Art Basel Paris 2024

Also featured in Lisson’s presentation at Art Basel Paris is the 2013 acrylic on canvas Untitled by Carmen Herrera. A master of crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes, Herrera created symmetry, asymmetry and an infinite variety of movement, rhythm and spatial tension across her canvases with the most unobtrusive application of paint. This large-scale work exemplifies her approach through a rare combination of colours, with a dark, rich blue offset by a vibrant, primary red rectangle.

Further painting on the booth includes Untitled (2022) in oil and sand on linen by Rodney Graham; a selection of intimately-scaled 1950s gouache on cardboard works by Hélio Oiticica; Richard Long’s Untitled (2023), in which China clay has been applied with the artist’s hands; and Oliver Lee Jackson’s No. 12, 2017 (10.28.17) (2017).

Otobong Nkanga’s Silent Anchor (2024) forms part of the artist’s ongoing series of hand-braided rope sculptures. Hung or laid across the floor, the works act as talismans or spatial cleansers for certain bodily or worldly ailments. Here, the rope cascades down to a pair of ceramic and glass forms, a small repository in the glass filled with inky blue chamomile oil. Also this year, The Museum of Modern Art presents 'Otobong Nkanga: Cadence', a new, site-specific commission by the Nigerian-Belgian artist opening in the Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium on October 10, 2024.

Additionally on the booth, Tony Cragg’s Stages (2023) sees a composite organic form rise in highly-polished stainless steel, while Anish Kapoor’s Clear to Laser Red Mix (2023) presents a work from the artist’s series of concave mirrored sculptures with a gradient, from reflective steel to a rich cherry red. Kelly Akashi’s Cultivator (Regeneration) (2024) combines the recurring motif of the artist’s own hands cast in wax with a trail of delicate glass flowers, while the oil on linen Y (2024) by Van Hanos depicts a bountiful fruit bowl, its stand formed from intricately drafted letters of the alphabet. Fusion (2024) by Hugh Hayden continues the artist’s investigations into ubiquitous cookware, here presenting a ‘family’ of skillets in cast aluminium, with faces inspired by West-African masks that jostle for space on a found steel rack.