Five Emerging Artists to Watch at LISTE Art Fair Basel 2013

The 2013 LISTE Art Fair in Basel serves as a platform for discovering emerging artists from mid-level galleries, focusing on empirical knowledge acquisition rather than curated thematic development. Rolf Nowotny and Christian Andersen from Copenhagen present tactile installations featuring scattered clay teapots and aluminum sheets with electrical wire, questioning contemporary relationships with physical objects. London-based Aaron Angell exhibits glazed stoneware sculptures on trestle tables at Rob Tufnell, blending animals, objects, and landscapes with folkloric narratives like the 'S.S. I remember John Barleycorn' referencing traditional songs. Adrien Missika, represented by Bugada & Cargnel in Paris, displays a tower of Brazilian native plants alongside window frames with scanned fern images and video works exploring modernist ruins, postcolonial identity, and historical botanical exploration. Zurich gallery Karma International juxtaposes Keiichi Tanaami's 1989 wooden Pop sculptures with David Hominal's 2013 untitled paintings, creating an exuberant stand featuring surreal manga-inspired forms and graffiti-like daubs. The fair highlights artists whose works stand independently without contextual reference to surrounding pieces.