Art Basel announced today, 13 May, the 74 artists who will take part in its large-scale sideshow Unlimited. Hammocks, bicycles and smashed cabinets will feature in the ever-popular section of the fair where galleries are able to exhibit larger works that do not fit in the traditional gallery booths.
One of the highlights will be Kader Attia’s Arab Spring (2014), which includes the display cases that were shattered during the plunder of Cairo's Egyptian Museum in 2011. At each showing of the work, Attia stones the glass cases to re-enact the original attack. Other works include David Shrigley’s Life Model (2012), where visitors will be encouraged to draw a three-metre high sculpture in a life drawing room; Ai Weiwei’s Stacked (2012), composed of 760 piled-up bicycles; and Formosa Decelerator (2014), an interactive installation with hammocks and tea blending by the Brazilian collective OPAVIVARÁ!
A selection of historical pieces will also be on show. Italian artist Emilio Vedova’s …in continuum (1987-88), consisting of 109 Expressionist paintings, will be shown as a whole for the first time in public and Kenneth Anger’s psychedelic film Inaugaration of the Pleasure Dome (1954-2014) will be screened in its most recent re-edited iteration.
Unlimited has run alongside Art Basel since 2000 and is organised by Gianni Jetzer—a critic and curator-at-large for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC—for the fourth year in a row. UBS and AXA ART sponsor the exhibition, with support from the Associate Partners Davidoff, Audemars Piguet, Netjets and BMW.
