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ALICIA FRAMIS Art Basel Unlimited

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And another ART BASEL week has passed and I am currently looking back at all the shows and art works I have seen and am trying to sort out a coherent blogpost. There is a lot going on in Basel during the Art Basel week: Art Basel, Art Unlimited, Design Miami Basel, Liste, VOLTA, photobasel..
Art Basel brought together 290 premier galleries, presenting works ranging from early 20th century Modern art to the most contemporary pieces.While galleries from Europe continued to be strongly represented, the show featured returning and new exhibitors from across the globe, including Asia, Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and Africa.

ALICIA FRAMIS Art Basel Unlimited

Let’s start with what I loved at ART UNLIMITED. I absolutely loved the work of Alicia Framis represented by the Galeria Juana de Aizpuru in Madrid, Spain. She was born 1967 in Barcelona, Spain and lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her piece is called LifeDress, 2018 and is a mixed media installation with 9 dresses made out of airbag fabric. I found this information on her website:
The Lifedress, 2018 offers a new way for demonstration against sexual harassment and violence towards women, and consists of dresses made out of airbag fabric from cars: a high tech material made in Japan with a high resistance to impacts and fire. Each dress is made to protect against a different form of (sexual) harassment, and designed to change form when intimidation occurs. The work can be seen as a social comment on gender patterns in our society nowadays. Some forms of sexism and ways of speaking about women are so engrained into our society that we hardly notice them anymore or brush them off as ‘locker room banter’. There are myriad ways in which women try to protect themselves in their everyday lives against sexual harassment and violence and these dresses make us aware of this crude reality. Framis employs elements of technology, activism and performance in this new work. With LifeDress she aims to bring women together and open the debate. Framis discusses a serious issue, but through a surrealistic act. New ways of demonstration for women is a topic Framis has been exploring over the past two decades with works such as Anti_dog, 100 Ways to Wear a Flag and Is My Body Public?. These fashion demonstrations are tools to protest against inequality towards women.

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My favorite piece of VOLTA is by Irene Grau, she was represented by Galerie Heike Strelow from Franfurt am Main, Germany. I love the very simple but deep shades of gray and black in her pieces “on what is left”.
IRENE GRAU
Irene Grau’s work speaks about painting and landscape, of process and displacement through rigorous research into the possibilities of monochrome painting and its relation to landscape as both genre and framework, but above all as experimentation; as a way of seeing. All of which is intermixed following the traditions of radical monochrome painting, mural painting, but also the performative processes and the genre of landscape art, which she interprets to a great extent. Often her work develops in series which are the result of a long site-specific research in nature, followed by an extensive work period in her studio where she experiments with different materials and techniques, to be finalized in the exhibition space, where the work is again transferred and transformed in order to create a entity with the specificity of the space. The title of her recent doctoral thesis, The Painter on the Road, perfectly sums up her interest and attitude toward the medium of painting, and Irene Grau’s process could perfectly be described as a conceptual pleinairist, who states that her work is “what remains” of a wider experience, going far beyond the physically traveled landscape or an explored architectural structure. Solely transmitting an experience may well lack of concrete information, yet her work leaves enough hints to the viewer to allow access through process, intervention, and the document thereof, in order to visually and conceptually understand the artist’s modus operandi and artistic questioning and concerns.

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At Design Miami Basel I fell in love with so many furniture pieces and it is therefore really really hard for me to only select one. Therefore I will show you all of my favorites. Also I didnt want to spam you with too much information about each designer and or gallery and thats why there is only a caption below each photo. I hope you liked all the pieces that I have showed you in that blog post and am already looking forward to the Art Basel week 2020.

Design Miami BaselAlain Richard Armchairs 159 / Galerie Pascal Cuisinier 

Design Miami BaselBijoy Jain dining chair / studio mumbai  

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Studio BBPR 1947 / Nilufar gallery

Design Miami BaselNanna Ditzel daybed

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KAREN SARGSYAN

KAREN SARGSYAN at Kers Gallery

So, today I wanna share with you two artists who will be showed by my dutch gallerist friend Annelien Kers at Kers Gallery during the VOLTA art fair in Basel. In case you did not get your free ticket yet, please do so now by using the promo code isawsomethingnice at www.voltashow.com/tickets
Annelien will show Karen Sargsyan and Marc Mulders adn this years VOLTA show in Basel.

KAREN SARGSYAN

ABOUT KAREN SARGSYAN
The base of my work is to show pure essence of human being. I look at the influences that people undergo in their life the same way as I look at a theaterplay. I want to show this play. My work does not consist of static images, but shows an active process. My figures are in the middle of a scene that will change their life. You see the moment when they falter; the moment that every firm idea or thought, suddenly looks different; the moment of wonder. That is the moment human being shows its true nature. The figures are theatrical, compelling and vulnerable as a child. Books or myths often lie at the base of my installations. The figures are caught in the moment, while the scene refers to a history. My installations consist of several three- dimensional figures. They are literally and figuratively layered.

