VOLTA Basel returns for its 16th edition as part of Art Basel Switzerland. Abigail Ogilvy Gallery will present new artworks by artists Austin Eddy (Brooklyn, NY) and Natalia Wróbel (Southern California).
Both artists create a visual dialogue through hidden shapes, scaffolding, and figures. For Eddy, his process produces semi-representational works that convey emotions and energies of situations and individuals; the paintings have been broken down to the basic building blocks of each story or thing being portrayed. In Wróbel’s paintings, she references mindfulness philosophy, neural networks, elements from nature, particle cosmology, classical, jazz, and electronic music, ancient architecture, lyric poetry, and theories about the interconnectedness of the universe to elicit meditative abstractions. The question “what is painting” is at the forefront of their exploration and experimentation. Through the tools of abstraction and other historical painting languages, they break down qualitative aspects of painting and challenge the art historical canon.
Dates: September 20 – 26, 2021
Location: Elsässerstrasse 215, Basel, Switzerland
