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○ Download our FREE daily app THE ART NEWSPAPER Art Basel: 15/06/2016 ○ Kunstmuseum Basel ○ Michael Landy ○ Basel’s backyard ○ Refugees welcome Inside the city’s biggest art Why the British artist wants to Head to Salts in Birsfelden to museum, which has just got How the art world is responding destroy Jean Tinguely’s museum find a dynamic non-profit space bigger and better to a crisis in the real world in the name of love off the beaten track Page 4 >> Pages 9-10 >> Pages 16-18 >> Page 23 >> Buy Eliasson’s green light, Collectors take a long help refugees Green light, the Vienna-based art project launched by Olafur Eliasson to welcome refugees, hard look at themselves is coming to Art Basel this weekend. Since March, partici- pants from countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq have At Art Basel, artists hold up a mirror to everyone who makes the art world go round worked with local people at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contem- Artists are holding up a mirror to porary to make nearly 300 green the art world at Art Basel, its biggest lamps designed by the Danish- tribal gathering, which opened to in- Icelandic artist. Participants will vited collectors yesterday. Collectors, present the project inside Oscar art advisers, dealers and the rest of Tuazon’s wooden structure on the art market’s elite arrived to find the Messeplatz, on 18 and 19 its rituals (and sometimes them- June. Lamps will be available for selves) represented—though not SFr350 each. Proceeds go to pro- necessarily in the best light. jects that help refugees. Green “Artists are working with all kinds light is due to continue in Vienna of social tissue, and the market is during June and July. H.M. one form of this,” says Gianni Jetzer, • For more, see pp9-10 the curator of the fair’s Unlimited section. But do such works court or critique the world they invade? The conflict is part of the reality, Jetzer says. Artists may not like the market, but “they need to generate Sales an income; they need to live”. On Skarstedt’s stand, one of Eric points Fischl’s new paintings of art fairs, The Wall (2016; around $500,000), shows a couple with their backs to the Get your own piece art. “Same crowd, different clothes. of Christo’s Italian job Always the same experience” is how Fischl describes the series, in which Take home a piece of The Floating no one looks directly at any works. Piers, Project for Lake Iseo, Italy (2016), At Campoli Presti, Advisors (2016), Christo’s first public project since 2005, by the artists’ collective known which opens at the eponymous lake this as Reena Spaulings, comprises 14 weekend. A preparatory collage, com- portraits of art advisers. Some, such plete with fabric swatch, is at Annely as Lisa Schiff and Thea Westreich, Juda Fine Art, priced at $1.2m. J.H. are identifiable to those in the inner circle. The work is by a collective that likes to expose the blurred lines of Paul McCarthy’s the market; two of its artists run the plum tomato Reena Spaulings gallery, which is also at the fair. One of these, John Kelsey, Sales are strong at Unlimited, among says: “Art advisers dominate the con- them Paul McCarthy’s well-hung versation more than ever before.” Tomato Head (Green) (1994), which ○ Hauser & Wirth sold to a US private FISCHL: © DAVID OWENS. ELIASSON: SANDRO E.E. ZANZINGER; © OLAFUR ELIASSON OLAFUR © ZANZINGER; E.E. SANDRO ELIASSON: OWENS. DAVID © FISCHL: Continued on p4 Someone’s paying attention on Skarstedt’s stand—unlike the disengaged couple depicted by Eric Fischl in his latest art-fair work collection for $4.75m. M.G. U. ALLEMANDI & CO. PUBLISHING LTD TURIN / LONDON / NEW YORK / PARIS / ATHENS / MOSCOW / BEIJING Jonathan Monk Unlimited, Art Basel 16 – 19 June 2016 6LWH6SHFLÀF3DOOHW5RFN2013-2014 detail) Powder-coated aluminium and rocks 120 x 80 x 28 cm each 2 THE ART NEWSPAPER ART BASEL DAILY EDITION 15 JUNE 2016 NEWS 15/06/2016 Volunteers Antarctica “off ered their bodies almost unconditionally” ahoy! for Andres Serrano’s disturbing series Artists to set sail for the of photographs South Pole, via Venice Studio Hani Rashid’s proposal for an Antarctic bioprospecting station On 27 March 2017, the Russian research ship Akademik Ioff e will cast off from the tip of Ar- gentina on a journey to Antarcti- ca. It will be carrying around 100 scientists, artists, “visionaries” and poets. Art will be created, poetry recited and the meaning and future of life discussed, and there will be more of the same once the only no-man’s-land in There are many politically charged government doesn’t want us to see, the world is reached. For Ant- works at Art Basel this year—but humiliated and eroticised,” Hagh- arctica belongs to no one, under there is nothing quite like a new panah-Shirwan says. A selection of a treaty of 1959 in which the series