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THE ART NEWSPAPER
Art Basel: 16/06/2016
○ Film: Jonas Mekas
○ Craft is cool
The godfather of avant-garde
cinema celebrates his return
to Lithuania in a film to be
shown in Basel tonight
Pages 16-18 >>
Artisanal works are all the rage
at Design Miami/Basel, from
dead flowers to bee glue
Pages 9-10 >>
○ Match made in Basel
○ 40 years of punk
Modernist mobile-maker
Alexander Calder and
contemporary artists Fischli/
Weiss pair up at the Beyeler
Page 23 >>
Punk is alive and well at Art
Basel, four decades after the
rebellious movement took root
Page 2 >>
Cindy Sherman’s exhibition opened
at the Broad in Los Angeles at the
weekend, making her the first artist to
get a solo show in the new museum.
Her works dominate Metro Pictures’
stand at the fair
considered niche. “In my lifetime, it
wasn’t even allowed to be exhibited
at Art Basel,” says Genevieve Janvrin,
Phillips’ head of photographs, Europe.
Photography dealers were marooned
Basel puts
photography
in the frame
Move over painting and sculpture:
the definition of blue-chip is expanding. As the International Center of
Photography prepares to reopen in
New York next week and the new
Pritzker Center for Photography at
the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art welcomes its first visitors, dealers
at Art Basel are dedicating extensive
(and expensive) wall space to photography, which is being embraced
by a new generation of collectors.
Meanwhile, the Fondation Beyeler
in Riehen, near Basel, is planning its
first major solo show dedicated to a
photographer. We have learned that
an exhibition of works by Wolfgang
Tillmans is due to open next year (27
May-1 October 2017). At the fair, his
inkjet prints sold at Maureen Paley
for $180,000 (Greifbar 29, 2014) and
David Zwirner for $80,000 (mid-air
flap movement, 2013).
“Photography is part of the family;
it’s at the table alongside painting
and sculpture,” says Andreas Gegner
of Sprüth Magers. The medium has
prices to match. The gallery sold
a print by Andreas Gursky (Aletschgletscher, 1993) for €450,000 and
a work by Cindy Sherman (Untitled
#108, 1982) for $250,000.
Not so long ago, photography was
See the major photo shows, buy the works in Basel
László MoholyNagy, Die Schlemmer-Kinder (1926)
Diane Arbus,
Identical Twins,
Roselle, N.J. (1966)
Wolfgang Tillmans,
New York Installation,
PCR, 525 (2015)
This vintage print
at Galerie Berinson
(€450,000) is unusually
large for Moholy-Nagy,
whose survey is on
show at the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum
in New York (until 7
September).
Ahead of a presentation of
early works by the US photographer at the Met Breuer
in New York (12 July-27
November), Fraenkel Gallery
sold this prime example
($575,000). “When you say
Arbus, you think twins,” says
the gallery’s Frish Brandt.
Tillmans, who will have solo
shows at Tate Modern (15
February-11 June) and the Fondation Beyeler next year, takes
over a room in Unlimited with
an installation featuring portraits of activists from around
the world ($1.2m, presented
by David Zwirner). J.H.
U . A L L E M A N D I & C O . P U B L I S H I N G LT D
Tony Oursler
Unlimited, Art Basel
16 – 19 June 2016
template/variant/friend/stranger, 2014 (detail)
Wood, mounted print, monitors and media player
Dimensions variable
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SHERMAN AND ARBUS: © DAVID OWENS. MOHOLY-NAGY: GALERIE BERINSON, BERLIN. TILLMANS: COURTESY OF DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW YORK/LONDON. MARCIN RUSAK: SIXMORETHANFORTY
Wolfgang Tillmans to get Beyeler’s first show of
photos, as collectors buy major works at the fair
Sales point
Basel channels
Peckham’s cool
Art Basel showed its hipster side
during the fair’s VIP preview on
Tuesday, when sales included a characteristically extravagant self-portrait
by Raqib Shaw, showing the artist in
a fantastical version of his studio in
London’s trendy Peckham area. The
recent work (2015-16), inspired by
the Renaissance artist Mocetto, sold
for $1.1m at White Cube. M.G.
T U R I N / L O N D O N / N E W Y O R K / PA R I S / AT H E N S / M O S C O W / B E I J I N G
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NEWS
In brief
16/06/2016
Home of Fiac fair to
get facelift in 2020
Four decades on, punk’s not dead at Art Basel
Joseph Kosuth called Titled (Art as Idea as Idea) (1968), which features the text of ten
dictionary entries for the word “nothing”. The conceptualist is an inadvertent punk, but
here are a handful of more probable candidates to make up the ultimate band.
José da Silva
Dave Allen, Douglas
Gordon, Jonathan Monk
• Stooges Burn-Out (1995)
MFC-Michèle Didier
In this video, the three artists
repeatedly trudge through the
verse of I Wanna Be Your Dog by the
proto-punk band The Stooges. In
true punk spirit, they can barely play
their instruments, but keep on going
until the cigarette placed on the
guitar head burns out. The piece,
priced at €1,000, comes in an edition of 50. Gordon is also staging a
performance piece, Bound to Hurt,
at Art Basel. It includes the music of
punk band Throbbing Gristle—and
disco queen Donna Summer.
Bjarne Melgaard
• Untitled (2015)
Galerie Guido W. Baudach
This “love declaration” is informed by “subculture traditions”, says the gallery’s Florent Tosin. He describes it as an “intensive, sexual work”. And like all good punks, the New York-based Norwegian artist
seems to care little for spelling or grammar (or oral hygiene) with this potty-mouthed, colourful scrawl
across the canvas. The artist’s work is heavily influenced by the existential moments in painting, Tosin
says, particularly Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
Mike Kelley
• Memory Ware Flat #10
(2001, detail)
Hauser & Wirth
Mike Kelley was one of the founding
members of the Detroit punk band
Destroy All Monsters, along with
fellow artist Jim Shaw. The DIY ethos
of the band—they often made their
own instruments—can be seen in
this collage of everyday ephemera
(including a Grateful Dead badge),
as well as in the defaced schoolbook
images of the series Reconstructed
History (1989), which is in Unlimited
and sold for $1.5m on Tuesday.
Stuck in customs
A Moscow-based gallery is showing cardboard
cut-outs of Soviet Art Deco at Design Miami/Basel
after Russian authorities refused a temporary
export licence for the fair. Heritage Gallery,
the fair’s only Russian exhibitor, applied to the
ministry of culture for permission to export the
objects, including furniture by Nikolay Lanceray
and a vase by Vera Mukhina. The ministry “started to ask for more and more
papers”, then rejected the application a day before the scheduled shipment,
says the gallery’s founder, Kristina Krasnyanskaya. The fair’s organisers proposed the cut-outs “to give me the opportunity to show my pieces, not to lose
[the stand cost] completely… and to make my message heard”, she says. H.M.
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island off St Tropez
Meuser
• Badezusatz (2016)
Meyer Riegger
Meuser is a “real punk”, according
to the gallery’s co-founder Thomas
Riegger, who was once taught by the
sexagenarian artist. When he was
younger, Meuser would compete
with his contemporary, Martin Kippenberger, to come up with the best
titles for works, says Yvonne Scheja,
a director of the gallery, and this one
is no exception. The mangled grey
steel bathtub, which came from a
junkyard, is called Badezusatz, the
German word for bath salts.
Raymond Pettibon
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Hans Arp makes
a comeback
The German-French poet-artist
Hans (Jean) Arp (1886-1966) was
co-creating Dada in Zurich in 1917.
A century on, his art and legacy are
being reassessed. Major Arp shows are
being planned by the Kröller-Müller
Museum in the Netherlands for 2017
and the Nasher Sculpture Center in
Dallas for 2018, for example. The
artist’s estate has been instrumental
in the resurgence of interest in Arp.
Managed by Loretta Würtenberger,
the estate has opened the Arp Schaulager (open store) in Berlin housing
many of his works and his archive,
and is making them more accessible
to curators and academics. A book by
Würtenberger about managing artists’
estates will be published next month,
and a conference on the subject is due
to be held in Berlin in September. The
Art Newspaper will be reporting from
the event. J.P.
• O.D. A Hippie / Legalize
Heroin. Ban Hippies. (and
New Yorkers) (1982)
MFC-Michèle Didier
Raymond Pettibon designed the
distinctive four-stripe logo for
Black Flag, the hardcore punk
band started by his brother
Greg Ginn in 1976; the artist also
briefly played bass in an earlier
incarnation of the band. Pettibon produced a large amount of
music-related work (the most
famous is probably his design
for the cover of Sonic Youth’s
Goo album), including this print,
channelling the anti-hippie sentiment of early punk. The number
of editions is unknown, but this
version is signed and numbered
43, and is on sale for €4,400.
