Pensando a Art Basel Miami Beach

 A Miami si guarda già alla prossima edizione di Art Basel Miami Beach che accoglierà 285 gallerie di prim'ordine provenienti da 44 paesi e territori delle Americhe, Europa, Asia, Medio Oriente e Africa, riaffermando la sua posizione di principale fiera d'arte internazionale nelle Americhe.

Oltre due terzi delle gallerie partecipanti gestiscono spazi nelle Americhe, con una forte presenza negli Stati Uniti, in America Latina e nei Caraibi, a dimostrazione dell'impareggiabile coinvolgimento della fiera con le vivaci scene artistiche della regione.

Espandendo ulteriormente la presenza nazionale della fiera, gallerie provenienti da New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia e Greater Miami si uniscono a un elenco globale di importanti espositori di prima qualità, affermati ed emergenti provenienti da Regno Unito, Francia, Germania, Italia, Spagna, Corea del Sud, Hong Kong, Cina continentale, Giappone e oltre.

La mostra animerà la Greater Miami con una settimana di presentazioni di qualità museale, una programmazione pubblica dinamica e collaborazioni istituzionali e con partner di altissimo livello, riunendo artisti, gallerie, collezionisti, istituzioni, opinion leader provenienti da tutti i settori creativi e il pubblico più ampio.

Segnando un nuovo importante capitolo, gli Art Basel Awards, i primi riconoscimenti globali che celebrano l'eccellenza nel settore dell'arte contemporanea, debutteranno a Miami Beach. I vincitori della medaglia d'oro 2025 saranno svelati durante la serata ufficiale degli Art Basel Awards il 4 dicembre, presentata in collaborazione con BOSS.

Bridget Finn, Direttrice di Art Basel Miami Beach, ha dichiarato: "La forza e il calibro degli espositori di quest'anno riaffermano la centralità di Art Basel Miami Beach nell'ecosistema artistico globale. Questa edizione riflette la vitalità della produzione artistica in tutto il continente americano, che continua a plasmare la pratica artistica contemporanea, il mecenatismo e il dibattito in tutto il mondo, e il ruolo della fiera come punto di accesso fondamentale per introdurre artisti e prospettive internazionali pionieristiche al mercato americano. È audace, rigorosa e al passo con i tempi."

ArtBasel

 

Questi giorni sono quelli della grande settimana di Basilea, dove si svolge la nuova edizione di Art Basel, la fiera dedicata all'arte più importante al mondo, quest'anno fra i tanti eventi guardiamo con più attenzione al progetto Art Basel Awards, che vede la selezione di trentasei visionari riconosciuti in importanti iniziative globali che celebrano il mondo dell'arte contemporanea

Gli Art Basel Awards sono i primi riconoscimenti globali dedicati a riconoscere e promuovere l'eccellenza nel mondo dell'arte contemporanea, celebrando visionari che spaziano in tutto il settore e il cui lavoro sta plasmando la prossima generazione di artisti d'avanguardia. Artisti pionieristici, creatori interdisciplinari di moda, design, musica e performance; curatori; istituzioni; mecenati e fondazioni; scrittori e giornalisti; e gli specialisti dietro le quinte, dai direttori di studio ai produttori, vengono premiati nell'anno di debutto del prestigioso ciclo annuale di premi di Art Basel.

Una giuria internazionale di esperti premia 36 vincitori di medaglie, selezionati tra le voci più influenti e i talenti emergenti più promettenti del mondo, per la loro visione all'avanguardia, le loro competenze e il loro impatto.

Tra loro:

Lubaina Himid – Pioniera britannica delle arti nere che sta rimodellando il canone e rappresenta il Regno Unito alla Biennale di Venezia del 2026

Adrian Piper – Leggendario artista concettuale di prima generazione che sfida razza, identità e potere con un intelletto impavido

Meriem Bennani – Remixare la cultura digitale, la critica postcoloniale e l’arguzia assurda attraverso la pratica video e scultorea

Pan Daijing – Visionario del suono che crea mondi grezzi e immersivi attraverso performance e coreografie

Grace Wales Bonner – La stella nascente della moda che fonde stile, letteratura e narrazione diasporica

Formafantasma – Il duo di designer italiani affascina i marchi leader mondiali con indagini radicali sul pensiero progettuale

Candice Hopkins – Pioniere del Carcross/Tagish First Nation che promuove la narrazione storico-artistica attraverso la leadership e la visione indigena

RAW Material Company – l'incubatore d'arte sperimentale e think tank di Dakar, fondato dal defunto e visionario direttore del museo, curatore e giurato degli Art Basel Awards Koyo Kouoh

Fondati sulla convinzione che il futuro dell'arte non dipenda solo dagli artisti ma anche dagli ecosistemi che li sostengono, gli Art Basel Awards conferiscono medaglie in nove categorie (Artisti iconici, Artisti affermati, Artisti emergenti, Creatori interdisciplinari, Mecenati, Istituzioni, Curatori, Alleati e Narratori) e stabiliscono un nuovo precedente per onorare e rafforzare le complesse e interconnesse reti che alimentano e sostengono la produzione artistica odierna.
"Gli Art Basel Awards non sono un concorso, ma un faro. Illuminano chi lavora con visione radicale, competenza e impegno per costruire comunità di pratica e scambio."

Vincenzo de Bellis, Presidente degli Art Basel Awards e Direttore di Fiere ed Esposizioni, Art Basel

I vincitori delle medaglie saranno premiati durante la storica fiera di punta di Art Basel in Svizzera a giugno e attraverso campagne e iniziative globali durante tutto l'anno. Inoltre, il 20 giugno, i vincitori delle medaglie saranno i protagonisti del primo Art Basel Awards Summit annuale , la prima conferenza di Art Basel dedicata alla leadership intellettuale nel mondo dell'arte, che riunisce le figure più influenti del mondo dell'arte e delle industrie creative a livello globale, che si terrà anch'essa a Basilea.

