12. Basel is home for another week

The resident dog, Aramis, at my hotel makes me miss Louis

    Hotel St. Gotthard, Basel

       

          ArtBasel Galleries

Rashid Rana Notions of Narration II - Transliteration Series 2009 - 2013

   Shilpa Gupta  Stars on Flags of the World 2012

    Shakuntala Kulkarni Photo performance Mumbai 2010-2012

   Sabian Baumann Selbstportrait mit Blumen und Tieren (aus der Serie: Lieb und Traum, horizontales Paradies), 2012

  

    Christian Schoeler untitled #70-037 ( the Pool) 2013

 Pablo Bronstein Marie Antoinette and Robespierre engage in an irritable post-coital conversation 2013 Performance with props

 Hannah Wilke S.O.S. Starification Object Series ( Veil), 1974 - 75

Studied her work at uni!!

Goshka Macuga Death of Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite 2013 Tapestry

        It's all done with mirrors

Jules de Balincort Exodus 2013

 Maria Nepomuceno Untitled 2013

Ropes beads ceramic cabaca juruna fibreglass and resin ($25,000)

           "It's only 2.3 million euros"

  Jane and Louise Wilson the Silence Is Twice as Fast Backwards II 2008

     ibid III

    Ibid I

     

    Steve McQueen Lynching Tree 2013

   Pauline Olowska  Her English is Far from Perfect..., 2013

      

      

         Conversation in the Salon

    Nedko Solakov, Artist, Sofia, in conversation with Iara Boubnova, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia

In Artist Talk Survivors of Socialism and Post-Socialist Chaotic Transition

  Theme of secret files; there were files on Solakov, himself

      Playing with the audience in Japan

 E L Bugaro - a mock timeline of an artist's life parallel to El Greco's

Nedko Solakov, paranoid, fearful Bulgarian says Bulgarians are wealthy but there aren't any real collectors. He lives in Sofia because they are taxed 10%. One of the poorest countries.

"I miss Socialism maybe" the title of this work for Beijing, but Solakov says: I really just missed my youth.

    

    Solakov doesn't see commonalities between socialist artists like say Russian and Chinese.

Solakov says he's more popular outside of Bulgaria.

              

    Light-hearted Street Art outside serious ArtBasel

            Peanuts     Paintings     Collage

      I buy this collage for a 7 CHF donation

       ($8 AUD)

  Dinner at namamen japanese ramenba having seafood ramen and hibiscus karkade ( fruit tea)

    Walking home from ArtBasel @ Messeplatz to my hotel @ Bahnhof SBB crossing the bridge

    and coffee-ing on a deck-chair in the Kirschgarten