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...Swiss wealth also underpins Hauser & Wirth itself....
...(Art Basel’s owner, MCH Group, has a small stake in the design fair’s parent company.)...
...Last year the gallery was accepted into the Swiss edition of Art Basel for the first time, and at Art Basel Miami Beach it will show a series of paintings by Puerto Rican artist Radamés “Juni” Figueroa....
...October 20-22, parisplus.artbasel.com PARIS+ PAR ART BASEL Free-to-see Vincenzo de Bellis, Art Basel’s director of fairs and exhibition platforms, is presiding over the second edition of Paris+ and says...
...“When Mr Genta unveiled the original at the 1984 Montres et Bijoux exhibition in Basel, the organisers asked him to leave because it was not considered a serious enough watch for the show,” says Jean Arnault...
...The fair’s arrival in Paris also builds on an alignment with the Art Basel fairs (whose owner, MCH Group, has a 4.75 per cent stake in Design Miami’s holding company Design Commerce Technologies)....
...In a gallery inside the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Jeff Wall reaches behind a vast lightbox and flips a switch....
...Both had been founding fathers of Masterpiece, in which MCH Group, owners of Art Basel, took a controlling stake in 2017 and which it bought outright in 2022....
...Joanna Kamm, director of Basel’s respected Liste fair for emerging art, has upbraided Swiss customs officials for conducting a routine paperwork check on exhibitors during the fair’s VIP opening....
...Art Basel opened its 53rd Swiss edition to sunshine and sales with dealers pleased to see an influx of high-powered international visitors on the fair’s opening days....
...MCH described the investment as “complementary” to the running of Art Basel in Hong Kong....
...Vincenzo de Bellis, director of Art Basel’s fairs and exhibition programmes, hints that Parcours could be a launch pad for the group’s wider activities....
...This flexible model allows an artwork like “Tisch” (1992-93) by Swiss artists Fischli and Weiss to maintain its chaotic energy even whilst in storage....
...The show, Salcedo’s first major solo exhibition in a Swiss institution, opened last month and spans eight series of works and around 100 individual pieces....
...Smaller outfits, such as London’s Taymour Grahne and Roman Road, decided to abandon the traditional, single-venue, six-weekly exhibition programme in favour of more nomadic, advisory and pop-up businesses...
...With the opening of the Schaulager in the Swiss town of Basel in 2003, architects Herzog & de Meuron initiated the shift in curatorial attention from the exhibition space to the archive....
...The growing international stature of Art Basel during Spiegler’s reign attracted the media scion James Murdoch, whose company Lupa Systems bought a controlling stake in Art Basel’s parent company MCH Group...
...The company also runs the four Art Basel events, its priority art brand. While MCH specifies only that the 2023 Masterpiece fair has been cancelled, there is no sense that it will come back....
...In 2017, Masterpiece was sold to Art Basel’s owners, MCH Group, which retains the Masterpiece brand....
...and Swiss bank UBS....
...James Mayor has chosen to introduce an artist to an American audience whom he himself only discovered six years ago: the Swiss painter Verena Loewensberg (1912-86)....
...Their first London exhibition in 1989, Interpreting the Place, included sketches of unrealised dreams....
...Oris was one of many Swiss watch brands that were hit badly by the so-called quartz crisis of the 1970s....
...An exception is Ernst Beyeler, the Swiss railway worker’s son who started his Basel gallery in the 1940s, made a fortune trading blue-chip names, was befriended by Picasso and Giacometti, and in 1997 built...
...Kandinsky lived at No 6, next door to the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee....
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