RECOMMENDATIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
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ART BASEL — 2024
The week of the fair in Basel is always a highlight of the year for the art world. This year, our art expert Florian Paul Koenig was on the road for 100collectors and has put together his recommendations.
Digital art is still not well represented at the art fairs, one of the highlights is definitely the artwork by Matt Mullican presented by the Swiss gallery Mai 36 at Art Basel Unlimited.
Matt Mullican
Matt Mullican is an artist who explores ideas of the metaverse and has experimented with early versions of computer generated virtual reality systems since the late 1980s. Mullican pioneered the creation of artificial city environments using a highly spe- cialized ‘supercomputer,’ designed by leading researchers at the time.
His visionary work Untitled (Computer Project), delves into these virtual worlds through 18 light- box transparencies and prints depicting computer-generated designs for an imagined city laid out in five color-coded districts corresponding to Mullican’s cosmological schema. By harnessing emerging virtual reality technologies in the late 20th century, Mullican presciently anticipated the collapse of boundaries between the real and the virtual that has come to define the contemporary mindset. (text by Mai 36 Gallery)
Oliver Laric
There are also many physical works of art at art fairs that use digitality or digital techniques. A good example of this is the painting by Oliver Laric, presented by the Tanya Leigthon Gallery at Art Basel. Laric uses digital photographs, which he transfers to aluminum using a specially developed CNC milling technique.
Or then there are works of art that deal with the digital theme manually. The well-known artist duo Elmgren & Dragset, presented by Galerie Perrotin at Art Basel, have created wooden sculptures that show young people wearing VR glasses.
ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
This is How We Play Together, 2021 Lime wood, lacquer
55 7/8 × 29 1/8 × 13 inch
Unique, #71556
Location: Paris area
160 000 € ( $177,848 ) Without tax
Olaf Nicolai, presented by Galerie Eigen+Art at Art Basel, photographed the Olympic parabolic mirror used to light the Olympic torch. The photographs look very strong, as if they had been created with AI.
Olaf Nicolai
I never look at you from the place from which you see me #6, 2023 Fotografie auf Aludibond
61 x 51 cm
Auflage von 2 + 2 e.a.
Preis: 12.000 € (netto)
At the latest art fair, Digital Art Mile, you could only find digital art. During the guided tour organized by 100collectors, we received exciting introductions. We picked out the works of Kristian Kim, presented by TAEX at the Digital Art Mile:
Krista Kim
Video 4096 × 2160
MPEG-4 movie: 02:00, 282 MB
3.5 ETH
In summary, it can be said that digital art is on its way to becoming firmly established in the art market, although the majority of the artworks presented at the fairs are still analog and produced manually.