JOERG LOHSE/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ALEXANDER AND BONIN, NEW YORK
The 48th edition of Art Basel opened to VIP guests today, June 13, and will open to the public on Thursday, June 15. The fair brings together 291 galleries from 35 countries to the Swiss city. Among the highlights are Yan Xing at Galerie Urs Meile, of Beijing and Lucerne, Switzerland; Ron Terada at Vancouver’s Catriona Jeffries; and Carlos Javier Ortiz at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, of San Francisco and New York. (For Nate Freeman’s sales report from the fair, please click here. For features and coverage of goings-on at Art Basel—and other stops on the Grand Tour around Europe—please click here. )
Click the photos below to see works on offer at the fair.
ALL IMAGES: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THEIR GALLERY; ADDITIONAL CREDITS WHERE NOTED
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Alexander and Bonin, New York | Galleries
Fernando Bryce, ARTnews 1948 II, 2016, ink on paper in 13 parts.
JOERG LOHSE
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco and New York | Film
Carlos Javier Ortiz, We All We Got, 2017.
Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing and Lucerne, Switzerland | Galleries
Yan Xing, Two videos, three photographs, several related masterpieces, and American art, 2013, titanium coated stainless steel plinth, seven wooden dildos, piece of handkerchief, rice bowl, and two whips.
Metro Pictures, New York | Galleries
Louise Lawler, Still Life (Candle) (adjusted for the wall [Luxembourg & Dayan, NY], distorted for the times, adjusted to fit), 2003/2017, digital Fujiflex print face mounted to Plexiglas on 3/4" plywood.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, St. Moritz, and Zug, Switzerland | Galleries
Fernand Léger, Nature morte au compas, 1929, oil on canvas.
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York and Zurich | Galleries
Dora Maar, Double Portrait, Paris, 1936, gelatin silver enlargement print on matte surface paper.
Luhring Augustine, New York | Galleries
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Scaffali – apposito contenitore, 2014, silkscreen on stainless steel super mirror.
Gypsum Gallery, Cairo | Statements
Maha Maamoun, The Subduer, 2017, photographic installation.
Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver | Galleries
Ron Terada, High Price “D”, 2013, acrylic on canvas.
SITE PHOTOGRAPHY
The Approach, London | Galleries
Allison Katz, Cock, Interrupted, 2017, oil and rice on canvas.
MARC BLOWER/©ALLISON KATZ
Jack Shainman, New York | Film
Carrie Mae Weems, People of a Darker Hue, 2016.
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin | Galleries
Joan Miró, Paysage romantique, 1937, pastel and gouache on paper.
Herald St, London | Galleries
Nicole Wermers, Croissants & Architecture #43, 2017, C-print and sandpaper sheet.
ANDY KEATE
Kadel Willborn, Dusseldorf, Germany | Feature
Barbara Kasten, Triptych I, 1983, Polacolor photographs, three parts.
Kicken Berlin | Galleries
Otto Steinert, 4 Schornsteine-negativ, 1948, gelatin silver print.
©ESTATE OTTO STEINERT, FOTOGRAFSCHE SAMMLUNG, MUSEUM FOLKWANG, ESSEN
von Bartha, Basel and S-chanf, Switzerland | Galleries
Superflex, Hospital Equipment, 2016, Fine Art Print on archival paper mounted on Dibond and framed.
Pace | Galleries
Loie Hollowell, linked lingams in blue, green, orange, purple, 2017, oil with molding paste and high density foam on linen over panel.
KERRY RYAN MCFATE/©LOIE HOLLOWELL
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin and Stockholm | Galleries
Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Seven Times, 1978-79, seven gelatin silver prints.
Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin | Galleries
Georges Adéagbo, "La Révolution et les Révolutions"..! "Il faul chercher...", 2016, collage on paper, newspaper clippings, original texts.
PETRA GRAF
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco and New York | Feature
Gordon Parks, Untitled, Washington, D.C., 1963, archival pigment print.
©THE GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION
Carolina Nitsch, New York | Edition
Ebony G. Patterson, …bearing witness…, 2017, archival dyes on jacquard, with embroidery, hand-knotted threads, and assorted embellishments.
