Recollections of Art Basel 2013 .3 Sculptures (2013 巴塞爾藝展回顧：雕塑篇.3)

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Fernando Botero, like Fellini, has a fondness of people who are "plump". Maybe he loves the roundness and smoothness of their form. Here's one of his bronzes, Ballerina 2011.

Sitting woman: calm, serene, self-possessed

Botero's "In the Park": a dancing couple

Bird by Botero, as plump as his men and women

A new form of art: blown balloon. This one shows what looks like a crocodile biting a dog (?)

a fairy?

Rocks wrapped up for sale?  A shell of rocks?

A "goni"  ( a puppet clown-servant modeled on the popular wayang puppet show) by Samul Arifin. Like the pirate Long John Silver in Treausre Island in the art-world,  he sets out to rob it with his weapons, his sketch pencil, his paints, his brush.

In this one he's trying to do the same with color pencils and his brush

Goni on a came'ls back ready for adventure, his neck as long as that of the camel

This is Chiharu Shiota's "State of Being" 2013, showing a boy's kimono surrounded by a network of black hairlike threads, perhaps showing the growth of public and other body hair as part of his secondary sexual characteristics?

A man laughing out the the pain of having to carry an invisible load on his back so heavy that he has to kneel down upon a ground which is not at all solid, consisting of nothing but make-shift wooden bars from scrap wood.

bleached sea cucumbers growing cheek by jowl, all struggling for space?

Another piece of "waves" by rectangular paper columns and triangles by Chun Kwang Young, a
Korean artist whose work I first saw in Art 2010. I like the gradual shift in
color and the irregular arrangement of the paper building bricks of his
paper sculpture.

Another type of build up done with hot wax and candles by Petah Coyne

crystals on fire

A more conventional crystal lamp shape female figure

A piece of kinetic art by Alexander Calder? Pure plays of form, color and motion.

Another Calder piece: Black and Blue, 1975: balanced, pleasing pieces of various elegant pieces, in three basic colors, all constantly moving, presenting perpetually different aspects, restless yet retaining a certain serenity,

A wooden female torso 1944 by Alexander Calder

Wood: pure textures and form and sheen called "fantasy eye patch" 1953 also by Alexander Calder

Annette  X 1965 by Alberto Giacometti, one of my favorite scuptors with his elongated figures. This one looks surprised. At what?

One of Joan Miro's figures in bronze where he plays around with his own vision of the reality, head of irregular shape, eyes, nose and perhaps shrunken arms and body but all for fun

A truly hollow human shape: Yorkshire Moss III 2013 by Jaume Plensa

Same/similar meditating figures sitting on different white boulders (?)



A hollow body made entirely from barely linked letters, figures, characters sitting on something natural, solid and dense

A musician?

21 Ace Zinc Corner 2007 by Carl Andre . Again pure form and color

Air ship 2013 by Sun Xun

A work of polyurethane panels, cast polyurethane, wire and metal, a 2013 work by Lee Bul

A red piece by Ham Jin

A black piece by the same artist

And a yellow piece, all done in 2013

The artist Xu Zhen set up MadeIn after deciding he had taken his
individual identity as far as it would go.

Another one of his sculptures, this time he carries his crayons or color pencils as if they were his hand-grenates, but like a modern day cowboy.

Goni sets out on trek across the "desert" of the art-world, to explore it.

Another work by the Korean artist Chun Kwang Young whose works I fist discovered back in Art 2010 with his preference for "waves" built up by mini-paper bricks or pyramids

Aggregation, 2007 another work by Chun Kwun Young. I like his calmness and the gradual change of color tint

man with the spiked fins of the dragon on his head looking with suspicion at the world around him from the corner of his eyes

A girl with who appears to have lost hope: stunned, dazed, tired

Another thin lady looking at the world with indifference, perhaps even a little contempt or even disgust

A collection of busts

carved tree root?

Various dancing and standing figures by Mikala Dwyer called "things in things".

"State of Being" : a boys kimono by Chiharu Shiota 2013 with black thread and metal

Laughing aloud as the artist's protest against a broken, irrational and boxed world: stripped almost naked, he appears to be carrying an "invisible load" on his back

The world as a mass of sea cucumbers growing cheek by jowl

A bowl of artificial burning gold?

Another piece of kinetic art, calm quiet, rational, delighting in the sheer play of the imagination in color form and motion, not  a care in the world

Annette X 1965 by Alberto Giacometti, one of my favourite sculptors: a look of perpetual surprise.

Personnage 1973 by Joan Miro, another of my favorite artist: delight in discovering and putting together his own world, with head, arms, eyes, nose, body serving merely as inspiration with absolutely nothing to do with "representation" of the so-called "real world".  What is more "real", the "conventional world" of ordinary folks or the world of "imagination". Which is more intense, more interesting, more fun?

A figure in bronze, all hollowed out

the body of a woman?

21 Ace Zinc corner 2007 by Carl Andre: patterns in black and white

A work by Petah Coyne made with various materials: celebration of life by a woman

The form and texture of wood, its sheen, its shape, its feel

A lady in crystal?

Airship 2013  by Sun Xun

An untitled work 2013 in polyurethane panels, cast polyurethane & metal by  Lee Bul: pure form

A red piece 2013 in polymer clay and mixed media by Ham Jin

A black piece 2013 also by Ham Jin

A yellow piece 2013 by the same artist

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