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Basel is the fair you can never complete… so much to see and take in. We were fascinated by the work of Liselor Perez at Sans Titre gallery, she is a young artist creating haunted domestic works. She seems to be exploring intimacy, memory and identity. The curtain is an entrance into a domestic landscape
A large doll reveals between its skirt a structure of rings tracing the outline of its legs exposing a synthetic void
At Perrotin Klara Kristalova’s ‘The Girls’ was a show stopper
At Vielmetter I loved the work of April Bey entitled ‘Pineapple Portal Grower what is Tended Responds’
At Jan Kaps it was great to see the development of Berenice Olmedo’s work
It was lovely to see ‘Pendulum’ by Anju Dodiya at Chemould Prescott Road
At Gallery Krizinger was Hans Op De Beeck ‘s ‘Cecile’. Cecile has a strong presence - you just know she is of decades past and abides to the system’ she shows love and compassion on one hand but with the other hand leads us to feel there is darker undertone just about to reveal itself
Trey Abdella has some wonderful works at Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler ‘cold Hearted’ captured an intimate cinematic moment
Loved this booth corner installation including Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas, Leiko Ikemura at Contemporary Fine Arts
Also at CFA I was intrigued by the work of Travis Macdonald – they are one to watch out for
At Franz Kaka I liked the ‘Weeping Woman (Memling)’ by Jennifer Carvalho
Was fun to see ‘NuKo 1068’ by Nuri Koerfer at Lars Friedrich
At Matthew Marks Gallery was a stunning Simone Leigh ‘Anatomy of Architecture’
Lovely large UV prints sculpturally presented by Arthur Jafa ‘Black Difference, Miles and Betty’ at Sprueth Magers
A delightful work called ‘The Flesh’ by Qiu Xiaofei at Xavier Hufkens
I spotted so many beautiful flowers such as ‘Marigold (Breakthrough)’ by Jordan Casteel at Thaddaeus Ropac
Great to see this lovely work by Albert Oehlen ‘u.b.B 15’, 2020 at Max Hetzler
Meanwhile… back in London a small group of works from the Zabludowicz Collection were being installed at Christie’s…. Lizzie popped in and sent us some snaps… Beyond Ordinary is the name of the sale and feels like a good way to sum up our approach, they riffed the design off our Invites books, but I wonder if anyone noticed