Più avanti nel corso dell'anno, i vincitori della medaglia sperimenteranno un processo tra pari, in base al quale voteranno per selezionare tra loro fino a 12 vincitori della medaglia d'oro, metà dei quali saranno artisti, che rappresenteranno il massimo riconoscimento degli Art Basel Awards e un nuovo modello di riconoscimento in cui i futuri innovatori vengono esaltati in modo unico dai loro pari.

Le medaglie d'oro nelle categorie dedicate agli artisti offrono un supporto immediato e flessibile, distribuendo un totale di quasi 300.000 dollari all'anno in compensi e donazioni filantropiche , oltre a networking globale, partnership personalizzate e commissioni di alto profilo pensate per promuovere il lavoro degli artisti su nuove piattaforme globali. Con un'attenzione particolare agli artisti destinatari dell'anno pilota, i vincitori della medaglia d'oro nella categoria Artista Emergente riceveranno ciascuno un compenso illimitato di 50.000 dollari; i vincitori della medaglia d'oro nella categoria Artista Affermato riceveranno ciascuno un compenso di 50.000 dollari, oltre a una commissione pubblica di ampia portata che debutterà durante Art Basel a Basilea nel giugno 2026 ; infine, per i vincitori della medaglia d'oro nella categoria Artista Icona, Art Basel effettuerà una donazione di 50.000 dollari a un'organizzazione scelta dall'artista, a loro nome.

I vincitori della medaglia d'oro saranno svelati nel dicembre 2025 durante la serata ufficiale degli Art Basel Awards a Miami Beach.

Gli Art Basel Awards vengono assegnati in collaborazione con il rinomato marchio di moda BOSS , marchio principale di HUGO BOSS. Gli Art Basel Awards incarnano l'impegno di lunga data del Gruppo HUGO BOSS nel promuovere la scoperta e il dialogo all'intersezione tra moda e arte.

Per saperne di più sui vincitori di quest'anno, consulta il dossier stampa degli Art Basel Awards .

Elenco completo dei medagliati:

ARTISTI – ICONA
Davide Hammons
Lubaina Himid
Giovanna Jonas
Adrian Piper
Betye Saar
Cecilia Vicuña

ARTISTI – Affermati
Nairy Baghramian
Tony Coca-Cola
Cao Fei
Ibrahim Mahama
Delcy Morelos
Ho Tzu Nyen

ARTISTI – EMERGENTI
Mohammad Alfaraj
Meriem Bennani
Pan Daijing
Saodat Ismailova
Lidia Ourahmane
Sofia Salazar Rosales

CREATORI INTERDISCIPLINARI
Formafantasma
Saidiya Hartman
Grace Wales Bonner

PATRONI
Shane Akeroyd
Maja Hoffmann
Joel Wachs

ISTITUZIONI

ARTE + PRATICA
Centro artistico Jameel
Azienda di materie prime

CURATORI
Candice Hopkins
Shanay Jhaveri
Eungie Joo

ALLEATI
Artigiani dell'arte*
Officine del gas / Rete triangolare
Sandra Terdjman

MEDIA E NARRATORI
Negar Azimi
Barbara Casavecchia
La rivista degli studi curatoriali

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In memoria di Koyo Kouoh (24 dicembre 1967 – 10 maggio 2025),
gli Art Basel Awards sono profondamente grati a Koyo per la sua partecipazione attiva come giurata dell'edizione di quest'anno e per il suo incrollabile impegno nella missione degli Awards: sostenere la prossima generazione di artefici del cambiamento culturale, di cui lei era un esempio emblematico. Gli Art Basel Awards onorano la vita di Koyo e ne portano avanti l'esempio e la tradizione duraturi.

ArtBasel Qatar

Fra due settimane prenderà avvio una nuova edizione di ArtBasel a Basilea intento si sta lavorando per la nuova fiera che il gruppo realizzerà il prossimo anno nel Qatar. 

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Art Basel Qatar è il quinto evento principale di Art Basel e la nostra più recente edizione, il cui lancio è previsto per febbraio 2026.

Grazie a una dinamica partnership a lungo termine con Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) e QC+, Art Basel Qatar debutterà come una vetrina curata nei minimi dettagli, che celebrerà il vivace panorama culturale del Qatar e il dinamico ecosistema artistico della regione MENA. L'edizione inaugurale di Art Basel Qatar si terrà presso M7, un hub creativo nel cuore di Doha, e presso il Doha Design District, nel centro di Msheireb.

Sotto la guida di Sua Eccellenza la Sceicca Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Presidente di Qatar Museums, il Qatar si erge come un orgoglioso centro di cultura e creatività, sede di collezioni d'arte di livello mondiale, istituzioni rinomate e celebri festival di design e fotografia. In occasione del suo ventesimo anniversario nel 2025, Qatar Museums sta inoltre guidando lo sviluppo del futuro Art Mill Museum e del Lusail Museum, nonché di un Padiglione Qatar permanente ai Giardini della Biennale di Venezia. Art Basel Qatar sfrutterà questo entusiasmante slancio, introducendo un quinto evento di primo piano nel nostro ecosistema.

Questa partnership sottolinea l'impegno di Art Basel nel dare impulso al mondo dell'arte, estendendosi ben oltre la fiera stessa attraverso punti di contatto annuali in Qatar e sulla nostra piattaforma globale. In questo modo, Art Basel Qatar fungerà da porta d'accesso alla cultura creativa del Medio Oriente e accelererà ulteriormente le opportunità per artisti, gallerie, mecenati e partner di entrare in contatto, collaborare, collezionare e interagire con l'arte in tutto il mondo. 

Art Basel 2024

Eccoci nella settimana più famosa del mercato dell'arte a Basilea che ogni anno vede tutto il mondo dell'arte contemporanea presente alla fiera più ricca e stimolante.

Come garanzia poche variazione, sempre più curata la sezione delle gallerie, ben strutturata la mega sezione Unlimited, le sezioni dedicate ai video, alle opere storiche e poi il giusto corredo di eventi sparsi nelle solite aree della città svizzera. 

Tutto pare come sempre molto ben strutturato e organizzato, ma pare sempre più noioso in quanto privo di emozioni e tanto più ideato per un consumo.

