Young creation Overlooking

It features 16 stands, each showcasing a solo presentation by an artist in the early stages of his or her career. Two galleries were already selected in the previous edition, Fanta-MLN (Milan) and PM8 / Francisco Salas (Vigo, Spain). Fanta-MLN first started as a project space in 2015, before becoming a gallery in 2018. Its programme focuses on emerging Italian and international artists. For Art Basel Paris, its project “Entertain Yourself” by Gina Folly, presents a series of sculptures made from glycerine-frozen flowers presented in lacquered cardboard boxes. Each composition is accompanied by a short phrase taken from a horoscope, giving the sculptures their titles, such as “You don’t know how powerful you are” (price between €5,000 and €12,000). The other galleries are making their debut at Art Basel Paris for the first time. Among them, Parisian Exo Exo, founded in 2013 in Belleville by Antoine Donzeaud and Elisa Rigoulet, which is showcasing French artist Lou Fauroux, with a circular video installation, Keeping up without the plug. Set at the centre of a carousel of nine screens, the viewer follows a video-game-style narrative set in an “Internet detox centre created by the Kardashian family”. Resin, metal and 3D print wall sculptures extend this pop culture narrative while speculating on the end of digital life (sculptures between €3,000 and €5,000, video installation between €30,000 and €40,000). Founded in New York in 2014, the Catinca Tabacaru Gallery moved to Bucharest, the founder’s home town, in 2020. Her solo show is dedicated to the Surinamese artist Xavier Robles de Medina, with pieces priced between €15,000 and €35,000. After ten years of non-commercial activities, Piktogram (Warsaw) has been positioning itself as a gallery since 2015. It is presenting a single work: a previously unseen monumental set of six panels by painter Jan Eustachy Wolski (€100,000). Since its creation in 2018, Martina Simeti has been working with emerging artists. Here she presents the work of Jasmine Gregory - to whom the CPAC in Bordeaux recently devoted an exhibition. This new installation features a set of large canvases covered like a filter with a semi-transparent sheet of dark-tinted Plexiglas. A red light emanates from a set of shop windows placed in front of the paintings, evoking a commercial or clinical atmosphere. Also exhibited this year at the CAPC in Bordeaux, Shaun Motsi’s film Masters (2023) will be shown here by Christian Andersen Gallery (Copenhagen) behind a wall covered with a heavy velvet curtain. Vienna-based gallery Sophie Tappeiner, founded in 2017, will recreate artist Sophie Thun’s studio environment, with walls lined in metal panels.. On top of large black and white analogue prints fixed with magnets, smaller framed works are superimposed, a formal juxtaposition of different image production processes. What Pipeline (Detroit), an artist-run gallery founded in 2013 by Daniel Sperry and Alivia Zivich, is showing showing a textile alphabet and clothing sculptures by Bruno Zhu. The galleries Petrine (Paris), Whatiftheworld (Cape Town), Kayokoyuki (Tokyo), Lars Friedrich (Berlin), Madragoa (Lisbon), Roh Project (Jakarta) and VI,VII (Oslo) will also be competing for the prize awarded by Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette, which each year rewards an artist in this sector by producing a work to be exhibited at the Foundation the following year.