KAREN SARGSYAN

SELECTION OF COLLECTIONS OF KAREN SARGSYAN
Maraya Art Collection, Bonnefanten Museum Art Collection, KRC Collection
AMC Collection, Rabo Art Collection, HVCCA Art Collection, Nederlandse Bank Art Collection, Achmea Art Collection
Prive Art Collections, National Russian Art Collection and Abn Amro Art Collection.

MARC MULDERS

ABOUT MARC MULDERS
The studio of Marc Mulders (1958) is based in a stable in the middle of a field full of wild flowers. Whilst painting in the doorway the bees buzz and the butterflies are fluttering around his donkey. Mulders calls his garden “my own private Giverny” a reference to the famous gardens of Claude Monet, a great example for him. In his pasty almost abstract oil paintings, he follows the course of nature around him: “In the spring and summer I sniff the scents, and in the autumn I paint my head with the echo of that floral splendor. I am driven by the desire for the new flowers that will arise in my field “says Mulders.

MARC MULDERS

SELECTION OF COLLECTIONS OF MARC MULDERS
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Amsterdams Historisch Museum Amsterdam, 
Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam,
Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht, Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Museum De Pont Tilburg, Museum Het Valkhof Nijmegen, Museum Jan Cunen Oss, Museum voor Religieuze Kunst Uden, Nationaal Glasmuseum Leerdam, Noordbrabants Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, TextielMuseum Tilburg Zuiderzeemuseum Enkhuizen, Museum Gouda and Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
Alright, that was it for today and for the ones who are in Basel during Art Basel week I hope to see you at Volta, Liste, Design Miami, photo basel or Art Basel. Have a lovely Art Basel week. X
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VOLTA 13 // AESOP & galleryLOG

VOLTA 13 // AESOP & galleryLOG

VOLTA 13 // AESOP & galleryLOG
VOLTA 13 // AESOP & galleryLOG
Finally the best week of Basel has arrived. The Art Basel week with VOLTA, SCOPE, LISTE, DESIGN MIAMI BASEL and many other side shows. My first blog post about this years Art week is dedicated to VOLTA 13 and their partners AESOP and galleryLOG. Lets start with the AESOP installation by Irena Eden & Stjin Lernout.
German-Belgian artist duo Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout have created a site-specific installation at Aesop’s Spalenberg boutique in Basel, a diaphanous intervention that plays off the building’s architecture in bold, space-defining color and pattern. Their project compliments Eden and Lernout’s solo booth with Krupic Kersting Galerie | Kuk (Cologne) at VOLTA13, which further defines their research into social relationships and cultural cartography via geometric abstraction.

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Eden & Lernout’s site-specific installation at Aesop Spalenberg, photographed by Nicholas Winter.

 

 

 

 

 

VOLTA 13 // AESOP & galleryLOG
For VOLTA13, GalleryLOG has selected Jane Benson (exhibiting with LMAKgallery, New York), Dennis Dawson (exhibiting with frosch&portmann, New York), Erika Harrsch (exhibiting with RoFa Projects, Potomac), and Rachel Owens (exhibiting with ZieherSmith, New York).

Wielding an interdisciplinary and research-based approach, Jane Benson (presented by LMAKgallery, New York) develops multilayered narratives that deftly transform and relate back to their experimental source material. Her recent series Song for Sebald collaged author W.G. Sebald’s novel The Rings of Saturn to create, as noted in a review by ARTnews, “music between the words.”

Dennis Dawson reuses and rearranges media unearthed from consumer catalogues and other magazines, particularly loose pages that bear some prior purpose. By using material already existing materials, Dawson contributes to a dialogue of shared experience and interconnection.

Butterflies are a recurring theme for Erika Harrsch (presented by RoFa Projects, Potomac), as their distinctive shapes and flock patterns become the basis for exploring migration, sexual identity, immigration reform, and physical boundaries.

Consumer culture and environmental concerns imbue the shattered glass and resin sculptures by Rachel Owens (presented by ZieherSmith, New York). As the centerpiece for her recent solo exhibition at the gallery, Owens cast from the Alley Pond Giant, a 130-foot-tall tulip poplar tree in Queens, New York, and considered the tallest and oldest living organism in the city.
I hope that you will find time to check out this years VOLTA show at Markthalle Basel. I will be there today and am sure that I will see lots of nice things for the blog. stay tunded for more. X
VOLTA 13 information
PREVIEW
Monday, June 12
Guest of Honor: 10 – 12 pm
VIP + Press: 12 – 2 pm
PUBLIC VERNISSAGE
Monday, June 12
2 – 7 pm
PUBLIC HOURS
Tuesday – Saturday, June 13 – 17
10 am – 7 pm
Closed on Sunday
LOCATION
Markthalle, Viaduktstrasse 10, Basel
www.voltashow.com
SHUTTLES
Service to and from Art Basel
Tuesday–Saturday, 12 – 6 pm
PUBLIC TRANSIT FROM SBB
Tram Line 1, 2, 8: one stop
300 m (walking distance)
FROM ART BASEL AND LISTE
Tram Line 2 (direction Binningen):
Exit at Markthalle
DRIVING
Exit Highway A2 at Basel City and head towards Bahnhof SBB.
Follow directions towards Parking Elisabethen or Elsässertor

