Art Basel Paris takes installations beyond the fair into the city
Art Basel Paris’s public programme places installations and sculptures across nine cultural and heritage venues from 21 to 25 October. Kutluğ Ataman’s Küba brings forty screens and residents’ testimony into a chapel, while Tracey Emin’s bronzes stand near the Eiffel Tower. Outdoor works on Avenue Winston-Churchill also form part of the programme.
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Public artworks extend the Paris fair
Art Basel Paris’s public programme is bringing artworks into the city beyond the fair itself. Sculptures displayed on Avenue Winston-Churchill are among the outdoor works accompanying the event.[1], [2]
The wider programme runs from 21 to 25 October across nine cultural and heritage sites. Students from the École du Louvre are stationed at participating venues to discuss the artworks with visitors. The official route omits Place Vendôme and the Tuileries, which were used in previous years.[1]
Kutluğ Ataman’s Küba fills a chapel with voices
Turkish artist Kutluğ Ataman’s Küba occupies the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins with forty television screens and forty mismatched seats. The 2004 installation contains testimony from forty residents of a settlement on Istanbul’s outskirts. Played sequentially, the interviews amount to 28 hours; in the installation, voices overlap as the screens play together.[1]
Tracey Emin’s bronzes face the Eiffel Tower
Three large bronzes by Tracey Emin stand on the Parvis des Droits de l’Homme, with a view towards the Eiffel Tower. One figure lies down, one kneels and another sits on a rock. At the Petit Palais, Cosima von Bonin presents leather octopuses, mohair whales and velvet dogs. Lionel Sabatté’s Champs d’oiseaux uses foundry waste to form bird figures.[1]
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