Art Basel 2023
12/06 – 18/06
Hall 2.1 Booth R10
Francis Alÿs, Robert Barry, stanley brouwn, Andrea Büttner, Rineke Dijkstra,
Lili Dujourie, Mario Garcia Torres, David Lamelas, Ian Wilson
Jan Mot presents a selection of key works from the 1960s to the present, which have in common a questioning of architecture’s interaction with art and its viewers. Instead of treating the fair booth as a temporary container for transitory objects, Jan Mot’s space includes two largescale pieces that impact their physical environment: David Lamelas’ Corner Piece (1966) and Andrea Büttner’s Untitled (Painted Ceiling) (2022-2023). Büttner and Lamelas are currently the subjects of solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Basel, and Fondazione Antonio Dalle Noggare, Bolzano, respectively.
Robert Barry’s Untitled (1967) and Mario Garcia Torres’ Spoiled Paintings (n.d.) series demarcate, each in their own way, a voided space within painting. The void, the space between the known and the unknown are brought to perception by Ian Wilson, while stanley brouwn maps the artist’s experience of walking through a city. Well known in Europe, the artist is currently reaching new audiences through a major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and a presentation at Dia Beacon, New York.
Francis Alÿs and Rineke Dijkstra record landscapes and their inhabitants, particularly the young. After his successful exhibition at the Belgian Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennial, Alÿs is preparing, amongst other projects, a solo presentation at WIELS, Brussels, in September. Not least, Jan Mot is proud to launch at Art Basel its first collaboration with the Belgian artist Lili Dujourie. Since the 1970s Dujourie’s oeuvre is an ongoing experimentation in formal and conceptual ambiguity, on the edge of abstraction and figuration.
Installation view, Jan Mot’s booth at Art Basel (CH), 2023. Photo: Studio Shapiro.
from left to right: Andrea Büttner, Untitled (Painted Ceiling), 2022, 9 oil paintings on canvas, 128,5 x 184,3 cm (x 6), 123 x 184,3 cm (x 3), 555,7 x 383 cm (total dimensions); drawings, each (x 6): Andrea Büttner, Untitled, 2020, pencil on paper, 29,5 x 19,6 cm (paper), 51 x 40,5 cm (frame). Photo: Studio Shapiro.
from left to right: Francis Alÿs, Untitled (Mosul, Aug), 2017 oil on canvas on wood, 12,8 x 17,6 x 1,7 cm; Lili Dujourie, Sonate, 2007, clay, MDF, 56 x 66 x 20 cm (x 2); David Lamelas, Corner Piece, 1966 wood, drywall, dimensions variable; stanley brouwn, [this way brouwn], 1961, felt pen and ink on paper 24,5 x 32 cm; stanley brouwn, [1 foot x 1 foot x 1 ell], 1998 wood (multiplex), 47 x 26 x 26 cm; stanley brouwn, [1 km 1:2500 1:333 1/3 1:5000 1:10.000 on 1 m], 1976, ink and pencil on paper, 115 x 19 cm; Lili Dujourie, Untitled, 1977, series of 6 black and white photographs (vintage prints from 1977), 18 x 24 cm (frame, each). Photo: Studio Shapiro.
from left to right: Mario Garcia Torres, The Place You and Me Will Coincide Forever, n.d., toner, acrylic and wax on canvas 192 x 150 cm; Ian Wilson, Known and unknown and known as not known…, early 1980s, diptych; typewritten and handwritten notes for Section 32 [unpublished], 27,9 x 21,6 cm (paper, each) 42 x 35,3 cm (frame, each); Francis Alÿs, Untitled (Mosul, Aug), 2017 oil on canvas on wood, 12,8 x 17,6 x 1,7 cm. Photo: Studio Shapiro.
from left to right: Lili Dujourie, Untitled, 1977, series of 6 black and white photographs (vintage prints from 1977), 18 x 24 cm (frame, each); Robert Barry, Untitled, September 1967, acrylic on canvas over wood, 5 x 5 cm (x 4) to be placed in a square with a distance of 6 feet in between each element; Andrea Büttner, Bench, 2012, backrest with handwoven fabric, wood, plastic crates (x 2), 200 x 42 x 4 cm, 45,8 x 200 x 40 cm; Rosemarie Castoro, Untitled, 1969, ink on paper, 30,5 x 22,9 cm (paper), 43 x 36,5 cm (frame), signed and dedicated to Seth Siegelaub. Photo: Studio Shapiro.
Andrea Büttner, Untitled (Painted Ceiling), 2022, 9 oil paintings on canvas, 128,5 x 184,3 cm (x 6), 123 x 184,3 cm (x 3), 555,7 x 383 cm (total dimensions). Photo: Studio Shapiro.