 

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Art Basel Agenda

AGENDA ART WEEK 2016

as I have already announced in previous posts, here is my agenda for the Art Basel week. there are so many events and fairs that it is very important to have a plan and a good overview when which fair starts and ends. the main show is of course Art Basel that only opens to public on Thursday. so until then I am visiting all the other fairs. I made a huge 2D (oldschool) plan that you can also see below. in addition to all the fairs I am attending lots of press conferences and got some awesome chances to interview two designers and an artist. but lets have a look at this years Art Week agenda 2016!
MONDAY: JUNE, 13, 2016
11 AM – 9 PM
ENTER ART FOUNDATION // Messeturm 31.floor
June 13 -15, 2016
2 PM
VOLTA PUBLIC VERNISSAGE
June 13 – 18, 2016
7 PM
LISTE opening // Warteck (Sudhaus)
June 14 – 19, 2016
10 PM
LISTE opening PARTY // Volkshaus (Claraplatz)
TUESDAY: JUNE, 14, 2016
10 AM – 10 PM
Design Miami Basel // Messe Basel Hall 1
June 14 – 19, 2016
10 AM – 7 PM
the solo project // Dreispitzhalle
June 13 – 18, 2016
7 PM
performance project // Kaserne
Alexandra Bachzetsis
WEDNESDAY: JUNE, 15, 2016
11 AM opening
SCOPE new location! WEBERGASSE 34
June 15 – 19, 2016
12 PM opening – 9 PM
photo basel // Volkshaus
June 15 -19, 2016
11 AM – 9 PM last day!
ENTER ART FOUNDATION // Messeturm 31.floor
June 13 -15, 2016
6 PM – 10 PM opening
I NEVER READ – art book fair // Kaserne Basel
June 15 – 18, 2016
THURSDAY: JUNE, 16, 2016

10 AM opening
Art Basel // Messe Basel
June 16 – 19. 2016

5 – 9 PM Markthalle
BASEL NACHT at VOLTA 12
18 CHF or get your free ticket here >>
code: SOMETHINGNICE  // link: www.microspec.com/tix123/eTic.cfm?code=VOLTA1216
6 PM opening
RHY ART FAIR // Saalbau Rhypark (St.Johann)
June 16 – 19, 2016

FRIDAY: JUNE, 17, 2016

11 AM – 9 PM Art Parcour // Münsterplatz

SATURDAY: JUNE, 18, 2016

VOLTA12  last day!
Markthalle 10 AM – 7 PM

the solo project last day!
Dreispitzhalle 10 AM – 7 PM

I NEVER READ last day!
Kaserne 12 PM – 6 PM

SUNDAY: JUNE, 19, 2016

Art Basel, LISTE / photo basel / RHY ART / SCOPE / Design Miami Basel
last day!

Art Basel Agenda
EVENTS:

https://www.artbasel.com/basel/events?showId=351&access=PUBLIC

http://basel2016.designmiami.com/design-talks
I hope this agenda is helpful and I am looking forward to seeing you all on thursday at VOLTA12 BASEL NACHT. (get your free tickets via the blog. all the information is listed above.) have a good art week 2016! X
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A Fashion Collaboration with Pierre Frey

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wow what a cool project – CHROMATROPHIC!
Design Miami/ has partnered with Pierre Frey on a custom textile design to celebrate the fair’s 10 year anniversary. contemporary menswear brand, Hentsch Man has developed the print into a limited run capsule collection of hats, jackets and shoes and american style brand, J. Crew has created a pocket square with the print. Happy Birthday Design Miami/ !

The limited runs of each will be sold on site at Design Miami/ Basel next week.

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about Pierre Frey/ Chromatropic
Founded in 1935 Maison Pierre Frey now has an archive of some 7,000 wallpaper and fabric designs that demonstrate the house’s commitment to fine craft and rich, hand-drawn pattern work. Design Miami/ collaborates with the luxury textile house for its 10th Anniversary to create Chromatropic, a camouflage inspired print collaged from tropical textiles from the Pierre Frey archive and collection. Chromatropic will provide a celebratory identity with a contemporary Miami flavor for the Basel fair, and will also appear in a capsule collection created by Hentsch Man, a fashion label known for its use of prints. The Hentsch Man anorak, hat and sneakers will be available in limited numbers, alongside a specially produced J. Crew Chromatropic pocket square, at the JUNE-Basel pop-up store within Hall 1 Süd.

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