This art Basel continues to present the highest level of art works, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, multimedia and so on, and has more diversified exhibition links. The overall quality of the works has improved significantly compared with that of last year, but collectors are competing to discover the potential of the new art stars, which seems to have been a distant memory.



The star studded


In the current China Gallery number less than last year, only three China Gallery appearance, respectively is the Beijing Boers-Li Gallery, Shanghai Shanghart, Guangzhou space vitamin. But China artist in the Basel Art Fair unveiled a lot, a lot of foreign agents Chinese artists gallery. The pace Gallery (Pace) on Zhang Huan and Li Songsong's works, a large sculpture of Zhang Huan and participated in the &ldquo &rdquo unit; art. The works of Ai Weiwei “ Field” “ public art ” one of the 14 pieces of work unit, the agent for the Miller gallery. The works of contemporary Chinese artists such as Zhang Xiaogang, Liu Ye and Yan Peiming can be seen in the exhibition hall.



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Lucy Mitchell-Innes, a buyer in Manhattan, said it was actually a matter of cost. In the course of transportation, the cost of a DVD is much cheaper than a bronze sculpture. Moreover, many sculpture materials are very cheap, for example, in the “ the art is infinite ” the Italy artist Michelangelo Pistoletto (Michelangelo Pistoletto) works is made of hard paper shell.



Came to the Basel giants of



Mr. DonaldRubell, a Tibetan family in Miami, and his wife, Mera, are good at discovering new artists. For example, artists such as Richard Prince (Rid Prince) and maurejo opara (Maurizio Cattelan) have collected their works before they become famous. When asked whether they had added a new collection at the Basel art fair, Mera said it could not reveal the information at the moment. Rubell thinks “ art investment is linked to the market. Last year, people did not dare to take risks to buy some bold and excellent works, because of the recession. Now people realize that art is a common international currency.


The Rubell couple are not the biggest buyers. Michael Ovitz, former Hollywood broker Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, Pauline Karpidas and other London collectors have appeared in the Basel Art Fair site. Many artists also come to participate, including Lawrence Weiner, JosephKosuth, and Doug Aitken. At the same time, the scene also found many museums and institutions such as director or directors, such as the Metropolitan Museum of art, Thomas P. Campbell, the Museum of modern art (MoMA) Glenn D. Lowry and.R. Solomon Guggenheim foundation Rid Armstrong.



Another session of the Basel Art Fair ended, although the Basel sales performance is quite optimistic, but Sotheby's Contemporary Art Department of the operator Tobias Meyer said, there is no kind of impromptu before the purchase, the new buyers are a good collection of information, set the purchase plan again.