17 artists to collect in Basel
Jun 13, 2022
This week is one of the most anticipated for art lovers in Basel, Switzerland. ArtBasel, VOLTA Basel, Liste or PhotoBasel are some of the events you can visit to be up to date with the latest art news.
At RedCollectors, we have selected 17 artists that you cannot miss on the radar of new releases and that are a perfect bet for collecting pieces from international artists and galleries.
1. Eva Fabregas
Bombon Projects Gallery
2. Carsten Beck
Victor Lope Contemporary Art
Danish artist Carsten Beck (Denmark, 1986) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. His paintings can be considered an expression of Scandinavian minimalism translated into oil on canvas. The paintings are a mix of geometric perspective in shapes and figures with a mathematical attention to detail and high-quality materials. Beck's background in printmaking and photography gives the artist options to see different perspectives in his art, creating new geometric shapes in a powerful and contradictory color combination. Beck's greatest inspiration for creating his artwork is often going for long walks to capture new perspectives and angles. This inspiration is translated into new sketches and ideas. Beck tries to relate his work to mid-century art and at the same time be inspired by it.
3. Dirk Salz
Victor Lope Contemporary Art
4. Patrik Grijalvo
Victor Lope Contemporary Art
Niemeyer Center , 2021, Photography, 36 x 36 x 4 cm
BuyMaking the work owe itself only to itself is an old ideal of modern art: cutting the ties that bind it to natural reality and letting it stand, all contained within its pure limits. Retaking this venerable aim without resorting to abstraction and, furthermore, doing so through the medium of photography seems almost impossible. But Patrik Grijalvo (Bilbao, Spain, 1984) has found a way to reinforce the autonomy of his images, weakening their link with the real referent –without losing it– and reclaiming their status as an object. In his hands they become sculptures: pieces of a delicate and subtle volume, achieved by a serene composition of planes. The result, far from being capricious or redundant, transmits a harmonious feeling of necessity. The artist does not impose any three-dimensional form on the images, at his whim, but rather builds it from the attributes of the photographic surface. One of the peculiarities of photography is the focus, which forces us to discriminate between areas of variable sharpness and, therefore, to mark the different depth planes. Patrik Grijalvo's works are part of multiple art collections such as: Het Wilde Weten- Rotterdam, Fundación Bilbao Arte – Bilbao, Fundación Athletic Club Fundazioa, Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, Spain, among other private foundations around the world.
5. Tony Barreiro
Shiras Gallery
Toño Barreiro (Zamora, Spain, 1965) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca in 1989 and received his PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo in 1998. He was a research fellow of the Ministry of Education and Science from 1992 to 1996. He has carried out teaching and research work at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra and the Faculty of Arts in Altea. He is currently a professor in the Department of Painting at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Since the mid-eighties, Toño Barreiro has been developing a multidisciplinary work that alternates photography, painting, sculpture and digital processes. In his work we can observe a whole series of new methodologies and creative processes that give rise to sinuous and synaesthetic paintings, playing with the concept of deconstruction, symbiotic, or the most elementary biological processes.
6. Cristina Gamon
Shiras Gallery
Cristina Gamón (Valencia, Spain, 1987) graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her works are distinguished by an unparalleled freshness through a complex technique of unreal images capable of transporting us to the oceanic abysses where our mere presence is astonished by the beauty of color.
Awarded the Gold Medal of the BMW National Painting Prize at the age of 24. Her artistic activity takes place mainly in Madrid, Valencia, Paris and Manila. She regularly participates in important fairs such as Estampa, ArtMadrid, Pinta, Context, Art New York or ArtPhilippines. Her institutional exhibitions include Figura Paisaje Marina at the Palau de la Música in Valencia, collective exhibitions such as Itinérance Espace Cardin Paris, Art Nexus London or Cartografías itinerante por América Latina, as well as the installation Aura performed with the composer CE Cella at the Auditorium of the Museo Reina Sofía.
7. Goncalo Preto
Madragoa Gallery
Gonçalo Preto was born in Lisbon in 1991 and currently lives and works in Lisbon.