Art-shipping start-up raises $1m investment
Art-world figures including Anita Zabludowicz among funders of Arta
The New York-based art-shipping
start-up Arta has raised $1m in new
venture capital. The funding round
was led by art-world investors such
as David Zwirner gallery, Sotheby’s,
the artist Rashid Johnson and the
collectors Poju and Anita Zabludowicz, along with more traditional tech
investors, such as Graph Ventures
and Alex Chung, the founder of
Giphy, a platform for sharing gifs.
Arta, which had its debut at New
York’s Armory Show in 2015, seeks
to disrupt the art-shipping business.
It enables shipping companies in
various cities to submit estimates for
art-shipping jobs, thereby simplifying
the process of getting quotes. Arta’s
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The French investment banker Édouard
Carmignac says that the headquarters
for his contemporary art foundation
on Porquerolles, an island around
50km from St Tropez, is due to be
completed by spring 2017. A Provençal
country home on the island will house
a contemporary exhibition space, and
sculptures by 15 international artists
will be dotted around a 15-hectare park.
At Art Basel, Carmignac bought a work
by Edward Ruscha, Level as a Level
(2002), from Gagosian Gallery. The
collection of the Paris-based Fondation
Carmignac includes works by Gerhard
Richter, Miquel Barceló, Maurizio
Cattelan and Doug Aitken. G.H.
Lead Partner of
chief executive and founder, Adam
Fields—formerly of the online art
dealing start-up Artspace—says he is
pleased with the diversity of sources
for the new investment. “It says a lot
about the validity of the business,”
he says. Arta is already used by Sean
Kelly Gallery, White Cube, Marlborough Chelsea and David Zwirner. “We
like entrepreneurial spirit,” says Julia
Joern, a partner at David Zwirner.
“We were happy to support it.” D.D.
MELGAARD, ALLEN, MEUSER, KELLEY AND HERITAGE: © DAVID OWENS
Forty years on from the birth of punk, a high-end art fair seems an unlikely place to find
vestiges of its spirit. But if you look closely enough, you will find punk-inspired works
across Art Basel. Punk’s earliest pioneers included The Fugs with their song Nothing—an
anti-everything nod to, well, nothing. The fair’s Unlimited section includes a work by
The Grand Palais in Paris, which is
home to the Fiac Modern and contemporary art fair and the Paris Photo
fair, will close for extensive renovation
in 2021 and 2022, Sylvie Hubac, the
president of the historic venue, has
announced. Work on the Grand Palais,
which was built for the Exposition
Universelle (World’s Fair) in 1900, is
due to begin in 2020. Both fairs will
decamp to a “temporary structure”
while the building is off-limits. The
refurbishment is scheduled for completion by 2024, when Paris hopes to
host the Olympic Games. The French
government will contribute €200m to
the project. G.H.
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NEWS
16/06/2016
Herzog & de Meuron’s
“depot” houses 400
key items of furniture
The Vitra Schaudepot, which
opened this month at the Vitra
Design Museum in Weil am Rhein,
south-west Germany, has made one
of Europe’s greatest Modern design
collections accessible to the public
for the first time.
Designed by the Basel-based
architects Herzog & de Meuron,
the Schaudepot is essentially a
huge shed displaying highlights
of the museum’s collection. Inside
are rows of tall display cases, or
vitrines, filled with 400 key pieces
of Modern furniture from 1800 to
the present day.
Located on the borders of
Germany, Switzerland and
France, the Vitra Campus is five
kilometres from central Basel.
It was set up in the 1980s by the
Vitra furniture company but is
run independently. Its collection,
started by Rolf Fehlbaum, son of
the firm’s founders, comprises 7,000
items of furniture (nearly all from
other companies), and hundreds of
examples of electric lighting, as well
as archives.
The Schaudepot stands close to
the original 1989 museum building,
which was Frank Gehry’s first
European commission and has
a dramatic roof structure. It was
intended to house the collection,
Vitra opens first permanent
home for landmark designs
The main hall in the
new Schaudepot
space displays part
of the Vitra Design
Museum’s 7,000piece collection,
dating from 1800
to the present day
but in fact has always been used for
temporary exhibitions.
The new permanent displays
include early bentwood furniture,
Classical Modernism by Le
Corbusier and plastic objects
from the Pop era. There is also a
small area for temporary shows,
inaugurated by Radical Design, on
Italian design from around 1970
(until 17 November). The study
collection, housed in the basement
and by appointment only, can be
seen from a distance through glass.
The main display is open daily.
The Gehry building will
continue to be used for temporary
exhibitions; the current show is on
the US designer Alexander Girard
(until 29 January 2017).
Other structures on the Vitra
Campus include a former fire
station designed by Zaha Hadid
(her first completed building),
factory buildings by Nicholas
Grimshaw and Alvaro Siza, a Jean
Prouvé-designed petrol station,
Tadao Ando’s conference pavilion,
a Buckminster Fuller dome,
Carsten Höller’s slide, a new Renzo
Piano-designed cabin and a Claes
Oldenburg sculpture.
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in a dedicated section of the fair
until 2002.
The line between photography
and contemporary art began to
blur well before the market acknowledged it, says Eva Respini,
the chief curator of the Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston.
From the 1960s, Bernd and Hilla
Becher—whose images are on
show with Fraenkel Gallery and
Kicken Gallery—influenced a
younger generation to look beyond the history of photography
for inspiration, while technological advancements enabled artists
to create works on the same
huge scale as their painter peers.
Although the market for photography took off in the 1990s,
the medium still offers a chance
to get a brand name for less. The
most expensive photograph sold
at auction last year (a film still
by Sherman) made nearly $3m,
but 85% of photographs sold for
less than $10,000 in 2015, according to Artprice’s annual report.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, then,
many are keen to cultivate photography’s crossover potential.
“There are artists who are included in photography sales and
contemporary sales, but most
artists we know would prefer to
be in the contemporary art sale,”
says Robert Goff of David Zwirner. This autumn, the gallery
will present large-scale prints by
William Eggleston, who joined
its roster earlier this month.
Even so, “there is still a bias
towards painting because it has
a much longer history”, says
Todd Levin, the director of the
Levin Art Group. “If you are
looking at an exceptional painting and an equally exceptional
photograph, the painting is
going to outperform.”
Julia Halperin
SCHAUDEPOT: VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM, MARK NIEDERMANN
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DIARY
16/06/2016
It’s a family affair at Dieter Roth’s studio
Angst, acted out
W-w-w-work it out
Football fever
Ever since the death of Dieter Roth in 1998, the Basel studio
in which the famously reclusive artist worked and died has
been preserved pretty much intact, faithfully retaining
the spirit and feel of its late occupant. The lair-like space is
rarely open to visitors, as it remains the workplace of Björn,
Roth’s son and former collaborator—but Björn decided to
host a couple of open evenings for selected guests at the
start of this year’s fair. Not only were visitors free to wander
through the extraordinary, immersive environment, with
its cubicles and cubbyholes crammed with all manner of art
materials and memorabilia giving glimpses into the Great
Artoon by Pablo Helguera
Visitors passing The Breeder’s stand at the
Liste fair this evening (5pm-6pm) will be
treated to the surreal sight of a two-legged
Guggenheim museum performing a routine
to an exercise video by the supermodel Cindy
Crawford. Meanwhile, a pink rabbit and a giant banana paint words on to the windows to
the point of illegibility. All this frenetic activity
is the work of the Athens- and Los Angelesbased artist Jannis Varelas. The piece is
called Couple of Steps Towards Socialism—a
wry comment on our fixation with activity,
regardless of whether it achieves anything.
And why the Guggenheim? “Institutions
appear to be working towards transforming,
but nothing ever changes,” Varelas says.
Man’s life and thoughts, but Björn also chose to emphasise
the intimate family feel by lining the walls with rarely seen
works of art from the 1980s made collectively by him, his
siblings and his father. And the Roth family continues to be
closely involved with ensuring that this environment evolves
in an appropriate way. Björn revealed how, just days earlier,
his sons—Dieter’s grandsons—decided to substitute the art
materials on top of the studio’s wheeled “painting carriage”
with bottles and glasses to form an impromptu mobile bar. A
most functional, and hedonistic, intervention that definitely
would have met with Dieter’s approval.
Emotions are running high on the fair floor
over Euro 2016, the international football
tournament that has dealers and collectors
in a frenzy. Börkur Arnarson, the director of
the Reykjavik-based gallery i8, is cock-ahoop about Iceland’s draw with Portugal on
Tuesday. “We are well chuffed,” Arnarson
says, pointing out proudly that, “with a
population of 331,918, 0.007% of Iceland’s
population is playing for Iceland”. But the
most fervent fans can be found on the stand
of Kerlin Gallery from Dublin, where the
staff are just as stoked about the Republic of
Ireland’s 1-1 draw with Sweden on Monday.
“Every draw is a victory,” declared a jubilant
Kerlin director in a rather philosophical
vein, prompting a round of singing from the
gallery crew, who chanted in unison: “Come
on you boys in green! Come on you boys
in green!” Passing fairgoers from non-Irish
regions looked delighted, if bemused.
