Concert BY We Have Band and Pharrell Williams and DJ set by Kolkoz, MR.A, AND GREG BOUST FOR THE OPENING OF ART BASEL
DAS SCHIFF, BASEL
June 9, 2009
Lance Armstrong launches a global art exhibition and sale that provides a new way to support the Lance Armstrong Foundation and its LIVESTRONG™ Global Cancer Campaign. “Stages” brings together close to thirty of the world’s most creative and diverse artists to create original works of art inspired by Armstrong and his mission to raise awareness of the global cancer burden. This unique project brings together the world of art, philanthropy, and sport, in a way never before seen, to create artwork that represents the power of human potential in overcoming adversity.
EXPANSION OF THE PARISIAN GALLERY, 76 RUE DE TURENNE
PARIS
DECEMBER 2009
The title of the show, Considering Henry, is refers to the life and works of author Henry David Thoreau, poet and writer of the nineteenth century, one of the forerunners of the American Transcendentalists’ movement, with Emerson, Alcott, and Whitman.
Henry David Thoreau was also a political activist, abolitionnist and founder of the notion of Civil Disobedience. A nature lover, he wrote his novel Walden ; or, Life in the Woods (1854) in an isolated cabin in the middle of the Walden Pond forest in Massachussetts. Hernan Bas is fascinated by this atypical character whose life symbolizes the quintessence of rebellion and fusion with nature.
These artworks almost exclusively deal with the lone figure in a landscape, either reading alone or whispering to a tree as if it were the sole friend in the world.