He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon (2009-2012), at the Kassel Kunsthochschule in Kassel (2011-2012) and at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco (2014-2015). What immediately strikes one about Goncalo Preto’s output is how his sophisticated pictorial technique is applied to the creation of situations that are often embedded with a tense atmosphere, like parts of unconnected narratives that make up the artist’s entire visual world. Solo and two-person exhibitions include: Untitled, with Santiago Reyes Villaveces, Ncontemporary Project Room, Milan (2020); Middle Finger Pedestrians, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon (2019); LIMBO, Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada, Azores (2019); FRAG-MEN-TO, MADRAGOA ENCIMA, Galeria Madragoa; Lisbon (2017).
8. Jaime Welsh
Madragoa Gallery
Buy Jaime Welsh (Lisbon, Portugal, 1994) lives and works in London where he graduated from Goldsmiths (2018-2021) as a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Goldsmiths University. Recent projects have been exhibited at South London Gallery, Galeria Madragoa, Firstsite Museum; White Cube (online); Castor Gallery; Saatchi Gallery; Piccadilly lights; Graça Brandão Gallery; Gallery 46 Whitechapel. Recent awards include Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021; Tomorrow by White Cube 2021 and Circa Art Class of 2020. Welsh has been an artist in residence at Rua das gaivotas 6 and Tate Exchange at Tate Modern. Public collections include the Antonio Cachola collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art (MACE). Jaime Welsh's work has been reviewed in Frieze Magazine, Contemporanea, Elephant Magazine, etc.
9. Lua Coderch
The Ryder Projects
10. Fernanda Fragateiro
Elba Benitez Gallery
11. Isa Melsheimer
Elba Benitez Gallery
The work of Isa Melsheimer (Neuss, Germany, b. 1968) revolves around a dialogue with history, the product of research, and in particular with the history of 20th-century architecture and design, with all its political, ideological and social complexities. Within this dialogue, Melsheimer's artistic practice is idiosyncratic and eclectic in formal and aesthetic terms, yet at the same time rooted (sometimes literally) in a time and place. Melsheimer works with a wide variety of materials and media, primarily sculpture (often in cement or glass) and gouache painting, but also encompassing ceramics, textiles, embroidery, live plants and video. Melsheimer has had individual exhibitions at Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst – Haus Coburg (Delmenhorst, 2018 – currently), Mies van der Rohe Haus (Berlin, 2017), Ernst Barlach Haus (Hamburg, 2015), Ikob, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst (Eupen, 2014), Santa Monica Museum of Art (2012), Kunsthaus Langenthal (2010), Carré d'Art – Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes (2010), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (2008), Stiftung Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (Remagen, 2008), Mönchehaus Museum Goslar (2007), The Chinati Foundation (Marfa, 2005), Bonnefantenmuseum (Maastricht, 2004).
12. Alejandro Campins
Elba Benitez Gallery
13. Roger Ballen
Camera Obscura Art Gallery
Roger Ballen (New York, USA, 1950) is unanimously considered one of the essential and most influential photographers of the 21st century. The son of a Magnum photo editor, he worked as a geologist and mining consultant before starting his own photographic career, documenting small villages in rural South Africa and their isolated inhabitants. His images are both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological studies. His work “Outland” is considered one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late 20th century. His recognizable photographic style has evolved from square format and black and white, to color and collaborative projects with other artists. His early works are clearly influenced by documentary photography but, since the early 1990s, he has been developing a style that he himself describes as “documentary fiction”. Roger has been selected to exhibit his work at the South African National Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022.
14. River Claure
Camera Obscura Art Gallery
15. Ellen Kooi
Camera Obscura Art Gallery
16. Hugh Mangum
Camera Obscura Art Gallery
17. Nikita Kadan
Voloshyn Gallery
Kadan's work has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at the kyiv Biennale at Art Arsenal, CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, ZKM Karlsruhe, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Castello di Rivoli, 55 Biennale di Venezia, DAAD Galerie Berlin, and Saatchi Gallery. He was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Award in 2009 and won it in 2011.
A bilingual publication on Kadan's work will appear in spring 2015.
