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As Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 opens next week, so art lovers you might want to check this out!

Thaddaeus Ropac gallery – Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, Booth 1C14 Featured artists: Miquel Barceló, Alvaro Barrington, Georg Baselitz, Oliver Beer, Antony Gormley, Hans Josephsohn, Donald Judd, Martha Jungwirth, Alex Katz, Imi Knoebel, Roy Lichtenstein, Lee Bul, Lee Kang-So, Robert Longo, Liza Lou, Robert Rauschenberg, Daniel Richter, Megan Rooney, Tom Sachs, Joan Snyder, Yan Pei-Ming

Artists with major museum shows

Robert Rauschenberg, China Rose (Galvanic Suite), 1991 – a silkscreen print on galvanized steel. Its title refers to the species of delicate, cup-shaped roses native to Southwest China, which appear in the vase in the painting. The source image for the silkscreen is derived from a photograph taken during Rauschenberg’s travels to China. A major exhibition bringing together works Robert Rauschenberg produced during and in response to his time in Asia will open at M+ in November 2025, during what would have been the artist’s centennial year. 

Martha Jungwirth, Der Bruder Eugene Manet (nach Edgar Degas), 2023 – a large-scale painting, presented coinciding with her solo show at the Long Museum.  

New worksAntony Gormley, Set VII, 2024 – a new sculpture belonging to Antony Gormley’s Gridworks, in which he maps the space of a human body through a minimal, grid-like structure, correlating with the industrial external structure of the cities we inhabit. 

Oliver Beer, Resonance Painting (Perfect Day),2025 – In his Resonance Painting series, Beer visualises soundwaves by playing a speaker beneath a horizontal canvas scattered with fine paint pigment powder to capture the swelling, rippling shapes of the notes being played. His latest work evolves from his video installation The Cave, conceived for the 2024 Lyon Biennale, for which Beer activated the acoustics of a prehistoric cave in France’s Dordogne region with a group of singers. Expanding beyond his usual blue and white palette, the work’s earthy red and black tones are inspired by the caves’ ancient paintings.

Alvaro Barrington, NHC 2024/Mangrove Sunset (N11), 2024 – this work was conceived as one of the paintings to decorate the exterior of a parade float for the 2024 iteration of London’s Notting Hill Carnival. Referencing the vibrant colours of the Caribbean landscape, the stylised sunsets recall the geography of Barrington’s early youth spent in Grenada. A group of these paintings is currently on view in Barrington’s solo exhibition Soul to Seoul at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul.

Historically significant works 

Alex Katz, Ada by the Sea, 1999 – an exemplary portrait painting of Ada, Katz’s wife, who has acted as a model for the artist since the late 1950s. Its closely-cropped framing is characteristic of Katz’s cinematic style. 

Hans Josephsohn, Untitled (Ruth), 1974-5 – a work from the earlier period of Josephsohn’s oeuvre, still rooted in figuration. Yet Josephsohn’s tactile treatment of the surface disrupts the work’s representational quality, imbuing the sculpture with a sense of universal humanity. We first presented Josephsohn’s work at Art Basel Hong Kong last year after announcing representation of the artist’s estate, and there has since been growing international recognition and interest in his work, catalysed by the major retrospective of the artist at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. 

Joan Snyder, Vanishing Theatre / The Cut, 1974 – a deeply autobiographical triptych that explores themes of loss and revelation. Dominated by a dramatic diagonal cut in the central panel – described by art historian Hayden Herrera as ‘an unhealable wound’ – the painting symbolises Snyder’s emotional severance from a long and painful relationship. Completed in 1974, the same year she left her New York studio for a farm in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, this work marks a turning point in Snyder’s career as she moved toward a more dimensional, textural approach to painting.

*All Photos from Art Basel