Basel 2024 Day 1 From Zurich to LISTE and Unlimited

So here I am in Zurich for the gallery weekend. Day 1 and it is a little like Ground Hog Day… or year. First stop was Eva Presenhuber where we visited Shara Hughes’ show ‘Tree Farm’ named after the family pine tree farm where she grew up, I liked ‘cover me in darkness’

Her table top sculptures were all very different

Then we visited Ebecho Muslimova at Maria Bernheim, the work Fatbe Toad Self was very special

Fast forward to Monday morning and we arrived in Basel – straight to LISTE and were admiring ‘Face of a Tosher’ a work by Louis Morlæ at Rose Easton Gallery, Louis is exploring the relationship between technology and the body, filtering it through his experience of chronic illness

At Ciaccia Levi Paris I liked the Zoe Williams’ ‘Jealous eyes’

At Capsule the work of Chris Oh from Shanghai was quite beautiful

Bel Ami brought a presentation by Amedeo Polazzo ‘The Hovering Life’. The artist is of Italian decent and the work is are of fantasy in search of reality

At Laurel Gitlen Peggy Chiang’s shelf work ‘Without break all power’ represents the stereotypes in Sino-American Culture

I liked the pull up garage at Matthew Brown by Dan Herschlein

Art Unlimited was, as usual filled with excitement. One of the biggest paintings I have ever seen by Sam Falls was on show

I was lucky to catch the performance of Ko ta Mapungey ka (Water is also Territory) by Seba Calfuqueo. It was thoughtful and performed the privatization of water. The installation featured ceramics shaped as water containers that embody concepts such as drought or looting. The artist had a Guñelve (Morning Star), a symbol of the Mapuche resistance, painted on their face

We loved and adored Anna Uddenberg’s performance and installation, PREMIUM ECONOMY presented by Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler and Meredith Rosen Gallery. It was all very businesslike but sexual at the same time

and the automated Gorilla by Ryan Gander at Lisson Gallery, was quite scary

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