Art Basel: Day One

18 July 2019

Art Basel: Day One
We all had a lovely visit to Design Miami/Basel, it was full of wonderful surprises. Lizzie checking out Jonathan Trayte’s work
Art Basel: Day One
View from the front
Art Basel: Day One
I spotted a beautiful sofa by Bernard Govin at Ligne Roset
Art Basel: Day One
I was taken by the early 1990s Betty Woodman glass vases
Art Basel: Day One
Both unique and one of a kind
Art Basel: Day One
Roy checking out the mid-century furniture
Art Basel: Day One
We fell for one of the wonderful lamps by OrtaMiklos that we had already seen in Berlin’s Functional Art Gallery established by Benoît Wolfrom and Javier Peres
Art Basel: Day One
Over at Art Basel’s Unlimited the work ‘Nirvana’ by Xu Zhen was insane. I loved the way that a whole gaming table would painstakingly be drawn by grains of sand and then brushed away like a beautiful Richter painting
Art Basel: Day One
There were some elaborate folk walking around
Art Basel: Day One
At the main fair I loved the series ‘Settings’ by Magali Reus at The approach
Art Basel: Day One
At Anton Kern I found the most perfect Anne Collier
Art Basel: Day One
Massimo Minini had a mesmerising Sheila Hicks
Art Basel: Day One
I spotted an Alicja Kwade at Johann König
Art Basel: Day One
At Hauser & Wirth there was an incredible work by the genius Keith Tyson, my favourite painting at Basel!
Art Basel: Day One
Inside LISTE Galerie Joseph Tang were showing an interesting artist called Julie Béna
Art Basel: Day One
I loved this work by Michael Fullerton at Koppe Astner, ‘Paris Hilton’s Sperm Donor (Dalofaelid Phenotype)’
Art Basel: Day One
Lizzie on top of Pawel Althamer, part of Basel Parcours