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Valentin Paris At Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

7/6/2013

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Valentin Paris showed this at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012. This installation was one I wandered around and tried to shoot a decent video of again and again. All I got that was usable was below.

My photos were even blurry.

This one I wanted to write more on but when I was there no one was on hand to comment or chat with.

Either that or I was to exhausted to speak to another human at this point.

You can find out more about Valentin, Paris HERE.

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Daniel Karrer Untitled On Cotton Shown At Contact By Lichtfeld

2/28/2013

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These pieces by Daniel Karrer were shown at Context during Art Basel week by a gallery, Licht Feld, that is always one of the most interesting at any show they deign to attend.

Karrer is from Binningen, Basel and lives and works in Basel. He has a BA in teaching and art education from Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel.

The work shown in Miami had a dark has a haunting quality. The painting to the right calls to mind silent films--works by Carl Theodor Dreyer or F.W. Murnau.

The subtlety in the color of the lower painting doesn't come through in this photograph. The texture does come through a bit. It is a painting that needs to be considered and viewed for some time to be appreciated. I came back to it during the week I was there three times.

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Christian Schoeler Galerie Urs Meile At Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

2/5/2013

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Christian Schoeler is a young German painter, working out of Dusseldorf. His expressionistic (and I use this term generically not in an "art" context) work was shown by Galerie Urs Meile (Beijing, Lucerne) at Art Basel.

It caught my eye because of the juxtaposition of realism and the abstract. Look at the face closely--or part of the face. The move your focus downward. His work moves and confounds. Try to get a handle on it, try to say what precisely is going on in the piece.

And all that is good. Confounding is good, melding different styles together seemlessly is good.


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Jon Pylypchuk Shown By Fredric Snitzer Gallery (I Think)

1/28/2013

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Jon Pylypchuk, from Canada, lives and works in Los Angeles. He is one of those artist who reach out into multiple mediums.

This particular one is sculpture of a sort.  But it is not Rodin (the sculptor or the giant bird), the work is more accessible to the modern man.

The photos give you the gist of the piece (or pieces). Cigarette butts and phrases that may well have popped into YOUR mind now and again are featured.

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Spartacus Chetwynd's "Bat Opera" Show By Sadie Coles At Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

1/27/2013

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Spartacus Chetwynd is a British artist best known for work dealing--and sometimes twisting--cultural history. But in this instance her work (shown by Sadie Coles, London) was bats. Bat Opera is a series of paintings that just didn't seem to translate to photographs. The video shows off these engaging works better. Have a look at it.

Chetwynd is best known for performance pieces (which look like they are something to see) and was nominated for a Turner Prize. She was also once known as Lali Chetwynd but I think everyone can agree that Spartacus has a ring to it.

Bats are awesome. I especially love the four painting in the group (magnificent).


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Henry Taylor At Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 Via Blum & Poe

1/27/2013

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Henry Taylor, a native of California, was shown at Art Basel by Blum & Poe , Los Angeles. There is something soulful and nostalgic about his work. There is almost a "Beat Poet" sort of vibe in his work. But there is certainly nothing "old fashioned" about the work.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions going back to the mid 1990s all over the USA--including at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Santa Monica Museum Of Art and a 2011 solo exhibition at Blum & Poe.

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Donald Baechler's "Skull" Shown By Cheim And Read At Art Basel Miami Beach, 2012

1/26/2013

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Donald Baechler's Skull is acrylic on canvas dropcloth and was shown by Cheim & Read (NYC) at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012. Baechler is from Connecticut and was educated at Maryland Institute College of Art and Cooper Union.

His work often draws on pop culture but with a twist--the images he uses are related to children's toys or childrens books or from a child's perspective (seemingly).Even Skull has something childlike about it. It isn't a particularly scary skull.

For more information or to see more of Baechler's work head to www.donaldbaechler.com.


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Walter Dahn's "Selbst Im Anzug" Show By Sprueth Magers At Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

1/25/2013

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Walter Dahn is a German artist living and woring in Cologne. His piece, Selbst Im Anzug, was shown by Sprueth Magers at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012. Dahn is Professor For Painting at University of Art in Braunschweig.

Dahn works in different media (this painting is oil on canvas) and was part of a group of artists known as "wild youth" back in the 1980s.

I hope they are known as "wild middle agers" now. That would be cool. The work certainly has a wild side still.




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Cristof Yvoré Shown By Zeno X Gallery (Antwerp) At Art Basel Miami Beach 2012

1/25/2013

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Cristof Yvoré's still life paintings were among the most unique and striking at Art Basel (shown by Zeno X Gallery). They are deceptively simple but there is a complexity when you look close--the color looks solid from a distance but not so up close. The seeiming "simplicity" in the pieces may come from the day to day nature of the subject matter.

These are the sort of pieces that you can look at again and again, each time seeing a different aspect. Simple things made beautiful and provocative.

Yvoré's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide going back to 1994. He works in Marseilles, France.


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Nevin Aladağ Shown At Art Basel Miami Beach, 2012 By Rampa, Istanbul

1/25/2013

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Nevin Aladağ, based in Berlin, was shown at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 by Rampa Gallery, Istanbul.

This piece, entitled Paravent, Social Fabric #2, is collage with carpet and wood on a metal frame.

Aladağ works in video and does installations. Her work has been featured in museums and biennials from Tokyo to Limerick. The USA seems conspicuously absent but it is to be hoped her work will be widely shown here soon

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