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Performance Anxiety: Mark Leckey's Little Theatre of Gestures
Art Basel's closing two days, billed as Art Basel Weekend, was a rush of events -- screenings, panels, and parties -- sporadically attended by a somewhat diminished crowd. With most of the international journalists and collectors gone, the artists, gallerists, and locals still have many choice offerings left. Perhaps none were so anticipated or overwhelmingly attended as Mark Leckey's lecture-cum-performance at the Kunstmuseum Basel on Saturday evening. Read More
Art Basel Begins
In the Karma International booth in the Art Statements section of Art Basel, the temporary white walls are hung with small, spectral-like images of black space, each with a kind of dissolving star at their center. If the images call up the cosmos and the deep, meditative thoughts the larger universe usually inspires, the process that produced the works is infinitely more aggressive and ironic. To make them, the young Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz spit out performance enhancing drugs on black photo paper -- hence the powdery white aura haloing the seeming stars. This inspired act of regurgitation -- at once funny and brutal, seriously aesthetic and defiantly physical -- stayed with me as I moved through the labyrinthine art fair that is Art Basel 40. With more than 300 galleries showing work by approximately 2,500 artists, ideas of regurgitation and ingestion were weirdly relevant. For instance, how much art could the galleries throw up on the walls, and how much could a fair goer be expected to take in?Read More
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Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, a city with one museum and one major gallery, Nick Van Woert's mixed-media practice evolved from doodles, dra
