace fabrics which explore
notions of language and architecture.
Across
collage, photography, performance, sculpture and painting, Derrick
Adams’ (b. 1970) work addresses ways in which media, entertainment
and other social structures shape individual identity and public
perception of African-American culture. These themes are continued in
'Floater', Adams’ newest series of paintings, in an exhibition at
Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
At
Galerie Urs Meile, emerging artist Yang Mushi (b. 1989) will consider
issues of extreme urban development in China and globalization
through industrial raw materials such as processed wood, foam, metal
and stone.
Several
Kabinett presentations will feature new bodies of work as well as new
directions within an artist’s practice. kurimanzutto’s booth will
present Carlos Amorales’ (b. 1970) first works incorporating color,
including both small paper compositions and large-format collaged
paintings on intricate wooden panels. Two Palms will explore Stanley
Whitney's (b. 1946) first foray into large-scale watercolor
monotypes. Mai 36 Galerie will feature light experiments by Matt
Mullican (b. 1951), including an array of light boxes and stilllifes,
the extension of his first investigations about fictional reality
from the 1970s.
Kabinett
will also include several works that have rarely, and in some cases
never, been seen before. Van Doren Waxter will feature mixed media
works on paper by Hedda Sterne (b. 1910, d. 2011). Made between
1998-2004, these diaristic drawings will provide an intimate look
into the artist's final years of production, as she coped with the
onset of near total blindness. Limited edition hand-painted
carborundum reliefs and sugar-lift aquatints by Turner Prize-winning
British artist Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) – on view for the first
time in the United States – will be showcased at Alan Cristea
Gallery. Stephen Friedman Gallery will present paintings and works on
paper by Manuel Espinosa (b. 1912, d. 2006), which have never before
been seen outside of Argentina. Petzel Gallery will present six
paintings by Danish artist and founding member of the CoBrA movement,
Asger Jorn (b. 1914, d. 1973). The selection will include seminal
pieces from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, some of which will be
exhibited in public for the first time.
Jorge
Macchi’s (b. 1963) ‘Scheme of World History’ (2016) at Ruth
Benzacar Galeria de Arte is a contemporary version of the Baroque
vanitas – burnt candle, books, the shape of the shadow – which
explores the relationship between emptiness and history.
Alexander
Gray Associates’ exhibition of paintings by Hugh Steers (b. 1962,
d. 1995) will consider topics the artist was often drawn to,
including illness, isolation, alienation, companionship and
sexuality. Channeling notions of sadness, Mike Kelley’s (b. 1954,
d. 2012) ‘Paintings in Time’ (1994) at Galerie Nagel Draxler were
created between Christmas and New Year, at a time that is both one of
family gatherings and holiday parties as well as heightened feelings
of loneliness, darkness and depression. Galerie Peter Kilchmann will
present new works on canvas by Armin Boehm (b. 1972), created
specifically for the Kabinett sector. Inspired by power structures
and relationships of dependency, Boehm’s works will address current
issues of gender and sexuality to reflect on social constructions
embedded in the current political context.
Kicken
Berlin will feature an exhibition of German photography from the
1960s to the 1980s with a focus on the body, including works by
Dieter Appelt (b. 1935), Anna Blume (b. 1937), Bernhard Blume (b.
1937, d. 2011), Jürgen Klauke (b. 1943), Floris Neusüss (b. 1937)
and Klaus Rinke (b. 1939). Another highlight will be on view at Jorge
Mara - La Ruche, with vintage prints by acclaimed Argentinian
photographer Horacio Coppola (b. 1906, d. 2012). The exhibition will
include Coppola’s works from the 1930s taken in cities around the
world – Buenos Aires, Berlin, Budapest, Prague, London and Paris –
including several works that were recently exhibited at MoMA in New
York.
Galerie
Lelong will present rarely seen photographs by the British land
artist Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956), including several that document
early ephemeral works and demonstrate the origin of ideas and themes
that remain central to his practice today. New paintings by Martha
Jungwirth (b. 1940) at Galerie Krinzinger will explore the biblical
story of Judith and Holofernes. Hirschl & Adler Modern will
present a selection of works by Robert Natkin (b. 1930, d. 2010) from
the artist’s ‘Hitchcock Series’. The 1980s was a decade of
supreme artistic output for Natkin and the starting point for his
last great series of paintings – an homage to director Alfred
Hitchcock – which is widely considered to be his most dynamic and
successful body of work.
Sperone
Westwater will feature Tom Sachs’ (b. 1966) recent sculptural work
of everyday objects – a boombox, a Barbie doll and a cinderblock –
recreated in his signature experimental style. Likewise, 66
lithographs presenting everyday items by Rose Wylie (b. 1934) will be
on view at Polígrafa Obra Gràfica.
Meticulous
and labyrinthine drawings by Jerónimo Elespe (b. 1975) at Labor will
explore ideas of mark making and violence, as well as the role of
chance and chaos in the creative process. Esther Schipper’s booth
will encompass a comprehensive selection of works on paper by Stefan
Bertalan (b. 1930, d. 2014), who was influential within the Romanian
neo-constructivist avant-garde. Works by Sun Xun (b. 1980) at
ShanghART Gallery will consider the connection between the language
of painting and of images, and new ceramic works by Olaf Breuning (b.
