Art Statements
A frequent site of discovery by those seeking emerging artists, Art Statements features one-person stands from rising galleries worldwide. (Hall 1)
Index Art 41 Basel, Art Statements
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A Gentil Carioca | Rio de Janeiro: Maria Nepomuceno, born 1976
Miguel Abreu Gallery | New York: Sam Lewitt, born 1981
Arataniurano | Tokyo: Takahiro Iwasaki, born 1975
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Galerie Balice Hertling | Paris: Kerstin Brätsch, born 1979
Laura Bartlett Gallery | London: Elizabeth McAlpine, born 1973
Boers-Li Gallery | Beijing: Yang Xinguang, born 1980
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Chatterjee & Lal | Mumbai : Nikhil Chopra, born 1974
Cortex Athletico | Bordeaux: Benoît Maire, born 1978
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Ellen de Bruijne Projects | Amsterdam: Lara Almarcegui, born 1972
Dépendance | Bruxelles: Benjamin Saurer, born 1977
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Freymond-Guth & Co, Fine Arts | Zürich: Dani Gal, born 1975
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Hollybush Gardens | London: Claire Hooper, born 1978
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Hunt Kastner Artworks | Prague: Eva Kotatkova, born 1982
Galerie Iris Kadel | Karlsruhe: Adrian Williams, born 1979
Galerie Kamm | Berlin: Michele Di Menna, born 1980
David Kordansky Gallery | Los Angeles: Rashid Johnson, born 1977
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Michael Lett | Newton / Aukland: Sriwhana Spong, born 1979
Lullin + Ferrari | Zürich: Edit Oderbolz, born 1966
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Proyectos Monclova | México: Nina Beier, born 1975
Monitor | Roma: Francesco Arena, born 1978
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Neue Alte Brücke | Frankfurt am Main: Simon Fujiwara, born 1982
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ProjecteSD | Barcelona: Iñaki Bonillas, born 1981
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Rokeby | London: Bettina Buck, born 1974
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Gallery SKE | Bangalore: Sreshta Premnath, born 1979
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T293 | Napoli: Patrizio Di Massimo, born 1983
Sassa Trülzsch | Berlin: Dieter Detzner, born 1970
A GENTIL CARIOCA shows an installation by Maria Nepomuceno (Rio de Janeiro) that consists of three hammocks made of ropes and necklaces sewn together hanging at different heights from metal hooks fixed to the walls. These three hammocks interpenetrate each other creating a unique artwork. The installation allows the observer to pass through the artwork itself and goes on to reveal a sensory experience.
Miguel Abreu Gallery (New York) presents a solo show of work by Sam Lewitt. Lewitt constructs self-questioning constellations of images and texts that cast an oblique light upon relations between cultural literacy and the production of its material supports. Deploying a manifold of photographic and digital processes, the present work takes the image of archaic printing equipment as an allegorical subject of language for an increasingly graphic and information based culture.
ARATANIURANO (Tokyo) is mounting a solo show of Takahiro Iwasaki. From a sculptural abstraction of Byodo-in Temple reflected in water to pylon-dotted mountains formed with towels and small construction cranes rising up out of books, the fragile and ephemeral aesthetic of Iwasaki's practice creates intriguing juxtapositions with the emerging landscapes of our world.
Boers-Li Gallery (Beijing, China) presents the solo installation "Tree Tops" by Yang Xinguang (China, 1980). In this floor piece, consisting of an innumerable amount of trimmed tree tops collected from Beijing’s public green zones, the artist not only addresses the human inclination to manipulate and control its environment, he also set free a layered set of meanings behind these supposedly worthless materials by putting them in their natural position: reaching up to the sky.
Chatterjee & Lal (Mumbai) presents a solo show of Nikhil Chopra. The artist, whose primary practice is performance based, has conceived of a project that weaves positions associated with museum display around the residues of a performance undertaken in the environs of a Mumbai based museum in March 2010.
The gallery Cortex Athletico presents a solo show by Benoît Maire. "Le concept de Cordélia" presented at Art Statements is a dual work, composed of a film and a sculptural installation, the projects represents more than a years work. It is in keeping with the artist ongoing subject to demonstrate the plastic and emotional aspects of theory and philosophy.
Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS (Amsterdam) presents a double slide-projection and text-piece by Lara Almarcegui. Almarcegui tries to raise awareness on the immense contrast between the constructed urban environment and untouched nature. By means of vast research, her projects result in interventions that might appear as simple gestures. The exploration of overlooked sites, and the aim to preserve them – function as a pièce de resistance against urban expansion.
Benjamin Saurer will divide the fair booth presented by dependence (Brussels) into two nearly identical spaces: the first will contain a number of hansomely small new paintings executed in a combination of painting and batik techniques. In the second space a series of low quality, black and white reproductions in the form of inkjet printed copies on canvas will be hung in an identical schema, imitating the original paintings — minus the color, saturation, and visual charm of the primary reproductions.
