Art 40 Basel: World Art Show Anniversary
March 17, 2009
Art 40 Basel: World Art Show Anniversary
In my mind Art Basel is the premier international art show in the world. And this year, on its 40th anniversary year, it will do doubt out-do itself in splendor.
As per usual, the 40th edition of Art Basel takes place in the culturally-rich city of Basel, Switzerland. The show will be on June 10 – June 14, 2009. Mark that week, and if you can, go there.
As the world’s most important art show, Art Basel is an annual reunion of the international art world. This year’s 300 exhibiting galleries from all over the globe were selected from a record number of more than 1,100 applications, and will be showing works by over 2,500 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Art Unlimited hall, with its 60 large-scale projects, and the Public Art Projects on the exhibition square offer further highlights.
One of the most spectacular events this year will be the presentation of “Il Tempo del Postino” at Theater Basel. Curated and directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno and co-curated by Anri Sala and Rirkrit Tiravanija, a group of leading visual artists will create a major experimental time-based presentation each using up to 15 minutes of exhibition time with the stage assuming the role of the gallery space. Participating artists will include Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, Liam Gillick,Pierre Huyghe, Koo Jeong-A, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
And Basel’s museums once again feature fascinating exhibitions plus a broad range of events.
Founded by a group of local gallerists, the first Art Basel took place in 1970 and has since then become the most prestigious art show worldwide. This 40th anniversary edition of Art Basel begins with a vernissage for invited guests on June 9 and opens to the general public from June 10 through June 14. This annual event regularly attracts some 60,000 artists, collectors, gallerists, curators, and art enthusiasts from across the globe, eager to see the most rigorously chosen overview of the international art market and to meet key movers of the international art scene. Covered by more than 2,300 media representatives, Art Basel enjoys a formidable reputation based both on the quality and diversity of the exhibited art works.
Over 300 of the world’s leading galleries will be exhibiting at Art Basel. The galleries were chosen by the Art Basel Committee, an international jury of renowned gallerists, in accordance with strict quality criteria.
Selected from a record number of more than 1,100 applicants, the sectors Art Galleries, Art Statements, Art Premiere and Art Edition includes 75 galleries from the U.S.; 56 from Germany; 33 from Switzerland; 28 from Great Britain; 26 from France; 22 from Italy; 9 from Spain; 8 from Belgium; 7 from Austria; 5 from Japan; 4 each from Brazil, China and Poland; 3 from the Netherlands; 2 each from Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Mexico, Norway and South Korea; and one each from Argentina, Finland, India, Israel, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, and Turkey.
Art 40 Basel will showcase all forms of artistic expression, including paintings, drawings, editions, and sculptures, installations, photography, performances, and internet and video art. Works costing a few thousand Swiss francs, by emerging artists, will be on display alongside museum-quality masterpieces priced in the millions.
Art Galleries
Once again more than 99 percent of last year’s exhibitors reapplied in the Art Galleries sector. This year’s strong roster of participants is reinforced by the additions of Johann König (Berlin), Dvir Gallery (Tel Aviv), Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou), Nils Staerk Contemporary Art (Copenhagen) and J Crist Gallery (Boise, Idaho, U.S.).
The line-up of galleries showing 20th-century classics is augmented by Knoedler & Company (New York), Galerie Zlotowski (Paris), and Galerie Susanne Zander (Köln). The specialists in Art Edition are joined by Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde (Hamburg) and Galerie de Multiples (Paris), and the roster of photographic galleries is enhanced by the return of the Galerie Zur Stockeregg (Zürich).
After a brief hiatus, David Nolan Gallery (New York), Galleria Raucci / Santamaria (Napoli), Greene Naftali (New York), Stuart Shave / Modern Art (London) and Team Gallery (New York) also rejoin Art Basel’s exhibitors.
Art Statements
A frequent site of discovery by those seeking emerging artists, Art Statements features 27 single-artist projects from rising galleries worldwide. The projects on display are new and often created specifically for presentation in this highly regarded sector for young artists. Since 1999, the Baloise Insurance Group has awarded its annual Baloise Art Prize of CHF 25,000 each to two outstanding Art Statements projects. This year the prize has been raised to CHF 30,000 for each artist, to a total amount of CHF 60,000. The company also acquires works by the prize winning artists and donates them
to two important museums in Europe.
