What is Art Basel and why is it important?
Art Basel originated in Basel Switzerland, founded by Ernst Beyeler, Trudi Bruckner and Balz Hilt. These art loving individuals eventually expanded the show to several cities around the world.
Art Basel's fairs in Basel, Hong Kong, Paris, and Miami Beach. The also host Online Viewing Rooms, and are a driving force in supporting galleries while they nurture the careers of artists.
The publication The Art Market ,expands and exposes activities in the international art scenes. Art Basel strives to strengthen the art market, improve the careers of emerging artists and also strengthen local art scenes.
HIGHLIGHTS : https://www.artbasel.com/stories/survey-sector-highlights-art-basel-miami-beach-2022
TWO Caribbean Artists to know at ART BASEL 2023
CUBA to Paris : Agustín Cárdenas
Cuban sculptor Agustín Cárdenas creates totemic sculptures depicting the human form. He Completed his studies in Havana in the late 1940s, and then he moved to Paris in 1955.
It was here he befriended the poet André Breton and became part of his Surrealist circle. His practice was also deeply influenced by African carvings, the work of Henry Moore and the work of Constantin Brâncuși. Édouard Glissant, French Poet, once said of his work : ‘sculpture which does not merely fill up space, but trembles with it.’ Galerie Mitterrand will show a series of his historic works from the 1950s and 1960s, including a striking burnt-wood sculpture inspired by his African roots.
Julien Creuzet, Artist - Julien hails from Martinique
Born in 1986, Julien Creuzet is a French-Caribbean artist who lives and works in Paris. A visual artist and poet, he actively intertwines these two practices via amalgams of sculpture, installation and textual intervention that frequently address his own diasporic experience. Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet’s work focuses on the troubled intersection of the history of Martinique and the events of European modernity.
For more information:
https://documentspace.com/artist/julien-creuzet/
Didier Williams
Didier William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He earned an BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Carnegie Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Figge Museum Art Museum. He is represented by James Fuentes Gallery in New York and Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco.
https://www.didierwilliam.com/about-1
https://www.artbasel.com/stories/didier-william-moca-north-miami
Not a criticism…..just always noticing that Caribbean Artists who were born AND still reside in the Caribbean never seem to get much exposure.
I am yet to see a magazine review artists who live and work in the Caribbean….
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