Michel Auder Takes on Basel

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For well over 40 years, Michel Auder’s life has been pathologically self-recorded on video. He has amassed an impressive 6,000 hours of footage in his personal archive, and continues to cut and re-cut the tapes into poetic explorations of the media image.

Still from Michel Auder's Venus.

Coming off a showing of Heads of the Town at the ScheiblerMitte gallery in Berlin earlier this year and an appearance at the 43rd Art Cologne, Auder is now taking his intimate portraits of New York glamour life from Andy Warhol’s days to Art Basel 2009.

The ScheiblerMitte booth at the fair, which runs from June 10–14, will also feature political works by David Robilliard, Jackson Pollock, Anthony Goicolea and Thomas Rentmeister. There will also be paintings on hand by Auder’s late friend, Alice Neel, whose granddaughter, Elizabeth Neel, was featured in FLYP's latest issue.