Art Fair
Art Basel Unlimited 2021
Meleko Mokgosi
September 24–26, 2021, hall 1, U50
Messe Basel
www.artbasel.com
Art Basel Unlimited 2021, curated by Giovanni Carmine, will include a major work by Meleko Mokgosi, presented by Gagosian in collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Launched in 2000, Unlimited is an exhibition platform for exciting large-scale projects that transcend the limits of the standard booth.
Bread, Butter, and Power (2018) is an epic twenty-one-panel painting that forms one of the eight chapters of Mokgosi’s ambitious project Democratic Intuition (2013–20). Examining the ideals and reciprocities of democracy in a southern African context, each panel depicts the gendered division of labor and its manifestations in daily life—namely, the work involved in maintaining land, families, and households. Combining strategies of history painting and cinematic montage, Mokgosi explores regional issues of class, ethnicity, and education. Bread, Butter, and Power abounds with overt references to recent social and postcolonial histories, together with diverse associations gathered imaginatively across time and space into a complex conceptual fiction.
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Meleko Mokgosi, Bread, Butter, and Power, 2018 (detail), installation view, Art Basel Unlimited © Meleko Mokgosi. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano
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Albert Oehlen
September 24–26, 2021, Hall 1, booth U32
Messe Basel
www.artbasel.com
Art Basel Unlimited 2021, curated by Giovanni Carmine, will include a major work by Albert Oehlen. A genre-defying work that exemplifies the artist’s interest in the evocative intersection between the audio and the visual, blech_betty (2017) pairs paintings by Oehlen with sound compositions by Norbert Möslang. The installation comprises ten oil-on-aluminum paintings, each featuring a different variation on Oehlen’s characteristic tree motif. Hidden amplifiers are placed behind each panel, producing shivering metallic vibrations that transform the gallery into a haunting and immersive soundscape.
Albert Oehlen, blech_betty, 2017 © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Simon Vogel
In Conversation
Meleko Mokgosi
Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi
Saturday, August 14, 2021, 5:30pm
The Current, Stowe, Vermont
www.thecurrentnow.org
Join Meleko Mokgosi and Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for a conversation about Mokgosi’s exhibition Scripto-visual, on view at the Current in Stowe, Vermont, through November 13, 2021. The pair will discuss the technical aspects of Mokgosi’s practice and the themes in the exhibition, including the artist’s investigations of representation and power. This in person event is free to attend.
Meleko Mokgosi, Woman Sitting, 2021 © Meleko Mokgosi. Photo: Paul Rogers Photography
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FIAC Online 2021
Printemps oublié
March 2–12, 2021
Gagosian is pleased to present Printemps oublié for the first online edition of FIAC. This curated presentation reflects the dual character of springtime as a reminder of past trials and the harbinger of a vibrant new season to come.
All the artworks will appear on the Gagosian website and a rotating selection will appear in the inaugural FIAC Online Viewing Rooms, from March 4 to 7.
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