Boat International US Edition — December 2017

DECEMBER 2017

nova / new work

The second largest section of the fair, Nova will

showcase 29 exhibitors, each presenting new work

by up to three living artists. Among the newcomers,

Asia is represented by Tokyo’s Takuro Someya

Contemporary Art and its display of colorful

impasto-rich abstract paintings by Kenjiro Okazaki.

From Europe, the Portuguese gallery Múrias

Centeno will be exhibiting works by the Welsh artist

Dan Rees, who works with Plasticine as well as oils to

create reliefs that have the look of abstract paintings,

though he also finds inspiration in nature.

Brussels-based Dépendance, on the other hand,

promises more figurative and conceptual work.

Peter Wächtler is a German artist whose practice

is concerned with language and narrative. Alongside

will be works of art by twoBritons: Ed Atkins, who

uses computer-generated images to make videos

(his best work is arguably a series of compelling

scripted monologues delivered by talking-head

avatars); and the Turner Prize-nominated painter

Gillian Carnegie.

Two New York galleries will also be in Nova for

the first time. Tyler Rollins Fine Art has a never-

before-seen installation by the Filipino artist

Manuel Ocampo, who has said he “wants to push

the conventions of painting to the point of ridicule...

to go beyond thought” and whose provocative works

often combine religious iconography and kitsch with

political and literary narratives.

Meanwhile, David Lewis Gallery will present

works by the US performance artists Dawn Kasper

and Lucy Dodd, a painter who makes work in gallery

settings, so transforming the act of creation into

a performance and turning the stand into a studio,

or what she calls “a space of ritual action and

improvisation”.

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GALLERIES

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Below: Jeff Koons at Art Basel

Miami Beach in 2016. Right: Dawn

Kasper performs in Turin in 2014

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Right: Ed Atkins’ video

Good Smoke, 2017

Below:Buttercut

by Lucy Dodd, 2016