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Art Basel  unveils further highlights for its 2024 edition, including full details of its expanded city-wide program featuring Parcours, the Merian, Film, Conversations, and the Messeplatz project

• Parcours, curated for the first time by Stefanie Hessler, Director of Swiss Institute (SI) in New York, will showcase more than 20 site-specific public art installations along Clarastrasse, which connects the fairgrounds to the Rhine.
• The Messeplatz will host a major work by conceptual artist Agnes Denes, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Founder of SALTS.
• Unlimited, curated by Giovanni Carmine, Director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, will present 70 large-scale installations by distinguished and emerging artists.
• Kabinett, Art Basel’s sector for thematic presentations within galleries’ main booths, will showcase 22 projects presented by 23 galleries.
• Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Conversations, curated for the first time by Kimberly Bradley, will bring together over 25 thought leaders across 11 panels, focusing on the issues shaping contemporary culture.
• Presenting a week of extraordinary cinema and celebrating its 25th edition, the Film program, curated by Filipa Ramos, will feature artists’ surveys, feature films, and a special program for young audiences, from age four onwards.
• Art Basel, whose Global Lead Partner is UBS, will take place at Messe Basel from June 13 to 16, 2024, with Preview Days on June 11 and 12.

The 2024 edition of Art Basel in Basel will feature 285 of the world’s leading galleries, showcasing the highest quality of works across all media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and digital artworks. 22 first-time participants will join a robust lineup of European exhibitors and returning galleries from around the globe.

In addition to remarkable presentations in its Galleries, Feature, Statements, and Edition sectors, around 70 large-scale installations and performances will be on view in the show’s Unlimited sector, while the Kabinett sector will return for the second time to Art Basel’s Swiss edition to spotlight distinct, curated exhibitions within the main booths of exhibitors.

This year’s show will also present an expanded city-wide program, which will include Agnes Denes’ seminal land art work Honouring Wheatfield - A Confrontation (2024) on the Messeplatz, curated by Samuel Leuenberger. The reconceptualized Parcours sector, curated for the first time by Stefanie Hessler, will unfold along Clarastrasse up to the Middle Bridge, where Art Basel will activate the Merian to provide audiences with a stimulating venue for around-the-clock artistic events and showcases. Free to the public, Art Basel’s Conversations series, curated for the first time by Kimberly Bradley, will focus on ways to build and shape the art world’s future, while the Film program, curated by Filipa Ramos, will showcase a unique lineup of surveys, feature films, and a special program for young audiences from age four onwards.

Maike Cruse, Director of Art Basel in Basel, said: ‘I am particularly excited about this year’s expanded city-wide program as a testament to Basel’s cultural pulse. The Messeplatz project, featuring Agnes Denes’ transformative installation Honouring Wheatfield - A Confrontation (2024), redefines the dialogue between environment, land art, and the value of things. Our Parcours sector transforms the Clarastrasse into an exhibition exploring the topics of circulation and transformation. And the Merian will not only showcase Petrit Halilaj’s installation on the façade but will also extend Art Basel’s activation into the evening and night. Join us to celebrate community and the limitless possibilities of artistic expression along the Rhine.’

Unlimited

Art Basel’s unique sector for large-scale projects, Unlimited provides exhibitors the opportunity to present monumental installations, colossal sculptures, boundless wall paintings, comprehensive photo series, and expansive video projections. Unlimited will be curated for the fourth time by Giovanni Carmine, Director of Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen.

Highlights from Unlimited include:

• A site-specific installation by Swedish artist Anna Uddenberg, titled Premium Economy (2023-2024), presented by Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler and Meredith Rosen Gallery
• A reenactment of American artist Faith Ringgold's first multimedia performance, titled The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro (1976), presented by Goodman Gallery in collaboration with ACA Galleries
• Untitled (2022), an installation by American artist Henry Taylor, presented by Hauser & Wirth
• Greek Italian artist Jannis Kounellis’ installation Senza titolo (vele) (1993), presented by Kewenig
• An installation of a significant section from American artist Keith Haring’s mural Untitled (FDR NY) #5-22 (1984), presented by Gladstone Gallery and Martos Gallery
• A new video installation titled DOKU The Flow (2024) by Chinese artist Lu Yang, presented by Société
• Chess (2012), a seminal installation by American artist Lutz Bacher, presented by Galerie Buchholz
• ARCHITEKTURTRAUM (2001) by Swiss artist Miriam Cahn, presented by Meyer Riegger and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
• A complete set of Robert Frank’s The Americans (1954-1957) presented by Pace Gallery and Thomas Zander

Art Basel’s Unlimited Night will return on Thursday, June 13, providing visitors the chance to experience the sector alongside special performances during extended opening hours. For the first time, visitors of Unlimited will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite artwork for the whole duration of Art Basel. The Unlimited People's Pick will then be announced towards the end of the show week. Further details around the prize will follow in due course.

For the full list of artists and galleries presenting in Unlimited, please visit artbasel.com/basel/unlimited.

Parcours

Curated for the first time by Stefanie Hessler, Director of Swiss Institute (SI) in New York, Art Basel’s public art sector will unfold along Clarastrasse up to the Middle Bridge, connecting the fairgrounds with the Rhine. Hessler’s concept for Parcours is a curated exhibition that meanders through empty stores and operational shops, a hotel, a restaurant, a brewery, and other quotidian spaces on Basel’s Clarastrasse. Through ambitious projects, many of them site-specific and newly produced, the sector explores transformation and circulation in areas such as trade, globalization, and ecology. Hessler takes over Parcours from Samuel Leuenberger, who successfully managed and expanded the sector over the past eight years.

Highlights from Parcours include:

• An architectural structure lined with paintings that houses produce on sale at the Tropical Zone store by London-based artist Alvaro Barrington, presented by Sadie Coles HQ, Thaddaeus Ropac, and Massimodecarlo
• An installation combining traditional Chinese shadow play and digital animation by Swedish artist Lap-See Lam, unfolding in a food court, and presented by Galerie Nordenhake
• A portable garden by Austrian artist Lois Weinberger, transposing nature into an urban context with the aim to attract insects and birds, presented by Galerie Krinzinger
• A performance by London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh interrogating the circulation of information and goods inside a partially vacant shopping mall, presented by Thaddaeus Ropac and Lehmann Maupin
• A series of pirate flags by Rirkrit Tiravanija, lining the Middle Bridge crossing the Rhine, presented by neugerriemschneider
• Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca’s Conversion systems contraposing ancestral techniques and artisanal materials with industrial applications in petrol extraction, installed inside a brewery, presented by Galerie Gisela Capitain

Newly the Parcours Night will be hosted on Wedneday, June 12, from 8 to 11pm, offering a festive night filled with live performances and other acts along Clarastrasse and at the Merian. All Parcours locations will have extended opening hours to provide visitors a unique experience. For the full list of artists and galleries featured and further information, visit artbasel.com/basel/parcours.

Messeplatz

The city’s Messeplatz will feature a site-specific presentation by conceptual artist Agnes Denes, curated for the third time by Samuel Leuenberger, founder of the non-profit exhibition spaces SALTS in Birsfelden and Bennwil. Denes’ artistic practice is distinctive in terms of its aesthetics and engagement with socio-political ideas. As a pioneer of environmental, ecological, and land art, she will present the piece Honouring Wheatfield - A Confrontation (2024), referring to her iconic land art work from the 1980s. The work will remain on the Messeplatz throughout the summer until its harvest. Born in 1931 in Budapest, Hungary, raised in Sweden, and educated in the United States, Agnes Denes today lives in New York City.

The Merian

The Merian, situated right at the Middle Bridge along the Rhine in Kleinbasel and across Basel’s Old Town, features a hotel bar, restaurant, and terrace that will host a continuous, around-the-clock program. The façade of the former Hotel Merian will be taken over by When The Sun Goes Away We Paint The Sky, an artwork by Petrit Halilaj symbolizing guidance and commemorating the 30th anniversary of the partnership between UBS and Art Basel. Evenings will be curated and enlivened by various members of the global and local arts community including Jenny Schlenzka, Director of Gropius Bau Berlin; Aindrea Emelife, Curator Modern and Contemporary at the Museum of West African Art in Benin City, Nigeria; Pati Hertling, Director of Performance Space New York; Stefanie Hessler, Director of Swiss Institute New York; Benedikt Wyss, Curator of SALTS and Finally Saturday in Basel; and others.

Film

For its 25th edition, the Film program will present a week of extraordinary artists’ cinema projects. Film is curated by Filipa Ramos, founding curator of the online video platform Vdrome and lecturer at the Arts Institute of the FHNW in Basel, in collaboration with Marian Masone, a New York-based independent curator. This year’s program will address topics such as ecology, intimacy, history, and politics in a series of short film programs, surveys, and feature films.

The program starts on Wednesday, June 12 with ‘The Political Life of Plants’, a series of short films by Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris, Zheng Bo, Ulla von Brandenburg, Kyriaki Goni, and Tiffany Sia. Inspired by the title of two films by Bo, the program looks at how the vegetal world has been a major figure in recent artists’ cinema. On Saturday, June 15, ‘Bats and Rockets’ will celebrate artists’ films for young audiences, from age four onwards. This year’s film program will then conclude with Taking Venice (2023), a documentary about Robert Rauschenberg’s participation in the 1964 Venice Biennale by Amei Wallach.

For further information, please visit artbasel.com/basel/film.

Conversations

Art Basel’s flagship talks program returns for its 20th anniversary edition with an exciting lineup, curated for the first time by Berlin-based art critic Kimberly Bradley. Bringing together more than 25 thought leaders, the 2024 edition features 11 focused panels, all relating to the pressing issue of how to build and shape contemporary culture’s future. The discussions will explore the art trade’s challenges and opportunities in a super election year, the potentials of increased interdisciplinarity in museums, how artists relate to politics in a time of global crisis, and the ways digital technologies are recasting art’s social and economic ecosystems. Conversations is free and accessible to all.

Highlights from this year’s Conversations series include:

• Launching the program with a special celebration of 20 years of Conversations, Hans Ulrich Obrist will speculate on worldbuilding and revisit the notion of utopia with pioneering digital artists Rebecca Allen and Danielle Braithwaite Shirley, as well as architect Carlo Ratti.
• Ahead of her Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, artist Mire Lee reflects on her practice – which references the art-historical lineage of kinetic sculpture – in the Premiere Artist Talk.
• Ben Davis, Artnet News’ Editor-at-Large, will discuss how technology is blurring the lines of art’s communities and art’s valuation with artist Cecile B. Evans.
• Legal experts Katalin Andreides and Till Vere-Hodge, along with UBS’s Paul Donovan, will debate the ways potential political and legal reorientations in an election year could change how art is bought, sold, and distributed, in a talk moderated by Georgina Adam.
• The talks will conclude on a light note, with Basel-based artist Sophie Jung and curator/critic Francesco Bonami discussing the multiple roles humor and satire play in contemporary art.
• During the show’s final weekend, a curated series of videos of Conversations’ most notable debates, spanning nearly two decades, will be on view in the Conversations auditorium.

Conversations will take place from June 13 to 16 at the Auditorium in Hall 1. The series is free to attend. For further information, visit artbasel.com/stories/conversations.

Kabinett

The sector dedicated to curated and thematic presentations featured in a separate section within galleries’ main booths, Kabinett will present 22 projects by 23 galleries for the second year.