Art Premiere
The Art Premiere sector, which focuses on the curatorial aspects of the gallerist’s practice, this year presents 19 gallery projects, featuring either an artistic dialogue juxtaposing two artists from all generations, a presentation by a single artist of any age or exceptional art historical material – a new possibility within the sector.
Art Unlimited
Art Unlimited will spotlight approximately 60 ambitious works. The platform enables artists to exhibit works that do not fit in standard display booths due to spatial, temporal, technical, financial, contextual, or conceptual constraints. With the accent on innovative and large-scale works, everything from outsize sculptures and installations to video projections, wall paintings, and performances will be on show and for sale. Many of the exhibited pieces are created especially for Art Unlimited. The exhibition has once again been devised in collaboration with Geneva curator Simon Lamunière.
Public Art Projects
The exhibition area on the exhibition square in front of the buildings hosting Art Basel will again serve as an arena for art projects in public space. Displayed in the public space, the sector places art in the urban context and encourages interaction with the general public. Many of the projects are being created especially or installed site-specifically for Public Art Projects. The sector is again curated by Basel curator Martin Schwander.
Il Tempo del Postino
One of the most spectacular events this year will be the presentation of Il Tempo del Postino at Theater Basel. Curated and directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno and co-curated by Anri Sala and Rirkrit Tiravanija, a group of leading visual artists will create a major experimental time-based presentation each using up to 15 minutes of exhibition time with the stage assuming the role of the gallery space. Participating artists will include Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Koo Jeong-A, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
By focusing on time-based work, this group show aims to redefine how visual arts can be experienced. Within up to 15 minutesof exhibition time, each artist creates their own distinctive work. Set in a classic theater architecture, it transforms the established gallery exhibition model into an exhilarating, shared audience experience. Il Tempo del Postino is organized by Art Basel, Theater Basel and Fondation Beyeler and was originally co-commissioned by the Manchester International Festival and Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris for the World Premiere in Manchester in July 2007.
Art Basel Conversations and Art Lobby
Staged every morning (June 10 to June 13), Art Basel Conversations bring together prominent members of the international art scene. Topics include “Artistic Production: Collecting Performance,” “The Future of the Museum: Digital Frontiers” and “Public / Private: Institutions: A Time of Crisis – and Opportunity?”. Additionally, a daily program of artist conversations, book signings, discussion forums, and other presentations will take place in the Art Lobby forum in the afternoons.
Art Film
The Art Film program once again features an outstanding program of films, screened at the Stadtkino Basel. This Brunner, a collector with profound knowledge of the international film scene, and artist John Armleder will each organize an evening with special guests, while the rest of the Art Film program, including many shorter artist films and videos is curated by Berlin-based film scholar Marc Glöde.
Art Basel Weekend
On the weekend of June 12 to June 14, 2009, Art 40 Basel will celebrate the Art Basel Weekend, highlighting special activities (solo shows, performances, book signings etc.) at the booths of the participating galleries. A variety of panels and presentations geared to art professionals will also be held during the weekend in the context of Art Basel Conversations and Art Lobby.
Art Basel Catalogs
Art 40 Basel is accompanied by a lavish catalog published by Hatje Cantz in May 2009. The richly illustrated publication contains reproductions of approximately 600 works, from Modern classics to the latest in cutting-edge art. The separate catalog, published to accompany the Art Unlimited exhibition, will be available at Art Basel.
Museums in Basel
The museum exhibitions in and around Basel are again exceptional this year.
On show at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel: “Giacometti”; at the Kunstmuseum Basel: “Vincent van Gogh, Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes”; at the Schaulager: “Holbein to Tillmans”; at the Museum Jean Tinguely: “Armor and gala dresses”; at the Kunstmuseum Basel – Museum für Gegenwartskunst: “Little Theatre of Gestures”; at Kunsthalle Basel solo exhibitions with Danh Vo and Lucy Skaer titled “A Boat Used as a Vessel”.
Design Miami/Basel
Design Miami/Basel, the global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing, and creating design runs June 9 – 13 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and is this year located in hall 5 of the Basel fairgrounds.
Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel’s sister event in the USA, takes place December 3–6, 2009, in Miami Beach, Florida.
More Information re Art 40 Basel
For the latest information on Art 40 Basel, stay tuned, as we’ll provide more details closer to the event, as well as offer videos of the event.
No Name For Art Carnival #3
June 30, 2008
Welcome to the #3 edition of the no name for ART carnival. The sections to this carnival are:
- museum shows and gallery shows
- artwork and artist reviews
- art collecting
- how art is made
- other submitted articles on contemporary fine art
museum shows | gallery shows
Pooch by Oscar Oiwa
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo presents Oscar Oiwa’s Dreams of a Sleeping World on show till July 6, saying “While moving his base of operations from his native Sao Paulo to Tokyo and then New York, Oscar Oiwa (1965-) has created works exploring all aspects of his urban surroundings. Oiwa interprets the world around him with agile brushwork and singular imaginative powers, in pictures that overwhelm the viewer with the rich appeal of the painting as a medium. Displayed will be some 80 works from his throughout his career, from his São Paulo days until the present.”
Margaret Mary presents Historic Pottery and Tiles at the Cluny Museum posted at ‘The Earthly Paradise’ saying “I was instantly struck by the similarities between the tiles in the Cluny and the work of William de Morgan during the late 19th century. I had learned a while ago that Morgan’s work was inspired by Iznik (Turkish) and Persian ceramics, but this was the first time that I was able to see his inspiration up close. The similarities are striking!”
Rabbit by Jeff Koons
Funhouse, a Jeff Koons retrospective by Peter Schjeldahl for the New Yorker. Schheldahl sets out: “There is something nightmarish about Jeff Koons. The fifty-three-year-old American enchanter and provocateur is a major artist, in the old sense of one who edits the past and sketches the future of an art—in this case, sculpture. (Koons’s uncannily mediocre paintings suggest an insensibility in two dimensions that is as amazing, in its way, as his genius in three.) Major artists X-ray the cultures that give rise to them. A Koons retrospective that has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago occasions queasy wonderment, on the order of “We’ve come to this?,” and the perhaps reluctant conclusion “Uh-huh.” It confirms Koons’s scope as an artist unconfined by the conventional art world, whose work addresses everybody.”
Joke by Richard Prince
The Serpentine Gallery in London presents Richard Prince: Continuation. “I KNEW A GUY WHO WAS SO RICH HE COULD SKI UPHILL . . .” announced the enormous joke painting in the central room of Richard Prince’s first solo show in a British public space, which opened at the Serpentine Gallery in London on Wednesday night. The Exhibition continues till 7 September 2008. The gallery says “Richard Prince is one of the most innovative and influential artists of our time and can be variously described as a painter, photographer, sculptor and collector.” The press says “Prince is a key practitioner of appropriation art and his art is an acquired taste.”
artwork and artist review
This link shows you that digital art, to be enjoyed on the computer, can indeed be GREAT ART (IN CAPITALS).
The splendid screensaver, called Vernanimalcula was designed by artist team Tale of Tales, i.e. Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn. It is a public art project sponsored by the Bank of Belgium. Vernanimalcula means “small spring animal”. It is the name given to a primitive animal that lived on the seabed 580 to 600 million years ago. Vernanimalcula is the earliest known animal with bilateral symmetry, which explains the organic and symmetric nature of this creation. Between the tangled lines of the design, the viewer can make out shapes and figures, so it defies the imagination all the time you look at it. Do have a look!
Astrid Lee presents pop artist Peter Max on this blog and contemporary online art magazine , http://www.eArtfair.com/blog, stating : “Pop Artist Peter Max, like his contemporary Andy Warhol, had his artistic way with iconic figures: while Warhol captured Marilyn and Liz in Day-Glo glory, Max caught the visages of the Statue of Liberty, the Mona Lisa and George Washington in vibrant Technicolor (they both took a turn with Mick Jagger).”
sarah presents Jen Bekman makes editioned art affordable at 20×200 posted at SARAHSPY. And article on art prints.
