May 2009
This year’s Art Unlimited exhibition marks the tenth edition of this sector and features 59 artists from 24 countries.
The lineup of artists showing at this ambitious exhibition of contemporary art, generously supported by UBS, reads like a cross-section of the current international art scene. Many of the pieces on show in hall 1 have been created especially for the Art Unlimited platform.
Alongside this exhibition in the Art Unlimited hall, the Art Statements section presents 27 one-person shows of young artists this year.
The hall will also play host to the Artists Books, Artists Records, a Videotheque, Art Lobby and a Bookshop.
Since the launch of the platform in 2000 many of the world’s leading contemporary artists have exhibited at Art Unlimited.
The concept of this year's exhibition - drawn from proposals by the exhibitors, and similar in quantity and quality to previous editions – has once again been devised by the accomplished Geneva curator Simon Lamunière.
Complementing the wide array of art on display in the main sectors at the show, Art Unlimited holds exciting discoveries in store.
In the 12,000-square-meter exhibition hall, Art Unlimited offers artists and galleries a platform for works that exceed the possibilities of the conventional art-fair booth.
It showcases outsize sculptures, video projections, installations, wall paintings, photographic series, and performance art.
In addition, separate limited-edition catalog (costing 40 Swiss francs) accompanies the exhibition and for the first time includes descriptive texts about each artwork presented in Hall 1 and on Messeplatz.
This year works by legendary artists such as Sigmar Polke, Lawrence Weiner, Franz Erhard Walther, Mel Bochner, Bruce Connor, Daido Moriyama, Nan Goldin, Hans-Peter Feldmann and Jesús Rafael Soto are joined by pieces from younger and emerging stars as Thea Djordjadze, Ayse Erkmen, Bharti Kher, Mai Thu Perret, Falke Pisano, Sterling Ruby, Banks Violette and Andro Wekua.
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