Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 : Galleries sector & more

Art Basel Hong Kong

March 24 - March 26, 2016

Art Basel announced today the details of its fourth edition in Hong Kong, taking place for the second time in March. The Hong Kong show of Art Basel, whose Lead Partner is UBS, will feature 239 premier galleries from 35 countries and territories, presenting works of the highest quality that range from the Modern period of the early 20th century to the most contemporary artists of today. 

Once again, Art Basel will be a showcase for art from the region of Asia and Asia-Pacific, where half of its galleries have exhibition spaces. Art Basel in Hong Kong will open to the public from Thursday, March 24 to Saturday, March 26, 2016, and will take place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).

de Sarthe Gallery 

http://desarthe.com/

Zao Wou-Ki

Untitled, 1963

Courtesy the artist and de Sarthe Gallery

Gallery Exit

www.galleryexit.com

LUI Chun Kwong

Courtesy of the artist and the gallery

Alongside a strong presence of returning galleries from across the globe, this year’s edition features 28 galleries that will participate in the Hong Kong show of Art Basel for the first time. Nine new galleries join from Asia including Antenna Space (Shanghai), galerie nichido (Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Karuizawa, Kasama, Paris), Gallery 100 (Taipei), Ink Studio (Beijing), Lawrie Shabibi (Dubai), Longmen Art Projects (Shanghai), MEM (Tokyo), Vanguard Gallery (Shanghai) and Yeo Workshop (Singapore). 

Art Basel in Hong Kong will also see the addition of 18 leading Western galleries for the first time including Cardi Gallery (Milan, London), Carlos/Ishikawa (London), David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles), Galerie 1900 – 2000 (Paris), Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin), Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (Paris), Galerie Nagel Draxler (Berlin, Cologne), gb agency (Paris), Greene Naftali (New York), In Situ – fabienne leclerc (Paris), Kewenig (Berlin, Palma), Metro Pictures (New York), P.P.O.W (New York), Sabrina Amrani (Madrid), Société (Berlin), team (gallery, inc.) (New York, Los Angeles), Xavier Hufkens (Brussels) and Zeno X Gallery (Antwerp). Selma Feriani Gallery (Sidi Bou Said, London) also joins Art Basel as the first African gallery outside of South Africa to ever participate in an Art Basel show.

James Cohan Gallery

www.jamescohan.com

Fred Tomaselli

Untitled, 2013

Courtesy the artist and the gallery

Project Fulfill Art Space

www.pfarts.com

Sung-chih Chen

Courtesy the artist and the gallery

The upcoming edition features a particularly strong representation of galleries with exhibition spaces in Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, in addition to those with spaces in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The participating galleries have exhibition spaces in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mainland China, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Taka Ishii Gallery

www.takaishiigallery.com

Ushio Shinohara

“Boxing Painting”, 2009

© Ushio Shinohara / Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Tokyo Gallery + BTAP

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Ushio Shinohara

Samurai Sword, 1967

Courtesy the artist and the gallery

The main sector of the show, will feature 187 Modern and contemporary art galleries, presenting the highest quality of painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video and editioned works. Exhibitors returning after a brief hiatus include Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York) and Applicat-Prazan (Paris), while many Asian galleries have moved from other sectors of the show into Galleries, where they will present a wider range of their gallery programs. These galleries are: Athr (Jeddah), Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong), Chambers Fine Art (Beijing, New York), Galerie Ora-Ora (Hong Kong), Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde (Dubai, Brussels), Nanzuka (Tokyo), Nature Morte (New Delhi), Project Fulfill Art Space (Taipei), Taro Nasu (Tokyo), TKG+ (Taipei, Beijing), Yavuz Gallery (Singapore) and Yumiko Chiba Associates (Tokyo). Francesca Minini (Milan) and Galeria Plan B (Cluj, Berlin) are also showing for the first time in the Galleries sector.

Tyler Rollins Fine Art

www.trfineart.com/

Tiffany Chung

13 Oct 2013 NY Times/ UNHCR: Syria 4,250,000; Jordan 543,000; Turkey 504,000; Lebanon 790,000; iraq 197,00-; Egypt 126000, 2014

Courtesy of the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art

Insights sector : link to the post

Discoveries sector : link to the post

Last year saw the inaugural BMW Art Journey, a collaboration between BMW and Art Basel to support emerging artists, awarded to Hong Kong-based artist Samson Young (b. 1979). At the 2016 show in Hong Kong, first works from Samson Young’s project, ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Journey Into the Sonic History of Conflict' will be on view and the next shortlist for the BMW Art Journey will be announced.

The Encounters sector will show artworks on an institutional scale, presenting largescale sculptural installation pieces and performances, sited in prominent locations throughout the two exhibition halls. Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director of the contemporary art institution Artspace in Sydney, will return for this edition to curate the sector for the second time. Further information on the works in the Encounters sector will be released in the coming months.

The popular Film sector will return this year, and will once again be curated by Beijingand Zurich-based curator, multi-media artist and producer Li Zhenhua. The program will be presented in collaboration with the Hong Kong Arts Centre adjacent to the HKCEC. The program will also be expanded to include feature-length and documentary films, with screenings taking place at the HKCEC for the first time.

Conversations, the long-established morning program of talks and panel discussions offers audiences first-hand access to renowned cultural speakers and opinion-formers from across the international art world. Complementing the Conversations program, the afternoon Salon series serves as a platform for shorter, more freestyle presentations, including artist talks, panel discussions, lectures and book launches. Full details on the talks program will be released in the coming months.

