Art Basel 2019: Unilimited sector

Art Basel 2019: Unilimited sector

LUCIO FONTANA

Magazzino, Galleria Tega

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Unlimited, Art Basel's unique platform for large-scale projects, provides galleries with the opportunity to showcase towering installations, monumental sculptures, vast wall paintings, extensive photographic series, video projections, and performance art that transcend the traditional art fair stand.

Several presentations from this year's exhibition address and comment on political upheavals and sociopolitical tensions, lending them a lasting presence. ‘Bataille’ (2017) by Rivane Neuenschwander is a partial freestanding interactive installation that explores the power of words taken from protest banners and placards in France. For ‘RYTHM MASTR Daily Strip’ (2018), Kerry James Marshall created comics featuring African-American superheroes. Alicia Framis' ‘LifeDress’ (2018) consists of a clothing line made of airbag materials designed to protect women from harassment. Andrea Bowers' installation ‘Open Secret’ (2018) documents the development of #MeToo and Time’s Up, international movements against sexual harassment and assault, which spread virally following the sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein in 2017.

JONATHAS DE ANDRADE

Galleria Continua

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ANTONY GORMLEY
Galleria Continua
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The sector also once again brings in younger voices from diverse regions. Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga, whose family has Tanzanian origins, and Angolan-born Kiluanji Kia Henda both explore Africa’s colonial history in their presentations. Indonesian artist Fiona Tan presents 'Elsewhere' (2018), a new filmic meditation on urban dystopia, while Korean artist Do Ho Suh invites visitors to life-size textile version of his former home with 'Hub, 260-7 Sungbook-Dong, Sungbook-Ku, Seoul, Korea' (2017). Two artists incorporate Virtual Reality into their works: German artist Lawrence Lek's newly recast 'Nøtel' (2016-2019), an installation built around fictional luxury hotels, is accessible via VR headsets and game controllers, and African-American artist Jacolby Satterwhite, who was featured in Statements last year as an emerging artist, continues the evolution of his singular aesthetic built in VR.

Among the many historical works present, Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT’s 1983 video 'Syntagma' explores female identity in relation to body image, while Hélio Oiticica, the seminal artist of Brazilian Tropicalismo, returns to Basel with the installation 'Penetrável Filtro' (1972). Octogenarian American painter Joan Semmel will bring to Basel her newest and largest canvas, which explores the body as landscape.

ANDREA BOWERS

kaufmann repetto, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

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JORGE PARDO

neugerriemschneider

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Full list of artists presented in Unlimited:

Andreas Angelidakis, The Breeder
Larry Bell, Hauser & Wirth
Guy Ben Ner, Sommer Contemporary Art
Sadie Benning, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Huma Bhabha, Salon 94
Camille Blatrix, Balice Hertling, Andrew Kreps Gallery
Anna and Bernhard Blume, Buchmann Galerie, Peter Freeman, Inc.
Monica Bonvicini, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Mitchell-Innes & Nash
Andrea Bowers, kaufmann repetto, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Marc Brandenburg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Mircea Cantor, Magazzino
Valentin Carron, kamel mennour, Galerie Eva Presenhuber,
Vajiko Chachkhiani, Daniel Marzona
Chen Chieh-jen, Long March Space
Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Gagosian
Bruce Conner, Paula Cooper Gallery, Kohn Gallery
Jonathas de Andrade, Galleria Continua
Lucy Dodd, David Lewis Gallery, Sprüth Magers
François Dufrêne, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois
VALIE EXPORT, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Belu-Simion Fainaru, Galeria Plan B
Sam Falls, 303 Gallery, Galleria Franco Noero, Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Lucio Fontana, Magazzino, Galleria Tega
Alicia Framis, Galería Juana de Aizpuru

ALICIA FRAMIS

Galería Juana de Aizpuru

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Coco Fusco, Alexander Gray Associates

