At Art Basel Paris: Two 1970s Paintings, a Sculpture Bench and a US$1.6 Million Asking Price
Art Basel Paris, the Paris edition of the international art fair, is open to the public through Sunday, October 25, at the Grand Palais, the glass-roofed exhibition hall in the French capital. ARTnews has published a roundup of standout booths, the stands that galleries rent to show their work, under the headline "The Best Booths at Art Basel Paris, From Tar Paintings to a Falling Knife."
Among the booths it picked out is Ortuzar's. The gallery is showing two abstract paintings from the mid-1970s by Miyoko Ito. Ito is loosely associated with the Chicago Imagists, a loose group of Chicago artists who worked in figurative and image-driven painting in the decades after the 1960s.
At Xavier Hufkens, visitors will find a bench-like sculpture by Tatiana Trouvé, part of her series on "The Guardian." According to ARTnews, the piece is made from fragments of earlier work and leftover studio material. Those scraps were cast in aluminium, then painted by hand.
Yares Art is presenting Helen Frankenthaler's "Ivory Rose" from 1987. The gallery is asking US$1.6 million for the painting, an asking price, meaning the figure the seller has set and not a sale. No sale has been reported.
The Pill gallery's presentation features work by Cem Örgen. ARTnews reports that Örgen is set to have a solo show at the New Museum in New York early next year.
The fair has more than 200 exhibitors from 41 countries and territories. Preview days were October 21 and 22, and the public days run from Friday to Sunday, October 23 to 25, from 11am to 7pm. Entry requires a ticket or a VIP card, which can be bought through the fair's official website.
Visitors who leave with more than memories can head to the Art Basel Shop. For this Paris edition, it carries an exclusive capsule collection of artworks by Beauford Delaney, plus objects designed by artists and limited-edition prints.
For anyone planning a trip, the booths above are a good place to start. Most are a short walk from one another inside the hall, and the mix runs from 1970s abstraction to a bench built from a studio's leftover scraps.