Highlights from Kabinett include:

• Air de Paris’ presentation of works by American artist Sarah Pucci and her daughter Dorothy Iannone. The presentation aims to shed light on Pucci’s mesmerizing objects by contextualizing them within the loving relationship with her daughter.
• Croy Nielsen’s presentation of paintings by German Japanese artist Ernst Yohji Jaeger, addressing intimacy and emotion with a moody palette and mysterious subject matter
• Experimenter’s presentation of Indian artist Kanishka Raja’s Switzerland for Movie Stars (2014), which plots a speculative Google map journey from Srinagar to Geneva through a panoramic panel painting and an accompanying brochure
• Catriona Jeffries’ presentation of paintings by Canadian painter Elizabeth McIntosh, which respond to the ever-shifting workflows of contemporary industrialization
• Sies + Höke’s presentation of works by German artist Gerhard Richter, including mirror pieces of various tints and dimensions as well as Richter’s quintessential stainless-steel spheres.

Il prezzo, ArtBasel supera l'ultimo tabù

Art Basel tenta la strada dell'online e svela l'ultimo grande mistero dell'arte contemporanea, il prezzo che ora è alla portata di tutti i visitatori, dopo decenni di oscurantismo svelato di cultura anche questa informazione diventa pubblica.

E' un grande passo che chissà se durerà, ma ora godiamoci questa sana trasparenza e visitate la stupenda Online Viewing Rooms della fiera.

Quest'anno ci sono quasi 290 gallerie con oltre 4mila opere, per cui c'è un mondo di opere da scoprite.

Art Basel online

Quasi a compensare la mancata edizione di Art Basel Hong Kong arriva l'annuncio che viene lanciato il canale digitale per gli espositori, una piattaforma aggiuntiva per mostrare le opere d'arte nella rete globale di Art Basel.

La prima iterazione online verrà lanciata nel marzo 2020, offrendo agli espositori l'opportunità di presentare le opere che avevano programmato di esporre ad Art Basel Hong Kong. Le sale di osservazione online saranno in diretta dal 20 marzo al 25 marzo 2020, con giorni di anteprima VIP dal 18 marzo al 20 marzo 2020.

La nuova iniziativa digitale è proposta come evento parallelamente alle mostre - piuttosto che sostituire l'esperienza fisica di una fiera d'arte, consentirà ai galleristi di mostrare ulteriori mostre curate di opere non presentate in fiera, ognuna elencata con una fascia di prezzo. Per la sua prima iterazione, tuttavia, il concetto è stato adattato per consentire agli espositori di presentare opere destinate alla cancellata Art Basel Hong Kong 2020. Tutte le gallerie che sono state accettate alla mostra di Hong Kong 2020 sono invitate a partecipare gratuitamente alla prima edizione .

Prossimamente fiere

Artissima 2018 

Il nuovo anno porta con sè le nuove date dei principali appuntamenti commerciali del sistema arte, vediamo quelli più noti e significativi.

Si inizia con ArteFiera a Bologna, con la nuova gestione di Simone Megenoi, che si svolgerà dal 1 al 4 Febbraio, segue poi il Miart dal 5 al 7 Aprile a Milano Fiera e in autunno ci sarà come sempre Artissima che si svolgerà  a Torino dal 1 al 3 Novembre con diverse rassegne parallele.

Sul piano internazionale non possiamo citare che i diversi progetti di ArtBasel (Hong Kong 29-31 Marzo, Basile,13-16 Giugno e Miami, 5-8 Dicembre) e Frieze che quest’anno presenta la novità di Los Angeles dal 14 al 17 Febbraio, oltre a Frieze/Master London (2-6 Ottobre) e New York (2-5 Maggio).

Sarà dal 16 al 24 Marzo la storica Tefaf a Maastricht e il 3-7 Maggio a New York. Sempre nella Grande Mela la fa da leone poi con Armory Show dal 6 al 10 Marzo.  Considerata fra le più valide, a Parigi la Fiac si svolgerà dal 17 al 20 Ottobre.

Art Basel 2018

Foto Fred Sandback, Untitled (Sculptural Study, Seven-part Triangular Construction), 1982/2011

 Courtesy of the artist and the gallery David Zwirner

Arriva la ricca settimana di Basilea, con Art Basel la regina delle fiere d’arte, che anche quest’anno è corredata da Design Miami da sempre un riferimento per il settore arredo, e poi ci sono Liste, Volta, Scope, Frame e tante altre con le loro fresche proposte.   

Art Basel ha la solita doppia apertura una due giorni (12 e 13) ad inviti e poi l’apertura a tutti dal 14, le altre hanno aperto da oggi.

Ricco il programma di eventi collaterali, tra cui quello che amo di più Parcours, oltre alle interessanti proposte dei musei di Basilea, come la grande mostra al Schaulager su Bruce Nauman o Bacon e Giacometti alla Fondazione Beyeler.

Quando ci sono i soldi e cultura le emozioni sono sempre alte! 

The BMW Art Journey

Ecco una nuova tappa del progetto che lega il gruppo BMW ad ArtBasel col progetto The BMW Art Journey, sono stati selezionati i finalisti per la prossima edizione.

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Art Basel and BMW are delighted to present the next artist shortlist and to continue their joint initiative to recognize and support emerging artists from across the world. The BMW Art Journey can take artists almost anywhere in the world to develop new ideas and envision new creative projects. Today, an international expert jury announced Ali Kazim (Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai), Zac Langdon-Pole (Michael Lett, Auckland) and Gala Porras-Kim (Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles) as the shortlisted artists showing in Discoveries, the sector for emerging artists at Art Basel's show in Hong Kong.

Art Basel and BMW are delighted to present the next artist shortlist and to continue their joint initiative to recognize and support emerging artists from across the world. The BMW Art Journey can take artists almost anywhere in the world to develop new ideas and envision new creative projects. Today, an international expert jury announced Ali Kazim, Zac Langdon-Pole and Gala Porras-Kim as the shortlisted artists showing in Discoveries, the sector for emerging artists at Art Basel's show in Hong Kong.

Ali Kazim at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai

Ali Kazim (b. 1979) lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Ali Kazim forms multi-layered compositions to create uniquely textured paintings that include elements of narrative andfantasy. He works meticulously in watercolor and graphite, using techniques acquired from studying the watercolor wash and miniature painting techniques of the Bengal andMughal schools. At this year’s Art Basel show in Hong Kong, the artist presents an immersive installation that draws a primary inspiration from the landscape around his hometown of Lahore. Kazim will participate in the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, opening in November 2018 in Brisbane.