COMMISSIONED FOR PROSPECT.4, NEW ORLEANS/COURTESY MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY, CHICAGO
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo and New York | Unlimited
Ei Arakawa, 1959, 2017.
Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris and New York | Galleries
Cildo Meireles, Espaços virtuais: Cantos XI (Virtual Spaces: Corners XI B), 1967–68/2014, wood, canvas, paint, and wood flooring.
©CILDO MEIRELES
Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw | Statements
Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2015.
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Los Angeles | Galleries
Robert Gober, Untitled, 2004–5, bronze, cast plastic, plaster, oil paint, and polyethylene.
©ROBERT GOBER
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York | Galleries
Kara Walker, Raw Pigment, 2016, watercolor on paper.
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan | Feature
Barbara Bloom, Envy (From The Seven Deadly Sins), 1987, two Fauteuils, lithograph, mirror, linen handkerchief, and two spotlights.
The Modern Institute, Glasgow | Galleries
Nicolas Party, Untitled, 2016, oil paint and pastel on wall.
BRIAN FORREST/INSTALLATION VIEW: HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES
Sprüth Magers, Berlin, London, and Los Angeles | Unlimited
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Our people are better than your people), 1994/2016.
Pace | Unlimited
Song Dong, Through the Wall, 2016.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York | Parcours
Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Findings (ACCESS), 2017.
James Cohan, New York | Feature
Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, 1989, mixed media video.
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg and Cape Town | Galleries
Tracey Rose. Lucie’s Fur Version 1:1:1 – I Annunciazione (After Fra Angelico), ca .1434–2003, Lambda photograph.
Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels | Parcours
Sophie Nys, 100 female scientists, 2017.
gb agency, Paris | Galleries
Roman Ondak, Keyword, 2017, arrow, keyhole escutcheon, and lithographic stone.
Air de Paris, Paris | Galleries
Sadie Benning, Television, 2016, medite, aqua resin, casein and acrylic, found objects, photographs, and digital print.
CHRIS AUSTIN
A arte Invernizzi, Milan | Galleries
François Morellet, La fuite enchantée des Beaux-Arts n° 4, 2014, acrylic on canvas and blue neon.
BRUNO BANI, MILAN
Canada, New York | Galleries
Matt Connors, Untitled, 2017, acrylic on canvas.
David Kordansky, Los Angeles | Galleries
Torbjørn Rødland, Untitled, 2009–13, chromogenic print.
LEE THOMPSON
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York and Paris | Galleries
Richard Serra, Candle Piece, 1967, wood and candles.
Deborah Schamoni, Munich | Feature
Lea Lublin, Voir clair: La Gioconda aux essuie-glaces (To See Clearly: The Mona Lisa with Windshield Wipers), 1965, acrylic, glass, tape and paper on canvas, with pressboard, wood, rubber bulb, wiper, and motor.
Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro | Galleries
Los Carpinteros, Casi Guitarra (Nogal), 2016, wood, guitar parts and Marshall amplifier.
Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin | Galleries
Carsten Nicolai, formula bifoliate 3, 2017, gesso, pigment on canvas.
©2017 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN
Hauser & Wirth | Galleries
Jenny Holzer, Assets and Activities, 2013–17, oil on linen.
JAKE FORNEY/©2017 JENNY HOLZER, ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
Anton Kern Gallery, New York | Galleries
Sarah Jones, Horse (Dapple Grey) (I), 2017, C-print mounted on aluminum, matte seal, and white frame.
The Box, Los Angeles | Feature
Stan VanDerBeek, A La Mode, 1957, collage.
303 Gallery, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Victoria Miro, and Regen Projects | Unlimited
Doug Aitken, Underwater Pavilions, 2017.
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam | Galleries
Yael Bartana, Taklish, 2017, C-print.
©YAEL BARTANA
Petzel, New York | Galleries
Troy Brauntuch, Untitled, 2016, pigment on cotton.
Esther Schipper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Gladstone Gallery, and Sadie Coles HQ | Film
Ugo Rondinone, thanx 4 nothing, 2015.