Have a swinging time in Prouvé’s prototype
Paris-based Galerie Patrick Seguin
has brought two structures by Jean
Prouvé to Design Miami/Basel. One
of them, the Maxéville Design Office
(1948), has a racy past: it once
housed a swingers’ club called XY.
The gallery’s co-owner Laurence
Seguin explained that the prototype
was set up in 1952 and taken over
as an abandoned building by the
French state when the factory with
which it was associated closed in
1983. Since then, it has housed a
restaurant, a heating engineering company and, from 2013 to 2015, the XY Swingers Club. (Displayed
behind the structure is a grateful postcard sent to the club’s proprietors; it ends with “super temps”.)
A timeline near the structure states that it was also home to “Le Bounty relaxation center (Hammam,
Spa)”, from 2006 to 2012. Was that not a sex thing too? “Ehhhhh,” Seguin replied. “Yes?” Fortunately,
the whole structure has been remodelled with new materials. It is for sale for $3.8m. Another Prouvé
structure downstairs, the Villejuif temporary school, has a considerably less colourful history. It is on
sale for $3.5m.
CÉSAR
IN
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May 5 – July 2, 2016
César, Compression de cartons murale, 1975
© 2016 César/SBJ/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
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ROTH: LOUISA BUCK. ANGST: NADINE FRACZKOWSKI. VARELAS: COURTESY OF THE BREEDER, ATHENS. FOOTBALL: GARETH HARRIS. PROUVÉ: COURTESY OF GALERIE PATRICK SEGUIN
If your idea of fun includes smoking, shaving
and birds of prey, you should head to the
Kunsthalle Basel to see performances
from Angst—a new “exhibition-as-opera”
by the German artist Anne Imhof. The
show is staged in a darkened room with an
installation consisting of paintings, a hot
tub-like structure, elongated punching bags
that stretch to the ceiling and falcons, as well
as cans of shaving cream and Pepsi-Cola.
The performers pose in and around the hot
tub, stomp around and feed each other cigarettes. According to the gallery, the show is
inspired by “the gestuality in [the French film
director] Robert Bresson’s films… the coded
languages of the doormen at the legendary
Robert Johnson nightclub in Offenbach,
where [Imhof] once worked, and the
task-like movements of New York’s historic
Judson Dance Theater”. Be warned: it’s not
easy, stepping around the dancers to see the
rest of the show, but that’s angst for you.
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FEATURES
Craft
CRAFT
goes wild
in Basel
Bee glue, ice-cast glass and
dead flowers: just a few of the
materials to see at Design
Miami/Basel. By Nicole Swengley
RUSAK: SIXMORETHANFORTY
Marcin Rusak
polishes a piece
that uses his
signature technique
of encasing flowers
in resin
vative techniques using natural materials such as
wood, sand, salt, clay, flowers and ice. Harrington,
for example, sculpts ice to cast into glass, Huissoud works with bee resin, and the glass artist
Jochen Holz uses lamp-working, a rare technique
in which a torch or lamp is used to melt the glass
to create vases, glasses and jugs.
The UK’s Crafts Council worked with the New
Craftsmen gallery, Craft Scotland and the Ruthin
Craft Centre to bring Nature Lab to Design Miami/
Basel. It is part of A Future Made, a two-year
programme funded by Arts Council England and
assisted by the UK government-supported Great
Britain campaign, aimed at raising the profile of
British craft through international design fairs.
“I’m keen to give a platform to young designers
“All the makers use
their materials to tell a
story. It’s the materials
that engage the makers,
both intellectually and
emotionally”
who are years away from showing in a gallery so
they get exposure to the market and feedback
from collectors and critics,” says the director of
Design Miami/Basel, Rodman Primack.
A similar push to highlight artisanal
craft-makers lay behind the UK Crafts Council’s
fourth appearance at Design Days Dubai in March
and underpins a new initiative, the British Craft
Pavilion, at the forthcoming London Design Fair,
to be held during the London Design Festival in
September. It appears to be a pivotal moment
for such ventures. Events staged to coincide with
London Craft Week (LCW) doubled to 140 in May,
compared with its previous, inaugural edition.
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D
esign fairs and big brands
are embracing the idea
that “craft is cool”, giving
an increasing amount of
space to artisanal work
that is normally only seen
at dedicated craft shows.
At Design Miami/Basel
this week, Galerie Maria Wettergren in Paris is
showing the Danish designer Rasmus Fenhann’s
origami-inspired Hikari Contrahedron lamp, made
from elm veneer and Japanese paper, and a wovenbeech ottoman by the Japanese designer Akiko
Kuwahata. London’s Sarah Myerscough Gallery is
exhibiting a sculptural table and chair by Joseph
Walsh as well as cabinets from Peter Marigold’s
2014 Bleed series, in which the designer created a
“localised ebonising” effect by removing the protective coating from the steel hardware and allowing the metal to react with the wood. Remarkable
textiles by the Colombian studio Hechizoo are
being shown by New York’s Cristina Grajales
Gallery, while Moderne Gallery of Philadelphia is
devoting its stand to raw-wood creations by the US
designer-craftsman George Nakashima.
At the fair, raw nature is radically transformed by six British craft-makers—Marcin
Rusak, Marlène Huissoud, Eleanor Lakelin, Emily
Gardiner, Joseph Harrington and Jochen Holz—in
Nature Lab, one of the “curiosity cabinets” staged
throughout Design Miami/Basel as part of its
Design Curio platform. Each has developed inno-
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FEATURES
THREE TO SEE:
DESIGN MIAMI/BASEL
Craft
Marcin Rusak
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Akiko Kuwahata’s
woven beech
ottoman, on
Galerie Maria
Wettergren’s stand
Inventing sustainable materials is the French-born,
London-based designer’s passion. She transforms
fibres from sericin, a protein extracted from
silkworm cocoons, into a paper that resembles thin
leather or wood. Her tables made from sunflower
oil waste were presented at Vienna Design Week
in 2015. At Design Miami/Basel, visitors can expect
to see her one-off Bee and Tree vases, made from
propolis—a honeybee glue—which is processed into
a material that can be hand-blown like glass.
Eleanor Lakelin
design-art. “Craft remains undervalued,” says Beverley Rider, an arts consultant and trustee of the
UK’s Crafts Council. “Gallery representation will
increase in tandem with value. The emergence of
a more visible secondary market will also boost
collectors’ confidence.”
Craft Futures, a survey of British craft-makers published in May, found that 46% cited the
lack of sales outlets as their key challenge. Most
sell directly from studios to a small, defined
audience. Nearly half (43%) of the respondents
wanted gallery representation even though 57%
already sell overseas. Many feel greater communication about the true cost of production is
needed, and had mixed emotions about mainstream brands appropriating the language of
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Aeroplastics, Valérie Bach, Albert Baronian, Bernier-Eliades,
Didier Claes, Dauwens & Beernaert, dépendance, Dvir, Feizi,
Marie-Laure Fleisch, Pierre Marie Giraud, Gladstone, Hopstreet,
Xavier Hufkens, Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Rodolphe Janssen,
Keitelman, Harlan Levey Projects, Maniera, Greta Meert,
Meessen De Clercq, Jan Mot, MOT International, Nathalie Obadia,
Office Baroque, Almine Rech, Michel Rein, Sorry We’re Closed,
Stems, Micheline Szwajcer, Daniel Templon, Caroline Van Hoek
With the
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craft. “Curating has an important role to play in
achieving greater clarity,” says Mark Henderson,
the co-founder of the New Craftsmen. “The term
‘craft’—like ‘luxury’—is a word much bandied
about so it’s important to contextualise a craft’s
qualities and beauty and show people how wonderful a piece would look at home as our Mayfair
gallery aims to do.”
But reaching new collectors requires
collaborative effort. “Sponsorship is needed to
enable craft to be shown internationally, in a
contemporary way, within cultural spaces,” says
Rosy Greenlees, the president of World Crafts
Council Europe. With fairs like Design Miami/
Basel responding to the challenge, it can’t be long
before collectors get the message.
Lakelin trained at the London College of Furniture
and spent a decade working as a cabinet-maker before discovering her metier as a creator of organic,
wooden vessels made from trees felled in Britain.
Her ash, sycamore and horse-chestnut creations
explore timber’s inherent nature, creating textural
effects through hand-carving and sandblasting. Her
work has featured at fairs such as Art Monte-Carlo,
Collect and Decorex. She will present three new
vessels at Design Miami/Basel. N.S.
Eleanor Lakelin at work in her studio
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LCW’s chairman, Guy Salter, plans to make the
event more international in 2017, aiming for half
of participants to come from overseas, particularly from Japan. A “refreshed” Collect international crafts fair is due to be held in February
2017 at the Saatchi Gallery in London after the UK
Crafts Council, the event’s organiser, decided to
take a break in 2016.
Future Heritage is another significant “in-fair”
showcase for crafts. Its third edition, which is
due to take place in September in London at the
interiors fair, Decorex International, will feature
makers working with ceramics, glass, wood,
textiles and silver. “Collectable crafts were previously an overlooked area but the market is taking
notice; we felt the time was right to include
them,” says Decorex’s brand director, Simone Du
Bois. In 2015, she launched the Decorex Future
Heritage grant to build on the showcase’s success.
The inaugural awards went to Marcin Rusak and
the glass artist Shelley James.
“We are increasingly seeing craft at design fairs
because, unlike some contemporary design, it
isn’t about ego,” says Corinne Julius, the curator of
Future Heritage. “All the makers use their materials to tell a story. It’s the materials that engage the
makers, both intellectually and emotionally.”
Major brands are also recognising that “craft
is cool”. The Spanish luxury fashion house Loewe
recently launched its Loewe Foundation craft
prize, while Nike, Vivienne Westwood and the
online fashion retailer Yoox collaborated with
craft-artisans during the Salone del Mobile in
Milan in April.
Despite the growing popularity of craft, few
high-end galleries represent its makers (Gagosian
Gallery’s representation of British ceramicist
Edmund de Waal and Victoria Miro’s of Grayson
Perry are exceptions), primarily because craft
generally commands lower prices than art or
The winner of the 2015 Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon
Prize, Rusak’s innovative techniques decoratively
reuse waste flowers. A pollen-painted textile,
stained with discarded flowers, slowly fades as
pigments naturally dissolve. And dried flowers,
submerged in a special resin, re-emerge as surface
decoration in his Flora series of tables and lamps.
Work by the London-based Polish designer was
shown in March at Design Days Dubai, and his new
Flora lamp can be found at Design Miami/Basel.
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Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach
Bortolami, New York
Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
The Breeder, Athens
Browse & Darby, London
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Lugano
CarrerasMugica, Bilbao
Carpenters Workshop Gallery,
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casati gallery, Chicago
David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach
Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables
Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
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Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
CRG Gallery, New York
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna
Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Douglas Dawson, Chicago
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
Flowers Gallery, London, New York
Forum Gallery, New York, Beverly Hills
Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
Geary Contemporary, New York
Graphicstudio, Tampa
Alexander Gray Associates,
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Richard Gray Gallery,
Chicago, New York
Christopher Grimes Gallery,
Santa Monica
GRIMM, Amsterdam
Kavi Gupta, Chicago
Hacket | Mill, San Francisco
Leila Heller Gallery, New York, Dubai
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Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
HOSTLER BURROWS, New York
Edwynn Houk Gallery,
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Jenkins Johnson Gallery,
San Francisco, New York
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Pearl Lam Galleries,
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Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami
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Matthew Marks Gallery,
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Marlborough Chelsea, New York
The Mayor Gallery, London
McCormick Gallery, Chicago
Anthony Meier Fine Arts,
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Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
THE MISSION, Chicago
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Johannesburg, Cape Town
Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel
MOT International, Brussels, London
Carolina Nitsch, New York
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Stockholm
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Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago
Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul
P.P.O.W, New York
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Eduardo Secci Contemporary,
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Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix
William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis
Jessica Silverman Gallery,
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Design Miami/Basel
Design Miami branches out in Basel
Thought the fair was all about French Modernism? Director Rodman Primack, who
has doubled the size of its cutting-edge Design Curio section, wants you to think again.
Interview by Hannah McGivern
D
esign Miami/Basel is “diversifying a little bit more every year”,
says Rodman Primack, the director of the Miami Beach- and
Basel-based sister fairs since 2014. Although three new exhibitors
are participating in the 11th Basel edition this year, the emphasis is on quality—and variety—over quantity, he says. With 46
galleries in the main section and eight (up from four last year) in
the more experimental Design Curio programme, the fair aims to look beyond
the mid-century French “backbone” of the collectible design market to present
“a broader perspective on the 20th and 21st centuries”. Here, the director selects
some of the highlights on the stands.
Ai Weiwei, Rebar in
Gold (2013)
LIMITED EDITION IN TWO LENGTHS
(EXACT NUMBER UNKNOWN); €50,000
FOR 20CM, €120,000 FOR 60CM
Elisabetta Cipriani, London
The 2013 collection of delicate, 24carat gold jewellery by the Chinese
artist Ai Weiwei refers to one of his
most emotionally and physically
weighty works, Straight (2008-12). The
installation of 90 tonnes of straightened steel rebar, salvaged from the
ruins of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake,
commemorates more than 5,000
school children who died in the
disaster. Rebar in Gold—shown by Elisabetta Cipriani, a London-based dealer
in artists’ jewellery, in Ai’s vitrines
of Chinese huali wood—invites the
wearer to twist a 20cm or 60cm length
of soft gold into a bracelet. Each handcut length is unique and comes with a
certificate of authenticity.
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Studio Mumbai/Bijoy Jain,
Illumination Study I (2016)
UNIQUE ITEM; €22,000
Maniera, Brussels
Two-year-old Maniera gallery from
Brussels, which has graduated to the
fair’s main section after participating
in Design Curio last year, works with
architects and artists on limited-edition furniture and design objects. Half
of the duo commissioned for its 2016
programme is the Indian architect
Bijoy Jain, whose team at Studio
Mumbai includes as many craftsmen
as architects. Jain drew inspiration
from the tazia, a symbolic bamboo
tomb carried in Muslim processions
in India, to make this conceptual light
fixture with no bulb. Bound by pink
silk threads, the object’s slender frame
is “illuminated” by gold leaf.
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Poul Henningsen,
fluorescent lamp (1959)
TWO OF FIFTEEN EXAMPLES;
€120,000 EACH
Dansk Møbelkunst, Copenhagen
and Paris
The late Danish lighting designer Poul
Henningsen created 15 experimental
fluorescent lamps for The House of Tomorrow, a 1959 exhibition in Copenhagen of a futuristic home. Never intended for mass production, the lamp was
based on his layered, light-diffusing
Artichoke pendant from the previous
year. The undersides of its aluminium
“leaves” were painted in white, yellow
and red shades that glow blue, green
and orange when lit by an ultraviolet
bulb. The Danish design gallery Dansk
Møbelkunst is showing a pair of the
lamps to best psychedelic effect in its
darkened, photopaper-lined booth, as
part of the Design Curio programme.
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Alain Richard,
816 sideboard (1961)
ONE OF FIVE EXAMPLES; €60,000
Galerie Pascal Cuisinier, Paris
The French post-war public was not
ready to appreciate the charms of chipboard when the young designer Alain
Richard produced this 3m sideboard in
the then-new material in 1961. Based
on a design for Richard’s 800 series
(1957), it is the only known survivor of
a set of five. The 2.4m-long version of
the sideboard is a permanent fixture at
the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
The high tubular frame was intended
to spare housewives the indignity of
bending to open the doors, the dealer
Pascal Cuisinier says.
Faye Toogood in
collaboration with
Lapicida, Archetypes/Loose
Fabric Fireplace (2014)
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EDITION OF EIGHT PLUS ONE ARTIST’S
PROOF; £52,000
Gallery FUMI, London
Commissioned by London’s Gallery
FUMI to produce a limited-edition
fireplace, the young British designer Faye Toogood made tactile
maquettes in materials including
cardboard, clay, paper, wood and
black packing tape. The UK-based
specialist stonemasons Lapicida
3D-scanned and scaled up Toogood’s
arc of thick, loosely draped fabric into
this Portuguese limestone design,
which is reminiscent of a sculpture
by Louise Bourgeois. The piece
reflects Toogood’s growing interest
in experimenting with textiles. In
2014, the designer launched a capsule
collection of unisex coats during Paris
Fashion Week with her sister Erica, a
Savile Row-trained pattern cutter.
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Diego Giacometti,
Chambre à livres
(bedroom of books, 1967-69)
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UNIQUE ITEM; €2.5M
Galerie Jacques Lacoste, Paris
The Parisian dealer Jacques Lacoste
has transformed his stand into the
elegant Ile St-Louis apartment of Marc
Barbezat, the first publisher of the
existentialists, including Jean Genet
and Jean-Paul Sartre. Almost a decade
after printing Genet’s essay about
Alberto Giacometti’s Montparnasse
studio, Barbezat commissioned a
suite of furniture from the Swiss
sculptor’s younger brother, Diego.
This gold-patina bronze corner library
was designed to display the publisher’s personal collection of books
and manuscripts in his bedroom.
Giacometti, who often worked with
natural motifs inspired by the Alpine
landscape of his childhood, topped
each leg with a bird or miniature tree.
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INTERVIEW
Artist
Jonas Mekas:
the film-maker’s
film-maker
their homeland but were caught by the Nazis
and taken to a forced labour camp in Germany.
After the war, they spent “four or five years in a
displaced persons camp”, says Mekas, describing
it as a “very similar situation to today”.
“There wasn’t much to do” in the camps, so
Mekas used his camera to “record life”, capturing
the melancholy of displacement as well as
random moments of joy. A selection of the
photographs is on show at Art Basel with James
Fuentes, priced at $10,000 each in an edition
of five. “They are a unique record, because not
much exists from those camps,” Mekas says. “It’s
a glimpse into the realities of that period.”
