Art Basel 2014: Key Selection
fluoro provides an insight into a key event selection from the 2014 edition of Art Basel as it returns to its Swiss home.
Defined by its host city and region, each edition of Art Basel is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. See below for a selection of key events from Art Basel 2014 in Switzerland’s most important cultural centre, the city of Basel.
14 Rooms
The live art exhibition aims to challenge the notions of live art and the role of the human experience. A selection of 14 international artists have been invited to each activate a room, exploring the relationship between space, time and physicality with a piece of art that uses a human being as it’s ‘material’. Giving visitors an insight into a more performative and interactive practice, visitors will encounter a new situation within each of the 14 rooms, engaging in a diverse series of immersive and intimate experiences. Artist’s included within 14 rooms include Marina Aramaic, Ed Atkins, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Damien Hirst, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono and Xu Zhen.
Galleries
The 2014 edition of Art Basel will present a geographically diverse selection of galleries from 34 countries. A number of galleries will join the event for the first time including A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro), Galeria Pedro Cera (Lisbon), Herald St (London), Tanya Leighton (Berlin), Proyectos Monclova (Mexico City), Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York) and GallerySKE (Bangalore). As in previous editions The Feature section of the galleries presents precise curatorial projects, showing both historical and contemporary work, while Statements focuses on emerging artists and young galleries.
Film
Film enters its 7th year as an inclusion in Art Basel. The year 2014 sees a program of over 30 film productions drawn from the show’s participating galleries being presented. A highlight of the section includes the screening of Aïda Ruilova’s new film Head and Hands: My Black Angel. The film starts as a discussion about the life and death of Italian film director, writer and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini gradually develops into a narrative about love, desire, drugs and conspiracy. The film offers an insight into the forces at play and self-destruction that often accompanies a creative genius.
Art Basel takes place from Wednesday 19 – Saturday 22 June 2014 in Basel, Switzerland. Art Basel will return in December 2014, travelling to the USA for the Miami Beach edition.
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