1. artgenève 2022, Stand MAMCO, Photo Julien Gremaud
artgenève - V.2023
For a few days, between the 26.01.2023 and the 29.01.2023 Geneva welcome art collectors, galleries and institutions from the city of Geneva, Switzerland and above for artgenève. For it's 11th edition, the biggest art fair in the French-speaking region of Switzerland presents more or less 90 national and international galleries of contemporary and modern art, ranging from a work by the followers of Jérôme Bosch to Ugo Rondinone.
Beside the galleries, the fair have a long program of events related to new art trends. I had the chance to go to two art talks: "Fondation Dubuffet - une politique d’acquisitions - Restauration des œuvres de Dubuffet: des tableaux à Coucou Bazar With Sophie Webel and Aurélia Chevalier" (on the 26.1) and "AI technology in art authentication - With Dr. Nicholas Eastaugh and Carina Popovici" (28.1).
Those talks clearly refer the identity of artgenève, not just helping the galleries by showcasing their oeuvre to potential clients but also helping private and public institutions. In that case, the fair presented the collection of the Museum Frieder Burda from Baden-Baden, the Fondation Jean Dubuffet and the Musée du quai Branly from Paris, the Ringier Collection from Zurich or the Villa Arson from Nice. By showcasing those private collection, the fair is showcasing how sometimes, private institutions do their acquisition during fairs and how museum and the market can sometime helped each others by implementing new artists.
The TOP three
2. (Left) Giuseppe Stampone, Casa, 2019, bic pen on prepared wood, 35 x 29,5 cm, courtesy Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani
3. (Right) Giuseppe Stampone, Europe vs Europe, 2022, graphite on prepared wood, 35 x 29,5 cm, courtesy Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani
Presented by the Prometeo Gallery - Ida Pisani, Giuseppe Stampone is an artist living between Teramo, Bruxelles and Roma. In his small scale works, the artist is questioning was he called "Global education", which is more or less the education we all have in class, when we look at the same artworks, the same artist, the same philosopher, the same events, etc. By creating those small works combining a contemporary material, a bic pen to the art of engraving, Stampone is questions the term of reproduction, writing and reproduction of those works.
The artist defines his practice as stated: “My course and my artistic experimentations have allowed me to move from the two-dimensional character of classical art to the multidimensionality of connective and relational art, in order to cause a social-political action in the art world. To be independent, mentally and physically, without being subject to economic and political influences, it was necessary to get to the stratification of the Solstizio Project, with multilayered, interconnected fields in real and virtual life. My art has become global and does not end in a defined project, it rather takes the form of a social network, from which different ways of observation and action develop in surrounding realities”.
4. Imi Knoebel, Basel Fenster 7 Ed. (Entwurf Nr. 9 von 12), 2020, acrylic on plastic foil, painted 101.5 x 161.5 x 4.5 cm courtesy von Bartha
5. Peter Halley, Black Cell, 1988, acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, flash and roll-a-tex on canvas, 178,4 x 302,9 x 8,26 cm, courtesy Edouard Simoens Gallery
Represented by the Edouard Simons Gallery, Peter Halley is an American born artist who is associated with the minimalist and conceptual movement. Thought his paintings, his known for using brightly poured paint and geometric shapes to compose his paintings inspired by the grid and dimensional urban grid of New-York city. In a sense, the works of Halley connect the language of geometric abstraction to the actual space that he saw all around him.
The partners of the 2023 edition are: UBS, F.P.Journe, Gübelin, la Mobilière, Piguet Galland, m3 Groupe, Swiss Legal Finance, Memo Paris, Ruinart, Cave de Genève, 1664, Teo Jakob, Harsch, Lalique, Firmenich, Les Ports-Francs et Entrepôts de Genève, Sixt Ride, Mandarin Oriental Genève and Manotel.
Informations about the exhibition
Place: Palexpo
Route François-Peyrot 30
1218 Le grand-Saconnex
Switzerland
Date: 26-29.1.2023
Ticket: Available on the website of artgenève or on site