Hollybush Gardens presents a new film by Claire Hooper. Nyx follows the fortunes of a young drunken man as he enters the realm of the goddess of the night, through the U7 line in Berlin, that becomes the stage for the following drama. In this world, each event is an encounter with the children of Nyx. Shot as modern life, a meeting with Erinyes takes on contemporary signification – where "punishment for crimes against nature" transposes as a kind of turf war. Transgressing the night the youngster must explain himself, why is he there, and what does it mean that he is there?
hunt kastner (Prague), will present a solo project by Eva Kotatkova in an installation that includes drawings, objects and video. Eva Kotatkova’s work is an exploration of common social structures and their rules, everyday rituals and stereotypes as well as the role of the individual and their search for a place in society. In her newest series, A House is Not a Home, the artist suggests alternative forms of habitation, and in doing so challenges our preconcieved notions of what a home is, or could be.
Galerie Iris Kadel (Karlsruhe) shows the Film/Performance project "Tacit Grounds" by Adrian Williams. The Film "Tacit Grounds" is presented with the tactile construction of its soundtrack performed live, utilizing various instruments and objects for making sounds. The Film was shot on the coast of Connecticut, on Great Gull Island, a former military defense post, currently a sanctuary for migratory terns. The physical and symbolic use of sound is booth, a tool and a subject of this work.
For Art Statements with Galerie Kamm (Berlin), Michele Di Menna turns toward the dynamic in her working process, bundling the ephemerality of her performative work, transforming it into a manifold and solid installation. The artist constructs a tableau that can be seen as a possibility rather than fact – of things past, present and future.
David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles) presents a sculptural installation by Rashid Johnson. Designed to function as a fictional library/study for the Boulé, an African-American organization whose members have included some of the most powerful and influential figures of the 20th Century, the installation consists of sculptural works of wood, brass, steel, wax, as well as other materials and found objects drawn from the artist's personal iconography and research.
Michael Lett (Auckland) presents Lethe-wards, a film installation by Sriwhana Spong. Lethe-wards re-imagines a dance, a pas de deux, for the characters of the Nightingale and the Emperor from the 1925 ballet Le Chant du Rossignol. At once a dance of mourning for that which has been lost and a celebration of the synthesis between body, costume, image and movement, Spong's films are a reflection on the possibility of recording and transmitting history through an appropriated aesthetic or performative re-enactment.
Lullin + Ferrari (Zurich) shows a solo presentation by Edit Oderbolz. Her installation assembles a variety of new works especially realised for Art Statements, made in her distinctive way of creating art by combining ready-made material with subtle interventions. In her work the narrative is directly implied in the material and its transformation – hers is a minimal radical intervention.
Proyectos Monclova (Mexico City) mounts a solo presentation of Nina Beier's sculptural and performative work. Inviting various manipulations, this work challenges its own primal intention and lays bare its mechanisms as separate components of matter and meaning.
Monitor presents a sculptural project by Francesco Arena. "Il peso del mio corpo da un blocco di pietra del peso di una barca (My Body’s Weight from a Stone Block the Weight of a Boat)" is a result of a process that runs from the weight of a boat carrying migrants from Libya to the weight of the artist who is trying to relate to their unknown story. Beside being a reflection thought on the medium of sculpture as a whole, this work is also a kind of self-portrait, an attempt by the artist to graft his abstract effigy onto a distant collective tale.
Neue Alte Brücke (Frankfurt/Main) presents Welcome to the Hotel Munber, an installation and performance set in the world of Simon Fujiwara's unfinished erotic novel that details the lives of his parents living under the Franco dictatorship. In a complete reconstruction of the traditional 1970s Spanish hotel bar his parents owned and ran, Fujiwara's daily performances pit the brutal sexual repression of General Franco's regime against the dilemma of presenting his intimate family history as erotica.
ProjecteSD (Barcelona) presents a new project by Iñaki Bonillas titled Double Chiaroscuro. The project is composed of 4 different pieces in different media, each of them developed from one single image taken from J.R. Plaza’s Archive. Bonillas plays with the idea of exploring the possibility, not only of creating a new set of images, through juxtaposition, recontextualization or any other way of reinterpretation of the original source, but of arriving to a whole new archive. More than the mere flexibility and reactivation of appropriated images, the purpose then is to show how images are capable of giving birth to distinct visual realms.
ROKEBY (London) presents new work by Bettina Buck, in which Buck includes a disconcerting intervention concealed within the architecture of the booth. The disturbance underlines the artist’s practice and working process, asks for the visitor’s active engagement by offering a subtly-altered encounter with the booth, whilst highlighting the fair context.
GALLERYSKE (Bangalore) presents “Zero Knot,” an installation and publication by Sreshta Premnath. Premnath examines the spectral figure of the monument – a memorial from the past that points towards its historic conception of a future – always gesturing towards that which could never have been. Like the mathematical zero knot, the monument is a cipher, simultaneously absent and present.
T293 presents a project by Patrizio Di Massimo which starts from a sentence pronounced by the Negus of Ethiopia to the Duke of Aosta: Give me the lion, keep the stele. The restitution of those two artefacts stolen during the colonial period to Ethiopia and the problematic that arises are the core of the stand proposed by the artist.