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Art Basel 2019: Mithu Sen

Mithu Sen recreates a dramatic trio called (A)politically Black. The artworks are defaced with uncontroversial decorative motifs, given their (in)appropriateness to be exhibited in the contemporary xenophobic climate. Sen says: “With this move, I am also continuing my earlier critique of value-making and unmaking in the market of art, while also problematising how the political value of an artwork is decided or left undecided in today's context.”

Art Basel 2019: Anju Dodiya

Dodiya creates a series digital prints Petals and Atoms, based on her encounters with art (Picabia, Shirin Neshat, Giacometti) or with the shaped stains on the fabric surrounding the protagonist, who constantly hears the hum of time fleeing and feels the pointed gaze of her own inevitable mortality. There is the delight of life misted by the truth of its fragmented nature.

Art Basel 2019: Reena Saini Kallat

在最近的六个图纸的泄漏', Reena intentionally conflates the ‘line', a primary artistic device with epic territorial delineations; here tense international borders and fortifications during wars appear like charred fissures on the surface of the paper. Conceived as diptychs, one part rendered in charcoal reveals the factual landscape, while the other forming a flayed fence using electric wires form rich cartographic abstractions that invoke undulating terrain.

Art Basel 2019: Yardena Kurulkar

Kurulkar creates Fall of the Buckler—a series envisioned with the help of a 3D recreation of her heart. Precisely dissected into 5 mm thick slices with surgical precision, each slice is photographed to reveal the top view with the organ's details within. Each slice, equally robotic as it is intensely human, is printed on paper, the pulp of which is charged with Kurulkar's blood.

Art Basel 2019: Ritesh Meshram

Inspired but not appropriated from his previous series titled 'In Between the Lines', Ritesh presents a gradual, yet starkly refined approach through 'Landscape of Elements'. Manifested here are skilfully forged stainless steel forms that precisely outline the beauty and intricacy of what surrounds us, though we seldom notice them.

Art Basel 2019: Bhuvnesh Gowda

Gowda attributes the shape of this composition to an architectural form where the material comes from. He recalls the divine architect Vishwakarma. Modern physics, as well as theology, acknowledges that everything in the universe is connected to everything else, and no part of it is more fundamental than the other. This assemblage is a collection of different types of joineries those have their compatible partner/s somewhere in the congregation.

Art Basel 2019: Atul Dodiya

Dodiya has worked Gandhi's philosophy and imagery for more than 20 years, the abstraction in the painting 'Looking through a microscope at Sevagram Ashram, 1940', is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's paintings. Here, he combines two giants—Gandhi, the kind-hearted leader, statesman, and Rabindranath Tagore, a poet; showcasing his ardent interest in combining realism and abstraction and recalling a classical tale in reality and the weaving of history.

Art Basel 2019: Shilpa Gupta

Shilpa Gupta continues her work with poets and the spoken word. She utilises materials and actions that make up the margins of the everyday and are embedded with the message that we are all actors in the political forces that regulate society. Her works jolt their viewers out of a complacent, assumed, objective distance from the theatre of politics, to show that we are all complicit in the mechanisms of large apparatuses of power. In the work, poems of resistance by Osip Mandelstam, Malay Roy Choudary, Wole Soyinka, Mushfig and others have been collected, spoken and sealed into bottles by Gupta; these trapped words could become powerful messages, preserved for a future generation to rediscover.

Art Basel, from June 13-16 is going to show some of the best works in the world

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