ART BASEL - Black & White

Author: CoSTUME NATIONAL

Category: black book-white book

24-06-2008

Trends and suggestions in black and white sniffed out at Art Basel from
tones describable as exact, literal, deep, slow and pungent.

EXACT WHITE
ENRICO CASTELLANI
Superficie bianca, 1969
oil on shaped canvas
104×120 cm

SHY WHITE
Artist:ANDREAS CHRISTEN
Gallery: Annemarie Verna Galerie
Title: ohne (1998)
Material: MDF
size: 140×140 cm

SLOW BLACK&WHITE
ON KAWARA
I met
I went
I got up
One million Years

PUNGENT WHITE
GUNTHER-UECKER
Dunkles Feld, 1987
90×90 cm
Nails, wooden board and paint
Gallerie Hans Mayer

ARID WHITE
ALBERTO BURRI
Sacco
1952
Oil and collage on canvas
Gallery: Mitchell – Innes & Nash

MY STATE OF MIND WHITE
ISSEY MIYAKE
ceramic
“I have the habit of surrounding myself with objects that are particularly dear to me.
I know each of them so intimately that I can see them clearly, even with my eyes closed”.

DEEP WHITE
DONALD MOFFETT
Acryli, polyvinyl acetate with rayon and steel zipper on linen and Duron, wood stretcher
91.4×96.2 cm closed
137.2×111.8 cm opened