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  • Messe
    16.06.2014 - 21.06.2014
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As well, new paintings from Op art pioneer Bridget Riley focalizes GREEN ON RED's (Dublin, VOLTA2) project, which also features Irish talent Caoimhe Kilfeather, Caroline McCarthy, and esteemed lens-based installation artist Gerard Byrne, who represented Ireland at the 2007 Venice Biennales; Ethan Cohen New York (New York, VOLTA2) spotlights ecstatic nouchi-style paintings by rising Ivorian star Aboudia, who is featured in Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America at Saatchi Gallery (London), alongside wood assemblages and ink compositions by gallery stalwarts Michael Zelehoski and Qin Feng, respectively; V1 Gallery (Copenhagen, VOLTA3) features new works from artists who have shown in the gallery's past eight projects with VOLTA, including Troels Carlsen, Shepard Fairey, and John Copeland; Kleindienst (Leipzig, VOLTA4) pairs Impressionistic photography from young Swiss artist Nadin Maria Rüfenacht, who was featured recently in Crossing Views at Marburger Kunstverein (Marburg, DE), with German photographer Claudia Angelmaier(participating in upcoming (Mis)Understanding Photography: Werke und Manifeste at Museum Folkwang, Essen) and virtuosic Leipzig-based abstractionist Henriette Grahnert; AKINCI (Amsterdam, VOLTA2) considers nature through installation and video, via artist-couple Broersen & Lukács (whose film Mastering Bambi screens at this year's Sydney Biennial) and young multimedia and performance artist Melanie Bonajo, current ISCP NY artist-in-residence and winner of the inaugural edition of the MK Award, Rotterdam's new visual art prize; and Cokkie Snoei (Rotterdam, VOLTA2) stages a solo presentation by young Dutch artist Kim van Norren, whose current color geometric abstraction series intermingles 'light' and 'dark' quotations. Solo projects form the foundation for VOLTA's platform as a boutique and focused art-viewing experience. For VOLTA10, 16 exhibitors have elected to highlight one artist from their program, including: Brenna Youngblood (Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles), whose mixed-media solo survey Loss Prevention opens Friday at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Grit Hachmeister(ASPN, Leipzig), a 2014 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant recipient and participant in the recently-opened collaborative exhibition Mensch werde wesentlich! at FAK Kunstverein (Zwickau); Athi-Patra Ruga (WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town), who performed The Elder of Azania in conjunction with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's current group exhibition Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa and corepresented South Africa at the 2013 Venice Biennale; Frohawk Two Feathers (Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York), presenting an illustrated retelling of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus within his critically-lauded Frenglish Empire narrative; a mini-survey of young Norwegian artist Kristoffer Myskja's (Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin) elaborate kinetic sculptures, ahead of his scheduled commission for Åsveien School and Resource Center in his hometown Trondheim; Farley Aguilar(Spinello Projects, Miami), featuring new ink-on-mylar compositions from the self-taught Nicaragua-born, Miami-based artist's dynamic series The Veil; new carved-wood portraiture by Congolese powerhouse Aimé Mpane (NOMAD, Brussels), winner of the 2012 Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Prize and recipient of the 2006 DAK'ART Biennale's critics award; and life-size Japanese urushi lacquer and nihonga pigment figurative sculpture by Tomotaka Yasui (MA2 Gallery, Tokyo), headliner of Meguro Address: Artist in Urban Life at Meguro Museum of Art (Tokyo).VOLTA10 at Markthalle is located steps from Basel's main train station SBB and is five stops from Art Basel and LISTE (Tram Line 2, direction Binningen). Additionally, several underground public car parks are located within proximity to Markthalle. 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).






  • 16.06.2014 - 21.06.2014
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    PUBLIC HOURS:
    Tuesday, June 17 – Saturday, June 21, 12 – 8 pm

    Admission:
    General Admission 17CHF / 14EUR
    Students 12CHF / 10EUR
    Groups (10+) 12CHF / 10EUR



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  • presented by Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York     Frohawk Two Feathers Mea Culpa 2014 Acrylic, ink, coffee, tea on paper 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)  Courtesy the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery
    presented by Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York Frohawk Two Feathers Mea Culpa 2014 Acrylic, ink, coffee, tea on paper 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm) Courtesy the artist and Morgan Lehman Gallery
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  • presented by WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town     Athi-Patra Ruga The Versatile Ivy in Exile 2014 Wool and thread on tapestry canvas 200 x 200 cm
    presented by WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town Athi-Patra Ruga The Versatile Ivy in Exile 2014 Wool and thread on tapestry canvas 200 x 200 cm
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  • presented by TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka     Tomohiro Kato TETTEI 2012 Steel and stainless steel  Courtesy of Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
    presented by TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka Tomohiro Kato TETTEI 2012 Steel and stainless steel Courtesy of Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
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  • presented by Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin     Kristoffer Myskja Governors 2013 Various metals, rubber belts, motor 4 x 30 x 10 cm
    presented by Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin Kristoffer Myskja Governors 2013 Various metals, rubber belts, motor 4 x 30 x 10 cm
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