Zac Langdon-Pole at Michael Lett, Auckland

Zac Langdon-Pole (b. 1988) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied at ElamSchool of Fine Arts, Auckland and at the Städelschule, Frankfurt. In his work he uses Paper Nautilus Shells, fragile egg-case-shells, made by the genus of Octopedes known as Argonauts, and unique fragments of Meteorite handcrafted to fill the shell’s aperture. At this year’s edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong, Langdon-Pole is presenting an installation of new sculptures that form a poetic exploration of identity and belonging. In 2017, he was awarded for the Ars Viva Prize for young artists living in Germany. Recent exhibitions include Between Bridges, Berlin, Ars Viva 2018, Berlin, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent and Kunstverein München, Munich. 

Gala Porras-Kim at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles

Gala Porras-Kim (b.1984) lives and works in Los Angeles, United States. She received a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from University of California, Los Angeles. Her work questions the social and political contexts that influence the manifestation and interpretation of language and history. Her artistic approach comes from a research-based practice that aims to reconsider how intangible subjects have been represented in the fields of linguistics, history, and conservation. At this year's Art Basel show in Hong Kong she is presenting a group of artifacts that reconstruct and reimagine ambiguous historical fragments from various ethnographic institutions. Her work was displayed at solo exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles and LABOR, Mexico City. Recently she has been included in group exhibitions at Seoul Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

The three artists are now invited to submit a proposal for their very own personal journey, with the winner to be announced in early summer 2018. 

The members of the jury are:

Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York; Claire Hsu, Director, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Bose Krishnamachari, President, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India; Matthias Mühling, Director, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich; Pauline J. Yao, Curator, Visual Art M+, Hong Kong.

'As jury, we were impressed by the variety and quantity of works and made a unanimous decision about the three shortlisted artists. In this year’s edition of BMW Art Journey at Art Basel in Hong Kong, the jurors noticed a wide search for narrative with a mostly consistent search for fact. Within the BMW Art Journey this time the number of eligible galleries was by far the greatest, representing artists of the most diverse backgrounds. 

We admired Ali Kazim’s meditative approach to the desolate landscape of Pakistan, and found his labor-intensive process combining miniature painting techniques with a contemporary sensibility to be layered and haunting. Zac Langdon-Pole’s work ‘Passport (Argonauta)’ creates a poetical and surprising combination of materials. Proposing a new notion of the passport, the nautilus shell and meteorites from different parts of the world suggesting a metaphysical and timeless idea of identities. We appreciated Gala PorrasKim’s investigation into and imagination of ways in which objects within institutional collections undergo reinterpretation via changing social and physical contexts. She touches on the subjectivity of history and the endless possibilities of making meaning of fragments and traces', states the jury. In collaboration with the winning artist, the journey will be documented and shared with the public through publications, online and social media.

During this year’s Art Basel show in Hong Kong, the 2017 winner of the BMW Art Journey from the Discoveries sector, Astha Butail (represented by GALLERYSKE, New Dehli, Bangalore) presents some first insights into her upcoming project 'In the Absence of Writing' at the BMW Lounge. Throughout her journey, the artist will visit Yazd (Iran), Jerusalem (Israel), London (United Kingdom), Varanasi, Pune, New Delhi and Mumbai (India) to discover memories and living traditions that are passed down through teaching and oral poetry. For the BMW Art Journey, Butail plans to investigate the Zoroastrian Avesta, Jewish Oral Torah and Indian Veda traditions by observing and recording their different memory techniques and interviewing scholars and practitioners of each tradition. 

The latest edition in the BMW Art Journey book series is also presented at the fair giving insights about Abigail Reynolds’s BMW Art Journey 'The Ruins of Time: Lost Libraries of the Silk Road'. Images, texts and other documents originating from her experience are included in the book – thus completing a journey that both starts and ends with the institution of the library. BMW is a global partner of Art Basel and has supported Art Basel’s three shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong for many years. For further information, please visit bmw-art-journey.com.

ArtBasel Hong Kong 2018

Sempre più attenta al mercato asiatico la nuova edizione di ArtBasel Hong Kong (ABHK)  è il fulcro delle proposte di questo mese che offre una selezionatissima rosa di gallerie mondiali, ben 248, tra cui alcune delle più importanti del nostro paese; Artiaco, Cardi, Contiua, Massimo De Carlo, Mazzoleni, Francesca Minini, Franco Noero, Lorcan O'Neill, Lia Rumma e Tornabuoni. 

La sesta edizione si svolgerà dal 29 al 31 Marzo presso l'Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center.

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Our 2018 edition features 248 premier galleries from 32 countries and territories. Underlining Art Basel's commitment to the region, half of the participating galleries once again have exhibition spaces in Asia and Asia-Pacific. The show provides an in-depth overview of the region’s diversity through both historical material and cutting-edge works by established and emerging artists.

Prossimamente in Messeplatz per ArtBasel 2018

Galerie Greta Meert - Sophie Nys  © Art Basel

Nei giorni della grande fiera di Basile ci saranno alcuni interventi pubblici nel centro città, ecco i progetti per il 2018

Lara Almarcegui, Isabel Lewis and Recetas Urbanas to collaborate on a public project for Basel's Messeplatz, presented by Creative Time and commissioned by Art Basel Conceived by artists Lara Almarcegui, Isabel Lewis and Santiago Cirugeda-led architecture studio Recetas Urbanas, ‘Basilea’ encourages reflection on a city’s possibilities through a series of immersive projects connecting the city of Basel, its residents, and the over 90,000 visitors who attend Art Basel annually. A Creative Time project commissioned by Art Basel, ‘Basilea’ will open to the public on May 23, 2018, culminating the week of Art Basel. The project marks Creative Time’s first international public commission and the first collaboration between the artists. Art Basel, whose Lead Partner is UBS, will take place at Messe Basel from June 14 to June 17, 2018.

