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Dreispitzhalle offers ample outdoor space for displays and interventions; VOLTA UNCOVERED places various artworks in the outdoor spaces for visitors to engage with outside the standard booth format, allowing for fresh possibilities and discoveries.
Artists presented (please scroll down for biographical information and images):
Marlon de Azambuja - intervention presented by Furini arte contemporanea, Rome
Kristof Kintera - sculpture presented by Jiri Svestka, Prague
Nomad, XOOOOX, Katrin Fridriks, Anton Unai, Jaybo Monk, Pho - presented by CIRCLECULTURE Gallery, Berlin
Bloodshed Event - ambulatory performance Sensitivity Training presented by Tara Strickstein
presented by FuriniArteContemporanea, Booth C7
Marlon De Azambuja (1978, Santo Antônio da Patrulha - Brazil, lives and works in Madrid), has a poetic link with the Brazilian “Movimiento Concreto” that includes the synthesis of a complex and open identity in which the environment is protagonist in the sense of both psychological and physical place. His interventions in our surroundings allow us to discover new identities of a given space, making new links and structures between building or details in the street. This is a personal reading of the city, using the street’s own details -- such as manholes, cobbles, kerbs, etc. -- but the purpose is always to manipulate its expression so that it will lead to an adjustment of the content through the aesthetic use of the language of signs. For the last three years, Marlon de Azambuja has marked out urban spaces with adhesive tape, interventions that have the finality of highlighting or, even better, allowing the discovery of aspects that have always existed but that we have never imagined. Marlon de Azambuja is part of a constructive culture’s memory that finds its forebears in Brazilian Concretism; this he intertwines with an eroticism deriving from a tropical sensitivity and indicates the interstices that exist, charged with mobility, that allow for new expressive accesses.
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presented by Jiri Svestka, Booth A17
Paradise Now, 2009, Zinc coated steel, Edition1/8
Kristof Kintera is one of the most successful and interesting Czech artists of the latest generation. His oeuvre is characteristic of a certain doubt concerning the possibilities and role of the arts. He creates sculptures and installations by combining or altering ordinary objects in unusual ways. By modifying common objects from everyday life, Kintera gives them new meaning and allows us to see a more removed perspective.
"Partly I am also interested in shifting with purposes of things and items from ordinary life. I am trying to bend and warp the reality, sometimes using minimum effort, sometimes with a lot of effort. After such a process of modulation a new strange item starts its new unnecessary existence. It is about having its own and new (dis)logic and that is very exciting for me. Basically these works should not need verbal explanation. They are just here and that's it. Let's see what they can do without protecting them by explaining what they are."
Kristof Kintera
Kintera studied at the the Academy of Fine Arts in prague, where he was born and still works and later received a scholarship to study at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, in 2003.
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 Kristof Kintera, Paradise Now, 2009, coated steel, 200 x 250 x 50 cm |
Presented by L.A. ART MACHINE with Rivera & Rivera Gallery
Curated by Bryson Strauss
The L.A. Art Machine (LAAM) is an online publication and arts organization based in Los Angeles but with an eye on a global art phenomenon. The LAAM covers the most relevant and current happenings in the art world, organizes events, curates exhibitions, and advocates for a continuing and vital art community on all levels.
At VOLTA6, in partnership with Rivera & Rivera Gallery (L.A.), LAAM presents a live art happening called VOX HUMANA involving legendary Los Angeles street artists, Mear One, Kofie, Retna and El Mac. Street artists work on the fly and in the open to create works of art that change the way we see, feel, and interact with our urban environments. The VOX HUMANA event will provide an opportunity for Volta patrons to witness how street artists work and watch the live unfolding of “pieces” within the context of an international fine art fair. For the five-day run of the fair, these four artists will create large-scale (up to 3.5 meters x 7 meters) pieces in their signature styles using acrylic and aerosol paints to be completed — or near completion — by the end of the fair. This project is of unique art-historical value, as it represents a major shift in not only contemporary aesthetics, but in the public perception of street art generally. These artists, who grew up on the streets of one of the toughest cities in the world, carved a name for themselves as artists through dangerous illegal activity. Over 25 years, however, they have gone from being criminalized by their community to being celebrated for creating one of the most challenging and sophisticated contemporary art forms.
