Basel International Art Fair 2009
This prestigious international contemporary art fair held annually in June was established in 1969 in
Pace Prints / NY www.paceprints.com
Ryan McGinness
(BH48 in.3) 2007
Screen print on circular wood panel
His intricate, curved designs in numerous colours appear on a variety of surfaces – last year it was skate boards and a brilliant picture frame with 24 cwt gold titled Reasoned Relationships versus Illogical Love.
Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh
Rose Me Not, 2008
Woodcut & wood matrix painting on Kozo & folio papers
Amer born in
Phil / Fingerprint, 2009
Screen print in 25 colours
Phil refers to a young image of Philip Glass.
Some years ago Chuck Close became debilitated restricting his movements for making intricate images. The result is an expression of freedom and an admiration for the artist to simply keep creating. He has built up the image using charcoal and gouache on layers of mila which are later made into photo stencils for the screens. Not a new technology but an effective one.
Roy Paper/Pulp, 2009
Stenciled handmade paper print of Roy Lichtenstein.
Bai Yiluo
Untitled (50 yuan) 2008
Digital pigment print of Mao made up of small portraits taken from school magazines.
Poligrafa /
Wang Huai-Qing
Red, 2008
Etching using simple techniques, open bite, aquatint and hard ground assembled in several frames to hang as one piece.
Mod-4, 2008
Etching on 3 iron plates and printed in 3 blacks giving the print a very rich appearance of warm, cool and velvety black. Each year Portografa present a very interesting portfolio. Last year it was Donald Baechler with his Five Flowers series, etchings.
Olafur Eliasson
The
Colour gravure (photoaquatint on zinc) on 3 sheets of
Last year I spoke at length to the gallery re the production of these prints. What can I say, the man is brilliant at everything he does – look for yourself on line.
Richard Tuttle
Renaissance unframed # 10 1995
Louise Bourgeois
Ode a la Bièvre
This artist book was first presented a couple of years ago so I was thrilled to have another look. It is stunning with its faded blue and pink fabrics meticulously stitched into pages which include button holes and tape measures and no spiders. Bourgeois reminisces on the river that once flowed through the outer Parisian suburb, home to her family & business. They were tapestry resonators and the river was important for the washing of the tapestries. This book gives new life to fabrics that once probably collected in bottom drawers. In recent years LB has also done some wonderful, simple drypoints on old linen handkerchiefs.
Alan Cristea / London www.alancristea.com
Mimmo Paladino
XII Woodcuts 2009
This was my choice for the most impressive work.
Joe Tilson
Post cards from
3 aquatints and collage
Julian Opie
Walk 2009
Computer animation on LED
There’s a hotel in
Paragon /
Grayson Perry
The Walthamstow Tapestry 2009
Perry’s studio is in Walthamstow. His works are intriguing and intricate and this is on a very large scale. Last year he exhibited his print Map of Nowhere, an etching that looks like an antique print but on closer examination of an anatomical figure he has written on parts of the body – inner sadness, humiliation, office clown, football, shopping, quality of life, self delusion, sexism, anger. Others in this series are Map of an Englishman and Print for a Politician.
Joel Shapiro
Boat, Bird, Mother & Child 2009
Colour screenprints in irregular shapes in metallic colours
Mic-Michèle Didier / Bruxelles www.micheledidier.com
Crown Point Press /
Two Palms
Jessica Stockholder
Swiss Cheese Field series 2009
Series of monoprints with collage, fabric, fake fur, laser cutting, styrofoam, screen printing and wood engraving with embossment
The Feast of Trimalchio 2009
69 min. HD resolution
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