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Basel Has a Beach Now:
the Art Basel Triumphs in Miami |
Comparable only to the Biennale in Venice or the Documenta in Kassel, held every five years, the annual art fair in Basel, an inexhaustible spectacle, it seems, has contributed to the popularization of the arts for three decades. It has joined art and the public in a pact which would have seemed completely inconceivable in the heroic age of the avant-gardes. Now it has created its own biggest competition: the Art Miami could be the door to the new art world of the 21st century, an art world which has long since ceased to be Eurocentric, or even US-centric, opening up to the trends of the south. A look back and a look ahead by Hans-Joachim Müller. |
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"Away with the Alps, Open up
the View to the Mediterranean" |
The motto of the artist Pipilotti Rist tellingly characterizes contemporary art in a Switzerland which is closely meshed with the rest of the world, economically and otherwise: Swiss artists position themselves in an international context rather than from a Swiss perspective. Instead of pursuing the phantom of national uniqueness, artists such as Balthasar Burkhard, Silvia Bächli, Andre Thomkins, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury and Marianne Eigenheer take individual positions and comment on the international art scene from an ironic distance. Andre Rogger takes a look at the Swiss artists in the Deutsche Bank Collection. |
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Swiss made - Art in Switzerland "La Suisse
n'existe pas", the
Waadtlander artist
Ben Vautier
asserted in 1992
at the World’s Fair
in Seville. But its
art exists! Proof is
provided by a look
at the Deutsche
Bank’s collection
of contemporary
Swiss art. +++ The
Art Basel offers a
fifth season in
which art and its
entourage
conquer the city.
But the world’s
most important art
fair was never
meant to be
exclusively
European. In
Miami Beach it
opens itself up to
a globalized art
world. +++ Renzo
A. Berger is
responsible for the
Zurich collection of
the Deutsche
Bank. With
Christmas
approaching, he
shows us around
the five floors of
the imposing
Wilhelmine
building on
Zurich’s
Bahnhofquai and
speaks about his
love of art. +++ In
the magazine: The
exhibition "Richard
Artschwager: Up
and Down / Back
and Forth" has
moved on to the
Museum of
Modern Art -
Wörlen
Foundation in
Passau. In an
interview the
founder Hanns
Egon Wörlen
explains why he
wants to introduce
people to art. +++
Chronicler of
poses: a portrait of
the painter Peter
Holl. +++ visuell -
the magazine of
Deutsche Bank Art
- is devoted to the
arts and to
Deutsche Bank's
international
commitment to
culture. |