Abdulnasser Gharem, Galerie Nagel Draxler
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Zwirner
Antony Gormley, Galleria Continua
Laurent Grasso, Sean Kelly, Perrotin
Duane Hanson, Gagosian
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Goodman Gallery
Carsten Höller, Galleria Continua
Suki Seokyeong Kang, Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery
Kapwani Kiwanga, Goodman Gallery

KAPWANI KIWANGA

Goodman Gallery

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Daniel Knorr, Meyer Riegger, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Karsten Greve
Kaarel Kurismaa, Temnikova & Kasela
John Latham, Lisson Gallery
Lawrence Lek, Sadie Coles HQ
Jochen Lempert, ProjecteSD
Zoe Leonard, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Hauser & Wirth
Liliane Lijn, Rodeo
Renata Lucas, A Gentil Carioca, neugerriemschneider, Galeria Luisa Strina
Sarah Lucas, Sadie Coles HQ
Ari Marcopoulos,Galerie frank elbaz, Fergus McCaffrey
Kerry James Marshall, Jack Shainman Gallery, David Zwirner
Anthony McCall, Sean Kelly, Sprüth Magers, Galerie Thomas Zander
Paul McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth, Xavier Hufkens
Fausto Melotti, Hauser & Wirth
Senga Nengudi, Lévy Gorvy, Sprüth Magers
Rivane Neuenschwander, Stephen Friedman Gallery
Olaf Nicolai, Galerie Eigen + Art

OLAF NICOLAI

Galerie Eigen + Art

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STEVEN PARRINO

Gagosian

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UGO RONDINONE

Gladstone Gallery, Galerie Eva Presenhuber

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Hélio Oiticica, Galerie Lelong & Co.
Jorge Pardo, neugerriemschneider
Steven Parrino, Gagosian
Giuseppe Penone, Gagosian
Vaclav Pozarek, Galerie Francesca Pia, Barbara Wien
Bunny Rogers, Société
Ugo Rondinone, Gladstone Gallery, Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Mika Rottenberg, Hauser & Wirth
Jacolby Satterwhite, Mitchell-Innes & Nash
Joan Semmel, Alexander Gray Associates
Do Ho Suh, Lehmann Maupin, Victoria Miro
Fiona Tan, Peter Freeman, Inc., Frith Street Gallery
Blair Thurman, Peres Projects
Thu Van Tran, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
Francisco Tropa, Gregor Podnar, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Brent Wadden, Peres Projects
Tom Wesselmann, Gagosian
Franz West, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner
Pae White, neugerriemschneider
Martha Wilson, mfc - michèle didier, P.P.O.W
Sislej Xhafa, Galleria Continua
XU ZHEN®, Perrotin
Akram Zaatari, Thomas Dane Gallery, Sfeir-Semler Gallery,

A limited-edition catalog, published by Hatje Cantz, accompanies Unlimited, including descriptive texts and images of each artwork. The catalog is for sale at the show as well as in bookshops for CHF 60.

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Andrea Bowers @ Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC - The New Woman’s Survival Guide

Andrea Bowers: The New Woman’s Survival Guide
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
October 29 – December 17, 2011

The Andrew Kreps Gallery presents Andrea Bowers’ second exhibition at the gallery entitled, The New Woman’s Survival Guide.  Consisting of drawings layered over wallpaper made up of handbills and protest signs collected by the artist, the show contrasts previous tropes of feminism with current ones.

The show’s title and subject matter uses this 1973 feminist zine as its nexus and impetus to consider the evolution of women’s issues and feminist activism today.  The original publication’s intent was to catalogue and document activities aimed explicitly at developing an alternative woman’s culture.  The original DIY book served as an encyclopedic collection of women’s organizations and services that existed throughout the United States during the second wave of feminism in the early seventies.  The artist’s discovery of the New Woman’s Survival Guide led Bowers through a process of questioning and investigating the progression and possibility of an alternative woman’s culture almost 40 years after the this tome was published.   

