Presented by Chemould Prescott Road (Mumbai), Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris, Brussels) and Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna), Mithu Sen’s ‘MUO (Museum of Unbelongings)’ (2016) is a display cabinet filled with everyday objects, each individually named and collected by the artist since childhood. Mike Kelley, “Reconstructed History”, 1989 (Skarstedt) The work explores the accelerated image flow of television and exemplifies Bender’s concept of ‘electronic theatre’, in which she aims to infiltrate the corporate domain of mass media representation by overloading the viewer with information. Gretchen Bender’s monumental 24-monitor multi-projection screen installation, ‘Total Recall’ (1987), will be presented by Metro Pictures (New York).
galerie frank elbaz (Paris) and Gagosian Gallery (New York, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Le Bourget, Rome, Athens, Geneva, Hong Kong) will present Davide Balula’s ‘Mimed Sculpture’ (2016), a performance with mimes tracing the invisible presence of art-historically signif icant sculptures.
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Featuring a band of professional musicians improvising together, the work is a documentation of a fictitious recording at the famous studio in the 1970s. Presented by David Zwirner (New York, London), Stan Douglas’ ‘Luanda-Kinshasa’ (2013) is set within a reconstruction of the legendary Columbia 30th Street Studio in Midtown Manhattan. Highlights of Unlimited include El Anatsui’s ‘Gli (Wall)’ (2010), presented by Jack Shainman Gallery (New York, Kinderhook), comprised of five hanging curtains made of recycled materials, which come together to create an immense yet contemplative intervention within the space. Unlimited is notable for its embrace of the artworld’s globalism including pieces by India’s Archana Hande, China’s Yan Xing and Cheng Ran, Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth, Singapore’s Ho Tzu Nyen and Samson Young of Hong Kong. A unique platform for galleries, Unlimited provides an impressive overview of both Modern and contemporary art, with work of significant art historical relevance exhibited alongside new work by artists living and working today, across 16,000 square meters of exhibition space.
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Since first introduced at Art Basel in 2000, Unlimited has become a key element of the show, providing galleries with a unique opportunity to showcase large-scale sculptures, video projections, installations, wall paintings, photographic series and performance art that cannot be exhibited in a gallery booth at an art fair.
Curated for the fifth consecutive year by Gianni Jetzer, curator-at-large at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., Unlimited will showcase a strong selection of works by renowned international artists including AA Bronson, Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui, Kader Attia, Gretchen Bender, Pablo Bronstein, Elmgreen & Dragset, Tracey Emin, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Jannis Kounellis, Joseph Kosuth, Louise Lawler, Sol LeWitt, Laura Lima, Paul McCarthy, Pamela Rosenkranz, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth, Frank Stella and James Turrell.
This year Unlimited, Art Basel’s unique platform for artworks that transcend the traditional art fair stand, will present 88 projects from galleries participating in the show, a record number of projects for the sector. Unlimited: Presenting 88 ambitious and large-scale works spanning six decades
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