‘Basilea’ is Elvira Dyangani Ose’s first project as Senior Curator at Creative Time. The project aims to create awareness of the capacity we, as citizens, have to alter and reappropriate an urban environment, at both individual and collective levels. It will encourage discussions about the self-governance and the use and ownership of public space. The project includes a collectively built structure, a large-scale installation, a series of workshops, events and hosted occasions.

In the three weeks preceding Art Basel, Recetas Urbanas, led by architect Santiago Cirugeda, will work with local and international volunteers to design and build a multipurpose civic structure, from locally sourced and second-hand materials. Participants will be invited to learn from and teach each other in a collective exchange and collaborative experience. During its construction and upon completion, the civic structure will be open to the public and activated by programs and performances. Following the closing of the 2018 edition of Art Basel, the structure will be relocated and given to one of the local organizations that participated in its construction, extending the significance and utility of the project long after the show concludes.

During the week of the fair, Lara Almarcegui will orchestrate a large-scale installation of gravel deposits from an active quarry that will surround the civic structure. Growing daily in increments equivalent to the gravel extracted from a Basel quarry each day, the workserves as an invitation to reflect on the consequences of our extractive relationship to the land. In conjunction, Almarcegui will create a map of Basel’s abandoned quarries, connecting these wastelands now awaiting a new function. 

Isabel Lewis has conceived a series of workshops and occasions engaging the public through new modes of participation, inviting us to rethink notions of self and community. The work facilitates spaces for experimentation and play, where members of the public determine their own trajectories and level of engagement. The public workshops will take place on the Messeplatz in tandem with Recetas Urbanas’ building process, and continue through the week of the fair. What evolves from these workshops will form the foundation of a large-scale public choreography that highlights centuries-old, living traditions specific to Basel and generate encounters between historical practices and contemporary forms of bodily engagement.

‘Basilea’ is a Creative Time project commissioned by Art Basel and will be on display on Messeplatz from May 23 to June 17, 2018.

'Basilea' Opening hours May 23 – June 17, 2018, 10am to 8pm  ‘Basilea’ is free and open to the public 

About Lara Almarcegui

A champion of neglected and forgotten sites, Lara Almarcegui’s work carefully catalogues and highlights a particular location's tendency towards entropy. Working at a time of widespread urban renewal in Europe, Almarcegui reflects upon the continent’s builthistories and extractive relationship with the land, and has even worked towards these sites’ legal protection. As Spain’s representative to the 55th Venice Biennial, she filled the interior of the pavilion with massive piles of building rubble similar to those used during its construction. Almarcegui has exhibited internationally, including at the Barbican Centre, London (2009); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2015); Athens Biennale (2009); Gwangju Biennale (2008); Sharjah Biennial (2007); São Paulo Biennial (2006); Seville Biennial (2006); Liverpool Biennial (2004); La Biennale de Lyon (2017); Manifesta IX, Genk (2012); and TRACK, Gent (2012). Almarcegui lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands and is represented by mor charpentier in Paris, Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam and Parra & Romero in Madrid and Ibiza.

About Isabel Lewis

Trained in literary criticism, dance and philosophy, Isabelle Lewis’ work takes on many different formats: from lecture-performances and workshops to music sessions, parties, installations and what she calls ‘hosted occasions’. She has created works around topics such as open source technology and dance improvisation, social dances as cultural storage systems, collaborative creative formats, future bodily techniques and rapping as embodied speech acts. Her work has been presented at Tate Modern London (2017); Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (2014); Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai (2016 – 2017); Liverpool Biennial (2014); Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2015); Frieze London (2014); Tanz Im August Berlin (2015); Kunsthalle Basel (2014); Serpentine Galleries (2012); Dia Art Foundation, New York (2016); and Palais de Tokyo Paris (2016). Lewis is currently based in Berlin and was born in the Dominican Republic and raised on a man-made island off the coast of southwest Florida.

About Recetas Urbanas

Recetas Urbanas (Urban Recipes) is a design and advocacy collective of architects, lawyers and social workers founded by architect Santiago Cirugeda. The collective, known for self-built projects, relies on local participation to complete mobile structures made of locally sourced, second and third-hand materials. Activating different areas of urban reality, their projects are at the same time highly functional, legally provocative, and exploit the legalities surrounding the occupation of public space. Since its founding in 2003, Recetas Urbanas has worked with over 2,500 individuals internationally, of different social backgrounds, abilities and ages. The collective has undertaken projects around the world at cultural spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Castellon de la Plana, Spain (2005); the Venice International Architecture Biennale (2016); Göteborg  International Biennial for Contemporary Art; and La Carpa, Seville (2010 – 2014). 

Recetas Urbanas is based in Seville, Spain.

About Creative Time

Creative Time, the New York-based public arts non-profit, is committed to working with artists on the dialogues, debates and dreams of our time. Creative Time presents the most innovative art in the public realm, providing new platforms to amplify artists’ voices, including the Creative Time Summit, an international conference convening at the intersection of art and social justice. Since 1974, Creative Time has produced over 350 groundbreaking public art projects that ignite the imagination, explore ideas that shape society and engage millions of people around the globe. Since its inception, the non-profit organization has been at the forefront of socially engaged public art, seeking to convert the power of artists’ ideas into worksthat inspire and challenge the public. Creative Time projects stimulate dialogue on timely issues, and initiate a dynamic experience between artists, sites, and audiences. 

For  further information, please visit creativetime.org.

About Art Basel

Founded in 1970 by gallerists from Basel, Art Basel today stages the world's premier art shows for Modern and contemporary art, sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. Art Basel’s engagement has expanded beyond art fairs through a number of new initiatives. In 2014, Art Basel launched its Crowdfunding Initiative which catalyzed muchneeded support for outstanding non-commercial art projects worldwide and helped garner pledges in excess of USD 2 million in support of around 70 art projects from around the globe – from Bogota to Ho Chi Minh City, San José and Kabul. For Art Basel Cities, launched in 2016, Art Basel is working with selected partner cities to develop vibrant and content-driven programs specific to the individual city. Connecting them to the global art world through Art Basel's expertise and network, Art Basel Cities supports its partners to develop their unique cultural landscape. For further information, please visit artbasel.com.

