VOLTA6 - Basel
16 - 20 June, 2010
VOLTA, now in its sixth edition, gathers a unique selection of 81 highly respected international galleries for exhibition in the fresh new venue, the Dreispitzhalle.
The 2010 Curatorial Board—composed of Adam Budak, curator of Kunsthaus Graz and co-curator of Manifesta 7; Jacopo Crivelli Visconti , Critic & Curator, Sâo Paulo, Christoph Doswald, art critic and curator, Zürich; Jasper Sharp, curator and writer, Vienna; and Stephanie Smith, contemporary curator at Smart Museum of Art, Chicago—worked through more than 350 applications to select 81 galleries from 28 countries.
This eighty-one strong group of both emerging and mature galleries, emphasize the internationalism of the board and the continued focus and ideology of VOLTA Basel: to showcase a strong, curatorial selected presentation of artwork from a range of galleries in experience and identity.
On the strength of the New York edition, the Basel curators conceived a new section, VOLTA SOLO in which 15 out of the 79 booths will be dedicated to strictly single artist presentations. In true VOLTA style, these are presented by both emerging galleries new to the VOLTA platform alongside mid-career galleries, all presenting artists on the cutting edge in a close and dedicated form of collaboration.
The VOLTA SOLO Section comprises Galerie Baer with local Dresden-based artist Hannes Broecker ; Tokyo gallery MA2 with Akihiro Higuchi ; the Parisian ColletPark with Herwig Weiser (Vienna/Cologne); Berlin’s magnus müller with 2008 Whitney Biennal participant Ellen Harvey; Georgia Scherman Projects from Toronto with homegrown duo Jennifer Marman & Daniel Borins; Motive from Amsterdam representing Paris-based Raphaël Zarka; P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E, Ljubjana, presenting local artist Tadej Pogacar ; acb galeria from Budapest with the Hungarian artist Gyula Várnai from the city of Dunaújváros; moniquemeloche from Chicago with local artist Justin Cooper ; galerieofmarseille representing local artist Hervé Paraponaris; Republic representing Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist Holly Ward; Zaum Projects from Lisbon with Berlin-based Katrin Korfmann; and finally Ybakatu Espaço de Arte out of Curitiba, Brazil, showcasing the works of São Paulo-based artist João Loureiro.
Indeed, with the addition of a Brazilian-based curator to the Curatorial Board former VOLTA exhibitors such as Eduardo Leme and Nara Roesler (São Paolo) are joined by newcomers Ybakatu Espaço de Arte (Curtiba) as well Laura Marsiaj (Rio). Other geographical areas with newly enlarged representation include Canada—with a gallery from each of the three major cities: Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto; Republic Gallery, Vancouver; and Parisian Laundry; Montreal—and Italy with five galleries from four major cities: V.M. 21 and Furinin arte contemporanea, Rome; Magrorocco, Milan; Umberto Di Marino, Naples; and Perugi arte contemporanea, Padua.
Adhoc gallery, Vigo, exhibited the work of artists Jasmina Cibic and Jorge Perianes.
JASMINA CIBIC, Ideologies of Display (Tyto alba), 2008, lambda c-type print diasec mounted, 120 x 120 cm. Ed 5, Courtesy adhoc gallery, Vigo / Volta 6, Basel.
JORGE PERIANES, Untitled, 2010, wood, wood pulp, acrylic painting, 67 x 52 x 7 cm, Courtesy adhoc gallery, Vigo / Volta 6, Basel.
Artists showing at VOLTA6 UNCOVERED included Marlon de Azambuja presented by the gallery Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, and Kristof Kintera presented by the gallery Jiri Svestka, Prague.
Marlon de Azambuja, Evidencia, 2010, Color print on alluminium, 100 x 75 cm, Courtesy Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome / Volta 6, Basel.
Marlon de Azambuja, Metaesquema, 2009, drawing on photo, 20 x 30 cm, Courtesy Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome / Volta 6, Basel.
