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"The Best Art In The World"
Joseph Kosuth, J.J.(F.W.#49), 2012. Courtesy Vistamare
By PAUL LASTER, Nov. 2017
Perusing the offerings at Artissima, we have filled our shopping cart with fascinating works of contemporary art in a variety of media. The 24th edition of the Italy’s most prestigious art fair, which takes place at the Oval in Torino through November 5th, features 206 galleries from 31 countries.
Highlights include solo presentations of Marion Baruch’s domestic abstractions at Geneva’s Galerie Laurence Bernard, Eliza Douglas’ mix of body parts and everyday objects with planes of color and expressive brushstrokes in canvases that blur the boundary between abstraction and figuration at Air de Paris, Salvatore Arancio’s intriguingly altered illustrations of crystals and ceramic sculptures at Milan’s Federica Schiavo Gallery, Jorge Ferré quirky abstractions on wood at Barcelona’s Galeria Senda and Camilo Restrepo poster-like portrayals referencing Colombian drug wars at Steve Turner, from Los Angeles.
Scroll through the images below to see some of the works that we want to have hanging on our walls. WM
Giulio Paolini, Studio per promenade, 2012-2013. Courtesy Alfonso Artiaco
Richard Nonas, WP/MF,SD, 1979. Courtesy Galerie Hubert Winter
Gabriel de la Mora, 4 Archivo V.V. 1948-49, 2012. Courtesy PROYECTOSMONCLOVA
Eliza Douglas, Music and Mathematics, 2017. Courtesy Air de Paris
Christo, The Gates Project for Central Park, 2004. Courtesy Galleria Tega
Banz & Bowinkel, Substance I 09, 2017. Courtesy Roehrs & Boetsch
Domenico Mangano & Marieke van Rooy, Homestead of Dilution, 2016. Courtesy Magazzino
Beverly Pepper, Aquila Messenger, 1983. Courtesy Kayne Griffin Corcoran
Adomas Danusevicius, Thou Art That I, 2016. Courtesy The Rooster Gallery
Marion Baruch, Superart, ca. 1988. Courtesy Galerie Laurence Bernard
Georgina Gratrix, Puppy Basket, 2017. Courtesy SMAC
Cally Spooner, Notes on Humiliation (detail), 2017. Courtesy gb agency
Rafał Dominik, Sneaker 2-1, 2017. Courtesy Kasia Michalski Gallery
Camilo Restrepo, Tight Rope #6 (El Burro), 2015. Courtesy Steve Turner
Ayana V. Jackson, Aina - Dear Sarah Series, 2016. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Fausto Melotti, Untitled, 1975. Courtesy Repetto Gallery
Laura Lancaster, Untitled, 2017. Courtesy WORKPLACE
Jason Matthew Lee, Untitled, 2017. Courtesy Mazzoli
Chantal Joffe, Yellow Sweater and Knee Socks, 2016. Courtesy Victoria Miro
Riccardo De Marchi, Untitled, 2017. Courtesy Piero Atchugarry Gallery
Jorge Ferré, Untitled, 1985. Courtesy Galeria Senda
Roman Signer, Fahrrad mit Kajakspitze, 2008. Courtesy Häusler Contemporary
Salvatore Arancio, Mineral Being 7, 2017. Courtesy Federica Schiavo Gallery
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He’s a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Art & Object, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Garage, Surface, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts and Glasstire. He was the founding editor of Artkrush, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine, as well as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, now MoMA PS1.
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