The 532 Gallery will be opening their doors in Basel this week, after 16 years of operation in New York City. The first exhibit in its new location, “In Bloom,” takes on the motif of flowering, emergence, and cyclical return. The artists on view from the gallery’s roster are not necessarily showing the kinds of works they’re known for. Instead, the anima of reawakening, of embracing unprecedented shades of novelty, has goaded these 22 artists toward new forms, unfamiliar tones, and atmospheric ruptures. Most of the works on view were made this year, and while the participating artists command their own vision, they also demonstrate how their works can awaken new associations against the backdrop of the gallery’s expanding programming. Less like a collection than a lightly coordinated swarm of gestures, each work on view jostles against the others without canceling them out. Blooming, a resurgent sense of presence, is not presented as a decorative, but treated as threshold, as event, a way of reconfiguring the surface of image, sculpture, and atmosphere alike.
The group exhibition features sculptures, paintings, and mixed-media works by 22 artists, including Ian Hughes, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Yongjae Kim, Paco Marcial, Christine Nguyen, John Alexander Parks, Jean-Guerly Pétion, Lily Prince, Danielle Riede, Danny Rolph, Alberto Alejandro Rodriguez, Robert Armstrong, Cecilia Danell, Shuto Mizukami, Patrick Neal, Morgan Ogilvie, Ramona Projer, Lennart Rieder, Tanja Selzer, Kazue Taguchi, Erin Turner, and Michael Wang.
The cumulative effect of “In Bloom” is not disorientation, but a kind of attuned stillness. Delving into ideas of creation, existence, and personal reflection, the artists give voice to renewal while not eschewing a certain air of lightsomeness and comedic delight. Within this fecund jouissance the very sensation of centeredness becomes destabilized. Locked into the present moment, the exhibition traces out what it means to become—and to take risks, again and again—across fresh, luminous horizons.
“In Bloom” will begin with an opening reception on June 17, from 17:00-19:00, and runs through August 1. During Art Basel week, gallery hours are 11:00-19:00 on Wednesday to Saturday and 12:00-16:00 on Sunday.

Website
532gallery.com/exhibitions/136-in-bloom/

Where
532 Gallery Jaeckel
Hammerstrasse 121
4057 Basel

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