The art event that is going to carry out from March 23rd to 25th, will witness the exchange among renowned artists, curators, and galleries from around the world, including Asia and Asia Pacific. A total of 242 curatorial proposals of 34 different countries, incorporating eight Latin American galleries with samples ranging from painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and audiovisual material to installations and street art.
The Art Basel Hong Kong encourages the interaction of artistic agents from different nationalities such as Asia and Pacific Asia –which are the half of the galleries participating– and motivates emerging art with spaces destined exclusively for it. Based on this logic, there are areas like “Insight”, which is an area destined to Asian art and has 27 curatorial proposals, eight from which are new in the event. And “Discoveries”, where 25 galleries exhibit the works from emerging contemporary artists, and 12 of them are showing for the first time.
In this fifth edition, Hong Kong celebrates the arrival of 19 exhibitors from Europe and America. In Latin America, the galleries that are participating from São Paulo are Nara Roesler, Bergamin & Gomide, Fortes D’Aloia & Gaberiel, Casa Triângulo, and from Mexico: Kurimanzutto. In “Discoveries”, the Athena Contemporánea gallery is participating as well, with the sample of the emerging artist Vanderlei Lopes, who inspects the ideas of transformation and relationship between culture and nature through five works from different dimensions in bronze.
Therefore, the possibility of considering renowned Latin American works such as Pierrot (2007) by Fernando Botero, Inner Sequence Lambda (2014) by Gabriel Orozco, Untitled (2000) by Jorge Pardo and Concetto spaziale, Attese (1964 y 1967) by Lucio Fontana, which are part of a series of paintings where Fontana develops his investigation of the spatial definition for the pictorial media.
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