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Warhol, Lalanne, Haring: Inside Mitterrand’s Unmissable Basel Showcase

Warhol, Lalanne, Haring: Inside Mitterrand’s Unmissable Basel Showcase December 2, 2025Art Events, MiamiOff

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: Galerie Mitterrand Curates a New Conversation in Modernity

At Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, Galerie Mitterrand brings together a rare constellation of Modern and Post-War masters whose works shaped – and continue to shape – the visual vocabulary of the 20th century.
From December 5 to 7, Stand J01 becomes a magnetic point of gravity, where aesthetic revolutions convene: European, American, and Latin American voices converging into one bold, transatlantic dialogue.

A Gathering of Icons

This year’s selection reads like a museum dream list. Agustín Cárdenas, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ron Gorchov, Peter Halley, Keith Haring, François-Xavier Lalanne, Richard Pettibone, James Rosenquist, Mimmo Rotella, Francisco Sobrino, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann.
Names that do not simply occupy art history – they built it.

Each piece in the presentation has been chosen not for nostalgia, but for its living charge, its resonance with the contemporary moment.

Andy Warhol: Glamour, Vulnerability, Myth

A standout of the booth is Warhol’s striking 1981 portrait, a late-period masterpiece where glamour flirts with fracture. Layers of saturated color and silkscreen tension reveal the artist at his most introspective.
It is a reminder: Warhol didn’t just depict celebrity – he dissected its fragility, its machinery, its seduction.

Agustín Cárdenas: Sculpting the Body’s Spirit

Galerie Mitterrand presents a rare ensemble of sculptures and works on paper by Agustín Cárdenas, created between the 1950s and 1970s.
Elongated forms in wood and bronze stretch like dreams made tactile – sensual, abstract, spiritual all at once.
Cárdenas merges surrealism, primitivism, and modern abstraction into a language that feels timelessly alive.

Dialogue in Abstraction: Gorchov & Halley

Post-war abstraction unfolds in two distinct but complementary voices:

Ron Gorchov, with his curving canvas Burlesque (1982), where color becomes architecture.
Peter Halley, with Stander (2003), a structural meditation on geometry and coded systems.

Together, they map out the tensions of form, structure, and perception.

The Architecture of Light: Francisco Sobrino

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Francisco Sobrino explored movement and luminosity through optical compositions that are less artworks than experiences.
His pieces transform light into rhythm – precise, spatial, almost musical.

Richard Pettibone: Pop Art Refracted

With his miniature interpretations of Warhol and Lichtenstein, Richard Pettibone pushes Pop Art’s logic to its limit.
Repetition, authorship, authenticity – all are questioned with a subtly ironic hand.

James Rosenquist: Collision as Language

Rosenquist’s large canvas from 1990 brings his signature vocabulary of scale and image collision.
A vivid macro-collage where commercial culture and abstraction intersect in a visual crescendo.

Keith Haring: Urgency in Ink

A 1981 ink drawing from Keith Haring captures the immediacy of his line before fame crystallized around him.
It is pure kinetic energy – raw, urgent, iconic.

Mimmo Rotella: The Memory of Streets

Il riposo del cantante (2005) reflects Rotella’s signature décollage technique, where torn posters and layered urban fragments become archaeological traces of modernity.

Tom Wesselmann: A Study in American Desire

With Study for Bedroom Painting #25 (1967), Wesselmann distills the essence of American Pop through color, intimacy, and the seductive precision of contour.

François-Xavier Lalanne: Poetry in Sculpture

Lalanne’s emblematic sheep sculptures offer a moment of softness and humor – a quiet, poetic pause amid artistic intensity.
Their presence bridges nature, absurdity, and elegance in a way only Lalanne could.

Niki de Saint Phalle: Color, Rebellion, Joy

Two vibrant works – Lampe angulaire (1992) and California Nana Vase (2000) – showcase Saint Phalle’s playful defiance.
Her sculptures pulse with life, femininity, and unapologetic color, reaffirming her radical reimagining of freedom.

A Booth That Speaks in Many Voices – And One Pulse

Galerie Mitterrand’s presentation is more than a survey. It is a curated conversation about modernity’s many faces – sensual, political, abstract, rebellious, intimate.
A meeting of visionary minds who reshaped the rules of art and continue to inspire the ones who break them today.