Art Basel Hong Kong: Booth #3D20

Booth #3D20
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Harbour Road
Wan Chai
Hong Kong, China

Kasmin returns to Art Basel Hong Kong with a selection of works by Theodora Allen, Sara Anstis, Ali Banisadr, Lynne Drexler, Lyn Liu, Alexis Ralaivao, Mark Ryden, Emil Sands and Bosco Sodi alongside a focused selection of paintings by Robert Indiana.

VIP Days (by invitation only):
First Choice | Wednesday, March 26, 12 noon to 8pm
First Choice and Preview | Wednesday, March 26, 3pm to 8pm
First Choice and Preview | Thursday, March 27, 12 noon to 4pm
First Choice and Preview | Friday, March 28, 12 noon to 2pm
First Choice and Preview | Saturday, March 29, 12 noon to 2pm
First Choice and Preview | Sunday, March 30, 11am to 12 noon

Vernissage
Thursday, March 27, 4pm to 8pm

Public Days
Friday, March 28, 2pm to 8pm 
Saturday, March 29, 2pm to 8pm 
Sunday, March 30, 12 noon to 6pm

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Accompanying the group presentation is a focused selection of paintings by American artist Robert Indiana (1928–2018), which follows the opening of a major solo exhibition at the gallery in New York. Realized shortly after a 2002 retrospective in Shanghai, and related to paintings included in a major exhibition of Indiana’s work at Asia Society Hong Kong Center in 2018, Indiana’s ÀI paintings each depict the Chinese character for “love” in multiple colorways including the red and yellow colors of the Chinese flag and the artist’s iconic red, blue, and green combination. The Chinese version of Indiana’s signature LOVE image from the 1960s follows earlier translations in Hebrew (1977) and Spanish (1998), underscoring the artist’s commitment to making his work accessible in a global context. Indiana reprised the Chinese character in 2006, this time vertically stacking the word in sans-serif and calligraphic typefaces within the silhouette of a mirrored ginkgo leaf. These works will be complemented by Indiana’s painting LOVE Wall (1981), which mirrors the artist’s iconic image over four quadrants in the US national colors of red white and blue.

Paintings by Bosco Sodi (b. 1970), including those recently featured at the He Art Museum in the artist’s largest solo exhibition in Asia to date, will be on display. Sodi uses raw, natural materials to create paintings whose final forms are dictated by the force of nature. He mixes organic pigments with sawdust, wood, pulp, natural fibers, and glue to create the dense surfaces of his monochrome paintings. As the layers of material dry, structures form without the guidance or intervention of the artist. Fissured “landscapes” emerge as a result of both the artist’s creative process and the unpredictable force of chance in nature.

Lyn Liu (b. 1993) will present two new paintings at the fair, exploring the psychological experience of the uncanny. Seamlessly blending the familiar with the absurd, Liu’s paintings are populated with symbols that pulsate in a nihilist or existentialist vein. The artist conceives of her compositions as stills in an overarching yet dislocated narrative, taking a filmic approach to considerations of light, staging and costume. Liu’s solo exhibition at Casa Siza in Mexico City, organized by Kasmin, closes on March 28.