In Pictures: highlights from Art Basel’s Unlimited section Featuring Oskar Schlemmer

By Alexander Morrison

There is a notable depth to this year’s edition of Unlimited, the section of Art Basel dedicated to large-scale works. This comes through both in terms of chronology—with works spanning nearly 100 years—and an interest in bodies of work, showing how artists sometimes “think about monumentality or the scope of a project a little bit differently”, says the section’s curator Ruba Katrib. Katrib, the chief curator and director of curatorial affairs at MoMA PS1 in New York, explains that the 59 projects touch on a wide range of themes. Considerable focus has been placed on the choreography of the floorplan, she adds, where one constellation of works speaks to another. Here, Katrib describes some highlights.

Oskar Schlemmer

Homo, Composition in Metal (1930-31)

Leandro Navarro and Thaddaeus Ropac

The Bauhaus artist’s wall-mounted wire sculpture comprises three human body-like forms in different proportions. Light and shadow are critical to the experience of the work, Katrib explains—together, they contribute to an exploration of the relationship between the body and space.