COURTESY SPRÜTH MAGERS
The 15th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach opens Thursday, December 1, with VIP previews beginning tomorrow, November 30. The 2016 edition of the fair, which runs through Sunday, December 4, will bring 269 galleries from 29 countries to the Florida city. Of these exhibitors, 50 percent operate spaces in the Americas. Part 1 of the preview looks at the galleries in the main “Galleries” section of the fair. (Part 2 looks at the galleries participating in the other seven sections of the fair.) Among the highlights are Manuel Álvarez Bravo at New York’s Edwynn Houk Gallery, Ghada Amer at Berlin’s Kewenig, Teresa Margolles at Zurich’s Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Sam Durant at Blum & Poe, and David Hammons at New York’s Mnuchin Gallery.
Click the photos below to see works on offer at the fair.
ALL IMAGES: COURTESY THE ARTIST, THEIR GALLERY, AND ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH; ADDITIONAL CREDITS WHERE NOTED
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Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg
Zanele Muholi, Ntozabantu VI, 2016.
Kewenig, Berlin
Ghada Amer, Sindy In Pink-RFGA, 2015, acrylic, embroidery, and gel on canvas.
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Teresa Margolles, Pista de Baile de la discoteca "Eduardo's" (Dance floor of the discoteque "Eduardo's"), 2016, color print on cotton paper.
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo
Sam Durant, Occupation, Lies, Illegal, Respect, Supremacy, Freedom?, 2016, mirror and spray enamel, mounted on plywood.
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Andrea Bowers, Ban Assault Weapons Now, 2016.
Mnuchin Gallery, New York
David Hammons, Untitled, ca. 1986, beads and feathers in wine bottle.
TOM POWEL IMAGING
Sprüth Magers, Berlin and Los Angeles
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Cast of Characters), 2016, digital print on vinyl.
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Tavares Strachan, Friends Forever (Mandala), 2015, sintra, collage, enamel, pigment, and vinyl.
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, La Buena Fama Durmiendo, 1938, gelatin silver enlargement print.
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin and Cologne
Luke Willis Thompson, Untitled, 2015, bronze of water fountain with found original parts.
AXEL SCHNEIDER
CRG Gallery
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, The Lebanese Rocket Society: A Carpet, 2012, wool rug.
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
Robert Heinecken, Multiple Solution Puzzle #2, 1965, 24 plastic-coated gelatin silver prints mounted to masonite on wooden tray.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels
Andres Serrano, John (Nomads), 1990, cibachrome on Plexiglas.
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York and Paris
Mel Bochner, Yes!/No! Maybe, 2016, oil on canvas, in two parts.
Pace Gallery
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1944–45, watercolor and ink on paper.
©1998 KATE ROTHKO PRIZEL & CHRISTOPHER ROTHKO / ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
Metro Pictures, New York
Nina Beier, Allegory of Charity, 2015, ceramic cups, coffee beans, resin, wood, and metal.
Luhring Augustine, New York
Larry Clark, Untitled, 1968, gelatin silver photograph.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich
Gustav Klucis, Design for the cover sheet of the journal "Kinofront 1", 1926, collage and gouache.
Labor, Mexico City
Jill Magid, Facistol, 2013, pine lectern inspired by Luis Barragán, mounted reproduction from Luis Barragán's personal archive.
Kicken, Berlin
Jurgen Klauke, Masculin Feminin II, 1974.
Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
John Baldessari, Scene ( ) / Take ( ) : Wedding, 2014, varnished ink-jet print on canvas with acrylic paint.
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin
Goran Torbuljak, beginning, 2000, canvas, paint, and suitcase.
JAKA BABNIK
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin and Stockholm
Elena Damiani, Dust tail, 2016, digital print on silk chiffon and steel.
Galerie 1900–2000, Paris
Marcel Broodthaers, Petite forme de moules, 1969.
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Havana
Reynier Leyva Novo, El peso de la muerte (serie de pesas de 1 g. a 1 Kg. fundidas con latón de balas), 2016, cast brass.
ELA BIALKOWSKA
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (formerly Fortes Vilaca), São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
Rodrigo Matheus, Grasp, 2015, painting, saw, metal, wooden hand model, and glove.
SEBASTIANO PELLION DI PERSANO
Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Trevor Paglen, Japan-US Cable System, NSA/GCHQ - Tapped Undersea Cable, Pacific Ocean, 2016, C-print.
303 Gallery, New York
Kim Gordon, The Poetics, 2015, acrylic on canvas.
Sean Kelly, New York
Sam Moyer, Delta Dawn, 2016, stone, marble, dyed canvas mounted to MDF.
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Donald Moffett, Lot 081716 (flowers shot), 2016, pigmented epoxy resin, archival inkjet print on wood panel support with steel hardware.
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Gehard Demetz, Keep My Old Dreams, 2016, lindenwood.
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg
Alfredo Jaar, Six Seconds, 2005, lightbox with color transparency.
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Jonas Wood, SK Dino Pot #2, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas.
BRIAN FORREST
Bortolami, New York
Caitlin Keogh, Untitled, 2016, acrylic on canvas.
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Joel Shapiro, Untitled,
2000, painted aluminum.
Alexander Gray Associates, New York
Joan Semmel, Step Out, 2016, oil on canvas.
©2016 JOAN SEMMEL/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK