17 artists to collect in Basel
Jun 13, 2022
This week is one of the most anticipated for art lovers in Basel, Switzerland. ArtBasel, VOLTA Basel, Liste or PhotoBasel are some of the events you can visit to stay up to date with the latest in art.
From RedCollectors, we have selected 17 artists that you can't miss on the new releases radar and that are a perfect bet for collecting pieces by international artists and galleries.
1. Eva Fábregas
Bombon Projects Gallery
Eva Fàbregas (Barcelona, Spain, 1988) graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and completed her studies in 2013 with a postgraduate degree in Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts and Design, London, where she currently lives and works. In 2010 she received a grant from the Botín Foundation. His work explores the eroticism of objects and the mechanisms of the engineering of desire. Her latest sculptures employ cultures of wellbeing and relaxation to suggest a reflection on the subject-object relationship. Her recent solo and paired exhibitions include "First Act: Smooth Operations", Laure Genillard, London (2017); "Picture yourself as a block of melting butter", Fundació Miró, Barcelona (2017); "Systems for displaying matter", Enclave, London (2016); "The stuff that surrounds us", José de la Fuente, Santander (2016); "How are you feeling today", Window Space, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); "Unforeseen", The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2014) and "Eva Fàbregas & Andrew Lacon", Kunstraum, London (2014).
2. Carsten Beck
Víctor Lope Contemporary Art
Danish artist Carsten Beck (Denmark, 1986) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. His paintings can be considered a Scandinavian minimalist expression transferred to oil on canvas. The paintings are a mixture of a geometric perspective on shapes and forms with a mathematical attention to detail and high quality materials. Beck's background in printmaking and photography gives the artist options to see different perspectives in his art, creating new geometric shapes in a powerful and contradictory colour scheme. Beck's greatest inspiration for his artwork comes from often going for long walks to capture new perspectives and angles. He translates this inspiration into new sketches and ideas. Beck tries to relate his work to mid-century art and at the same time draw inspiration from it.
3. Dirk Salz
Víctor Lope Contemporary Art
4. Patrik Grijalvo
Víctor Lope Contemporary Art
Niemeyer Centre, 2021, Photograph, 36 x 36 x 4 cm
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To make the work owe only itself to itself is an old ideal of modern art: to cut the ties that bind it to natural reality and let it assert itself, all contained within its pure limits. To take up this venerable pretension again without falling into abstraction and, moreover, to do so from the photographic medium seems almost an impossibility. But Patrik Grijalvo (Bilbao, Spain, 1984) has found a way of underpinning the autonomy of his images, weakening their link with the real referent - without losing it - and reclaiming their condition as objects. In his hands they become sculptures: pieces of a delicate and subtle volume, achieved by a serene composition of planes. The result, far from being capricious or redundant, conveys a harmonious sense of necessity. The artist does not impose any three-dimensional form on the images, at his whim, but constructs it from the attributes of the photographic surface itself. One of the peculiarities of photography is the focus, which makes it necessary to discriminate areas of varying sharpness and, therefore, to mark the various planes of depth. Patrik Grijalvo's works are part of many art collections such as: Het Wilde Weten- Rotterdam, Fundación Bilbao Arte - Bilbao, Fundación Athletic Club Fundazioa, Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, Spain, among other private foundations around the world.
5. Toño Barreiro
Shiras Gallery
Toño Barreiro (Zamora, Spain, 1965) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca in 1989. D. in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo in 1998. He received a research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science from 1992 to 1996. He has carried out teaching and research work at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra and the Faculty of Arts in Altea. He is currently a lecturer in the Painting Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Since the mid-1980s, Toño Barreiro has been developing a multidisciplinary work that alternates photography, painting, sculpture and digital processes. In his work we can observe a whole series of new methodologies and creative processes that give rise to sinuous and synaesthetic paintings, playing with the concept of deconstruction, the symbiotic, or the most elementary biological processes.
6. Cristina Gamón
Shiras Gallery
Cristina Gamón (Valencia, Spain, 1987) graduated in Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her works are distinguished by an unparalleled freshness through a complex technique of unreal images capable of transporting us to oceanic abysses in which our mere presence is stunned by the beauty of colour.
