Within the week, I will pen my thoughts on what it was like to go to Art Basel, to be at the most exclusive happening of the contemporary art world.
Until then, peek at the last few works I captured from Pulse Miami, one of Basel’s 15 satellite fairs. Imagine what it would be like to own an original, a piece of art that made you think or feel something you had never experienced before. What would that work look like?
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Pulse Miami
Not afraid of the Kindle, this work captures the essence of book as art as decor. They speak volumes.
Baroque beauty. Jewelry as art. Again, a bit more of my design side.
Sun, water, zizzle zazzle. Miami. Looks like by the end of Basel, I became a design hound.
Bureaucratic beauty. This will be placed next to the Baroque beauty. Good bye Miami, back to the office.
16 Responses to “Basel Miami 2: Critique My Art Aesthetic”
This is a great question. If I had an unlimited budget it might be easy, but finding the perfect piece within my means is definitely difficult.
I love/am scared of bureaucratic beauty. I fear that one day my office will look like that! :)
I love the orange/blue painting (although is it actually paint? because it looks too sparkly to be paint). It reminds me of sea creatures and of rain.
Ah, jewelry as art! Now you’re speaking my language. That Bureaucratic Beauty gives me the creeps. I imagine sitting in that chair and being buried by that paper.
btw. . .
On the end of the bottom book shelf, you’ll see “Lolita” by Nabokov. That is my favorite book. Why? I think Lolita is a simulacrum for something else, so the awful things that are done to her are not actually happening.
Oh my that office really is overloaded and gives e shivers ( I used to work in one).
I absolutely enjoyed your blog … a very fresh air from the west ! thank you .
Oh yes, come on by. There’s plenty of room and plenty of stew. And there’s the most divine French bistro on the corner should we need anything more.
A highly regarded gallerista and fellow attendee of Basel with me has written about the works she liked. Though, I will be sharing Basel with you, my take will be about the experience. http://www.nonewenemies.net/nne_version2/index.html
@Zelda Glad I’m sending fresh air your way!
@ Beach Vintage The operative word is “used” to work in an office like that.
@Angie if you say the bistro is divine, we all know it really is.
@ Perfect Peach Such is the issue so many of us face. We don’t have the resources to make the mistake, and to many who have selected the wrong piece, living with it is an awful everyday reminder.
@Stacey Nope, that’s not paint at all. If you put your nose up to the screen, you’ll notice that they are small reflective objects.
Fabulous !
I enjoy and love collecting art work that speaks to me. I have a few original collection from some of my favorite artists and i notice one thing in common in my wall art collection ~ they all share the same sentiment of “Dreams, hope, faith…
and go forward” :) Have a lovely merry happy day and love to yoU!
Ooh, that’s a difficult one… Depends on if I owned it and didn’t have to have it in my home, or if I would have it at home.. In that case, the having it at home, I think it would be something that had a positive energy around it. I can appreciate art in all kinds of moods and ways, eerie, scary, fun, nonsensical, but something I’ve never felt before..? That’s hard!
Wow amazing pieces…I can see why you where so excited to share. I love that jewelry art piece. Have a great weekend and thanks for visiting me.
Hmm… very much though-provoking in its surprisal… the very core of the ‘why’ I love brushing through modern and contemporary art.
As a comment to yours on my blog, yep the ’sapin de Noë’l is very much at the Galeries Lafayette. Good knowledge gal!
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@Jacqueline Pretty impressive that you’ve got a thrust to your collecting style at this point in your life. It takes a lot of self understanding (in my opinion) to know what you like in art.
@Hermione I like that you think it’s hard to find something that conjures a feeling you’ve never felt before. I guess to clarify, you’ve probably felt the feeling but it is the context that is new to you. The art brings out an experience that slightly alters that feeling so it FEELS new. Hope that makes a tad bit of sense!
@Koralee I’m totally into the pearl pendant piece. It feels roooted in history (like a royal jewel from the late 17th century, perhaps).
@Susu Score! I cannot believe I placed where you were correctly. I like this game. Keep going to new places so I can keep guessing;-) Now I’m getting competitive . . .with myself. Easily entertained, it seems.
I’ve always wanted to read that Nabokov book, I think I’ll see if my library has it. I love the way you write!
Okay, I know nothing of big time art, or collecting, but the way you have written about it here makes it seem like stock trading or something…dog eat dog.
If anyone sized me up in a place I’d likely head for the exit. I wouldn’t survive in that energy for a minute. I think those collectors in their way are really just trying to buy status. Perhaps not entirely enamoured with the art piece itself, but what it represents.
Enjoy the week, it starts fresh today!! xo
Gillian