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At first sight, they look like packages tied with orange ribbons :)  As a matter of fact, these are wooden benches, taken apart and stacked for easier transportation - they will be stored someplace else until next Art Basel comes around, in one year.  Designed by INCH Furniture, these curved benches always bring new life to the otherwise empty Messeplatz.  During Art Basel, oval wooden platforms, with greenery in their middle, provide delightful islands of repose. If only they could stay here all year round and become a permanent part of Basel's City Lounge!
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Friday morning, ART BASEL begins next week, everyone is busy delivering and setting up for the big event ...  During the year, the round City Lounge, part of Herzog & de Meuron's 2013 project for Messe Basel's New Hall, is usually rather quiet. These days, large trucks clog the area, workers are busy setting up the scene for the big event that starts next week. If you are in Basel and would like to organise a bespoke architecture tour of the city, feel free to contact [email protected]
Enjoyable even when it's raining, a walk from Basel's Wasserturm, along residential streets and further through the fields, all the way to the Predigerhof, makes it clear that the local urban and agricultural areas are interwoven in a very close way. A lonely border stone amidst greenery is an only indication of the boundary between the city of Basel and the canton of Baselland. It is here, on more than 50 acres of farmland, that this year's activities of the Basel Social Club - a non-profit organisation founded two years ago with the intention of creating social spaces for art - will take place. Artistic interventions, including large-scale sculpture by Iza Tarasewicz, will be positioned throughout the fields and in the barns; performances, open-air cinema and culinary delights will also be on offer, with host farmers actively involved in the events. From June 9 - 16, 2024. For more details, see www.baselsocialclub.com/2024.html
It's been raining in Basel for quite a while, and though many are unhappy about it, an outdoor artwork now being set up on the Messeplatz, can only benefit from all the water it gets. An extensive field of wheat is being planted on wooden pallets, atop a large asphalt square that teems with people during Art Basel, but is mostly empty during the rest of the year.  Wheat stalks have started to take over one of Basel's largest squares, growing into what promises to be one spectacular artwork ! Honouring Wheatfield – A Confrontation (2024) is going to be a Swiss adaptation of Agnes Denes's famous environmental work staged forty-two years ago in Manhattan.
For more info on the project and an interview with the artist Agnes Denes, see www.artbasel.com/stories/ecology-pioneer-american-artist-agnes-denes-basel-messeplatz-wheat-field-climate-change-awareness |
About:Art Basel 2024 takes place at the Messe / 13 - 16 June / Preview Days 11 - 12 June. At the same time it presents an expanded, city-wide program. Here, we chronicle changes taking place at some of the venues.
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