![]() ![]() This series, the “Yosemite Suite,” will go on view in full at Annely Juda’s London space on June 28th. Interestingly, Hockney started out making art on his iPhone, embracing the clumsy limits of the drawing program as not a bug but a feature, but now uses it primarily as a sketching tool while the iPad serves as his painting canvas. For him to be the one to accept the iPad (and its digital ilk) as the successor of the plein-air palette has a certain symbolic heft, a bit like when Degas picked up the camera. Hockney is 78-a youthful 78, but still-and he stands as the paragon of a historical kind of painting, one that goes back through the Modern era to the Impressionists to Gainsborough and Corot to Rembrandt. It’s been three years since David Hockney debuted his iPad paintings, and it’s worth savoring these marvels every time they make an appearance. Look at this 1986 piece, and all the cues are there: the fetishistic tools of authority, from the badge to the cuffs to the life-altering pencil, and the copy of Guns & Ammo, with a schlubby man in glasses relishing the power of a gun on the cover and the magazine opened to an article boasting that “this highly accurate and reliable assault rifle represents real ‘state-of-the-art’ among military hardware.” It’s Trump Nation she’s talking about here, 20 years ago. An artist who for decades has been examining the ugly gunk on the bottom of the American Dream, Noland makes work that captures the anger, the pathos, the desperation, the violence, and above all the scary, fascistic tendencies of the country’s white underclass. #VERNISSAGE ART BASEL 2016 SERIES#On display at Art Basel, the series was debuted at the much-in-demand artist’s recent show at Thaddaeus Ropac Galerie in Paris and will be included in his upcoming show at the Garage in Moscow. Inspired by a trip to Iceberg Alley in Newfoundland, these grand charcoal drawings of sheer cliffs of ice are like the photo negatives of his darker works, and also recall the photography of artists like Sebastião Salgado and Thomas Ruff. Now, with this latest body of work, Longo seems to be stepping into the light. Here are some works that stood out in the vernissage, with a focus on the fair's more contemporary second floor.įor the last decade or so, Robert Longo has been synonymous with his dark, brooding, chiaroscuro-heavy large-scale drawings of epic imagery-shark attacks, terrorist incidents, mushroom clouds-all at the point of culmination. Instead, it's best approached as a repository for new quirks in the accepted canon, little progressions of the art-market battleships to the left or the right. The monochromatic space is sculpted entirely of plaster and conveys a sense of mystery as the viewer is transported to a single moment in time where each movement is suspended and quietness lingers.This year's edition of Art Basel is, on the whole, not a place to find something you didn't already know-go to LISTE for that. The neoclassical reproduction of a private room includes a grand piano, art library and figures evocative of a collector’s home. Here are some of the highlights from Art Basel 2016:īelgian artist Hans Op de Beeck’s monumental, immersive installation invites the viewer to enter a fictional space where all is frozen in time. The show was one of the most successful to date, featuring stands from over 287 galleries and displaying the works of over 4,000 up and coming artists and modern masters. The 47th edition of Art Basel kicked off with a private vernissage on June 15th, followed by a public viewing from the 16th – 19th. Now, over 40 years later, the fair has expanded, taking place three times annually in Basel, Hong Kong and Miami Beach. ![]() Since 1970 Art Basel has been a hub for contemporary and modern art, bringing together museum directors, curators and a growing international audience of art enthusiasts. ![]()
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