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Art Basel OVR:2020 | Till the Dawn

VIP Dates: September 23–24, 2020
Public Dates: September 25–26, 2020

#TilltheDawn

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Lévy Gorvy is pleased to announce its participation in Art Basel’s OVR:2020 with Till the Dawn, a presentation that features a selection of works created this year by artists from the gallery’s international program. Their perseverance and perennial creativity in the face of challenging times offer inspiration and renewal in anticipation of the coming dawn.

A celebration of creativity and the restorative powers of art, Till the Dawn features works by contemporary masters who continue to surprise and excite us. Günther Uecker’s Lichtbogen (Arc of Light) is from his expansive new series, which will inaugurate Lévy Gorvy’s new location in Paris this fall. The blues of the Lichtbogen paintings vibrate with the energy of their creation and allude to the life-giving properties of water. These paintings represent a new direction for the Düsseldorf-based master, one imbued with his personal response to the profound challenges and hopeful potentials of these unprecedented times. Celebrating his 100th birthday this past year, Pierre Soulages continues to extend his practice through his Outrenoir series, here represented by Peinture 102 x 165 cm, 15 janvier 2020, the artist’s first use of a blue hue together with black pigment in over a decade. Soulages’s centennial was recently celebrated by a solo exhibition at theMusée du Louvre, Paris—only the third time in the museum’s history that the Salon Carré has been devoted entirely to a survey of work by a single living artist, an honor shared only by Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.

Represented by Untitled X, 2020 (Taipei), Pat Steir is an artist who continues to refine her practice through her masterful exploration of color and gesture. Pat Steir: Waterfall Paintings on Paper is currently on display at Lévy Gorvy’s gallery in New York, following two monumental projects that opened last year at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, which has been extended through 2021. 9-2-20, The Brides is the newest painting created by Francesco Clemente, whose watercolors are currently on exhibit in Lévy Gorvy’s gallery in New York. Charged with brilliant color and expressively imagined form, Clemente’s painting confronts the suggestiveness of reality. Mickalene Thomas’s Jet Blue #14 celebrates the boundless identities of Black womanhood, recasting moments from art history and popular culture with flamboyance and wit.

Jutta Koether’s Need You Everyday (Bluesed Grid Series, Flower Theme) extends the work featured in 4 the Team, her inaugural exhibition at Lévy Gorvy this past spring. This multipaneled work articulates possibilities of painted form, cultivating the essential strangeness of the medium and wonder of the creative process. With Stream-Fallen Leaves-Deep Valley, Tu Hongtao occupies an expressive realm between landscape and abstraction, synthesizing Chinese aesthetic traditions with postwar abstraction to create painterly effects that are vividly realized and profoundly original. Tu Hongtao: Twisting and Turning is on view at Lévy Gorvy London this fall, its title derived a phrase from Chinese calligraphy that also describes unpredictable, abruptly changing states of affairs and implies that good things never come easy.