Katharina Grosse's recent installation, CHOIR, at Art Basel's Messeplatz pavilion redefines the concept of art in space. Using industrial spray techniques, she envelops the structure in vibrant magenta, blurring lines between walls and floors. Collaborating with curator Natalia Grabowska, the project reinvigorates the pavilion, merging sculpture and spectacle. Grosse challenges perceptions by inviting viewers to reflect on their relationship with public spaces, emphasizing today's chaos as a form of beauty. Through this piece, she explores humanity's obsession with control versus its longing for freedom.
...the space becomes the art. In collaboration with curator Natalia Grabowska of London's Serpentine, the installation breathes fresh life into the familiar framework of the fair's architecture, creating something between sculpture and spectacle.
By smearing magenta across surfaces that usually convey stability and function, she challenges conventions, encouraging viewers to consider how we define, organize, and inhabit public space.
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