Awarded the Gold Medal of the BMW National Painting Prize at the age of 24. Her artistic activity takes place mainly in Madrid, Valencia, Paris and Manila. She regularly participates in important fairs such as Estampa, ArtMadrid, Pinta, Context, Art New York and ArtPhilippines. His institutional exhibitions include Figura Paisaje Marina at the Palau de la Música in Valencia, group exhibitions such as Itinérance Espace Cardin Paris, Art Nexus London or Cartografías itinerant through Latin America, as well as the installation Aura performed together with the composer C.E. Cella at the Auditorium of the Reina Sofía Museum.
7. Gonçalo Preto
Madragoa Gallery
Gonçalo Preto was born in Lisbon in 1991 and currently lives and works in Lisbon.
He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon (2009-2012), at the Kassel Kunsthochschule in Kassel (2011-2012) and at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco (2014-2015). What is immediately striking about Goncalo Preto's production is how his sophisticated painting technique is applied to the creation of situations that are often embedded with a tense atmosphere, like parts of unconnected narratives that make up the artist's entire visual world.Solo and two-person exhibitions include: Untitled, with Santiago Reyes Villaveces, Ncontemporary Project Room, Milan (2020); Middle Finger Pedestrians, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon (2019); LIMBO, Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada, Azores (2019); FRAG-MEN-TO, MADRAGOA ENCIMA, Galeria Madragoa; Lisbon (2017).
8. Jaime Welsh
Madragoa Gallery
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Jaime Welsh ( Lisbon, Portugal,1994) vive and work in London where he graduated from Goldsmiths (2018-2021) as a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Goldsmiths University. Recent projects have been exhibited at South London Gallery, Galeria Madragoa, Firstsite Museum; White Cube (online); Castor Gallery; Saatchi Gallery; Piccadilly lights; Galeria Graça Brandão; 46 Whitechapel Gallery. Recent awards include Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021; Tomorrow by White Cube 2021 and Circa Art Class of 2020. Welsh has been artist in residence at Rua das gaivotas 6 and Tate Exchange at Tate Modern. Public collections include the Antonio Cachola Collection at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Elvas (MACE). Jaime Welsh's work has been reviewed in Frieze Magazine, Contemporanea, Elephant Magazine, etc.
9. Lúa Coderch
The Ryder Projects
Lúa Coderch (Iquitos, Peru, 1982) is an artist and associate professor at BAU, Centro Universitario de Diseño de Barcelona. She completed a Master's degree in Artistic Production and Research and a PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, and also trained as a sculptor at the Escola Massana. She combines narrative and objectual practices in videos, performances and installations that he configures as research devices. His work forms part of the collection of museums and centres such as MACBA, the Museo de Arte Contemporáno de Castilla y León and the Cal Cego Contemporary Art Collection, among others, and has been exhibited in exhibitions such as Bienalsur (Argentina), the Joan Miró Foundation, Domus Artium, the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico) and SMART (Netherlands).
10. Fernanda Fragateiro
Elba Benítez Gallery
Fernanda Fragateiro (Montijo, Portugal, 1962) lives and works in Lisbon. After her first solo shows in Germany, the UK and Spain and her participation in the Lisbon Architecture Triennial (2010) and Dublin Contemporary (2011), she has established herself as one of the most interesting and personal voices on the European scene. His work is characterised by a particular use of materials, to which he brings to life with his work, encouraging new readings. Operating in the three-dimensional field and unleashing the tension between sculpture and architecture, Fragateiro's works enhance the relationship with each place, involving the spectator in a performative situation. His sculptural and architectural interventions in unexpected spaces (a monastery, an orphanage, ramshackle houses...) and his subtle alterations of existing landscapes reveal new stories. His work has been exhibited in some of the world's most important museums and cultural centres, such as the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris or the Orlando Museum of Art, and his work forms part of prestigious Spanish and Portuguese institutional collections.
11. Isa Melsheimer
Elba Benítez Gallery
The work of Isa Melsheimer (Neuss, Germany, 1968) revolves around a dialogue with history, the product of research, and, in particular, with the history of 20th century architecture and design, with all its political, ideological and social complexities. Within this dialogue, Melsheimer's artistic practice is idiosyncratic and eclectic in formal and aesthetic terms and yet at the same time rooted (sometimes literally) in a time and place.Melsheimer works with a wide variety of materials and media, primarily sculpture (often in concrete or glass) and gouache painting, but also encompassing ceramics, textiles, embroidery, live plants and video. Melsheimer has solo exhibitions at Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst - Haus Coburg (Delmenhorst, 2018 - currently), Mies van der Rohe Haus (Berlin, 2017), Ernst Barlach Haus (Hamburg, 2015), Ikob, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst (Eupen, 2014), Santa Monica Museum of Art (2012), Kunsthaus Langenthal (2010), Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nimes (2010), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (2008), Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (Remagen, 2008), Mönchehaus Museum Goslar (2007), The Chinati Foundation (Marfa, 2005), Bonnefantenmuseum (Maastricht, 2004).
