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THE ART BASEL MEGA-SHOW With three events across the world, itâ€™s now an obligatory destination for philanthropists, entrepreneurs, business people billionaires, collectors and connoisseurs. After showâ€™s appearance in Miami, the art world awaits its arrival in Hong Kong by Micaela Zucconi

rt Basel, the modern and contemporary show that has become

Sanlorenzo, an international centre

a focus for the sector, is scheduled to open in March in Hong

of yachtbuilding excellence, took

Kong and in June in Basel. While we wait we can take the opportunity

part in Art Basel Miami Beach with

to look at the results of the 17th Art Miami Basel, held last December

an installation by Piero Lissoni

in Florida. The event saw the participation of 268 art galleries from

dedicated to the optic-kinetic artist

all five continents, representing 35 countries, including 10 galleries

Alberto Biasi. In collaboration with

from Italy, and over 4,000 artists. The show presented a range of

Tornabuoni Arte

work featuring emerging young talent and established names. The content was divided into various sections - Galleries, Nova (for works created during the last three years), Survey for individual

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Above: left, Daniel Buren, installation, Prisms and Mirrors, high relief 2017, Nara Roesler Gall; right, Hernan Bas, Eating roses in the rain, 2018, acrylic on linen, Peter Kilchmann Gallery. Bottom, Jeff Koons, Ode to Love, 2010-2017, Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, Gagosian Gallery

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artists and themed shows, Kabinett for specific curated projects

The three-year revamp was a collaboration between the City of

and Positions, dedicated to new talent. Paintings, sculptures,

Miami, Fentress Architects and the Arquitectonica studio. This

installations, photos, work on paper, film, video and digital media,

prestigious show is a reference point for curators, managers,

some specially created for the show, now acknowledged as one of

trustees and influential patrons from over 200 museums and

the most significant, accompanied by an exciting series of events,

international cultural institutions, not to mention collectors from

spin-off shows, exhibitions and celebrations. This time it seems to

around the world, especially North and South America. In the

have pleased everyone with its stellar quality and the modernised,

words of Lorenzo Fiaschi, director and partner at the Galleria

more spacious premises of the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Continua, with branches in San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulins

“A new chapter that has taken us to new heights of quality and

(Paris) and now Havana, “The Latin American market is becoming

elegance”, says Noah Horowitz, Director America, Art Basel.

stronger and we’ve sold many pieces by our young Cuban artists”.

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Above, left, Paolo Manazza, Windy Spring, 2017, oil on canvas, MAC Mazzucchelli Art Consulting. To side, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Business, 1979, Tornabuoni Arte. Bottom, Prada Mode Miami, a branded, culture-themed event platform featuring music, conversation, food, and fashion

offered 7.5 million dollars for a painting by Philip Guston, while Gagosian was asking 7 million dollars for Ode to Love by Jeff Koons. Van de Weghe set a price of 16.5 million dollars on JeanMichel Basquiat’s Onion Gum, and the Lisson Gallery sold a

Giampaolo Paci, founder of the Paci Contemporary Gallery in

triptych by Carmen Herrera for 600,000 dollars. Works by the

Brescia (Italy), says, “From many points of view this show is

Abstract Expressionist artist Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) were

like a museum, where art and business meet”. In practical terms

offered by several galleries, inspiring talk of a Mitchell Mania that

this means that works have been sold. How many, and how they

continued at some Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions and became

have been distributed among the leading galleries, isn’t revealed,

even more evident at the most recent Art Basel in Switzerland and

but some figures have been released, some involving millions of

now in Miami. Paola Pivi, the contemporary artist from Milan

dollars. The Helly Nahmad gallery asked 50 million dollars for a

(born 1971, resident in the USA), also attracted the attention of

Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange),

buyers, with the French gallery Perottin selling his works for prices

1955 although the buyer’s identity isn’t known. Hauser&Wirth

between 45,000 to 250,000 dollars.

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Top, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Color and Light, 2017, Installation: jute, mirror, gilded wood, Galleria Continua. Above, left, Mildred Thompson, Wood Picture, 1965, wood, paint, nails, Galerie Lelong & Co. Nancy Burson, 4 Vogue Models, Composites, 1989, Paci Contemporary