called Torture, by Andres Ser- Serrano’s plates from Francisco Goya’s series countries of the world promised rano, that is due to go on show in The Disasters of War (1810-20), on to keep the continent inviolate, France next month. His disturbing loan from Stadtmuseum Olden- weapons-free and uninhabited images feature more than 40 volun- burg, in northern Germany, will except by transitory scientists. teers being degraded and shackled, scenes of cruel also feature in the Avignon exhi- Whether its title—the Ant- with the US artist assuming the bition. Meanwhile, fi ve small-scale arctic Biennale—means that role of torturer. The images are due images from Serrano’s Torture there will be further editions to go on display at the Collection series are on show at the Royal is uncertain, although its com- Lambert in Avignon on 4 July (until and unusual Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, missioner, the former subma- 25 September). in Brussels (until 21 August). riner-turned-artist Alexander The series was initiated and Discussions about the project Ponomarev, is certainly keen. produced by a/political, a Lon- began at Serrano’s studio in Decem- He says: “This white continent don-based non-profi t that collabo- punishment ber 2014, in the week when the US is like a pure sheet of paper on rates with “socio-political” artists; Senate Select Committee on Intel- which artists from diff erent Serrano’s photographs were taken ligence published its report on CIA countries might draft new vi- at the Foundry, a space run by detention and interrogation. “The sions for life in the 21st century.” a/political in the south-western Volunteers in France and former political prisoners US government continued to block Ponomarev’s powers of French town of Maubourguet. the further release of images from persuasion are remarkable: Serrano will also unveil his por- from Northern Ireland pose for Torture images Abu Ghraib [the prison outside the Russian navy let him paint traits of the “hooded men”, a group Baghdad, Iraq] as a matter of na- one of its submarines in wild of political prisoners who were fi rst time since their ordeal. fascinating to witness the dynamic tional security, and this persistent, colours, and in 2009, he took his subjected to “deep interrogation” “A vast number of people visited between the torturer and tortured,” visible censorship was the topic of pseudo-submarine up the Grand under the British government’s the Foundry through word of says Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan, global debate. It was the right time Canal in Venice. The Antarctic is internment programme in North- mouth, including local labourers the director of a/political. to explore torture as a reality that one of his obsessions, and at the ern Ireland in the early 1970s. For and factory workers. They off ered “The scale and compositions are continues to rot the core of society,” 2014 Venice Biennale, he created their portraits, some of the men their bodies for experimentation, akin to Old Masters; Serrano mon- Haghpanah-Shirwan says. a pavilion for the continent in stripped and wore hoods for the almost unconditionally. It was umentalises the bodies that the Gareth Harris the Fondaco Marcello. As part of the Venice Architec- ture Biennale (until 27 Novem- ber), this pavilion houses works by the architectural studio of David Zwirner seeks head Rolex mentors pick protégés Hani Rashid and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, imagin- The US performance and video artist Joan ing what the Antarctic might be for new Hong Kong space Jonas is to work closely with the young once global warming has made Vietnamese multimedia artist Thao-Nguyen it, as the studio says, “as ‘nor- New York- and London-based David Zwirner gallery has announced that it Phan, thanks to the Geneva-based luxury mal’ as northern Scandinavia will open a space in Hong Kong next year. The gallery is looking for a direc- watchmaker Rolex. Thao-Nguyen, who and therefore inhabitable”. tor, preferably with experience of Asia, to lead the new space. The idea was is due to have her fi rst solo show in 2017, The main backer of the inspired by a number of successful appearances at Art Basel in Hong Kong, hopes that Jonas’s “innovative spirit” will ex- Antarctic Biennale is the Oceanic at which the gallery did brisk business, especially for its fi gurative painters, pand her “theatrical fi elds”. Meanwhile, the Project Foundation. Its trustees such as Luc Tuymans, Michaël Borremans and Neo Rauch. The 10,000 sq. ft British architect David Chipperfi eld will men- include the artist Marina Abram- venue will be on two fl oors of H Queens, a 24-storey “gallery and lifestyle tor the Swiss architect and academic Simon Thao-Nguyen Phan with her mentor, ovic, Sam Keller, the director tower” that is currently under construction at 80 Queen’s Road Central.