1970) will be paired with a large-scale mural of one of his humorous
drawings at Nils Stærk.
Additional
highlights will include Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, with drawings,
paintings, photographs, objects and prints spanning the career of Man
Ray (b. 1890, d. 1976). Original and unique pieces from the 1960s and
1970s by Marcel Broodthaers (b. 1924, d. 1976) will be on view at
Galerie 1900-2000. And Galerie Chantal Crousel will present three
large and complementary woodcuts recently completed by duo Jennifer
Allora (b. 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (b. 1971).
For
the full gallery list and further details on the artists featured in
Kabinett please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/kabinett.
Film:
Art Basel announces details of its 2016 Film program in Miami Beach
From
November 30 through December 4, 2016, Art Basel will present a
premier program of over 50 film and video works by some of today’s
most exciting artists from North and South America, Europe, Asia and
Africa. Selected from the show's participating galleries by David
Gryn, Director of Daata Editions and Artprojx, this year’s program
will include ‘Muxima’, the first film by Chilean-born artist
Alfredo Jaar, as well as a silent film about music by Christian
Marclay and a new work by Liliana Porter. The program will also
include short films by Edgardo Aragón, Ain Bailey and Sonia Boyce,
Cabelo, Kudzanai Chiurai, Martin Creed, Keren Cytter, Kim Gordon,
Rodney Graham, György Kovásznai, Rashid Johnson, Li Daiguo, Li
Shurui, Jillian Mayer, Ana Mendieta, Haroon Mirza, Ara Peterson, Alex
Prager, Anri Sala, Wilhelm Sasnal, Tromarama and Samson Young among
many others. Screenings will take place both in SoundScape Park on
the 7,000 squarefoot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center,
as well as on dedicated touchscreen monitors within the Film Library
at Art Basel's show in the Miami Beach Convention Center. In
addition, Marian Masone, New York based film consultant and
strategist, has selected ‘Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back’
(2016) directed by Maura Axelrod, for a special screening at the
Colony Theatre on Friday, December 2.
For
her second year as Art Basel film curator, Marian Masone has selected
‘Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back’ (2016) by Maura Axelrod, an
original and highly entertaining portrait of the Italian artist
Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960). The film presents a profile of the
provocative and elusive art-world upstart, who launched his career
with playful and subversive works that mocked the artistic
establishment. The screening will take place at the Colony Theatre at
8.30pm on Friday, December 2. Entry is free, but seating is limited.
Returning
for his sixth year, curator David Gryn presents several works that
engage with music, including a set of 28 short films screened under
the title ‘Best Dressed Chicken in Town’ after a classic 1970s
reggae song by Jamaican singer Doctor Alimantado. The lineup focuses
on a selection of international artists who engage with music in a
multitude of ways. A ‘Double Bill’ program will pair two film
works that share similar themes or approaches to an intense musical
score: Rita Ackermann (b. 1968) and Christian Marclay (b. 1955) on
Wednesday, and Liliana Porter (b. 1941) and Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956) on
Friday. In ‘Mixed Reviews (American Sign Language)’ (1999/2001)
Marclay, who was recently awarded San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art’s annual Contemporary Vision Award, reconstructs texts
describing musical performances through a deaf actor’s translation
into American Sign Language. In ‘Movement as Monument’ (2011),
Rita Ackermann digitally collages disparate audio and video source
materials. Jaar’s ‘Muxima’ (2005) is a cinematic elegy
dedicated to the people of Angola, structured around interpretations
of a local folk song to explore six aspects of Angola’s history:
colonization, Communism, the 30-year civil war, the AIDS epidemic,
poverty and challenges presented by the oil industry. Porter also
responds to contemporary issues with the 2016 work ‘Actualidades /
Breaking News’, which re-enacts newspaper stories through model
trains and vintage toys.
The
late screening on Thursday, December 1 will feature works by sound
artist and DJ Ain Bailey (b. 1963), with Sonia Boyce (b.1962), along
with pieces by Anna Grenman (b. 1984), Rashid Johnson (b. 1977), Alex
Prager (b. 1979) and Penny Siopis (b. 1953). The final presentation
on Saturday, December 3 will include three early films by Polish
artist Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972), in which he added visual
accompaniment to enhance the aural experience, along with a recent
work, in which the score directly drives the narrative, replacing
spoken words.
Every
evening, directly preceding the Film program, sound works by Ain
Bailey, Zoë Buckman, A.K. Burns, Jonathan Montague, Molly Palmer and
Susannah Stark will be presented on the state-of-the-art surround
system in SoundScape Park. In conjunction with the outdoor film
screenings, over 50 works have been selected to be shown exclusively
within Art Basel's designated Film Library at the Miami Beach
Convention Center.
On
Sunday, December 4 at 2pm, Art Basel's Salon program will feature
‘The Artist as Composer', a talk between the artists Rachel Mason,
Molly Palmer and Susannah Stark, and Kathryn Mikesell, Founder of The
Fountainhead Residency and Studios in Miami. The talk will be
moderated by William J. Simmons, Lecturer in Art History, City
College of New York, New York, with an introduction by Film curator
David Gryn. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Salon.
The
Film sector's Media Partner is Time Out.
For
the full gallery list for Film, please visit
artbasel.com/miami-beach/film.
