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VOLTA8 Basel - Closing Day

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June 25, 2012
VOLTA8 Basel – Closing Day
VOLTA8 June 11-16, 2012 at Dreispitzhalle Basel. Limited Edition by Jason Gringler and Jiri Svestka (Prague/Berlin), Nusser & Baumgart (Munich) in foreground
VOLTA8 Basel
JUNE 11-16, 2012
BASEL (June 16, 2012). A steady stream of international collectors through the week equalled sustained success and significant sales at VOLTA8. Instead of the typical opening-day surge and following days’ drop-off, gallerists noted constant foot traffic within the Dreispitzhalle, so that even the torrential downpours earlier in the week did not stifle serious art-buyers.
As stated by Artistic Director Amanda Coulson: “It was an extremely strange year for us in terms of the usual traffic and therefore unpredictable. Whether this was because of the heavy and exhausting stack of previous events – Frieze NY, the re-branded Hong Kong fair, Manifesta 9 and dOCUMENTA (13) – or the newly split VIP days at the main fair is hard to say, but instead of fizzing crowds followed by slow moments it was rather a constant, slow but steady trickle that added up to significant attendance but that lacked the normal rhythm. Sales came through, however, so at the end of the day, it was a successful fair if lacking the usual energy of Art Basel week.”
Alejandro Zaluskowski of Galerie Stefan Röpke (Cologne) summed it up: “Like in New York, it’s a patience game, good conversations with good people. Today, we basically sold the entire booth.” Spanish artist Jordi Alcaraz‘s massive methacrylate and mixed-media framed works went to collectors across the globe for 7,500 to 24,000 Euro. William Lawrie of Dubai-based gallery Lawrie Shabibi noted much activity later in the week, selling a regal iron and brass Projectile (range 25,000 – 30,000 Euro) by young Iranian artist Shapour Pouyan to a Turkish collection, while reserving the other two armored hanging sculptures, one to a European museum. The gallery sold one large-scale mixed-media work on paper by Beirut-based Marwan Sahmarani (range 20,000 – 25,000 Euro) as well.
ALARCÓN CRIADO GALERÍA (Seville) enjoyed diverse interest for their three-artist booth, selling three Cprints by Alejandra Laviada (2,800 Euro each) plus drawings on wood (600 Euro each) and the tiered wooden sculpture Receptive Environments (4,000 Euro) by Daniel Palacios. Dealer Carolina Barrio de Alarcón remarked on the global vibe of collectors visiting her booth and “hopes to add VOLTA to her calendar next year!” Over in the A Halle, Arne Linde of ASPN (Leipzig) emphasized she had “twice as many new contacts at this fair than in all of last year,” while selling three paintings by Robert Siedel (2,000 – 12,000 Euro for jumbosized). She also noted serious interest in FAMED, the Leipzig-based artist trio whose emotively conceptual works contrasted Siedel’s paintings.
Finally there was Smash137, the Basel-based graffiti artist whose towering, multihued tag blossomed across a building near the Dreispitzhalle. It was a week-long work in progress, considering Tuesday and Wednesday’s rain, but at completion the vibrant transformation of a graybrick wall to evaporating tonal gestures acted as a beacon on the Münchensteinerstrasse, and echoed smashing successes at VOLTA8.
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