Kristof Kintera, Paradise now, 2009, zinc - coated steel, each 200 x 250 x 50 cm, by now 12 pieces, Courtesy Jiri Svestka, Prague / Volta 6, Basel.
Twenty-five of the 81 exhibitors are new to the platform, including (excluding those already mentioned above):
van der Mieden Galerie (Antwerp); Crown (Brussels); acb Gale ria (Budapest); moniquemeloche (Chicago); Galerie Christian Lethert (Cologne); Specta (Copenhagen); Galerie Baer (Dresden); Kevin Kavanagh Gallery (Dublin); Zaum Projects, (Lisbon); P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute (Ljubljana); Danielle Arnaud Contemporary (London); Madder139 (London); Formato Comodo (Madrid); LOST Projects and Pablo Art Gallery (Manila); Pobeda (Moscow); Y Gallery (New York); Galleri Erik Steen (Oslo); galerie ColletPark and Schirman et de Beaucé (Paris); adhoc Galeri a (Vigo).
With its fresh new location, a return to the tightly-focused grouping of earlier years, a strong and respected curatorial board and a thought-provoking selection of 81 international galleries, VOLTA6 “remains the world-renowned, cutting-edge art event in Basel”, said the organizers..
VOLTA was founded in 2005 by dealers Kavi Gupta (Chicago); Ulrich Voges (Frankfurt) and Friedrich Loock (Berlin).
VOLTA 6 BASEL
Location
Dreispitzhalle
Dreispitz Area Gate 13
Helsinki Strasse 5
Münchenstein/Basel
Précieux étui à khôl 
Rare hippopotame 
Exceptionnel shaouabti de Ramsès II 
Exceptionnel bronze représentant un éphèbe 
Exceptionnel bronze d’un éphèbe 
Monumentale tête de Déméter 
La société de ventes volontaires Pierre Bergé & associés Belgique a réalisé pour la vente de Tableaux, Sculptures, Meubles et Objets d’art du 26 mai 2010 à Bruxelles un montant de 633.815 € frais inclus. 
known for his striking images of performers in the centers of Parisian entertainment in the 1880s and 1890s, specifically the café-concerts and cabaret nightclubs in the neighborhood of Montmartre. Toulouse-Lautrec spent most of his time in this lively section of the city—where women danced the Cancan at places such as the Moulin Rouge—and chronicled in his canvases and lithographs the extravagant nightlife of Parisian dance halls and nightclubs. 
Toulouse-Lautrec incorporated into his own highly individual vision stylistic elements from various contemporary artists, including the French painter Edgar Degas.. An example of Degas’ influence can be seen in the lithograph May Belfort (1895), where the shifting perspective—down into the orchestra pit and up to the stage—is reminiscent of the multiple viewpoints in Degas’ work. Toulouse-Lautrec inserted himself into his images of nightclubs and hung his work in the cabaret Le Mirliton, one of his many haunts. He also designed advertising posters for his good friend the singer, comedian, and showman Aristide Bruant, as seen in the colorful poster Aristide Bruant in his Cabaret (1893), an iconic work featuring Bruant in his dark corduroy worker's jacket, wide black hat, bright red scarf and scowling features. 
In addition to works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Café and Cabaret highlights evocative images of Parisian nightlight by several other celebrated artists of the period, including Pablo Picasso’s painting Stuffed Shirts (Les Plastrons) (1900), Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen’s poster Collection of the Chat Noir (1898) (Images 7 + 8 + 4), and Pierre Bonnard’s lithograph At the Theater (1895). 
The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) presents Seeing Beauty, the fifth in a series of educational exhibitions comprised of works from MoPA's permanent collection, presented in a thought-provoking, interactive and experiential setting. The exhibition explores the aesthetics of beauty, expressed through the eyes of various photographers throughout the history of the medium, including Bill Brandt, Walker Evans, Mary Ellen Mark, Edward Weston, Minor White, and Aaron Siskind. 
