Art Basel Hong Kong, Friday May 21th, 4pm-9pm
Vernissage (upon invitation only)
On Friday May 21th, Art Basel Hong Kong 2021 will open its doors and with it ITALIANS, a collective booth of 8 Italian galleries which is a project by Italian Cultural Institute – Hong Kong, which will bring in Hong Kong 21 of the finest Italian contemporary artists. The booth will features works from Masters like Lucio Fontana and Giorgio Morandi to the younger generation of world-wide famous Italians Francesco Vezzoli and Paola Pivi.
The fair will be one of the first event of the art world to be held onsite, but still with many attendance restriction and plenty of online initiatives. For those who cannot visit it in person, at the same time of the opening (4pm HKT, 10am CEST) a gallery collecting all the images of the works presented on the booth will be released on this very website.
Paola Pivi
I love being pearls, 2019
Ex. Unique, Plastic pearls 35 × 36 × 24 cm ( 13 3/4 × 14 1/6 × 9 1/2 inches)
Approx. overall dimensions: 58.5 x 53.5 x 24 cm (23 x 21 x 9 1/2 inches)
Courtesy MASSIMODECARLO and the artist Credits @ Christopher Burke Studios