The exhibition continues her use of archival strategies in art making, which includes drawing, photography and graphic materials.  Bower’s belief in the importance of the partnership between art and politics is at the forefront of this exhibition and she celebrates a 40-year history of feminist political graphics highlighting specific images as homage or political focal points creating moments of humor, celebration, memorialization and rage. Twenty drawings hang on a huge wall installation, made of contemporary political placards and graphics combined with reproductions of the 1973 zine.  All the contemporary political graphics were collected by the artist through donations to feminist organizations like Planned Parenthood, NOW, NARAL, Radical Women, 9to5, Codepink, Another Mother For Peace, etc. 

The drawings comprise three bodies of work: text drawings, figurative drawings, and black and white feminist graphic drawings.  The text drawings, Make My Story Count are hand-drawn copies of letters written recently to Planned Parenthood by women in the Los Angeles area expressing their appreciation for the organization’s invaluable healthcare services.  The figurative drawings use as their source photos taken by the artist at 2011 May Day March in Los Angeles.  All of the drawings are of women and reflect the complexities of gender, race and global migration that must be confronted in today’s woman’s movement.  The graphite black and white drawings appropriate graphics from the 1970’s but become playful and contemplative 40 years later. 

By juxtaposing the historical and contemporary tropes of activism the artist foregrounds not only the trajectory and evolution of the feminist dialogue, but also it’s difficulties maintaining pertinence and purity in an ever-growing complex political environment.

A percentage of sales from the exhibition will be donated to Planned Parenthood Los Angeles.

Andrea Bowers received her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992. Solo exhibitions include: Secession, Vienna, Austria; REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Sammlung Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

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Andrea Bowers @ Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC - Mercy Mercy Me

Andrea Bowers: Mercy Mercy Me
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
October 24 – December 5, 2009

The Andrew Kreps Gallery presents Andrea Bowers’ new exhibition, entitled Mercy Mercy Me. Released in 1971, this influential Marvin Gaye song was, and still is, one of the most popular songs of all time that addresses the degradation of the environment, and other pressing social and political issues.  Bill McKibben, American environmentalist, recently wrote about Mercy Mercy Me., “For a brief moment. . .it made perfect sense for the civil rights and environmental movements to be singing the same tune. Tragically, those movements soon diverged - diverged so far that some people still find it odd that activists are working side by side again on issues like global warming and poverty.”

In her current exhibition Andrea Bowers investigates the complicated politics of dealing with the contemporary idea of landscape and the problematic relationship of predominantly Eurocentric environmentalist’s attempts to collaborate with locals to fight against climate change.  Almost without exception the most endangered locales are populated with people of color and those with low income. And despite their intrinsically humanistic attempts to help, human rights organizations, corporations interested in sponsorship and the Green Movement struggle with compatibility. This exhibition began with a trip that Andrea Bowers took with a small group of activists to the Arctic Village in Northern Alaska in the summer of 2009.  It is a village of about 150 Native Americans, called Gwich’in, and is located in the southern edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  

The exhibition includes a group of 4 video projects, several drawings, books, beading and ephemera from past protests. Circle is a video that combines panoramic landscapes with interviews and footage of four generations of women from the Arctic Village. These women, some of whom are part of the activist organization, The Gwich’in Steering Committee, eloquently express the urgent needs of their people for the prevention of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the protection of their lands from global warming.

Interview with Betty Ann continues Andrea Bowers’ interest in storytelling but for the first time she turns the camera on herself to tell a story about her correspondence with a woman bead artist that she met at the Arctic Village. A third video, which was recorded this summer, documents a tree-climbing lesson given to Andrea Bowers by environmental activist, John Quigley.  This piece, focusing on the metaphor of ascension, encapsulates the good intentions and hopes of the environmental movement and continues Bowers’ interest in choreographic movements resulting from political action.  Also part of this exhibition are works that reference the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Alaskan beading traditions layered with environmental activism. 

Andrea Bowers received her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992. Solo exhibitions include: Secession, Vienna, Austria; REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, NY; Sammlung Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY
525 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
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