In addition, Art Basel is working closely with key cultural organizations across the city, including Asia Art Archive (AAA); the Asia Society; Para/Site Art Space; Spring Workshop; and M+, Hong Kong’s future museum for visual culture, offering an associated program of events onsite and throughout the city that takes place during the week of the show. Once again, Art Basel will be collaborating with Hong Kong’s International Commerce Centre (ICC), which will see a new light installation by an internationally renowned artist to be projected on to the side of the 108-storey skyscraper.

This November, Art Basel will support the annual Hong Kong Art Gallery Week organized by the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association, and will once again collaborate with the association to organize the gallery night prior to the opening of the show in March.

    Website: www.artbasel.com

Icon / Iconoclast at Marlborough Chelsea, NYC - An Exhibition of Works by: Francis Bacon, Francesco Clemente, David Hockney, Robin Kahn, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, Ouattara, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli, Terry Winters, Curated by Raymond Foye

Icon / Iconoclast

Marlborough Chelsea, New York

November 8 - December 27, 1997

An Exhibition of Works by:

Francis Bacon

Francesco Clemente

David Hockney

Robin Kahn

Alex Katz

R.B. Kitaj

Ouattara

Ad Reinhardt

Philip Taaffe

Fred Tomaselli

Terry Winters

Curated by Raymond Foye

Marlborough Chelsea presents an exhibition of paintings, Icon/Iconoclast. The exhibition, consisting of one work each by eleven artists, is about the persistent power of images in modern life. Even though creative strategies in the arts have varied widely in the past three decades, challenges to pictorialism seem only to strengthen the hold that certain images possess over us. Attempting to break or destroy imagery, artists have, in fact, created entirely new pictorial conceptions expanding our definition of what constitutes a picture. This paradox is expressed by the title of the exhibition.

Beginning with Ad Reinhardt's black painting as an ultimate statement of both the iconic and the iconoclastic impulses in art, the exhibition explores the many ways in which contemporary painters have sought to re-define the image within the formal traditions of Western art. 

Like Ad Reinhardt, Francis Bacon has served as a touchstone for subsequent generations of artists: in this case, painters who have sought to pursue aspects of figuration, portraiture, and the passions of the flesh. Yet, the attempt to instill in modern painting the secular equivalence of the experience of ecstasis - so integral to the art of the Renaissance - was a lifelong preoccupation with both these artists, each in their own way.

The iconic image stands as an object of mediation and contemplation and embodies a system of belief which may be communicated through narrative, metaphor, or allegory. The painters chosen in this exhibition may all be characterized by their commitment to expanding conceptions of picture-making by means of investigating the image itself. The mistrust for iconoclastic images, which persists to this day, springs from similar origins: that artists are conjurers of illusions, and may propagate false beliefs. Recently, similar criticism has been most sharply directed at artists employing figuration and representation such as David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Alex Katz, and Francesco Clemente.

In the work of Philip Taaffe and Fred Tomaselli, figurative elements are deployed in the service of abstraction while preserving the flatness and frontality of the icon. Both artists explore a diagrammatic language akin to the mandala or symbolon: ritual configurations that speak to the inner working of an image and its correspondence to archaic forms. The wider perspective of the primacy of the aesthetic experience itself is the basis of the work of Terry Winters whose imagery finds its analogy in the complex nexus of biology and cognitive science.

Conceptualizations of the female body and aspects of women's roles in society have been the subject of recent work by Robin Kahn who draws on sources as diverse as history, alchemy and anthropology. The legacy of symbols which is the inheritance of iconography from Medieval and Renaissance times have functioned as source material for many of her works. In the work of Ouattara, an African artist from the Ivory Coast, the icon comes closest to its animist origins as mediator between the worlds of the human and the divine.

All of the living artists in Icon/Iconoclast are represented by new work. A centerpiece of the exhibition is a major ensemble of paintings and drawings by R.B. Kitaj constituting a single work, The Killer Critic Assassinated by his Widower, Even, (1997). The subject of a controversial exhibition earlier this year at London's Royal Academy, the work is a visual rebuttal to the critical malign following Kitaj's retrospective and the subsequent death of his wife, Sandra, events which the artist relates in the work itself. It is Kitaj's farewell address to London, a final salvo launched at the same philistine cultural establishment that Ezra Pound once lampooned in his famous suite of poems, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.

Icon/Iconoclast has been organized by Raymond Foye. Along with Francesco Clemente he is co-publisher of Hanuman Books, a press devoted to poetry, Hinduism, and writings by artists (a list that include William Burroughs, Rene Ricard, Francis Picabia, Willem deKooning, Cookie Mueller, René Daumal, Jack Kerouac, Robert Frank, Max Beckmann, Patti Smith and others). He has curated (with Ann Percy) a full scale retrospective of the works of Francesco Clemente, Three Worlds (Philadelphia Museum of Art), and over the past twenty years has edited books, catalogues and livres d'artiste by numerous artists in the exhibition, including David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Philip Taaffe, Terry Winters and Francesco Clemente. His published works on poets and poetry include James Schuyler (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), John Wieners (Black Sparrow Press), Bob Kaufman (New Directions) and Edgar Allan Poe (City Lights Books). He presently lives and works in New York City.

MARLBOROUGH CHELSEA

211 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011

www.malgoroughgallery.com