12. Alejandro Campins
Elba Benítez Gallery
The paintings of Alejandro Campins (Manzanillo, Cuba, 1981) conjure dreamlike states and spaces of unusual landscapes and ambiguous structures, of observed reality and illusory imagination. In Campins's work, technique and imagery combine to evoke ultra-terrestrial armospheres that suggest emptiness but which, at the same time, seem to be filled with a potent psychological charge as powerful as it is silent.Recent exhibitions: group show Avalancha, 2014, at Villa Manuela Gallery, Havana; and the solo show Nomad (Nomad), 2013, at the Liceo Carmelita, C. del Carmen, Mexico; Herencia (Heritage), 2013, Knoerle & Beattig, Winterthur, Switzerland; and Reliquia (Relic), 2013, Raymaluz Art, Madrid.
13. Roger Ballen
Camara Oscura Galeria de Arte
Roger Ballen (New York, USA, 1950) is unanimously regarded as one of the essential and most influential photographers of the 21st century. The son of a Magnum photo editor, he worked as a geologist and mining consultant before beginning his own photographic career, documenting small towns in rural South Africa and their isolated inhabitants. His images are both powerful social pleas and disturbing psychological studies. His work "Outland" is considered one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late 20th century. His recognisable photographic style has evolved from square format and black and white, to colour and collaborative projects with other artists. His early work is clearly influenced by documentary photography but, since the early 1990s, he has been developing a style that he describes as "documentary fiction". Roger has been selected to exhibit his work in the South African National Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.
14. River Claure
Camara Oscura Galeria de Arte
River Claure (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1997) is a photographer, designer and visual artist. His artwork playfully explores themes such as cultural juxtaposition and the construction of collective imaginaries. His work incorporates the poetics of the concept of "Chi'xi" (a term taken from the Aymara language that refers to indeterminate colour, a consequence of juxtaposed weavings), winner of the Eduardo Abaroa National Prize (BO) and the XVIII Roberto Villagraz International Photography Scholarship ( ESP). Selected for the portfolio review of the New York Times 2020 (USA); The Creation Laboratory "20 Photographers" (BO); International Photography Festival FIFV (CL). He was nominated for the Joop Swart Master Class of World Press Photo and was recently chosen as one of the "Ones to Watch" photographers of the British Journal Photography. He is part of the team of photographers at Every Day Bolivia and Proyecto 24 Horas. His work has been exhibited in Colombia, Spain, Chile and Bolivia and he is currently about to publish his first photobook, "Warawar Wawa".
15. Ellen Kooi
Camara Oscura Galeria de Arte
The photography of Ellen Kooi (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 1962)) unravels a protean pulse between man and nature, between each person and their environment, a complex and conflictive relationship that today we are rethinking more than ever and that is yet to be reinvented. The planning of his images requires a laboriousness and a talent that makes the staging an exercise in virtuosity. He complements natural light with artificial lighting that reinterprets Renaissance aerial perspective with always surprising results. His work can be found in private and public collections around the world, including MUSAC, BESart, MoPA San Diego, and the Frans Hals Museum.
16. Hugh Mangum
Camera Obscura Art Gallery
Hugh Mangum (Durham, North Carolina, 1877-1922) is a photographerAmerican photographer, known for his portraits of people from the American South. He is particularly known for his portraits of African Americans at a time when Jim Crow laws did not allow many of them to be photographed..
17. Nikita Kadan
Voloshyn Gallery
Nikita Kadan was born in 1982 in Kiev, Ukraine, where she currently lives and works.Nikita Kadan works with painting, graphics and installations, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with architects, sociologists and human rights activists. His practice is a critical enquiry into the experience of present-day Ukrainians and their relationship to their Soviet past. He is a member of the artists' group REP (Espacio Experimental Revolucionario) and a founding member of Hudrada (Comité Artístico), a curatorial and activist collective.
Kadan's work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at the Kiev Biennale at Art Arsenal, CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, ZKM Karlsruhe, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Castello di Rivoli, 55 Biennale di Venezia, DAAD Galerie Berlin and Saatchi Gallery. He was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2009 and won it in 2011.
A bilingual publication on Kadan's work will appear in spring 2015.
