Galerie Adrienne Desbiolles present five artists and designers from the gallery’s expanded program during the 6th edition of the Jewels & Art Show Jewels Basel. The fair will take place between June 10th-14th at the magnificent Wildt'sches Haus at Petersplatz, Basel. The Gallery will present a curated selection of works by Roberta. Lobeira, Suzanne Syz, John Monks, Conor Mccreedy, and Catherine Thiry, five artists with a diverse background and unique style, bringing together their experiments in different media, from painting to sculpture, to jewelry and digital art, pushing the boundaries of technique, combining technology and imagination set within the context of a City Palace.
Roberta Lobeira: “This is why I paint and what has inspired me over the years to grow and evolve as an artist. It is the constant search for what’s on the outside and pushing my imagination to see how far it takes me.” Born in Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico, in 1979, Roberta Lobeira studied between New York at the Academy of Art and at the School of Visual Arts, Paris with Oli Nicole, and Oaxaca with Marco Antonio Bustamante. Lobeira later moved to California and currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain. Lobeira's style, as described in VOGUE, “always involves a lot of fantasy, the attempt to leave the ordinary of our daily lives and recover the curiosity we had as children. She creates magical worlds inspired by dreams, animals, nature, music and couture, beyond what we know to exist.” Her unique magical realism has been influenced by artists such as Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, and René Magritte. The artist has exhibited her work in Europe and in the US; a retrospective was recently held at the Pinacoteca de Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico. Lobeira's oeuvre includes the Family Portraits made for the Netflix tv series The House of Flowers, directed by Manolo Caro. Works from her newest series of Digital Paintings, which were just presented for the first time worldwide at Galerie Adrienne Desbiolles in Zurich during the artist’s first solo show in Switzerland, will be shown at the fair alongside her iconic monumental paintings.
Suzanne Syz: “Art inspires me for my designs […] No matter which artist or designer in particular, creative people are inspired by different things or happenings in their lives and translate that into their art!”
The jewelry designer Suzanne Syz is renowned for her highly original and unconventional creations which draw on many sources of inspiration. Born in Zurich and educated in Paris, she moved to New York City in the 1980s and became part of the circle of Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, and Jeff Koons. The nearness of these revolutionary creative spirits and their work not only greatly impacted her contemporary art collection but also proved to be a formidable catalyst for her jewelry creations. Radiant colors, audacious compositions and unusual materials have become trademarks of Suzanne Syz’s work.
Conor Mccreedy: “BLUE…Why is blue so important to me? Because it represents stability. And has more dimensions than any other color. I love the depth and the dimensions. I love blue and how it changes with the light, like the ocean and the sky. Blue is the rarest color in the world, and the most valuable.”
Conor Mccreedy, born in Johannesburg in 1987, lives and works in Switzerland. Mccreedy has honed a monochromatic blue vocabulary in his work since he started to paint in his early twenties. His endeavor to explore the Universe through one color is a life-long pursuit, that ultimately lead him to develop his own intense pigment of blue. The artist will present a new body of work depicting iconic peaks of the Swiss Alps: after living in Switzerland for more than nine years, Mccreedy decided to conquer its mountains. Each peak is an inspiration to Mccreedy, as one of his favorite places to seek refuge in Switzerland is the Swiss Alps, to be alone in nature and to find oneself. What distinguishes this groundbreaking new body of work, is not only the use of shades of Blue to depict movement and the majestic compositions, but also the transformative technology the artist has woven into his artwork which will be unveiled for the first time during the fair. His patented technology, composed of aluminum and titanium frames with LED lights strategically placed within the frame behind the oil painting, has redefined the way art is perceived. The frames not only accentuate the artist’s bold brushstrokes but also engender a natural aura of light around the captivating mountain landscapes. The viewer is allowed to participate in an immersive experience, by manipulating and adjusting the tones, accentuating the unique abstract expression brushstrokes. Thanks to Conor Mccreedy, art is no longer static—it is a living, breathing masterpiece that evolves with the touch of a hand, a testament to his innovative spirit and creative genius.
John Monks: “The artists I most admire, Velazquez, Goya, Manet, Bacon, among others, all acknowledge this dialogue between the reality of the material and the allusion it attempts to create.”
John Monks, born 1954 in Manchester, studied at the Liverpool School of Art and the RCA between 1977-1980, and is regarded as one of Britain’s most significant figurative contemporary painters. His subject matter revolves around architectural spaces and interiors, working with juxtapositions, fragmenting and reconstructing the Space. With the powerful use of rays of light in his paintings, the artist creates a fracture element in his portraits of abandoned rooms which become binaries of past and present, using the contrast between dark and light. The artist currently lives and works between London and his studio in France. His work is part of important public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Yale Centre for British Art, the CAS, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the V&A, Manchester City Art Galleries, and the Santa Barbara Museum, California, among others.
Catherine Thiry: “Sculpture is a joyful, organic and primitive action.”
Catherine Thiry, born 1962, lives and works just outside Brussels, Belgium. Starting as a painter, the artist began exploring sculpture in 2004, creating her first series of small bronze pieces and quickly moving on to large scale formats. Her monumental sculpture bears all the influence of her painting technique, molding the clay with broad strokes as one would boldly paint a canvas. Some of Thiry’s sculptures have an intentional sense of incompleteness, leaving the observer to draw on their own emotional experiences and come to an individual interpretation of her art. Her bronze and composite iron sculptures have been widely exhibited in Europe, one of her best-known works, the composite iron sculpture Morpheus, has been on display since December 2022 at the Waterloo 1815 Memorial Museum in Belgium. The artist’s prominent monumental sculpture Epicene will be on view on Petersplatz for the duration of the Fair.
Jewes Basel
Date: June 11- 14 2024
PREVIEW: JUNE 10, 5:30PM - 9:30PM | BY INVITATION ONLY
SHOW : UNE 11 – 14, 1:30AM – 7PM
Venue: WILDT'SCHES HAUS | PETERSPLATZ 13
Photos by Galerie Adrienne Desbiolles
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