Basel | ArtRegion: Basel - Oberrhein

Nicolas Krupp

Arnold Helbing: Hold and Catch Fire

1. Juli – 27. August 2022

Art Basel Week Hours (10-16 June 2024): Mon-Sat 10:30-19:30 ★Tue until 21

The title Hold and Catch Fire refers to a coding instruction used by computer engineers to cease processing and immediately restart. Helbling applies it to aesthetics, exploring themes such as circularity, faults within the system, virtual identity, and the possibility of a socio-political reboot. The exhibition includes eight new paintings, each expanding upon the techniques the artist has developed through years of experimentation, both in abstraction and representational imagery, and of the larger cosmology his oeuvre offers to viewers.