Jean G Dayton presents The Abstract Artist: Abstract Art – Inspirations posted at ‘The Abstract Artist’, saying, “the artists inspiration for painting abstract art”.
art collecting
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Albert Decker presents Art Swap! posted at Resonant Enigma, saying, “Sometimes artists collect each other…”
how are is made
Dwayne Tucker presents Make your photos look like a pro posted at ‘Dwayne Tucker’s PhotoShop Blog / Tutorials’. Tip: you might want to reply the video a couple of times to get all the benefits of it.
SeaBird presents Interview: Michaella Ruffino of Eclectable posted at SeaBird Chronicles, saying, “The interview talks about the creative process, artistic inspiration and other art making considerations. The interview offers a backdoor insight into the life of this artist in pursuit of art.”
a bit of art history
Sam presents Andy Warhol and Pop Art posted at ‘Surfer Sam and Friends’, saying, “Andy Warhol and Pop Art. The Popular Art Movement. American pop art was fascinated with mass culture, advertisements, comics and cartoons. It included words, speech balloons and contemporary symbols like flags and the dollar bill.”
the end
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Why Bother With Art Colleges?
December 24, 2007
If you are pretty talented at art you might not even consider going to Art College. Why should you, anyway? You can draw like the masters: Boticelli, Michaelangeo, Da Vinci. There wasn’t a landscape scene your brushes didn’t like, and there wasn’t any portrait you couldn’t draw. You can sketch anything that exists!
But as with any talent, you must have realized that this is one big world we live in. There is always room for improvement, and although your work might speak for itself, a degree behind you may be just what employers are looking for. Therefore, you muster all your reserves; you pack your easel, your brushes, and your palette and head north to the nearest art college.
1. Good choice?
Art school will definitely benefit you as an artist. Your innate talent will benefit from the proven concepts and techniques you can learn here. It may be that you already know the basics and the techniques of your art. Rest assured that there are always things the art school can teach you that you won’t already know.
Art school also develops in its students a love and appreciation for the different forms of art. It opens to the student new vistas of learning and expressing. Even if only for that reason, Art school would be worth every penny.
2. Who Is Art School Suited For?
Artists are a rare kind. They seem to be able to create masterpieces without complicated theories and computations. It’s as if they are moved by instinct to draw, paint, and create visually pleasing artworks. Some artists, when asked about their artwork, would simply shrug and say they didn’t know what motivated them, and they just felt like painting it. Art school should not aim to correct this freewheeling style of artistry. It should, however, provide the basic techniques and theories on art and creativity. Instead of suppressing natural skill, it should develop and enlighten it by explaining the concepts behind art. Unlike what most people think, there truly is a science behind art.
Artists sometimes just create art. But after Art College, they come to a realization of theories behind what they have done by instinct. Fundamental theories can only improve and supplement the talent students have.
3. What to Learn?
When choosing an Arts College, look into the nature of its programs.
- Is it solely a graphic design school or does it offer courses in other specific areas?
- Is this school well-known for its emphasis on its programs?
- Is the school recognized internationally?
- Is the class size large or small?
- How many years will the program be in total?
- Does the school provide any statistics or downloadable documents outlining the percentage of its graduates that are now working in their chosen field?
4. Specialize!
Remember that the subject of art is not just a big blob with the label art. It is composed of numerous subcategories and specializations. You need to choose a specialization because if you don’t, your skills will be diffused trying to learn the many branches of art. Try to improve the most at the area of your interest. It could be painting, sculpture, digital arts or others.
5. Be The Best
Also, look into whether the school participates in any graphical arts competitions or has accomplished anything of renown in the industry. This is a sure sign of their commitment to the arts and the education of its students. One of the best things one can get out of Art College is exposure to competition and industry standards. Such competition pushes one from being complacent. If you are to be a better artist, you should never be satisfied with what you already know. You should grab the opportunity to learn new and exciting things.
6. Conclusion
Your education might be the most important investment you make in your life. Without proper training, your chances at success are greatly diminished. A proper Art college will certainly train you and equip you with the tools needed to make it big in your profession.
About the Author
By Linda Emerson. Linda seems to be taking a sabbatical from her prior site, www. art school site. com, which is currently not available. She’s no doubt currently working on other projects – so stay tuned. Meanwhile…:
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