Galerie Lelong to Participate in Art Basel Miami Beach, 12/1

Galerie Lelong is pleased to announce our participation at Art Basel Miami Beach in Booth G-01. On view will be an exceptional selection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photography from our New York and Paris galleries, including works by Petah Coyne, Angelo Filomeno, Günther Förg, Rebecca Horn, Jannis Kounellis, Rosemary Laing, Nalini Malani, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Ryan Mendoza, Hélio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Emilio Perez, Jaume Plensa, Arnulf Rainer, Sean Scully, Kate Shepherd, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero,  and Barthélémy Toguo.

Some highlights include:

- Petah Coyne's suspended sculpture, Untitled #1060 (Tetiaroa), a mixed media work including silk flowers, peacock feathers, ribbons and dripping wax. MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts is currently exhibiting a solo show of Ms. Coyne's dramatic sculptures and photographs. Everything That Rises Must Converge will be on view through March 2011.

- An important wall sculpture from 1993 by Jannis Kounellis. Mr. Kounellis held solo exhibitions earlier this year at Heart: Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark, and La Fundacion Marcelino Botin in Santander, Spain.

- A new hanging sculpture in stainless steel entitled The Dust of the Earth by Jaume Plensa. We will also be showing a maquette of Mr. Plensa's forthcoming work, Echo, a site specific sculpture to be unveiled at Madison Square Park in New York in May 2011.

- An exceptional new pastel drawing by Sean Scully, whose solo exhibition The Pictorial World of Sean Scully recently closed at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in Germany. Mr. Scully will be exhibiting his work in another upcoming solo exhibition, Change and Horizontals, traveling to The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Timothy Taylor Gallery in London, and The Drawing Center in New York beginning in Spring 2011.

- Sculpture and a suite of 22 ektacolor prints by Kiki Smith.  Ms. Smith recently released a new book surveying a selection of never before seen and previously published photographs.
Kiki Smith: Photographs includes text by Elizabeth A. Brown, Chief Curator of the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery, and is published by Prestel USA.

- Screw Corporate Art, a large-scale scroll work by the late Nancy Spero. The Centre Pompidou in Paris is currently hosting a retrospective of the artist's work which will travel to the Serpentine Gallery in Spring 2011.

- Watercolor paintings and a mobile wooden airplane entitled  Le baiser du seigneur by Barthélémy Toguo.  Mr. Toguo recently completed his first solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong, Paris, and will be introducing a new installation and live performance on the opening day of Art Basel entitled The Unknown Soldier.