Art Basel’s Art Unlimited exhibition is the art fair’s sector for large sculptures, and installation and video art. In the first part of our exhibition walkthrough we had a look at works by Elisabetta Benassi, Yoshitomo Nara, Beat Zoderer, Sislej Xhafa, Ayse Erkmen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Fabrice Gygi, Surdashan Shetty, Farhad Moshiri, Jesús Fafael Soto, Sterling Ruby, Laurence Weiner, Franz Erhard Walter, Steven Shearer, Nedko Solakov, :Mentalklinik, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Stephan Balkenhol, and Matthew Day Jackson. In this part, there’s the works of Gabriele di Matteo, Li Dafang, Willem Boshoff, David Shrigley, Marcel van Eeden, Mel Bochner, Anthony McCall, Sigmar Polke, Steven Shearer, Lawrence Weiner, Goran Petercol, Aernout Mik, Stephan Balkenhol, Tatjana Doll, Chen Zhen, Natalie Djurberg, Sarah Oppenheimer, Bharti Kher, Falke Pisano, Clegg & Guttmann, Banks Violette, and Hans op de Beeck.
The Public Art Projects feature works by Mark Handforth, Jeppe Hein, Valentin Carron, General Idea, John McCracken, Mathieu Mercier, and Ken Price.
Art 40 Basel, Art Unlimited sector. Impressions from the preview. Basel, June 8, 2009.

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The homage to Chen Zhen centers around Jue Chang, Dancing Body – Drumming Mind (Last Song) (2000), (see Chen Zhen / Kunsthalle Wien / part 1/2) a monumental percussion instrument: about a hundred chairs, stools, and beds fitted with animal hides constitute an enormous playing surface challenging visitors to act. Chen’s installations are poetical landscapes, unusual material alliances, hybrids that open up passages and new connecting paths between Far Eastern traditions and Western avant-garde movements. He interweaves aspects of his self-chosen exile, his disease, and traditional Chinese medicine to produce metaphorical objects interpreting and resurveying the societal body. The exhibition runs through September 2, 2007. “Chen Zhen: The Body as Landscape”, Kunsthalle Wien, June 24, 2007. Part 2/2.

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Chen Zhen (1955–2000) numbers among the most prominent Chinese avant-garde artists, who, disillusioned by post-Maoist reform politics, left China in the mid-eighties. In 1986, he emigrated to Paris where his concept of “open sculpture” received international acclaim. Kunsthalle Wien now shows the first retrospective titled “Chen Zhen: The Body as Landscape”, encompassing all important periods of the artist’s work in Austria, including models and sketches of his unrealized projects, which have never been presented to date. Kunsthalle Wien, June 24, 2007. Part 1/2.

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