It was in a panorama that was each «familiar and new,» to make use of the words of Clément Delépine, co-founder of the very underground travelling off truthful, Paris Internationale, and now the director of Paris +, that we surveyed the 156 stands of the new offshoot of Art Basel, grafted on instead of the legendary FIAC. With the power and aura of the world’s most necessary trendy and modern artwork truthful, Paris + by Artwork Basel, removed from displaying any indicators of weak spot, brought a brand new wind to the Paris market by attracting international galleries that had by no means come earlier than. Amongst these driving forces of the art market, the large names but in addition the more modest galleries, we have been moved by the look. Our eyes stopped in entrance of the works of Anne Imhof (at Buchholz Gallery), Giulia Andreani (at Max Hetzler), and Ben Sledsens (Tim Van Laere Gallery), already met, respectively, in Venice, Lyon, and Antwerp.1 Listed here are extra we now have chosen so that you can discover.
- Anne Imhof : Biennale de Venise 2017 et Palais de Tokyo, été 2021 (voir Acumen #27) ; Giulia Andreamin : Biennale de Lyon (voir Acumen #27) ; Ben Sledsens : (solo show à la Tim Van Laere Gallery en septembre dernier à Anvers).
PARIS
Nathanaëlle Herbelin & Anne-Charlotte Finel / Galerie Jousse Entreprise
Photographs in suspense, captured at daybreak or at dusk, in the mean time when every part sparkles, mild and darkness, types and ideas… sprung from goals or insomnia, from reverie or melancholy…; pictures between two non-places… Bathed in a wierd silence, directly soothing and disturbing, and in murky, delicate however virtually evanescent colors, the works displayed by Noam Alon, curator and art critic, on the stand of the Jousse Gallery, caught us with their troubled and ghostly aesthetic. Nathanaëlle Héberlin’s intimist work, although bathed in an apparent tranquility, forged doubt on the flat calm of these scenes of everyday life. Equally, the pretend immobility of the prints from a video taken at dawn on an airport runway by Anne-Charlotte Finel casts doubt on the reality of the picture: we float between sky and earth, in a liminal zone with fuzzy and downy contours (accentuated by the printing on fresson paper) evoking a acutely aware dream…
VIENNE
Waqas Khan/Galerie Krinzinger
By way of a sluggish and meticulous drawing consisting of the appliance of hundreds of thousands of tiny dots or ink strokes on canvas or paper, in the custom of Persian Mughal miniature, Wagas Khan seeks to impress an «emotional and religious reference to the viewer,» «a dialogue between the viewer and the work»: «It’s about assimilating the surface with the within and letting the surface image enter you,» explains the Pakistani artist, who sees his art as a gap to the consciousness of time, a hint left in our «existential area»…
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SEOUL
Kibong Rhee / Kukje Gallery
The Korean artist we found on the Kukje Gallery stand additionally performs with the confusion of image and notion. In search of to point out, not as a representation but as an abstraction, not as an evocation however as an lively simulation, an experimentation of the internalization of the gaze and of meditation, the impermanence of issues, the mutability of varieties and of our notion, their flux and their constant metamorphoses, Kibong Rhee has developed a way of acrylic portray on transparent Plexiglas in superimposed layers on canvas, giving his landscapes an impression of latency, of floating between two states, between look and disappearance. Timber drowned in the mist, Shadows… dreamlike, evanescent, fluctuating landscapes, they represent an introspective, meditative area that leads us to the borders of the seen and the invisible.
PARIS
Daniel Turner / Galerie Allen
Evanescence, many times with Daniel Turner, seen on the stand of the Allen Gallery and in Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo (to which we'll dedicate an article in our subsequent difficulty),1 while a solo show is devoted to him at the Kunsthalle in Basel.2 The steel powder that the conceptual artist deposits on the partitions or on previously coated canvases, by way of its evanescence, displays back to us the image of our own deliquescence, ensuing from the combustion of sinks and different metal furnishings or family home equipment. Of their minimalist, atmospheric, and risky types (and thus promised to disappear), these ephemeral wall- paintings are veritable memento mori, whereas the canvases «burnished» with this metal powder, impregnated with this mud of life, confront us with our future dissolution.
1. Humpty / Dumpty, a two-part exhibition by Cyprien Gaillard, introduced until January eight on the Palais de Tokyo and Lafayette Anticipations, by which Daniel Turner was invited to participate.
2. Daniel Turner, works from Three Websites, Kunsthalle Basel, until eight January
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Stéphanie Dulout
L’article PARIS + BY ART BASEL/COURSE est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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