June in Switzerland can only mean one thing: Art Basel. The world’s most prestigious art fair opens to the public on Thursday (13 June) – expect fields of wheat, unusual venues, and even an animatronic gorilla.
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00:02 - We've chosen empty stores, restaurants, hotels,
00:27 a car ramp leading down to a bunker
00:30 underneath the Congress Center.
00:32 And in all of these places, there are projects by artists,
00:36 half of which were newly developed for Parkour.
00:39 [upbeat music]
00:42 Alvaro Barrington created a structure
00:45 inspired by his grandmother's home in Granada
00:49 inside a shop here in Basel that specializes
00:52 on importing products from Africa to Switzerland.
00:55 And on the outside of that structure,
00:57 he installed paintings of different flowers
01:00 from the Caribbean.
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01:24 - I think it's really important to have this public moment
01:27 of the fair where people who may not go
01:30 into the fairgrounds will discover art.
01:34 And they might do so even without knowing
01:36 that they will discover art on their way to work
01:39 or while they're grocery shopping.
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