Partners

UBS, Global Lead Partner of Art Basel, has supported the organization for more than 20 years. As Art Basel’s global network expanded, UBS has increased its lead partnership to include all three shows, and new initiatives as the Global Lead Partner of Art Basel Cities. UBS has a long and substantial record of engagement in contemporary art: as a holder of one of the world’s most distinguished corporate art collections, as an active partner in global contemporary art projects such as the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and as a source of information and insights through the UBS Arts Forum and the art news-focused app 'Planet Art' app. In March 2018, UBS and Art Basel co-published the second Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report by Clare McAndrew. Find more details at ubs.com/art.

Art Basel's Associate Partners, supporting all three shows, are MGM Resorts International – one of the world’s leading entertainment companies with a long-standing commitment to presenting and supporting art in public spaces; Audemars Piguet, whose expanding activities in contemporary art include the Audemars Piguet Art Commission; and NetJets – the world leader in private aviation. 

Art Basel is also supported globally by BMW, who has co-developed with Art Basel the BMW Art Journey, Ruinart, the Official Champagne Partner and La Prairie, the premier luxury skincare.

The Art Basel show in Basel has a partnership with Baloise Group, whose Art Prize is awarded to up to two artists exhibiting in the Statements sector and AXA ART, the leading art insurance. Joining Art Basel for the first time as a partner is Sanlorenzo, the renowned Italian manufacturer of made to measure yachts. Further Partners of the Basel show are Davidoff, Vienna Tourist Board and ARVI. Art Basel's Media Partner is The Financial Times. For further information about partnerships, please visit artbasel.com/partners. 

BMW Art Journey 2018

Torna una nuova edizione del progetto BMW Art Journey che quest'anno vede la selezione dell'artista Jamal Cyrus,  realizzata con la collaborazione di ArtBasel, a Miami erano stati presentati i finalisti e ora a Hong Kong si svolgerà la mostra del selezionato.

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Jamal Cyrus selected for next BMW Art Journey.

Houston–based artist to explore the notion of the Afro-Atlantic.

Munich/Basel. Art Basel and BMW are delighted to present Jamal Cyrus as the next BMW Art Journey winner. The international jury selected him unanimously from a shortlist of three artists whose works were exhibited in the Positions sector at last year’s Art Basel show in Miami Beach. Jamal Cyrus is represented by Inman Gallery, Houston.

The notion of the Afro-Atlantic provides the conceptual underpinning for Jamal Cyrus’ journey. It is, in his own words, “an intercontinental and multinational geography describing the circulation of ideas between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.” Inspired in part by Paul Gilroy’s writings from the early 1990s, Cyrus aims to examine the many diverse cultural hybrids that have emerged through protracted interaction between the continents. Such cultural hybrids – molded by forces of conquest, colonization, slavery, industry, migration, and philosophy – can be apprehended in the cultural centers Cyrus plans to visit. These include among others the Elmina Castle in Accra, Ghana; the Theatre Champs-Elysees, in Paris, France; Brixton's Electric Avenue, in, London, England; the Alhambra in Granada, Spain; and Congo Square, in New Orleans, United States. 

At each location, Cyrus will record interviews with artists, musicians, historians, and philosophers who engage with the creative traditions of the Afro-Atlantic. "The journey promises to be a transformational process involving travel, dialogue, collective imagination, and intuitive response that will allow new ideas to surface in my work”, said Cyrus. 

Art Basel and BMW will collaborate with the artist to document the journey and share it with a broader public through print publications, online and social media.

The international experts awarding Jamal Cyrus’ journey proposal were Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director, New Museum, New York City; Gabi Ngcobo, Curator, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing; and Susanne Pfeffer, Director, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. 

“Jamal Cyrus' BMW Art Journey delineates an imaginary geography that transforms relations of power and imposed hierarchies,” the five-member jury stated after its unanimous decision. “His journey combines elements of directed research and open-ended discovery, all within a deeply considered theoretical framework. His project struck us as a profound and sincere search for an understanding of the self, through the artistic lens of an individual who never forgets his role as a teacher, and who therefore foresees the multiplying effect of his experience. Cyrus’ BMW Art Journey will expand and amplify a practice that has already brought much to the conversation around culture, history, and identity in the United States.”

In addition to Jamal Cyrus, the shortlisted artists from the Positions sector for emerging artists at Art Basel in Miami Beach included: A.K. Burns (represented by Callicoon Fine Arts, New York) and Mariela Scafati (represented by Isla Flotante, Buenos Aires). 

Launched in 2015, the BMW Art Journey is a collaboration between Art Basel and BMW, created to recognize and support emerging artists worldwide. From 2018 onwards this unique award is open to artists who are exhibiting in the Discoveries sector during Art Basel in Hong Kong. A judging panel comprised of internationally renowned experts meet first to select a shortlist of three artists from the sector, who are then invited to submit proposals for a journey aimed to further develop their ideas and artistic work. The jury reconvenes to choose a winner from the three proposals. 

Past winners of the BMW Art Journey include sound and performance artist Samson Young presented by a.m. Space, Hong Kong at Art Basel's Hong Kong show in 2015, who represented Hong Kong at the 2017 Venice Biennale; German video artists Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr presented by Galerie Max Mayer, Dusseldorf at Art Basel's Miami Beach show in 2015; British artist Abigail Reynolds presented by Rokeby, London at Art Basel's show in Hong Kong in 2016 as well as Max Hooper Schneider, presented by High Art, Paris at Art Basel's Miami Beach show in 2016 and Astha Butail who was recently announced as the fifth winner and is presented by GALLERYSKE, New Delhi, Bangalore.

The next selections for the BMW Art Journey will take place during Art Basel in Hong Kong on March 28, 5:30 PM at the BMW Lounge. The winner of the BMW Art Journey from the Hong Kong show will be announced in early summer 2018. 

BMW is a global partner of Art Basel and has supported Art Basel’s three shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong for many years.

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