In 1949, the International Refugee Organization
brought the brothers to New York, where
they settled in Brooklyn and quickly became
By Charlotte Burns
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1944
1949
1954
1958
1962
1964
1964
2007
Born in the farming village of
Semeniskiai, Lithuania
Mekas and his brother Adolfas are taken
by the Nazis to a forced labour camp in
Elmshorn, Germany
The International Refugee Organization
takes the Mekas brothers to New York.
They settle in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The brothers launch the influential
magazine Film Culture
Mekas becomes the first film critic of
the Village Voice, focusing on noncommercial cinema (an anthology of his
now-legendary Movie Journal column
was recently reissued by Columbia
University Press)
Founds the Film-Makers’ Cooperative
His film The Brig is awarded the Grand
Prize at the Venice Film Festival
Mekas launches the Film-Makers’
Cinematheque, which expands to
become the Anthology Film Archives,
housing the most extensive library of
experimental cinema in the world
He completes a series of 365 short films
released on the internet, one per day
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“
n my life and work, I choose to
celebrate the beautiful. I’ve seen
enough horror, so why put it
in films or on paper?” asks the
nonagenarian artist Jonas Mekas,
also known as the “godfather
of avant-garde cinema”. “Others
concentrate on the dark,
depressing aspects of humanity—and there’s a
lot to document because humanity today is pretty
horrible. But there are still fragments of paradise
around us and we have to keep them alive. That
is my responsibility. That is simply what I do.”
Born on Christmas Day in Lithuania, amid the
turmoil of inter-war Europe, Mekas has led an
extraordinary life. “It’s a complicated story,” he
says, with a shrug that is almost audible. After
joining the resistance during the Second World
War, he and his brother Adolfas had to flee
Timeline
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JONAS MEKAS
A photo taken by
Jonas Mekas in
1948, showing
refugees at Kassel
railway station,
Germany, waiting
to be transported
to another
displaced persons
camp. The work
is on show with
James Fuentes at
Art Basel
Julian Schnabel
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detail of Ascension IA, 2015
inkjet print and spray paint on polyester
269.2 cm x 200.7 cm | 8' 10" x 6' 7"
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Artist
Continued from p16
Jonas Mekas’s plea to
Hollywood: help expand
New York film archive
enmeshed in the avant-garde film movement:
“We got involved immediately and totally. It’s a
magnificent obsession,” says Mekas, who will be
in conversation this week with Bernd Scherer, the
director of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
A pivotal figure in the downtown arts scene,
Mekas was a catalyst for other artists, including
Andy Warhol, whom he inspired to make films
(Mekas operated the camera for Empire (1964),
Warhol’s eight-hour meditation on the Empire
State Building). And he was on first-name terms
with the former First Lady Jackie Kennedy, who
asked him to tutor her children in film and
photography.
“I consider it all very normal—it was part of
one’s life,” says Mekas, who is a prolific poet
and writer (his Lithuanian poetry is now part
of that country’s classic literature). “Whatever
I did, I did it because nobody else was doing it,”
he says. “Nobody was writing about independent
cinema, so I had to start a movie journal. Nobody
was screening our films, so I had to start the
Film-Makers’ Cinematheque. There was no film
magazine, so I had to do that. It was always from
necessity because otherwise why do it?”
Without Mekas, “experimental film is
unthinkable”, says Stuart Comer, the chief
curator of media and performance art at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York. A pioneer
of the diary film, Mekas documented his return
to his homeland 27 years after leaving in
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-72),
part of Art Basel’s film programme. Officials
from the Soviet Union, which annexed Lithuania
during the war, tried to make Mekas destroy the
work because, he says, “I was not showing the
progress or achievements of the Soviet Union.
I was totally somewhere else—I was in the
Lithuania of my childhood.”
Mekas is fundraising for a $6m expansion of the
Anthology Film Archives, which he founded in New
York in 1969. “I want to share and preserve for those
who will come after us those films I enjoyed,” he
says. He plans to build a library to document paper
materials (the film library already exists) chronicling
the history of cinema over the past 100 years on top of
the existing building, as well as a café.
“Preserving the anthology is like preserving the
New York we all love,” says James Fuentes, whose
gallery represents Mekas. The artist has secured $3m
towards the renovation, and various artists, including
Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Serra and
Matthew Barney, have pledged to contribute works
to an auction in New York this autumn to help raise
funds for the project.
Mekas is also calling on the film community to
help. “During the past 30 years, we have shown
many first works by film-makers who later became
successful in Hollywood, and I feel like they should
help me build this library,” he says. “But somehow
my efforts to reach them always end up in zero. I do
not understand—they should not stay on the outside
watching how I struggle to build it. Sometimes it is
frustrating, but I consider that it is like a cathedral of
cinema and I am determined,” he says. “I know it will
one day be finished because many cathedrals took a
long time to build.” C.B.
“Only with technology
can you access the
certain sensibilities and
realities of your time”
These early
photographs by
Mekas, taken in
Germany after the
end of the Second
World War, include
an image (left)
of the artist with
his brother and
a friend in 1945.
They are on show
at Art Basel with
James Fuentes
Throughout his career, Mekas has been quick
to adopt new media. “Only with technology can
you access the certain sensibilities and realities
of your time. Perceptions of reality change with
technology,” he says. “Everything in the 19th
century was slow; now everything is fast and
multi-layered. New digital technology permits
you to go into any situation and not force
anything on that reality, but very casually, to
capture its completeness.”
He says distribution and dissemination today is
essential because, “as bad as the world is, it’s more
like one piece than [it was] in the 1960s because
of technologies, which I believe will help to unite
it. Of course, it’s like a knife; you can use it to cut
bread and serve family and friends, or to kill.”
Comer credits Mekas with building “a magical
community at the crossroads of avant-garde
film, Fluxus, Pop and the underground that
continues to be a life force for many young artists
today.” This spirit of collaboration is driven by
a fundamental optimism: “I trust and follow
those who lived before me—the poets, singers,
artists, musicians, scientists and saints who did
everything so that humanity would become more
beautiful,” Mekas says. “Every moment I am
not dead I am thinking about how not to betray
them. I have to help continue their work.”
• Film: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-72),
Jonas Mekas, Thursday 16 June, 8pm, Stadtkino Basel
• Artist talk: Jonas Mekas in conversation with Bernd Scherer,
Saturday 18 June, 2pm, Auditorium, Hall 1
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Art Basel week: 14-19 June 2016
○ Basel
Three to see
1
Fondation Beyeler
Fondation Beyeler
Baselstrasse 101, CH-4125 Riehen, Basel
• Calder & Fischli/Weiss
UNTIL 4 SEPTEMBER
Sculpture on the Move:
1946-2016
Kunstmuseum Basel and Museum
für Gegenwartskunst
• From Brancusi and Beuys
to Bourgeois and Barney, this
mammoth survey across two
venues takes in the full scope of
post-war sculpture.
3
Michael Landy:
Out of Order
Museum Tinguely
• The British artist’s first
museum retrospective includes
his infamous work Break
Down (2001), for which Landy
destroyed all his possessions, as
well as Credit Card Destroying
Machine (2010), which does
what the title says.
Ausstellungsraum Klingental
Kasernenstrasse 23
Die Bande: the White Cube Hotel
UNTIL 19 JUNE
www.ausstellungsraum.ch
Depot Basel
Voltastrasse 43
Superproject: What is Contemporary?
UNTIL 10 JULY
depotbasel.ch
Fondation Beyeler
Baselstrasse 101
Calder and Fischli/Weiss (see right)
UNTIL 4 SEPTEMBER
Continued on p24
ALEXANDER CALDER,
SMALL SPHERE AND
HEAVY SPHERE (1932/33)
“Don’t miss Calder’s first
hanging mobile, which is
activated around once an hour.
Calder’s directions were that
the viewer should determine
the arrangement of the bottles,
tin can, wooden box and so on,
with no artist-prescribed, final
composition. It’s incredibly
radical, even today.”
Alexander Calder’s grandson picks his favourite
works in the artist’s joint show with Fischli/Weiss
Calder & Fischli/Weiss
• Balance, movement and the
potential for things to fall apart
link the Modernist mobilemaker and the contemporary
conceptualists in this original
pairing of artists.
2
Beyeler gets the
balance right
Calder and Fischli/
○ Alexander
Weiss, now on show at the
Fondation Beyeler, seem an unlikely
pairing for an exhibition. What does
the Modernist mobile-maker have
in common with the contemporary
conceptual collaborators? Balance,
movement and the potential for things
to fall apart, says the show’s curator,
Theodora Vischer.
The obvious link, and “what one
thinks of first”, Vischer says, is Fischli/
Weiss’s Equilibres series (1984-87)—
photographs of precariously balanced
sculptures made out of household
items. Or their film The Way Things
Go (1987), with its 30-minute chain
reaction made using everyday objects
(which will be shown in a vitrine
alongside the film for the first time).
