Lehmann Maupin (Booth J09) is pleased to announce its participation in Art Basel, Switzerland, from today, 13 - 16 June 2013 with a presentation of works by Mary Corse, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernández, Shirazeh Houshiary, Lee Bul, Liu Wei, Mr., Angel Otero, Tony Oursler, Robin Rhode, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Juergen Teller, and Mickalene Thomas.
To coincide with Mickalene Thomas's collaboration with Absolut Art Bureau, Lehmann Maupin has dedicated a portion of its booth to new paintings and mixed-media works by the artist, presented in a setting that evokes her 1970s tableaux installations. Among the works on view will be a painting of supermodel Naomi Campbell and a salon-style hanging of collaged black and white photographs that Thomas uses as source material for her paintings. As part of Absolut Art Bureau's ongoing arts initiative, Thomas was given carte blanche to create a site-specific art bar at Volkshaus No. 5, The Gallery, for the duration of the fair. Inspired in part by house parties hosted by her mother in the late 70s, Thomas's Better Days will be a unique and immersive environment, where visitors can enjoy a curated program of live performances and guests DJs. For more information on Thomas's Better Days, please
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Additional highlights at Lehmann Maupin's booth include paintings and embroideries by Tracey Emin, whose two-venue exhibition is on view at Lehmann Maupin's New York galleries through 22 June and who will be the subject of her first US solo museum show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, in December 2013; new paintings by Shirazeh Houshiary, whose work can be seen in two collateral exhibitions at the 55th Venice Biennale: Glasstress: White Light/White Heat, and Breath, a site-specific installation in the Arsenale's Torre di Porta Nuova; Lee Bul's Monster Black, previously exhibited in Lee Bul: From Me, Belongs to You Only, the artist's first mid-career retrospective presented at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, in 2012; and Robin Rhode's large-scale work Bones, composed of twenty-eight photographs arranged in a winding configuration that recalls the game of dominos Rhode brings to life in his graphic wall drawings.
Adriana Varejão will also be featured in this year's Art Unlimited program, curated by Gianni Jetzer. Varejão's project Carnívores (2012) is composed of thirty-nine panels and is a re-interpretation of an earlier work titled Azuelos (2000), wherein the artist explored her interest in fragmentation and collage. Carnívores was on view at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro as part of Varejão's traveling retrospective Histories at the Margins. Taking inspiration from scientific botanical encyclopedias, the suggestive renderings of carnivorous plants entice the viewer with an air of danger, mystique and natural eroticism, just like the plants themselves. The artist will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin, New York, in spring 2013.
