Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2022 edition of Art Basel in both the galleries and Unlimited sections. This presentation will mark the debut of Interference #8, a work by the groundbreaking conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas, who is now represented by the gallery, together with recent works from artists in the program including Ghada Amer, Sanford Biggers, Svenja Deininger, Suzanne McClelland, and others. In the Unlimited section, Marianne Boesky Gallery will present a monumental historic work by Pier Paolo Calzolari.
Interference #8, the largest sculptural work from Meyohas’s Interference series, is a jewel-like geometric cluster of illuminated etched glass panels created by collaging together hologram fragments through an exclusively analog process. Meyohas begins the work by shooting photographs of plant material, which are then converted into 35-millimeter film. The interference patterns, or waves of light, emitted by each frame are then captured in glass through an advanced double exposure methodology to produce the holograms and abstract the original image further. Although Meyohas takes great interest in manipulating emerging technologies and digital platforms, her work often originates from awe at the structural complexity of organic matter and color. Meyohas will also be featured in the Conversation series at Art Basel, The New Patrons: NFT Collectors and Supporters, on June 16.
On view in the Galleries sector are works by Sanford Biggers, Ghada Amer, and Suzanne McClelland. Biggers’s marble bust, The Cantor (2021), reflects the artist’s engagement with hybridized forms that transpose, combine, and juxtapose classical and historical subjects to build alternative meanings, while Ghada Amer’s large-scale painting Black Nympheas-RFGA (2021) exemplifies her distinctive use of embroidery on canvas. Suzanne McClelland’s 2016 installation Runners Up, conceived around the time “stop and frisk laws” were deemed unconstitutional in New York, examines the ways in which body language is socially interpreted –– and ultimately misconstrued. This attention to the obfuscation of images pervades much of McClelland’s work, including her abstract paintings, also on view.
ART BASEL UNLIMITED
Monday, June 13, 3 - 8 PM
In the Unlimited sector, where participating galleries are able to showcase monumental projects, the gallery will present Pier Paolo Calzolari’s immersive, nine-meter-long painting titled La Grande Cuisine (1985). Last exhibited at a survey of the artist’s paintings at the Madre Museum in Naples in 2019, La Grande Cuisine depicts thirty fried eggs floating freely in an abstracted, modern “high-level” establishment. The deep red color of this painting marks Calzolari’s departure from the neutral tones of his earlier works and towards a chromatic “magma.” Created with tempera grassa, a medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with egg yolk and oil, the work exalts the egg, an important raw material in both cooking and art-making, and captures the beauty in the otherwise mundane and ephemeral things that make up the texture of our daily lives.