But instead, it was the Swiss duo’s
Questions (2002-03)—a projection in a
dark room of “simple, so-called small
questions that are suddenly quite deep
and touching”—which Vischer likens
to losing yourself in a room of Calder’s
mobiles. “[You] perceive them not only
as single works, but as a whole entity
of different correspondences,” she says.
Peter Fischli (David Weiss died in
2012) “was very much involved and
engaged with this project”, Vischer
says, as was the Calder Foundation in
New York, which has lent around half
of the works by the artist that are on
show. Here, Alexander S. C. Rower, the
foundation’s president and Calder’s
grandson, selects some of his favourite
works in the exhibition.
José da Silva
ALEXANDER CALDER,
RED DISC AND GONG (1940)
ALEXANDER CALDER, UNTITLED (1937)
“Last year was
the first time
this work had
been exhibited
since 1937, so
it is a special
moment for
Calder scholars,
who will know
it only from
vintage photographs. Don’t
be fooled into
thinking it’s a
proto-mobile:
Calder had
been making hanging mobiles for years before exploring this idea of two-dimensional
paintings in motion.”
PETER FISCHLI & DAVID WEISS,
EQUILIBRIUM ORGAN (EAR) (1986)
PETER FISCHLI & DAVID WEISS,
DER LAUF DER DINGE (THE WAY
THINGS GO) (1987)
“It’s strange to exhibit objects used to create
a temporal work. Even the artists’ famous
film itself is not the work of art. The obvious
parallel with Calder is the collection of objects
from his Cirque Calder performance [192631], which are in a glass tank at the Whitney
Museum of American Art in New York.”
“One of my favourite moments in the
exhibition is a small transitional gallery
containing these two works. Calder’s
piece is a sound-making mobile, not
shown since 1965, that was made for
his Connecticut studio. I remember as a
child how it would only very occasionally
go ‘bang!!!’, unexpectedly activated by
a gust of wind coming through the open
windows. Fischli/Weiss’s sculpture is not
about sound, but about balance, just as
Calder’s is less about balance than about
sound. It’s a wonderful juxtaposition and
an elegant joke.”
○
SMALL SPHERE AND RED DISC: © CALDER FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, 2016. UNTITLED: PHOTO: TIM NIGHSWANDER; © CALDER FOUNDATION, NEW YORK, 2016. THE WAY THINGS GO: PHOTO: FONDATION BEYELER; © PETER FISCHLI AND DAVID WEISS. EQUILIBRIUM: PHOTO: FISCHLI/WEISS ARCHIV, ZÜRICH; © PETER FISCHLI AND DAVID WEISS
Listings are arranged
alphabetically by area.
Commercial galleries
are marked W
Antikenmuseum Basel und
Sammlung Ludwig
St. Alban-Graben 5
A Project of Art Basel Parcours
June 14–18, 11 am to 9 pm
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Continued from p23
Anthax Collection Marx: Picasso
Basel and its surrounding towns and cities
UNTIL 14 AUGUST
Roni Horn: the Selected Gifts
Mulhouse
UNTIL 1 JANUARY 2017
GERMANY
FRANCE
Freilager-Platz 9, Basel-Münchenstein
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence
(see below)
UNTIL 3 JULY
W Laleh June Galerie
Winterthur
Basel
UNTIL 28 AUGUST
www.haus-ek.org
Zürich
Aarau
Historisches Museum Basel/
Museum für Geschichte
SWITZERLAND
Barfüsserplatz
Genevan Timepieces in Basel
Berowergut Baselstrasse 71,
Riehen
Róza El-Hassan and Martha Rosler:
Future‘s Dialect
www.kunstraumriehen.ch
Weil am Rhein
Altkirch
Haus der Elektronische Künste
W Kunst Raum Riehen
Picassoplatz 4
Star Rider: Cris Faria, Reza Panahi,
Marine Provost, Marc Rembold,
Philippe Zumstein
W Nicolas Krupp
Contemporary Art
UNTIL 28 AUGUST
Lucerne
UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER
www.hmb.ch/museum-geschichte.html
UNTIL 25 JUNE
www.nicolaskrupp.com
W Stampa
Bern
Kunstforum Baloise
Spalenberg 2
Till Velten: Mirrors, Chains,
Transitions
Aeschengraben 21
Jenni Tischer: Meeting Point
UNTIL 28 OCTOBER
UNTIL 9 JULY
www.baloise.com
Sculpture on the Move: 1946-2016
Schaulager
Kunsthalle Basel
UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER
Reinhard Mucha
Steinenberg 7
Yngve Holen: Vertical Seat
UNTIL 16 OCTOBER
www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
Ruchfeldstrasse 19
Zita-Schapa: Chamber Piece by
Katharina Fritsch and Alexej
Koschkarow
Museum Tinguely
www.schaulager.org
W Galerie Carzaniga
www.tony-wuethrich.com
Schwarzwaldallee
Gemsberg 8 + 10
Julius Bissier and Flavio Paolucci
UNTIL 19 JUNE
W Vitrine Basel
UNTIL 14 AUGUST
Anne Imhof: Angst
UNTIL 21 AUGUST
www.kunsthallebasel.ch
Kunsthaus Baselland
St Jakob-Strasse 170
Christiane Löhr
UNTIL 17 JULY
Jonathan Monk
UNTIL 17 JULY
Jan van der Ploeg
UNTIL 17 JULY
Matthias Huber
UNTIL 31 DECEMBER
www.kunsthausbaselland.ch
Kunstmuseum Basel
St Alban-Graben 16
Tobias Stimmer
UNTIL 17 JULY
Barnett Newman: Drawings and Prints
UNTIL 7 AUGUST
Sculpture on the Move: 1946-2016
Paul Sacher-Anlage 2
Michael Landy: Out of Order
UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER
www.tinguely.ch
Art Basel: Parcours
Site-specific works by 19
artists, installed in and around
Münsterplatz, in the historic
centre of Basel
Trisha Baga, Daniel Gustav
Cramer, Andrew Dadson, Michael
Dean, Jim Dine, Sam Durant,
Alberto Garutti, Alfredo Jaar,
Hans Josephsohn, Ilya and Emilia
Kabakov, Eva Kotátková, Allan
McCollum, Iván Navarro, Virginia
Overton, Tabor Robak, Tracey
Rose, Bernar Venet, Michael Wang
and Lawrence Weiner
UNTIL 19 JUNE
www.artbasel.com/basel/the-show
UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER
UNTIL 2 OCTOBER
Voltastrasse 41
In a Good Shape: Brigham Baker,
Martin Chramoster, David Hanes,
Sonia Kacem
UNTIL 16 JULY
www.schwarzwaldallee.ch
Schweizerisches
Architekturmuseum
Steinenberg 7
André M. Studer
UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER
www.sam-basel.org
Skulpturhalle
Mittlerestrasse 17
Amin El Dib: from the Fragility
of Existence
UNTIL 3 JULY
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Münsterplatz 20
Tallies, Pots and Costumes
UNTIL 27 AUGUST
Malzgasse 20
Jitto: Tabaimo,Tat Ito, Ataru Sato,
Ryo Shinagawa, Kyoko Suematsu
The Printed Room:
Works off Paper
www.annemoma.com
W Art Room 9
www.mkb.ch
Museum für Gegenwartskunst
St Alban, Rheinweg 60
UNTIL 24 JUNE
UNTIL 27 AUGUST
UNTIL 27 AUGUST
www.salts.ch
UNTIL 30 JUNE
www.carzaniga.ch
W Galerie Gisèle Linder
Elisabethenstrasse 54
John Beech
www.galerielinder.ch
W Galerie Hilt
Ramada Plaza, Messeplatz 12
Wolfgang Beltracchi
UNTIL 17 JUNE
www.art-room9.de
Manifesta
Various venues, Zurich
• It’s all about work (and
probably some play) at this
year’s edition of the roving
biennial, organised by the
artist Christian Jankowski.
Venues include Cabaret
Voltaire, the birthplace of the
Dada movement.
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Francis Picabia:
a Retrospective
Kunsthaus Zurich
• Covering half a century of
Picabia’s work, this survey
forms part of Zurich’s Dada
celebrations. But the artist
also tried his hand at Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism
and “pin-up paintings”.
Provoke: Between
Protest and
Performance—Photography
in Japan, 1960-75
3
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Vogesenstrasse 29
Corsin Fontana and Stefan
à Wengen: a Madrigal
UNTIL 2 JULY
Vogesenplatz
Edwin Burdis: AutoLaque
• Despite publishing just
three issues between 1968
and 1969, the magazine
Provoke came to define postwar Japanese art photography. This show explores the
full context and influence
of the publication. Catch it
now or next year at the Art
Institute of Chicago.
