ARTFAIRS

VOLTA9 - BASEL - JUNE 10-15, 2013

Also this year Vernon Gallery will be part of VOLTA, Basel's platform for cutting-edge art and emerging international talent, lights up the industrial Dreispitz Areal in its ninth edition this June. 74 exhibitors stage contemporary projects of compelling distinction, representing Europe and the Americas, plus the Middle East, South Africa, and East Asia, with 58 galleries returning from previous VOLTA incarnations.

Solo presentations frame VOLTA9's focused format, with a third of exhibiting galleries spotlighting a single artist from their rosters. Selections include: Sami Al Turki (Athr Gallery, Jeddah), whose evocative photography was featured at Edge of Arabia (London) and Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris); Holton Rower (The Hole, New York), who activated his psychedelic pour paintings in a mesmeric performance in Fresh Basel, curated by the gallery at Villa Vecchia during Basel Week Miami 2012; Manor Grunewald (Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent), an upcoming artist-in-residence at Frans Masereel Centrum (Kasterlee) and participant in Young Flemish Masters at Hermitage Amsterdam; Debra Hampton (Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen), whose mythical collaged drawings are included in the Museum of Modern Art, New York's permanent collection; light alchemist Leo Villareal (CONNERSMITH., Washington DC), whose grandest-scale-to-date project The Bay Lights dazzled the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge's 75th anniversary this March as the world's largest LED light sculpture; Satoru Tamura (TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka), whose machine assemblages engaged visitors to Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Utsunomiya) and Zachęta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw); and Uzbekistani installation and performance artist Said Atabekov (Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan), featured in the 2011 Venice Biennale (Central Asian Pavilion), Ostalgia at the New Museum (New York) and Migrasophia, the debut curatorial exhibition and public program at the Maraya Art Centre (Sharjah).

The Schaulager, Münchenstein/Basel's open-warehouse contemporary exhibition hall designed by renowned Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, reopened in March with British video artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen's expansive mid-career survey. A 10-minute walk from Dreispitzhalle on Ruchfeldstrasse, the Schaulager signals another must-see destination for VOLTA9 visitors this June.

VOLTA9 at Dreispitzhalle is connected by direct, complimentary shuttles running to and from Art Basel and LISTE, for effortless transit between fairs. Plus, VOLTA9 is only 7 minutes from the central train station SBB by public transport, 9 minutes via the Tram 10 or 11 from Bankverein (Kunsthalle/Kunstmuseum), or 5 minutes by car. With a 450-place car park one block away, parking is trouble-free. All travel information can be found on our website.

VOLTA was founded in Basel in 2005 by dealers Kavi Gupta (Chicago), Ulrich Voges (Frankfurt), and Friedrich Loock (Berlin).

VOLTA8 & Vernon Gallery

Also this year Vernon Gallery will be part of VOLTA8 that will return this year from Monday, 11th June through Saturday, June 16th, 2012 to Basel. The youngest of the lot, VOLTA is one of the most interesting satellite fairs to spin off from the week‘s leading light, Art Basel. Now in its eights year and Vernon Gallery is proud to present three talented artists: Jana Farmanová, Kit Reisch and Andrea Bianconi

Jana Farmanova

1970, Nitra, Slovakia

In her art Jana Farmanova devotes herself solely to painting. She taps into the collective memory of painting, but she makes distinctive choices of material. One theme ‘overflows’ from one her paintings into the next, or from a prepared watercolour onto a canvas. This ‘overflowing’ theme is framed by a temporal unfurling and at the same time it reinforces the works’ strong narrative. The artist works with everyday themes (the family, private life, metaphors of home relating to the formation of interpersonal relations) using a language that adds magical poetics, dignity, and communicability to serious themes.

Kit Reisch

1986, Dallas, Texas USA

Much of Reisch‘s work over the last few years has been derived from the blind experience of a foreigner trying to adapt, successfully or otherwise, to his host culture. His kinetic sculptures often act as stand-ins for aliens trying to adapt to their situation, placed in their spaces and forced to struggle to exist. A do-it-yourself aesthetic is an important component of Reisch’s machines, as he often prefers to leave the hardware and wires, which support his objects visible to the viewer.

Andrea Bianconi

1974, Italy

Andrea Bianconi reconstructs the world by means of its very own ruins. His oeuvre is an incessant wandering amidst dreams, obsessions, risks, surprises, and an endless roaming among the fragments of words and things. A spectacle that is both delirium and destruction, assemblage and disassemblage: all this in order to reach an apparent reality: La Fantasy Ridge dell’Everest (as the artist himself calls it). More than a method, it’s an idea, the pathway of the imagination. In the piles of books, in the remains of living experience, in the cages—at once prisons and shelters—in the cascades of poor commemorative objects, the artist establishes temporary contiguity and unlikely proximity, reawakening the “demon of analogy”, pushing beyond the confines of reality

About VOLTA

VOLTA is a platform for presenting the vision of contemporary art galleries of global repute whose artists represent new and relevant positions for curators and collectors alike. Conceived to bridge a gap between Basel's pre-existing fairs, VOLTA showcases galleries – whether young or mature – that choose as their mandate to work with the most exciting emerging artists. The galleries are selected by an annually changing Curatorial Board, a group of curators, art critics and gallerists, to give each edition its own clear identity and to redirect focus back on the art producers as well as their representing galleries.

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