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So here we go again on the merry-go-round and I am at the fair ready to experience a new sort of adventure. Art Basel this year was beyond my expectations. There was a huge diversity in trends and this is what made it interesting.
I arrived at Liste Art Fair totally wired and could not relax, until I got my fix! An amazing young artist called Yngve Holen who was in a poetical way playing around with new technologies.
Then on the stairs I bumped into Louise Hallett.
Deep in the basement the work of Tom Holmes at the Bureau was very interesting.
Then we were on our way to Art Basel like a bunch of excited children hop, skip and jumping. First stop was Design and the best of them all of course was Salon 94 where the beautiful Jeanne had used the help of David Adjaye and Rick Owens to create a stand of great aesthetic presence.
Then after viewing such incredible tasteful design we headed to Statements. The question of art and no art was once again in the air. This work ‘Sunrise’ by Justin Matherly, who was showing with Paula Cooper Gallery and Johann Konig.
Like Venice, Basel was also full of performance art, Simon Dybbroe Moller at Galerie Kamm was reading and playing at the same time.
At Herald Street, Pablo Bronstein had created a work that made me imagine that what it must have looked like in the 18th Century in a wealthy private boudoir on a boring rainy day.
Basel was far from boring as Anastasia proved to me at Simon Lee that her and Christopher Wool’s paintings had much in common.
James Lindon showing me his most favourite discovery in Basel, Movenpick ices...
At Johnen Galerie I discovered my long lost family. A most entertaining work by Martin Honert.
A lovely work by Alex Hubbard at Maccarone called “Son of Sunset Sam”.
Little man looking in the window - so cute.
I loved the work by Aaron Curry presented by Almine Rech Gallery
Andrew Kreps Gallery had a very interesting stand. Some interesting works by Annette Kelm “percent for art”
I also liked very much the work of Padraig Timoney.
On our way out we come across the most wonderful new work by Wolfgang Tillmans at Maureen Paley Gallery, created whilst he was in Saudi Arabia.
On the way out we had the chance to glimpse Ai Wei Wei’s commune, which was created all those years ago at Documenta. I was very tempted to take a nap in it after our whirlwind visit to Basel.