UNTIL 1 OCTOBER
www.vitrinegallery.com
○ Beyond Basel
Zentrum Paul Klee
Monument im Fruchtland 3
Chinese Whispers: New Art from
the Sigg and M+ Sigg Collections
UNTIL 19 JUNE
St Alban-Vorstadt 52
Sonja Sekula: Works on Paper
Switzerland
Paul Klee: Pictures in Motion
UNTIL 22 OCTOBER
AARAU
www.zpk.org
www.galeriehilt.ch
Aargauer Kunsthaus
W Galerie Idea Fixa
Aargauerplatz
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro
Paiva: the Sleeping Eskimo
Feldbergstrasse 38
Sandra Knecht: #Troja
UNTIL 2 JULY
W Galerie Mäder
Hauptstrasse 12, Birsfelden
Lena Henke
Owen Piper and Lili ReynaudDewar on How to Talk Dirty
and Influence People
W Tony Wuethrich Galerie
www.idea-fixa.com
W Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie
UNTIL 28 MAY 2017
St Alban Tal 39
Tribute to Gottfried Honegger
www.skulpturhalle.ch
Salts
Staying in Line: Single Objects in Series
www.stampa-galerie.ch
UNTIL 16 JULY
www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch
UNTIL 10 JULY
W Atelier-Editions Fanal
www.fanal.ch
1
UNTIL 29 JULY
www.lalehjune.com
Rosentalstrasse 28
Stephan Melzl
Erasmus MMXVI: Explosive Writing
Three to see
Claragraben 45
Paul Suter: Straight
to the End
UNTIL 7 AUGUST
Marta Riniker-Radich:
Manor Art Award 2016
UNTIL 7 AUGUST
Caravan 2/2016:
Pauline Beaudemont
LUCERNE
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Europaplatz 1
Lorenzo Mattotti
UNTIL 3 JULY
Sonja Sekula, Max Ernst,
Jackson Pollock and Friends
UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER
www.aargauerkunsthaus.ch
Collectors: Works from the
Museum’s Collection and a
Private Collection in Geneva
www.galeriemaeder.ch
Stadtmuseum Aarau
www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
W Galerie von Bartha
Schlossplatz 23
Democracy: from the Guillotine
to the Like-Button
W Galerie Urs Meile
UNTIL 7 AUGUST
UNTIL 2 JULY
Kannenfeldplatz 6
Christian Andersson
UNTIL 30 JULY
Surrealism and Beyond
UNTIL 19 JUNE 2019
UNTIL 27 NOVEMBER
UNTIL 3 JULY
www.stadtmuseum.ch
Rosenberghöhe 4
Chen Fei: the Day Is Yet Long
UNTIL 30 JULY
www. galerieursmeile.com
BERN
www.vonbartha.com
Kornhausforum
WINTERTHUR
W Graf & Schelble Galerie
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Digital artist sets hearts racing
Kornhausplatz 18
Carl Durheim
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence
UNTIL 1 JULY
www.grafschelble.ch
UNTIL 28 AUGUST
Haus der Elektronischen Künste
www.hek.ch
W Guillaume Daeppen
Gallery for Urban Art
○
The digital artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is on (artistic) home turf with his
show at Haus der Elektronischen Künste.
With no fewer than 11 of his interactive
works on show, from sound sculptures
to data-driven displays, the exhibition reflects on human presence and absence in
times of constant surveillance. The show
includes the artist’s best-known work,
Pulse Room (2006), an installation of hundreds of light bulbs that flash to the heartbeat of participants holding pulse sensors.
Also on show is Lozano-Hemmer’s new
work Redundant Assembly, which scans
the faces of visitors and creates a changing patchwork portrait. A.D.
Spalenvorstadt 14
Cristina Spoerri
www.kornhausforum.ch
Gruzenstrasse 44 and 45
Provoke: Between Protest and
Performance—Photography in
Japan, 1960-75
Kunsthalle Bern
UNTIL 28 AUGUST
Helvetiaplatz 1
Vittorio Brodmann
www.fotomuseum.ch
Müllheimerstrasse 144
Temporary Roomlab:
United Samplings
18 JUNE-28 AUGUST
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
www.kunsthalle-bern.ch
UNTIL 2 JULY
Kunstmuseum Bern
Museumstrasse 52
Richard Tuttle: Kallirroos,
Nicely Flowing
Hodlerstrasse 12
Chinese Whispers: New Art from
the Sigg and M+ Sigg Collections
Matt Mullican: Nothing
Should Exist
www.gallery-daeppen.com
W Hebel 121
Hebelstrasse 121
Jan van der Ploeg and
Riette Wanders
UNTIL 23 JULY
www.hebel121.org
W John Schmid Galerie
Up close and personal: Lozano-Hemmer’s Pulse Index (2010)
UNTIL 7 AUGUST
St Alban Anlage 67
Ian Hamilton Finlay
UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER
www.johnschmidgalerie.ch
UNTIL 24 JUNE
UNTIL 19 JUNE
UNTIL 16 OCTOBER
Katharina Henking
From Giorgio de Chirico to Alighiero
Boetti: Italian Drawings and Prints
from the Collection
UNTIL 2 JULY
Modern Masters: “Degenerate” Art
at the Kunstmuseum Bern
UNTIL 21 AUGUST
Without Restraint: Works by
Mexican Women Artists
from the Daros Latin America
Collection
UNTIL 30 OCTOBER
www.kmw.ch
Kunsthalle Winterthur
Marketgasse 25
Salvatore Arancio: Oh Mexico!
UNTIL 23 OCTOBER
UNTIL 17 JULY
www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
www.kunsthallewinterthur.ch
MAP: KATHERINE HARDY. LOZANO-HEMMER: ALEX DAVIES
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THE ONLINE AUCTION HOUSE
ZURICH
Counter Space
Röschibachstrasse 24,
2nd Floor
Pulleys: Vittorio Santoro
UNTIL 30 JULY
Stage of Meditation:
Qiu Anxiong
Schweizerisches Landesmuseum
Museumstrasse 2
Conrad Gessner 1516-2016
UNTIL 19 JUNE
Swiss Press Photo 16
UNTIL 3 JULY
www.musee-suisse.ch
UNTIL 5 SEPTEMBER
Shedhalle
Sourcing Manifesta
UNTIL 10 SEPTEMBER
Rote Fabrik, Seestrasse 395
#urbancitizenship
www.counterspace.ch
UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER
Haus Konstruktiv
Selnaustrasse 25
Thinking Outside the Box: the
Collection and Guest Interventions
www.shedhalle.ch
W Galerie Andrea Caratsch
W Hauser & Wirth Zürich
Limmatstrasse 270
David Smith:
Form in Colour
UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER
Schwitters Miró Arp
UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER
www.hauserwirth.com
W RaebervonStenglin
Pfingstweidstrasse 23,
Welti-Furrer Areal
Andrew Dadson: Made Visible
UNTIL 22 JULY
Waldmannstrasse 8
Olivier Mosset
www.raebervonstenglin.com
UNTIL 22 JULY
W Scheublein + Bak
www.kunsthallezurich.ch
www.galeriecaratsch.com
Kunsthaus Zurich
W Galerie Bob van Orsouw
Heimplatz 1
Akram Zaatari
Limmatstrasse 270
Boys’ Toys & Girls’ Pearls: 2,000
Years of Art, Design and Collectibles
Schloss Sihlberg,
Sihlberg 10
Dan Holdsworth:
a Future Archaeology
UNTIL 4 SEPTEMBER
UNTIL 31 JULY
Francis Picabia: a Retrospective
UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER
UNTIL 15 OCTOBER
www.bobvanorsouw.ch
www.kunsthaus.ch
W Galerie Eva Presenhuber
LUMA Westbau
Joe Bradley: Canton Rose
Löwenbräukunst, Limmatstrasse 270
Home
UNTIL 27 AUGUST
Walead Beshty
UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER
UNTIL 27 AUGUST
www.westbau.com
Torbjorn Rodland: Matthew Mark
Luke John and Other Photographs
Manifesta
Various venues in Zurich
Manifesta 11: What People Do for
Money—Some Joint Ventures
(see below)
UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER
www.manifesta.org
UNTIL 27 AUGUST
www.presenhuber.com
UNTIL 2 SEPTEMBER
www.scheubleinbak.com
ALTKIRCH
Crac Alsace
18 rue du Château
Natalie Czech: One Can’t Have it
Both Ways and Both Ways Is the
Only Way I Want It
UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER
www.cracalsace.com
MULHOUSE
W Galerie Gmurzynska
La Filature
Paradeplatz 2
Kurt Schwitters:
Merz, designed by Zaha Hadid
20 allée Nathan Katz
Invasive: Sophie Larger
and Stéphanie Buttier
UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER
UNTIL 1 DECEMBER
www.gmurzynska.com
www.lafilature.org
Hoschgasse 3
Real Surreal
W Galerie Mark Müller
La Kunsthalle, Centre d’Art
Contemporain Mulhouse
www.museum-bellerive.ch
Hafnerstrasse 44
Tango Them Basel
UNTIL 23 JULY
Museum für Gestaltung
Ausstellungsstrasse 60
Targets: Herlinde Koelbl
UNTIL 18 SEPTEMBER
www.museum-gestaltung.ch
www.markmueller.ch
W Galerie Nicola von Senger
Limmatstrasse 275
Gelatin: Reborn as Marlon
Brando Lookalike
June 16 to June 30
France
Museum Bellerive
UNTIL 24 JULY
Modern
16 rue de la Fonderie
The Best of Worlds
UNTIL 21 AUGUST
kunsthallemulhouse.com
Germany
WEIL AM RHEIN
Vitra Design Museum
A curation of works by the masters
of Modernism offers a contemporary
view onto the 20th-century aesthetic.
