TEXT BY: U. G. Lambert, www.premierartscene.com
The most interesting work was by the artist duo Comenius Roethlisberger & Admir Jahic: They do color pencil drawings of youtube videos. At Scope Basel, they showed the installation ‘Star Wars Kid’ of 2009. It consists of 605 framed drawings of a short youtube video. I like this work very much, as it illustrates the overload of pictures available from the internet.
Scope does the most satellite art fairs: Besides the third edition here in Basel, currently they are also in New York, Miami, the Hamptons and London. Now it is conveniently located a two minutes walk from Art Basel on Sportplatz Landhof.
This time Scope is showcasing Art Asia, featuring a number of Asian galleries. Overall, there were 90 galleries form 20 countries.