Unlimited 2014: the next challenge is length

 

 

 

While this year the opening of Liste may have left behind someone deluded – we still believe that this kind of unconventional locations is too complicated to be managed in terms of lighting and space, and it could become even unpleasant when crowded – the Unlimited section of Art Basel hasn’t failed.

 

This edition will certainly be remembered for the many horizontal pieces on show: Carl Andre, Giuseppe Penone, Sam Falls, Matias Faldbakken, Haegue Yang, Richard Long, Jack Pierson, Mario Merz, all their works play with the idea of length in a sort of choral discourse about what duration means in terms of walking and observing. Not being able to link this extraordinary setting to Gerhard Richter and Claude Monet at the Beyeler Foundation would be a shame…as much as not spotting in it a new trend, has anyone mentioned Wade Gutyon?  

September 22, 2014