Including works by
GEORGES BRAQUE
ALEXANDER CALDER
PAUL CÉZANNE
MARC CHAGALL
JEAN COCTEAU
LE CORBUSIER
MAX ERNST
Museum Rietberg
UNTIL 16 JULY
Gablerstrasse 15
Dada Africa: Dialogue
with the Other
www.nicolavonsenger.com
UNTIL 9 OCTOBER
ROBERT MARC
UNTIL 17 JULY
Gardens of the World
Zahnradstrasse 21
Vlassis Caniaris
Alexander Girard:
a Designer’s Universe
MARINO MARINI
UNTIL 9 OCTOBER
UNTIL 13 AUGUST
www.rietberg.ch
www.peterkilchmann.com
www.design-museum.de
HENRI MATISSE
W Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Charles-Eames-Strasse 1
Bless No. 56 Worker’s Delight
FRANZ KLINE
JOAN MIRÓ
PABLO PICASSO
MAN RAY
CLAUDE VENARD
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK
& MORE
The watchmaker Adriano Toninelli and the artist Jon Kessler joined forces for The World Has Gone Cuckoo Clock
Zurich goes cuckoo over Manifesta
MANIFESTA: © ANDREW OHANESIAN
the first time since its inaugural edition in 1996, Manifesta is being organised by an
○ For
artist. The roving biennial, which occupies a different European city in each iteration, takes
place in Zurich this year under the direction of the German artist Christian Jankowski. The
100-day event, entitled What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures, presents a historical exhibition, along with new projects by 30 international artists who are creating work in
dialogue with Swiss citizens. Among the artists are Maurizio Cattelan, who has teamed up with
the Paralympic champion Edith Wolf-Hunkeler, the French author Michel Houellebecq, who is
working with Henry Perschak, a medical doctor, and Pablo Helguera, whose project involves the
journalist Daniel Binswanger. G.Ai.
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talks and events
All take place in Hall 1, Messe Basel
Today
CONVERSATIONS
10AM Cultural Institutions’
Response to Migration
Panel discussion with the artist
Adrian Paci, Modern Art Oxford’s
Paul Hobson, Razan Nassreddine
from the Museum für Islamische Kunst and Jusoor’s Maya
Alkateb-Chami. Moderated by the
author András Szántó.
SALON
1PM Artist Talk: Tobias Rehberger
The artist in conversation with
Theodora Vischer from Basel’s
Fondation Beyeler.
2PM Discussion: Uncertainty,
Curating and the Global Present
Jochen Volz, the curator of the
32nd Bienal de São Paulo, in conversation with Frontier Imaginaries’ Vivian Ziherl and the writer
and artist Grada Kilomba.
6PM Discussion: Looting,
the Long View
The artist Ali Cherri in discussion
with the British Museum’s Venetia
Porter, Fiona Rose-Greenland from
the University of Chicago and the
Guggenheim’s Sara Raza. Moderated by the writer and critic Arie
Amaya-Akkermans.
Saturday
CONVERSATIONS
10AM Artist Talk: Artists’ Artists
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Brian Belott
and Damon Zucconi in conversation with the Jodi collective.
Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
SALON
1PM Discussion: Poetry of the
Real—Arts Research
Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s
Bernd Scherer, in discussion with
Kirsten M. Langkilde from Basel’s
Academy of Art and Design.
3PM Artist Talk: Sound Practices
2PM Artist Talk: Jonas Mekas
Basel Abbas and Ruanne AbouRahme in conversation with the
Centre Pompidou’s Marcella Lista.
The artist in conversation with
Bernd Scherer.
4PM Debate: Venture
The artist Jacqueline de Jong in
conversation with the curator
Alison M. Gingeras, Katja Weitering from the Cobra Museum of
Modern Art and Bonnie Clearwater
from the NSU Museum of Art.
Philanthropy or Bust?
Melissa Berman of Rockefeller
Philanthropy Advisors, Stephen
Reily of Creative Capital and the
Swiss Institute’s Simon Castets in
discussion. Moderated by Global
Art Development’s Scott Stover.
5PM Parcours Talk: Race
and Justice
The artists Sam Durant and Tracey
Rose in conversation with the
Museum der Moderne Salzburg’s
Sabine Breitwieser.
6PM Artist Talk: “Victoria Dearest”
Rayyane Tabet talks about his
performance Victoria Dearest.
Friday
CONVERSATIONS
10AM Discussion: Culture
in Urban Development
The artist Alfredo Jaar in discussion with Chantal Pontbriand
from Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Moderated by the
Centre for London’s Ben Rogers.
SALON
3PM Discussion: Artists’ Estates
Today and Tomorrow
4PM Cobra
5PM Discussion: 100 Years Dada
The artist Jonathan Meese in
conversation with the Cabaret
Voltaire’s Adrian Notz.
Sunday
CONVERSATIONS
10AM Artist Talk: the Artist
and the Gallerist
Valentin Carron in conversation
with Galerie Eva Presenhuber’s
Markus Rischgasser. Moderated by
Artspace’s Alexie Glass-Kantor.
SALON
2PM Discussion: Civic
and Art Collaborations
The curator of Parcours, Samuel
Leuenberger, in discussion with
Chus Martínez from the FHNW
Academy of Art and Design, and
Philippe Bischof, the head of
cultural affairs for the canton of
Basel-Stadt. Moderated by
Manifesta’s Francesca Gavin.
○ Taking place
around town
Satellite fairs
Although Art Basel dominates
the landscape, the city is alive
with smaller, more intimate fairs
dedicated to cutting-edge art,
design and photography—well
worth a visit once you’ve had
your fill of blue-chip art.
Liste
Burgweg 15, Basel
www.designmiami.com
Design Miami/Basel has grown
its roster with new exhibitors
this year, but some of the most
talked-about presentations include
an exhibition of vintage cars and a
display of jewellery—or “wearable
sculptures”—designed by the
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei,
on Elisabetta Cipriani’s stand.
The fair’s Design at Large section,
now in its third year, is guestcurated by Martina Mondadori,
the founder and editor-in-chief
of Cabana magazine. Drawing on
natural landscapes, the section’s
offerings will include Jean Prouvé’s
Temporary School of Villejuif,
which is presented by the dealer
and long-time Prouvé collector
Patrick Seguin.
UNTIL 19 JUNE
www.liste.ch
Liste, known for its focus on
emerging art, returns to the former
Warteck brewery for its 21st
edition. This year, the fair welcomes
79 exhibitors—34 bringing
solo presentations—including
first-timers The Sunday Painter,
from Peckham, south London,
and Cairo-based Gypsum Gallery.
Liste’s 12th performance project,
Trans-Corporeal Metabolisms,
features performances by
Keren Cytter and Alexandra
Bachzetsis. Special projects include
interventions organised by the
House of Electronic Arts Basel and
a children’s books presentation
staged in conjunction with
Kunsthalle Zürich.
Photo Basel
Volkshaus Basel,
Rebgasse 12-14, Basel
UNTIL 19 JUNE
www.photo-basel.com
For its second edition, the most
recent arrival on Basel’s fair
circuit has launched a Focus Series
to highlight one photography
publisher, one artist and one
institution each year. Éditions
Xavier Barral, Paris, the German
fine art and fashion photographer
Juergen Teller and the Zurich
University of the Arts are this
year’s choices. The US collective
Screen Projects will organise an
exhibition titled Storyworlds, and
all of this will take place in a new
venue, the Volkshaus Basel.
www.scope-art.com
As Scope Basel celebrates its tenth
anniversary, it is counting on
higher visitor numbers now that it
has moved to a new location, just
three blocks away from Art Basel.
The fair has 85 regular exhibitors
and another ten that are part of
the 16th edition of the Breeder
Program, which specialises in
introducing new galleries to Basel.
Volta12
Markthalle,
Viaduktstrasse 10, Basel
UNTIL 18 JUNE
www.voltashow.com
Seven new exhibitors are taking
part in the 12th Basel edition of
Volta, as well as an increasingly
loyal coterie of regulars. The fair’s
organisers say that they have
hit their highest retention rates
yet—90% of the event’s exhibitors
have taken part in a previous
iteration, in either Basel or New
York. Among the highlights of this
year’s edition is a site-specific wall
painting by the Dutch artist Jan
van der Ploeg, who is also having
his first solo show in Switzerland,
at the Kunsthaus Baselland.
Scope Basel
Hall 1 South, Messe Basel
Clarahuus, Webergasse 34, Basel
UNTIL 19 JUNE
UNTIL 19 JUNE
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