Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural participation in Art Basel Paris. For the gallery’s debut presentation at the fair, Lehmann Maupin will present new and recent works by artists with concurrent and upcoming institutional programming around the world—from the Louvre in Paris and the Tate Modern in London, to the Brooklyn Museum in New York and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico—including works by Kader Attia, Teresita Fernández, Liza Lou, Catherine Opie, OSGEMEOS, Calida Rawles, Do Ho Suh, and Cecilia Vicuña. The presentation will also foreground historic late 20th and early 21st century works, including a 1980 painting by McArthur Binion and a 2001 painting by David Salle. Notably, the booth will also feature a focused section of both historic and recent works by Korean artists, including by Kim Yun Shin, Sung Neung Kyung, and Do Ho Suh.
Other highlights include works by Loriel Beltrán, Billy Childish, Mandy El-Sayegh, Nicholas Hlobo, Arcmanoro Niles, Tammy Nguyen, Alex Prager, Robin Rhode, and Billie Zangewa. Lehmann Maupin will also participate in Art Basel Paris’s new Oh La La! initiative with a new sculpture by Erwin Wurm, who has a concurrent retrospective at The Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria, on view through March 9, 2025.
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Anchoring the booth is a painting from the early 21st century by New York-based artist David Salle, titled Ice Flow II (2001). Salle combines popular or commercial imagery with images made from direct observation and a range of art historical references to create a personal pictorial language. His work features a sophisticated and highly intuitive approach to composition—one that suggests new associations and relationships between familiar (or unfamiliar) subjects. Salle’s multi-layered works do not rely on subject matter alone; however, his paintings pack an immediate formal impact and present multiple points of entry for the viewer. Built to draw the eye through and across the picture plane, they reward close looking and prolonged contemplation.
Lehmann Maupin’s presentation will also include Teresita Fernández’s Soil Horizon 8 (2024), a work from the artist’s eponymous series of copper panels, with a luminous, immersive horizon as its throughline. The bottom of the panel is sculpted from dimensional charcoal fragments, while crystalline layers of black volcanic sand and red iron-rich sand, sourced from two separate continents, merge in the composition. Above this dense ground, Fernández creates an intricate stippled effect that alternately obscures and reveals the warm glow of the copper beneath, creating atmospheric skyscapes. In these works, the artist envisions numinous landscapes that propose a more expansive idea of place—from the ancient, historical, and subterranean, to the futuristic and celestial. Concurrent to the fair, the artist’s work is on view in the exhibition Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson at SITE Santa Fe through October 28.
Two works (both 2023) from Kader Attia’s acclaimed Mirrors and Masks series will be included in the presentation, as well as the sculpture Untitled (Big Bang) (2024), which was recently included in his solo exhibition Descent into Paradise at MO.CO in Montpellier, France. At once reflective of current realities and deeply surreal, Untitled (Big Bang) offers a poetic interpretation of the cosmological concept. Attia frequently employs mirrors in his sculptures to both distort and reinforce the viewer's perception, challenging their sense of identity within a dynamic frame. In Untitled (Big Bang)—which is adorned with stars and crescents, symbols prominently featured on the flags of Israeli and Arabo-Islamic nations—Attia’s use of mirrors provokes a profound contemplation of self and space, emphasizing the fluid boundaries of personal and cultural identity. Attia is currently an artist-in-residence at the Louvre Museum in Paris, where he has a studio on-site through June 2025 as part of the museum's Guests of the Louvre program.
A new painting by Los Angeles-based artist Calida Rawles will debut at the booth. In this new work, the artist depicts a male figure immersed in rippled water; his body is visibly covered in tattoos yet his face is not fully legible. Known for merging hyper-realism and poetic abstraction, Rawles employs water as both a vital, organic material and a historically charged space. In her compositions, Black bodies are submerged in exquisitely rendered submarine landscapes of bubbles, ripples, refracted light, and expanses of blue. For the artist, water signifies both physical and spiritual healing as well as historical trauma and racial exclusion. She uses this complicated duality as a means to envision a new space for Black healing and reimagine her subjects beyond racialized tropes. Rawles’ first solo museum exhibition Away with the Tides is currently on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami in Florida through February 23, 2025.
On the heels of her solo exhibition Painting at Lehmann Maupin New York, which debuted an all-new body of work, as well as the permanent installation of Trailer (1998–2000) at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, a new abstract work on canvas by Los Angeles-based artist Liza Lou titled The Valley (2024) will be exhibited at the fair. In Lou’s recent work, she renders what appear as quick, painterly gestures in grain-by-grain minutiae. At close range, the tiny, individual 3-dimensional pieces of factory-made color jostle each other, resulting in micro explosions that register as surprise, offering a new take on American Abstract painting. The Valley will be included in the upcoming exhibition Glorious Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth, opening in Spring 2025 at the Chatsworth House in Bakewell, United Kingdom.
The presentation will also include a focused selection of works by gallery artists from South Korea. Recent works made from thread embedded in cotton paper by Do Ho Suh will be on view; next year, Suh will have a major survey exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, opening in May 2025. Additionally, an early example of Do Ho Suh’s large-scale fabric sculpture, Bathroom, 348 West 22nd St., Apt. A, New York, NY 10011 (2003), is currently included in the group exhibition Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &... at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, France, on view through February 24, 2025. A historic work from Sung Neung Kyung’s acclaimed Venue series, Venue: trail 2 (1985), will be included in the presentation; concurrent to the fair, Sung’s debut solo exhibition outside of Korea at Lehmann Maupin New York is on view through November 9. Finally, a selection of sculpture and paintings from the late 20th and early 21st century by Kim Yun Shin will be on view; Kim’s work is currently included in Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, and in early 2025, she will have her debut solo exhibition in the United Kingdom at Lehmann Maupin London.
Additional highlights at the fair include a large-scale photograph from Catherine Opie’s new Norwegian Mountain series; the artist is currently the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Art of São Paulo, Brazil, on view through October 27. The presentation also includes a painting by Brazilian artistic duo OSGEMEOS, titled Cultivando os Sonhos (Cultivating Dreams) (2023); the survey exhibition OSGEMEOS: Endless Story is currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC through August 3, 2025. Cecilia Vicuña’s new painting Hombre tigre (2024) will debut at the booth; Vicuña’s solo exhibition La Migranta: Blue Nipple, which will feature a series of new paintings and a major installation, opens November 21 at Lehmann Maupin New York. Finally, the presentation includes a new textile silk work exploring domesticity by Billie Zangewa, titled a day in the life of a gourmand (2024); the traveling solo exhibition Billie Zangewa: Field of Dreams opens at the Frost Art Museum in Miami, Florida on November 23.