Art – Life – Art as Living Space and Life Dream / Group Show at Hebel_121 Basel

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On the occasion of Kunsttage Basel 2024, Gerda Maise and Daniel Göttin present a group show with works by international artists and works from the Hebel_121 collection at their art space Hebel_121. In this video, Gerda Maise provides us with a tour of the exhibition (in German language, English translation available via YouTube player settings).

Hebel_121 is an art space located in Basel, Switzerland, known for showcasing contemporary art. It operates as a gallery where various exhibitions take place, featuring both local and international artists. The art space is run by the artists Gerda Maise and Daniel Göttin. Exhibitions at Hebel_121 range from solo shows to group exhibitions, often aligning with larger art events in the city like Art Basel or Kunsttage Basel. The space contributes to Basel's vibrant art scene, providing artists a platform to present their work in various media, including painting, video installations, and more conceptual art forms.

Art – Life – Art as Living Space and Life Dream. Group Show at Hebel_121 Basel. Basel (Switzerland), August 29, 2024.
Transcript
00:00We are now in lever 121, with the title Art, Life, Art as an idea of art as a living space
00:21and life dream.
00:22And we start now in the exhibition room, because the title, subtitle, means what you
00:31always wanted to know and never got to see in lever 121, that would now be the beginning
00:37of the exhibition room.
00:38And you will now see a few works, for example on the Sims, an old work by Daniel Göttin
00:46from the art school, then by Billy Gruner, an artist from Australia, with a monochrome
00:53white picture, then again his work by Daniel Göttin, the work is about 30 years old,
01:03that is also monochrome, as you can see, and then, very important, by Johannes Burla,
01:09a former professor, one would say today, in the art school at the time, where he learned,
01:17among other things, how to paint pictures.
01:20This is a wonderful wooden cross.
01:24Then we come here to Dirk Rathke, actually a monochrome picture again, which has a retracted
01:35chassis.
01:36He builds this chassis himself and then paints it monochrome.
01:40Then we come to Sarah Carey, an Australian artist, who paints with spices.
01:51This is now a, what is it called again, chili, a chili spice, which she then puts on a
02:03metal plate with a binder.
02:06Then we come to the front room, to Yuka Miyazaki, and Yuka Miyazaki is a Japanese artist
02:16and she paints with cracked ashes and silver leaf, they call it.
02:25And then in this room, the really great work, the little work, also by Johannes Burla.
02:32This is a teapot, curved, two-tone steel.
02:37So, this is actually the front room, already somewhat defined.
02:42Then we come to the back room, there is a work by Daniel Götzi, namely, there he has
02:50learned to weld with Johannes Burla, his professor.
02:55And this is his first work, which he used with everything, actually waste products,
03:00which were lying around on the farm in the Hildhauer class at the time.
03:06Then we come to the international one, to David Shremlet, with a pastel drawing.
03:15That would be Igarashi Akio, also with a drawn paper, that is, drawn paper.
03:25This is all graphite, everything is drawn by hand.
03:30Actually interesting, a Japanese artist, the work is over 50 years old, and an English artist,
03:40the work is a little less old.
03:42And on it is still a textile work by Sasaki Makoto, the heartbeat drawer.
03:50He has recorded his heartbeat on a canvas, actually, that is, a canvas cloth.
03:57It is a canvas cloth, which is still put together.
04:01Then we come to Shuei Fukuda, also a Japanese young, very young artist,
04:07who also actually worked with silver, silver leaf and monochrome colored paper.
04:20Pulled up on a box, actually the monochromy from the old Japanese idea
04:26continues into the modern one.
04:28Then we come to my work, these are thread drawings,
04:35all leftover threads that I collect and then put together into such colorful drawings,
04:41depending on when I sew.
04:43And the next work is also a ribbon drawing.
04:49These are all ribbons that are hardly available today.
04:55They used to be called pants ribbons.
05:00Here I also make drawings, but directly, without a pencil or color pen,
05:05but directly with the material.
05:07Then there is the work of Valerie Arbour from Marfa.
05:15These are embossed prints that she made with her husband Robert Arbour,
05:25the master printer in Marfa, who already printed for Tchad,
05:31for all more or less minimal artists in America.

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