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 Retna & El Mac, Reina del Sur (Public mural Miami, completed during Art Basel, Miami), 2007, Acrylic and aerosol on wall, 18 x 75 Feet |
CIRCLECULTURE Gallery presents Nomad, XOOOOX, Katrin Fridriks, Anton Unai, Jaybo Monk, Pho
A unique live painting appearance with the most prolific Urban and Street Artists in Berlin. As a gallery specialising in Urban Fine Art and Street Art since almost 10 years Circleculture is preparing an impact on this years Basel Art Fairs. The artists will overtake a huge wall on the backside of the industrial fair site situated directly on abandoned railway tracks. An urban surrounding which remindins the spirit of graffiti culture, the beatniks and the drifters, travelling artists and street philosophers. The artists will be painting and installing ongoing during the first and second day of the fair as well as partially until the last day. Being an official highlight of the Volta Basel Art Fair 2010 this appearance will innovate the boundaries of the traditional fair booth presentation and deliver to the public a hard to get live experience with some of the most talented street artists in Europe.
Nomad
In his works Nomad (1970) connects his sensitive artistic side with the ornamental style of his street art and the graphic with the sketchy. There are clearly influences from classical painting, in particular from the Renaissance period. As a result, Nomad’s painting does not aim to be complete – it is a inventory of the here and now that adapts social reality and processes it multidimensionally. It retains the ease and aesthetic of his freely improvised work on the street.
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Jaybo
Jaybo (1968) is a runaway, setting out and wandering along in a physical as well as in a creative sense. In his youth, he ran away from his house in southern France, settling in Berlin-Kreuzberg at the beginning of the 1980’s, where he busied himself as a graffiti writer, street actor and hip-hop musician. When he founded the streetwear label “Irie Daily” and the cultural magazine “Style” at the beginning of the 1990’s, his influence on Berlin’s youth culture and fashion scene could be clearly seen. Even today, urban subculture is the driving force behind his artistic activities.
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Katrin Fridriks
Katrin Fridriks (1974) is a painter but considers her paintings as installation work, whether produced in her studio or in situ. She was inspired by the writings of graffiti and Japanese calligraphy but besides her studio paintings, rather than painting trains and city walls, she paints helmets and Mother Nature. Katrin is an abstract painter and the natural elements such as water, earth, air and fire, as well as her native Iceland, are also sources of inspiration. Her interest in architecture influences the way she organizes her composition.
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Anton Unai
Anton Unai (1974) personifies the creative philosophy represented by Joseph Beuys’ legacy: a profound belief in the sanctity of spontaneity, the poetry of chaos, and the rejection of traditional academia. A self-taught artist, Unai’s installations are often the result of weeklong “actions,” improvised and created on-site using mostly found objects, or “golden garbage,” salvaged from the streets of Berlin.
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XOOOOX
XOOOOX (1975) works with delicate stenciled works and installations in an arte povera style that consist of weathered and decaying materials. In these works XOOOOX distinctly contrasts the glamour of fashion culture with existentialist themes such as vulnerability and transience. The life-size stencils of professionally styled photo models form the leitmotif of the figurative studies and scrutinize the worship cult and the seduction techniques of haute couture. Beguilingly beautiful, XOOOOX’s women convey a sense of melancholy and introversion and allude to the growing displeasure with the uniform, consumption-driven hype of the fashion industry.
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Pho
Marco „Pho“ Grassi, born 1976 in Milan, Italy, translates his background as a bomber to his vast abstract paintings by referring to graffiti writing’s traditional elements: the word, the rhythm of the line and a performing dynamism. By recovering elements from the daily life like torn manifestos and wooden pallets he postulates an hommage to the street.
He approached Street Art for the first time in Paris trains and walls, influenced by NY and Paris Graffiti Art, he set himself on the Italian street art scene during the early nineties, becoming one of the major protagonists. In 1995 he attended the painting class of Luciano Fabro at the Brera's Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. He extended his research in materials that the city can offer, recovering elements from the daily life like torn manifestos and wooded pallets, used as support for the pictorial intervention, where the action of the time destroys and transforms the artwork, posing its roots in a urban context. Moreover (influenced by the oriental painting and the abstract expressionists like Emilio Vedova, Georges Mathieu, Sam Francis) he works using the spray paint alongside the use of brushes, tar and sponges, characterizing his style with a strong and powerful gesture sign.
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Tara Strickstein
Bloodshed Event presents Sensitivity Training, the third in a series of interactive situations by Tara Strickstein, rooted in social psychology and the seven deadly sins. Loosely based in Stanley Milgram’s studies on obedience, this concluding episode is sculpted as a means to maneuver human agency vis-à-vis sloth and wrath.
Stuffed, gluttony and lust as an experience with transgender taxi dancers and a pie-eating competition, VOLTA/NY March 4-7, 2010.
Pataphor, pride, greed and envy in the form of a Japanese-style gameshow, NEXT- Art Chicago April 30-May 4, 2010.
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