Art Basel

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Jun 10–16, 2024June 10–16, 2024

Having participated in the fair for over two decades, Lehmann Maupin returns to Art Basel with a presentation that celebrates its artists’ global institutional programming, from the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, to the National Galleries Scotland in Edinburgh and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico. Highlights include works by Teresita Fernández, Kim Yun Shin, Do Ho Suh, and Nari Ward—who each have major exhibitions on view in museums and biennials around the world. Together, the works on view traverse a wide range of media, probing the dimensionality and haptic experience of material. Concurrent to the fair in Europe, a group exhibition is on view at Lehmann Maupin’s seasonal gallery in Milan, Italy through June 21.

As part of the fair’s Unlimited sector, Lehmann Maupin will present Liza Lou’s landmark installation work Security Fence (2005). Crafted entirely from glass beads on steel and razor wire, Lou’s to-scale installation reconstructs exterior prison security measures—a chain link fence with barbed wire on top. Calling notions of security and fragility into question, Lou’s elaborate handmade work introduces touch and contact into a space of isolation, lending care and dignity to an otherwise dehumanizing and industrial structure. In September, Lou will debut an all new body of work in New York, spanning the gallery’s Chelsea location. In October, the Brooklyn Museum will debut the permanent installation of Lou’s Trailer (1998—2000), which the institution recently acquired.